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Lisa Van Dyk's avatar

Congrats, Steve! It's inspiring to read about the process, the successes, and your internal state of being while building Downshift. I'm excited to see how you unfold your vision in the coming years.

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Rick Foerster's avatar

Congrats Steve (and team). It takes a lot of guts to put out a completely new concept that has never been done. Plus, first times don't usually go this well.

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Steven Schlafman's avatar

Thank you Rick! I deeply appreciate you!

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Hagai Heshes's avatar

Congrats on successfully launching a product that aligns so well with your set of values. (By the way, the NPS score range is -100 to +100, without decimal numbers. I'd just make sure you use the right formula to be able to compare it to other benchmarks.)

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Steven Schlafman's avatar

Thanks for the heads up! As I wrote, it’s not something I put a tremendous amount of mindshare into but I’ll take this into account should we decide to go deeper into it in the future.

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Alison Zamora's avatar

My favorite part of your reflection was the realization that you’ve completed a seven year cycle (!!) Congrats on this beautiful metamorphosis!

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Rodrigo Lopez's avatar

Congratulations Steven

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Paul Millerd's avatar

Loved this detailed reflection. Excited to see how it evolves. My next book is on reclaiming ambition - excited to see where you take that too. Seems like a big topic.

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Evgeny Shadchnev's avatar

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing your experience! The other day, I randomly bumped into one of the participants who came from London and she had nothing but great things to say about her experience.

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Dom Francks's avatar

Hey Schlaf, it was a joy to read this reflection.

I was particularly moved by the manifesto-like section, "Evolving Understanding of Downshifting" - I felt energy welling up in me as if I wanted to "pledge my sword" to the movement you're speaking into.

Appreciating the time and attention to detail to share all of this, and I'm so excited to see where the evolving vision goes.

Hope to see you in the woods sometime soon 🙏

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