Your First Year Will Break You - Let It

I wrote this book because I believe, with complete sincerity, that the ideas in it have the power to change lives. They changed mine. They have changed the lives of people I have worked with personally.
But I am not you. I do not know your specific financial situation, your responsibilities, your risk tolerance, your market, your skills, or the thousand other variables that will determine what your path looks like. What worked for me - and for the people whose stories appear in these pages - may look very different from what works for you.
Use this book as fuel. Use it as a mirror. Use it as the push you needed to start moving.
Then build your own path - with professional guidance where guidance is needed, with patience where patience is required, and with the honest understanding that building something real takes time, effort, and a willingness to learn from what doesn’t work.
You have what it takes. This book is my best attempt to remind you of that.
The rest is yours.