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Jay Yang

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Jay Yang

@Jayyanginspires

Author of You Can Just Do Things. | My newsletter: jayyanginspires.beehiiv.com

Chicago

Joined July 2021

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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
Oct 6, 2025
👋Hi, I’m Jay Yang. Got a bunch of new followers here, so wanted to reintroduce myself. I believe you don’t need permission to create your own opportunities. When I was 16, I cold-emailed Tyler Denk, the CEO of beehiiv, with a list of ideas on how I could help. That email
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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
Oct 28, 2025
How life feels when you realize you can just do things
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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
Oct 2, 2025
Whoever builds an actual durable solution to doomscrolling will be a multibillionaire.
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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
Aug 9, 2025
A question that lives rent free in my head...
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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
Jul 6, 2025
this is the way
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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
Jul 3, 2025
so real
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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
May 16, 2025
Beautiful reminder:
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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
Jul 18, 2025
Underrated career hack: Be easy to root for. Show up early. Do what you say you're going to do. Take things off others plates. Stay late. Work weekends. Have a great attitude. Don't gossip, whine, or complain. Be easy to work with and hard to compete against.
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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
Dec 17, 2024
this is the way
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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
Jul 1, 2025
This is the way
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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
Jun 5, 2025
You can just do things
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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
Aug 5, 2025
I’m convinced that everyone should take a big swing at some point in their life and experience what it’s like to truly go all in on a meaningful pursuit otherwise they grow bitter with age.
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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
Dec 9, 2024
This quote from Steve Jobs lives rent free in my head...
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Jay Yang
@Jayyanginspires
Jul 27, 2025
As boring as it sounds, I’m slowly realizing that 90% of success is doing the obvious thing for a painfully long amount of time without convincing yourself you’re smarter than you are.
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