I run and invest in expert services businesses. I write about how to grow them here: https://nitter.gq/t.co/72DFWbTxrz / Scalable Video Editing: https://nitter.gq/t.co/4uKaEvERnR.
Austin, TX
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Bro doesn’t want to get caught out saying where he lives because it’s different from all his legal documents that say where his residence is.
in a world where the value of secrets and security increase exponentially, infrastructure and people that prevent you from knowing things you could be compelled to testify will become immensely valuable
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Anyone point me towards resources for setting up a sales agent?
Claude's info was okay, but I don't think I'm asking it the right questions to get what I want. Hoping to skip some trial and error.
cc: @bandholz @gregmberry @michael_kove
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For the love of all things holy, when leads come in get them on a call ASAP.
Especially when they are referred by a client.
Just found out from sales a referral is still trying to do business with us a week after reaching out. He should have been a client already. Ugh!
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You are not in the business of solving problems.
Your business is turning people with a problem into paying clients.
Solving the problem is the price you pay to get their money.
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9th annual 100 day fitness challenge and I’m in an existential crisis.
I just don’t care this year.
2 weeks in and I realized I don’t have a purpose for it this year.
I still workout hard, but I’m not excited to take it up a couple of notches each day.
This makes me worried I won’t have any fire left in me in another 9 years.
I guess that’s this year’s challenge: find fuel for the fire.
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Super abundance, UBI & UHI discourse pretends humans will behave differently when they arrive.
For 50 years, the western world has had mass abundance and the result is half the population inventing problems because life is too easy.
It’s innate in who we are. Some people turn mental without real struggle, others toil away like their ancestors to keep the mental anguish at bay, and a few find new challenges and frontiers.
Goods are going to get cheap. Luxury goods will become more expensive. Food will bifurcate fully between cheap sustenance and real, healthy food. Real estate won’t get cheap no matter how many dwellings we produce.
Super abundance when it comes will amplify people’s current dysfunctions or ambitions.
We are seeing it already as AI spreads. The people saying it will decimate the world are telling their story. Same with those building and creating with it.
I believe super abundance is going to be a disaster for 60 - 70% of humans. They’ll have everything they could imagine and it’ll drive them mad.
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Remedial Econ:
30 million new automobiles never sold is the reason why used car prices went up.
And, it wasn’t until the US govt increased the money supply by 40% starting in 2020 that used car prices skyrocketed.
Everyone who blames cash for clunkers for today’s high used car prices either has 1) never looked at the data or 2) doesn’t understand economics.
nitter.gq/TimConley/status/20455…
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I’m sure the sexual revolution had an impact on sewing, but the biggest impact happened when apparel manufacturers modernized and offshored in the late 1970s.
As a kid from a poor family a significant portion of my clothes were homemade.
But then it suddenly became far cheaper to buy than make.
Even being poor, mending became unnecessary. Don’t need to sew socks when a 10 pack of tube socks could be bought for a few dollars.
Sewing stopped being a necessity for 10s of millions of families.
One interesting consequence of the sexual revolution is that fiber arts went from an incredibly normal hobby for women to extremely niche so crafting stores are now rife with tension between normie conformist boomers and freakish millennials/zoomers.
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Free training programs that helped me (in order):
EDR Fitness
Mobility by Julia Reppel
Strength + Flow Fitness
Strength Side
smoov Movement
Find them on YouTube. Thank me later.
If you want to be in the 1% fitness wise in middle age it's really one word: Mobility.
Vast majority just hunched over, waking up with back pain, inflammation and poor hand eye coordination. Get injured picking stuff up.
All mobility. Downstream of range of motion
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Beginning of the year at Edit Guys we started upskilling our editors in AI editing.
Now we won’t hire anyone who isn’t actively using AI video editing.
Under a year AI went from a nice-to-have to a mandatory skill.
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Want to set up an income stream while employed?
Go anon.
@BowTiedBull's jungle is the best example of guys building businesses while still employed.
Friends of mine built businesses with using their real first name and variation of middle name. Kept personal life separate.
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56% of men in their 50s get pushed out of employment.
But that doesn't mean their expertise isn't valuable anymore. The best thing men can do is start selling their knowledge while still employed.
Part time consulting can bring in your annual salary.
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My 83 yr old dad had triple bypass open heart surgery.
First thing I did after getting home from visiting was schedule a complete health check.
If you’re over 40, healthy and physically fit you still need to get a calcium score.
Half of heart attacks come from the LAD artery, nicknamed the widow maker.
You need to take steps to prevent a blockage from occurring long before you become a statistic.
Got my Calcium CT Score:
Left Main: 0
Left Circumflex: 0
Right Coronary Artery & Posterior Descending Artery: 0
Left Anterior Descending: 116
Grok, which artery do heart surgeons call the Widowmaker?
Mutha F...
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Got my Calcium CT Score:
Left Main: 0
Left Circumflex: 0
Right Coronary Artery & Posterior Descending Artery: 0
Left Anterior Descending: 116
Grok, which artery do heart surgeons call the Widowmaker?
Mutha F...
He wouldn’t stop crossing the DMZ so she had to install deterrents.
Bro mad for failing to invest in the arms race.
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Then be the Elon of clean rivers, oceans and soil. Make it happen.
Hating on amazing things doesn't improve the planet.
I don't want flying cars.
I want rivers and ocean I can swim in with friends.
I want food that isn't full of toxic chemicals and clean soil to grow it in.
I want raw nature and wilderness and places on the earth I can get lost without seeing another human.
I want air that isn't "geoengineered" and polluted.
Science is cool. Technological advancement is cool, but I don't think this makes us happier as humans.
Real human connection and clean, natural food lead to happiness. This I know. Flying cars? I'm not sure.
Maybe I am a troglodyte...
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It never ceases to surprise me how many people get salty when they see something amazing.
It’s a frickin flying car!
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Claiming thrusters on cars are pointless only says Lina hasn’t paid any attention to what Elon has said about the future.
Thrusters provide stability and control at high speeds. Elon is targeting 383 mph. What purpose would an autonomous car serve at those speeds?
It would eliminate the utility of high speed rail.
LA to SF in one hour instead of 2 hours and 40 minutes by HSR.
Roads are cheaper to build than rail and they can connect to existing roads to give door to door delivery.
I'm not an Elon hater.
I'm just telling you the Honest Truth:
This is a marketing stunt.
The technology is quite old.
Just nobody ever thought of bolting it on a car.
Because it's pointless.
Porsche or Ferrari could also build something like this if they wanted, but they don't, because it's not worth it for them.
It's worth it for Elon though, because his entire brand is all about having the halo of futurism.
His marketing scales especially well with tech gimmicks like this, which is why he is financially incentivised to do them, while others aren't.
Again, I'm not hating, but actually educating yall.
This is not engineering genius.
It's marketing genius.
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Just installed the worst @Tesla update. In a matter of a couple of minutes it kept giving me warnings to hold the steering wheel.
While sitting at a stop sign it disengaged FSD for failing to pay attention to driving.
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