The Maker Letter · 27 March 2026

You don't actually want to scale

I've been spending a lot of time with people who've built 7-figure businesses.

Not "7 figures" in the way Twitter (X) gurus mean it.

Actually 7 figures. Real money. Real clients.

What I hear...

Most of them want to scale.

Most of them are stuck.

After a lot of conversations, I've realized.

It's not their offer.

It's not their marketing.

It's not their sales.

It's that they don't actually want to.

Deep down, they know that if they "scale" the thing...

...they'll just be scaling the feeling of dread they go to bed with every night.

More team. More complexity. More performance.

More of a character in a show they're not sure they wrote.

Someone else's model. Applied beautifully.

Golden handcuffs. Polished to a high shine.

I see this pull in my own orbit too.

Away from "more."

Toward less, actually.

Fewer clients. Simpler offers. More time.

Not because the ambition isn't there.

But because the ambition has evolved.

I don't want to build a machine.

If you're sitting with that feeling of "I know I should want to scale but I really don't"...

That's not laziness.

That might just be clarity.

Happy Friday.

Your biggest fan,
Jacob 'proudly unscalable' Pegs

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