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So basically I work all days, all year long.

I love my day so much that I want to repeat it every single day.

I don't like Sundays because my phone is actually making stuff.

So I don't see why I would take a day off.

And when I go on holiday, usually I go mad.

I've met like hundreds of people who talked about their brilliant idea.

The idea is in their head or maybe on their computer, but they haven't shipped it.

And on the other side, I cannot recall a single person who told me like, hey, you know, I have tried 10 times and it never worked.

Just remember to keep shipping.

Hey, I'm Mark Liu.

I make $77,000 a month as a solo entrepreneur.

I have built 35 startups and people often ask me, how do I get so much done?

So today I'm excited to tell you about how I work.

My days might sound boring for some people, but I leave the exact same day almost every day, 365 days a year.

I always start the day with a coffee and breakfast with wife, and then I hit the gym right after.

We train at the gym together.

These days we're practicing for high rocks.

We did a little bit of a sled push and some squats and some running.

Then we go back home.

That's the moment where I start to put myself in work mode.

I don't check my phone, I don't do emails, I don't go online.

I stay completely offline at the beginning of the day.

I just want to have this big block of time that is usually four to six hours where I really deep work.

The reason that you don't check social media is because I feel like there is so much going on at the moment, especially with AI, that I get this fear of missing out, that I'm not fast enough,

that I should do more.

And then it's one hour later and I lost one hour of my day

and I feel like I like some motivation to go back to work and stuff.

The deep work is basically a moment of time that I protect because that's what got me here.

And I know that I need to get this deep work done if I want to go further.

So this little boy here is completely off because that's the worst enemy.

And then I open the computer here at this desk.

I open my code editor and I spend the next four or six hours coding stuff.

So I only create things.

I don't check my emails.

I don't check customer support.

Because sometimes you read an email that something is broken in my app and I have to fix it.

If that happens at the beginning of the day, then I'll fix this bug instead of actually working on what truly matters for me, which is creating more stuff.

I shipped about 35 startups and on those 35, 30 of them are nothing.

They don't work.

They barely don't make any money, they barely don't have any users.

So the hit rate is about 5%.

So if you want to roll the dice once and stick with that dice roll, nothing crazy will happen happen but if you keep playing you keep playing playing playing

and playing at some point one dice one roll of dice

will work you will have happy users you'll start to make

money you can leave your job you can roll the dice more often

when i was a student if you tell me

that my routine is waking up at 6 a.m

and working all day on my computer

and not playing video games i will think you know i'm crazy stupid

but the thing is at some point i started to see

people liking the work i started to see my apps having users were happy about the product

and then the the routine came in place as a part of like, oh, okay, so if you stick to a routine, then more of this will happen, so stick to it.

Now, I really try to think less about what would be the output.

I just try to think, what is the thing I want to exist?

So recently, I launched this little macOS app

that analyzes your posture with a webcam and tells me

if I'm sitting straight or if I'm just was slouching like a shrimp like this.

I did that because I spent so much time at my computer and I know it sucks to sit like a shrimp.

So I was like, oh, this app must exist.

And it's a new type of app for me.

It's like an electron app, it's macOS, so I'm not used to macOS apps.

So before I released it on that day, I wanted to do a last few checks, like is the licensing system works?

When people get a checkout, do they get the email?

3 p.m ish, I think I launched the app.

So it went live with the tweets.

I also shared on LinkedIn, Threads, and Reddit, and got the first customers.

It was amazing.

I think Thursday we did about a thousand in revenue.

Got also some good feedback.

People started to post stuff on Twitter.

I started to see my app, A News, in my users' hands, which is the ultimate happy moments for me.

There's the other type of apps that I like to make.

They spark my curiosity.

For instance, one of them was TrustMR.

And it started because I saw a tweet from Peter LaBelle that say that so many people are faking their revenue.

But I feel like, oh, you know, it's fun.

Like, what if I make a little board

that showcases all the verified revenues of all those people

so we can see who is a scammer and who is telling the truth.

And just like this was born an app that turned into a marketplace now that in itself, it makes like 35 plus K per month.

I have a big list of things I have to make.

So I have a few apps that are already running.

Among them, there are features, like important features I have to ship.

Initially, I didn't have many problems.

But as you start to make stuff, you will get feedback from people, you will discover problems, and that will give you ideals.

Now I have a to-do list that even if I leave 200 years, I wouldn't be able to make all my ideals real.

Every single day, at the end of the day, I have more stuff on my to-do list than I did at the beginning.

And then once I'm done with the cycle, so now I've released this macOS app, I can move I will just go over my list and there's this gut feeling of like among those features,

among those things, which one would have the most impact on the users, which one would make me the happiest.

I will just pick whatever comes next.

We're always afraid to show our new creation and your ideals to the world in the first time.

Just keep in mind that that's the biggest barrier to your success ever.

There's this little voice inside of your head telling you that it's too early or it's not good enough.

It's a bit like going to the gym for the first time.

You see people on Instagram, they live super heavy and then you enter the gym, you don't know the machines, you don't know how it works and all that.

But the moment you step in and you do one session, everything is not new.

It's like you've done it and then the next session is completely different.

So it's a one-time fear.

You kill 80% of it by doing it once, and then the remaining 20% will just kill it with more iterations, but it just becomes easier and easier.

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The only way to validate an idea is to ship it with a buy button.

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Now with AI that it's even easier to ship stuff, it's even more true.

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I have a slightly controversial take on AI, is that there's a bunch of people who are obsessed with productivity and want to do more.

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You know, they start to have their open-clothed teams of agents running in the background.

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But I think the single KPI that matters hasn't changed in the AI era.

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There's still the number of things you ship.

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Right now, my setup is the most boring setup ever.

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Like, I code, I see my same code editor, and on the right side, I have the chat.

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Single-threaded, like, I talk to an AI, it makes a new feature, I release it, I move on to the next one.

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I've shipped like 300 features on my marketplace in the last three months

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and six new apps this year in 2026 with it.

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And people fall for the productivity thing trick

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when in fact you could do a lot of things with one of the first versions of ChatGPT

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and a basic code editor.

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Towards the end of the day, maybe 4pm, I'll go online, I'll check Twitter, I'll check my emails, I'll do the work that I find a little bit more boring, something that is less creative.

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5.30 dinner, usually we spend way too much time eating

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because we watched again Better Call Saul

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and then usually we have a nice walk and that's the moment where I switch everything completely off, like very radical, so I turn my phone off,

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I go offline, the computer is off, there's no talk about work.

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Sometimes we watch a movie, sometimes we read a book before going to bed, and we go on bed at the exact same time every single day at 9pm.

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It's a bit religious.

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Before bed, we have a wind-down routine that lasts 30 minutes to one hour.

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We start to dim the light at home, and then when you go to bed, you fall asleep instantly.

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I never set up an alarm, and I would always wake up around 6 to 7.

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Since I was a student, like the first 10 years, like 18 to 28 years old, I would always be sleepy.

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Like I would be at my computer and as soon as I had to focus on some tasks, I would fall asleep.

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With a good sleep, I feel like I'm so much more emotionally stable.

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I have like super locked in focus.

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Like I could spend like four hours on the same thing.

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So I think sleep is really underrated.

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I think it's so important.

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One thing I see people making that mistake too often is they got this idea, this brilliant idea, they spent six months shipping it and once they ship it, they got a few users,

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maybe they make a little bit of money online.

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That is like become their very pet project.

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It becomes very important for them that they're so emotionally attached to it

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and they will still focus on something

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that maybe it will take three years until it takes off and pays enough for you to quit your job.

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But it's much easier to keep rolling the dice

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and ship a new idea because

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that idea might You can take off like 100x faster than the previous one and every time you ship something new, you learn more stuff, you share about it so you grow a lot of audience of people who discover your work.

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So I really think that playing the game of launching stuff is the recipe to have something

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that at some point will work out.

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Shit.

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Don't you dare give up.

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Don't you dare give up.

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這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“How I Work: $77K/Month Solopreneur”為素材。這段影片共有 144 個句子、1970 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 10:15。說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 192 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。 84% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
bore 動詞	/boɹ/	煩擾 /煩擾
offline 形容詞	/ɔfˈlaɪn/	離線 /離線, 離線 /離線
shrimp 名詞	/ʃɹɪmp/	蝦 /蝦
marketplace 名詞		草市, 市井
startup 名詞	/ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/	初創公司 /初創公司, 新創企業 /新創企業
productivity 名詞	/ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/	生產力 /生產力, 效率
tweet 名詞	/ˈtwiːt/	鳴叫 /鳴叫
iteration 名詞	/ˌɪt.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/	疊代 /疊代, 迭代
obsess 動詞	/əbˈsɛs/	迷住, 著魔
webcam 名詞	/ˈwɛbˌkæm/	攝像頭 /攝像頭, 網路攝影機 /網路攝影機
underrated 形容詞	/ʌn.dɚˈɹeɪ.təd/	被低估
checkout 名詞	/ˈt͡ʃɛkˌaʊt/	收款處 /收款處
sleepy 形容詞	/ˈsliːpi/	昏昏欲睡, 睏 /困
attach 動詞	/əˈtæt͡ʃ/	附上, 附
electron 名詞	/ɪˈlɛk.tɹɑn/	電子 /電子

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
give up 動詞		投案, 自首
take off 動詞		脫 /脫
go back 動詞		回去, 返回
miss out 動詞		錯過 /錯過, 放過 /放過
wake up 動詞	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	醒, 醒來 /醒來
work out 動詞	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	計算 /計算, 算出

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：

These days we're practicing for high rocks.
I don't check my emails.
I don't check customer support.
Initially, I didn't have many problems.
There's still the number of things you ship.

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	I've met · haven't shipped · have tried
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	people who talked · person who told · hands, which is
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	is broken · was born · is really underrated

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 41 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, I'm, I'll。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: shrimp /ʃɹɪmp/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, iteration /ˌɪt.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, showcase /ˈʃoʊˌkeɪs/
長單詞——注意重音位置: emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, productivity /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/, iteration /ˌɪt.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, underrated /ʌn.dɚˈɹeɪ.təd/, curiosity /ˌkjʊɹ.iˈɑ.sə.ti/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: productivity /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/, validate /ˈvæl.ɪ.deɪt/, verify /ˈvɛɹɪfaɪ/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: shrimp /ʃɹɪmp/, startup /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/, tweet /ˈtwiːt/, obsess /əbˈsɛs/, slouch /ˈslaʊ̯t͡ʃ/
/æ/ — 嘴張大，不要讀成 /e/: validate /ˈvæl.ɪ.deɪt/, webcam /ˈwɛbˌkæm/, attach /əˈtæt͡ʃ/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/, barrier /ˈbæɹi.ə/

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先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 bore, offline, shrimp 這類單詞。

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