Deckard was meant to be hiking toward product-market clarity. Instead, he booked a guided ascent through Mount Expertise, where every ledge came with a downloadable worksheet and a bonus community.
GuruGPT, calm as a monk and smug as a newsletter pop-up, kept pointing to scenic detours. Deckard noticed something odd halfway up the slope: every climber looked highly committed, deeply informed, and absolutely nowhere near shipping anything.
Then a bell echoed from somewhere above the clouds. Not a summit bell. The onboarding bell of the rumored Peak Mastermind. Deckard smiled, adjusted his scarf, and made the classic error of his species: he thought the next step would finally be the real one.
