I'm a Brit with American clients. The more time I spend in the US, the more I realize how different British people are.

A British entrepreneur has observed that people in the US approach work differently from the way they do in the UK.

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• Tom Scourfield is a ghostwriter who lives in the UK but works with US tech and real estate founders.
• Working with Americans has given him a different perspective on how to approach work.
• He finds people in the US to be more intense, to favor action over perfection, and to have "schlep blindness."

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