Twenty years · the broke years included

Stop earning eighty cents a head.

It was never the effort. It's the structure nobody handed you, the percentage you keep, the price you sell, and whether you ever actually get paid.

100%
commissions, on-chain
~12s
to settle, same block as the sale
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countries in the community
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For the capable ones who’ve hit the ceiling

You didn’t stall because you aren’t good enough. You stalled because you’re trading hours for money, and hours don’t scale.

You’ve already proven you can earn. What you feel now is the ceiling: income capped by your time instead of your ability, where working harder only raises the walls. I spent twenty years learning the difference between effort and leverage. Dead broke in a van, then $8,000 to $15,000 on my best days, and the whole difference was structure, not hustle. A real system pays you for what you build once instead of what you grind out daily. That is how you buy back your hours, lead instead of chase, and build something that outlasts the next quarter and the next company. Most of what gets sold in this space is hype from people who have never actually done it. So I stopped pointing at theory and built the tools I needed instead. The three things on this site are mine: I built them, I use them daily, and I stake my name on them.

David Wood at sunset

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