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DHH about seasons of saying NO and YES

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Found this interesting video clip of DHH talking about the season of saying "no" and the season of saying "yes". I found this fascinating, and have even transcribed what he says in the video.

I have the season of no and I have the season of yes. I mostly run in the season of no. And when I'm in the season of no, I say no to almost everything just automatically. No, I'm not going to come to the conference. No, I'm not going to come on the podcast. In fact, podcasting is a great example right now. I'd said yes to you during a season of yes. I'd said yes to a bunch of appearances, and that season is well past. I've been saying no to every inbound, every inbound podcast invitation. I get quite a few. And I've just said like, hey, reach back out in September. I'm in a season of no. I'm just not going to entertain that. And I find that that at times is an easier way for people to accept a no is that it's a not right now. And I leave it open that like, hey, do you know what, six months from now might be it.

By the way, I used Google AI Studio and Gemini 2.5 Pro model to transcribe the video, and it did a great job as you can see above.

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