This blew my mind: AI is the bicycle for the mind, but most people are using it as a wheelchair. Use it to go farther, not to avoid thinking.

That sales leader required his team to make 100 cold calls a day. Activity through the roof, morale through the floor. Top 3 reps quit. New policy: 20 researched calls, 5 personalized emails. Pipeline up 40%. Turns out motion and progress aren't the same sport.

My friend launched 5 products in 2 years. All mediocre revenue. Finally committed to one. Said no to everything else. Revenue 10x. Turns out focus isn't about doing less, it's about allowing one thing to be great.

The beginner's guide to AI automation: Start with one repetitive task that takes 10 minutes daily. Automate that. Don't build a spaceship on day one.

What if I told you... your "business problem" is actually a personal boundary problem disguised in a spreadsheet?

That sales rep booked the biggest deal in company history. Problem: he overpromised. Customer churned in 90 days. Refunded $180K. He got fired. Turned out closing isn't the goal, keeping is.

Dear founders: You're doing sales wrong if you're pitching features. Sell the transformation. The drill bit is just a tool; the hole is the point.

No one talks about this, but the smartest AI play isn't building models - it's becoming the person who knows which model to use for which problem.

That founder raised prices 40% overnight. Lost 30% of customers, but revenue stayed flat. New customers were higher quality. Churn dropped. LTV tripled. Turns out the customers who leave on price were never your customers.

My daughter asked why I'm always on my phone. I said "working," she asked "for who?" I deleted Slack from my phone that night. Revenue didn't move. My presence with her did. Turns out urgency is often manufactured, but childhood isn't.

Unpopular opinion: waking at 4am is a vanity metric. What matters is the 2-hour deep work block - whether it happens at 5am or 10pm.

The secret behind every "overnight success" is a 3-year period everyone saw but ignored. Consistency is invisible until it isn't.

Most parents are teaching their kids to be safe. I'm teaching mine to be dangerous with good judgment. That's the entrepreneurship vaccine.

Here's what actually matters after reading 200 productivity books: do the hardest thing first for 90 minutes. Everything else is just organizing your procrastination.