G’day G’day,

I’ve been going down a rabbit hole down.

I’ve been rewatching The Matrix.

The Trilogy was on my Malaysian Airlines flight to Melbourne.

The first movie came out in 1999 when I was 4.

At the time, I just liked the movie for the action.

The guns, the fight scenes, the cool suits.

As a kiddo, I’d walk around with glasses and a makeshift suit.

I thought I was pretty cool.

Give me a break, I was like 7 or 8 years old at the time.

But as a child, watching Matrix 2 and 3 confused me.

I didn’t understand it at all.

The deep philosophical questions of the movies went over my head.

But now as a 30 year old, I’m appreciating the sequels more.

Matrix Reloaded talks about the theme of freedom.

Specifically, the illusion of freedom.

Neo thinks he’s making his own choices.

But in reality, he’s following a path designed for him as part of the Matrix.

He meets the Architect who tells him that even The One was part of the plan.

Every “revolution” had already been anticipated.

Every act of rebellion was accounted for.

Freedom, it turns out, was just another layer of control.

That hit me hard as a solopreneur.

When I started my first business, I thought I had escaped the system.

I quit my job and started building for myself.

But I’d just built a one-person business worse than my 9-5 job.

I had no one else to blame but myself.

My red pill moment came when I stopped trying to outwork the system and started building systems that worked for me.

Freedom isn’t about doing everything yourself.

It’s about designing leverage.

• Leverage through code.
• Leverage through content.
• Leverage through community.

When your systems run without you, you’re no longer trapped in the Matrix.

You’ve finally escaped it.

Real freedom isn’t quitting your job.

It’s quitting the illusion that you have to do it all alone.

Let’s Launch Together,

Michael ‘you’re the one’ Lim.

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