We all know the rules but let’s be honest. Which one do you break on purpose, and what made you decide it was worth it?
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What’s One Rule You Always Break… and Why?
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The rule I break every single day is the one that says: "Don't try to do everything yourself."
The industry loves to preach about delegation, specialized roles, and _"not rushing the process." _They tell you to hire a specialist for SEO, a designer for the UI, and a consultant for the strategy. They say that moving too fast alone leads to burnout or "unscalable" code.
I call BS.
When it’s my website and my vision, I don’t have time to wait for a committee to approve a change or for a freelancer to "get the vibe." That "rule" is designed for corporate safety, but for an owner, it’s just a recipe for stagnation.
I break it because I can’t afford to wait. I will research the deep technical SEO, I will learn the backend architecture, and I will obsess over the copy myself. If I have to stay up until 3 AM figuring out a deployment bug that a "specialist" would take three days to look at, I’ll do it.
Why? Because speed is the only advantage a solo founder or a small team has over the giants.
The industry wants you to move slow so you stay predictable. I move fast and do it all because I want to be better. I’d rather make a mistake at 100mph and fix it in ten minutes than spend a month "planning" a perfect launch that never happens.
In this world, you either own the process or the process owns you. I choose to own it.