Ben's 1x1x1 - Is swallowing words of frustration and pretending to be calm a superpower? - October 10, 2025 🚀
For those of you that are new here, every week I send what I call a 1x1x1.
One thought from my week.
One interesting find/tool from my week.
One image from my life.
Let’s dive in 👇
Thought from the week
Is swallowing words of frustration and pretending to be calm a superpower?
Because if so, I’m basically Professor X right now.
Building businesses is hard.
Building a business in health, AI, and fast-moving tech? Yeah, I really went for the “extra spicy” difficulty level.
What’s been keeping me up at night?
The development team I hired for Luna.
Getting them out of my tech stack.
And finding new developers that don’t make me want to take up stress baking.
Luna’s made great progress at the expense of way more time (expected) and way more money (also expected, unfortunately).
The issue?
The team I hired slowly turned into a group project nightmare.
48-hour response times. Missed details. Dropped balls everywhere.
To their credit, they’re smart people… but my high standards + their slow pace = a dangerous combo.
This past week, I was this close 🤏 to sending a few “strongly worded” Slack messages.
Then my dad’s voice popped in:
“Send it if you want… but you’ll regret it. I regretted it every time”
And damn it, he was right again.
What could’ve been a chaotic, dramatic developer breakup ended up being peaceful.
We transitioned cleanly, we’re moving faster than ever, and no one got emotionally scarred in the process.
So yeah, sometimes the best move is just to swallow the frustration, stay calm, and get the job done.
Interesting Tool/Find
Nothing worthy of your eyes this week!
Image from my life
2 wheel parties are the best.