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Measuring personal growth

My founder friends constantly think about growth. They think about how to measure their business growth and how to get to the next order of magnitude scale. If they’re making $1M ARR today, they think about how to get to $10M ARR. If they have 1,000 users today, they think about how to get to 10,000 users.

After talking with a lot of friends, I found three interesting metrics: rate of change, time to solve problems, and number of future options. Quynh, an old friend who runs a publishing house in Vietnam, believes that there are three big problems in life: career, family, and finance. I think of this as creating safety nets that allow me to take bigger risks and explore more things in the future.

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