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#007 – Building an Open-Source Publishing Platform That Makes $63,000/mo with John O'Nolan of Ghost

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Ghost - Is There a Point at Which Old Knowledge Becomes Detrimental?

Was there a point during running Ghost where you were no longer kind of coasting off of this old knowledge and you're having to learn a whole bunch of new things? Yes, definitely. I would even go further than that and say there's a point at which that old knowledge becomes detrimental because there's a possibility that you hold on to old ideas and old truths without questioning them enough. Initially when we just very, very, very simple level, initially we structured the Ghost kind of application directory structure in a similar way to WordPress because we knew people would be familiar with it. Same with our theme API. It was a quick decision that was simple to make.

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