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Progress is easy to fake. You stay busy. You launch things. You talk about traction. Everyone claps because motion looks like momentum. The team feels alive. The investors nod. But the market is silent. Real progress feels different. It feels like doubt. It feels like rewriting what you thought was true. It feels like deleting work you were proud of yesterday. The real thing leaves a scar. The illusion is cleaner. It rewards confidence. It fills calendars and slides and updates. You can build a whole company inside that illusion and never notice the ground stopped moving beneath you. Failure starts the moment momentum becomes memory. When learning turns into storytelling. When speed becomes nostalgia. When everyone starts describing what worked instead of discovering what’s next. Progress only happens when reality moves with you. When customers change what they do, not what they say. When a product earns a second use without a discount. When a system starts teaching itself what to fix. The real work is noticing the difference. Anyone can measure activity. Only a few can measure learning. The rest keep sprinting through fog, mistaking the noise for forward motion. The illusion never feels wrong until it’s too late. It rewards the surface. It punishes reflection. It tells you to stay busy. It hides the only metric that matters. How fast the company is getting smarter.

Genuine take: normalize fractional IC roles. I could handily PM 5 products and would probably be made better by exposure to diverse problems & cultures. How much of anyone’s 40 hours is performative nonsense? With AI I think we’re going to see the rise of gig economy knowledge work either within or between companies. Either engineers working at 5 companies or PMs pinch hitting as marketers on sprints. The only hard limit on capacity for an individual is waking hours, and with bg agents and the like, even that as a cap is starting to blur. Now before r/overemployed or whatever starts cheering this on: comp structures would have to change too. No more “if I do my assigned work I should get paid the same no matter how long it takes.” Everything becomes coin op, and the fungibility of talent devalues it. But at least it’s honest: employees get paid to produce. And employers stop pretending something magic happens at 40-or-whatever hours a week. This also feels like the natural conclusion of a talent base raised on ZIRP that has loudly insisted on full remote, get-out-of-my-room-MOM distributed operating models. Will the full remote revolution lead way to the full fractional team? Why not?

Louder for the folks in be back 💯

Do not waste time on things you cannot change or influence. Just keep moving.

Good Monday morning, besties! It is with great pleasure that I announce that I have decided to go 💯% all-in on @primcloud. That's right. All my other projects are being shelved or discontinued. Primcloud is my only focus. I had realized that I was distracting myself by rebuilding @GetMakerlog because I didn't want to the see the community die... But it's already dead. ~11.5k users but most of the new people joining were just looking for a place to spam their Product Hunt launches or looking for easy free backlinks for SEO. So I killed it completely. Prevalidate, Bugfeedr and Merched are all either shelved for maybe another time or indefinitely. Though they are all for sale if anyone is interested. But from now on I am focusing solely on bringing Primcloud to a reality. It only makes sense. Any time I talk about it there's a massive influx of people who subscribed or follows the X account. Last I checked from a handful of tweets the subscribers were at 1400. 1400 people interested in my vision of the best way to deploy apps in 2025. I also am going 💯% all in on X too. That means all Primcloud's updates will be posted here from the official account, and this will be the only social site you can engage with me on. A few days a week I will be streaming myself working on Primcloud exclusively here on X. The live streaming aspect has seem to improved drastically and my audience is here, so why tell you to subscribe to me on Twitch or YT fragmenting everything? Just follow me here. To pay bills while I work on Primcloud I've also opened up a new page on my personal site where you can book a call with me for $200 to get my advice or help getting unstuck from a problem, literally anything you want out of that one hour call. There's also 2 monthly retainer plans where you can hire me. See these here: joshmanders.com/retainer And finally, today I opened up sign ups for Primcloud and will be dripping beta invites to users as I progress along. It has been kind of a rough 2024 but I'm on a good track and optimistic about 2025. Sign up for Primcloud Beta 👇 primcloud.com

To my friends, clients & colleagues I am very grateful for our relationship. Wishing you a joyous Thanksgiving and a Happy Holiday Season!

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Making YT Videos is hard! I know I've tried with @TheProductAngle. Been thinking about restarting. Watched @AprilynneAlter how to come up with a killer youtube video idea So much research and information-packed in 24 mins Awesome job @AprilynneAlter youtu.be/BSx1r5kj_OE?si=AlCy…

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