1991: Mom gently rocks you to sleep
2024: Mom doesn't rock you to sleep anymore

Anyone else notice this?

Doing a deep dive on hiring and transitioning a CEO this morning at 10:45AM PST for my Twitter subscribers!

Hit the purple subscribe button, then go to “subscriber” tweets to see the link at 10:45 if you want to join :-)

The insane power of a having a large Twitter audience:

For a commitment of 1.25 hours a week, I spun up two little side businesses that make about $30,000/month.

1. I started doing monthly Twitter AMAs (1 hour monthly) for my paid Twitter subscribers - $15,000 / mo.

2. My…

Private equity sucks at marketing.

There’s no such thing as problems.

Only people problems.

Tesla Drivers:

To yoke or not to yoke?

A lot of people seem to have a necessary level of stress, and when their life is going well they make up imaginary problems to fill the void.

Andrew Wilkinson Agreed.

Reality is that not many people are good at doing things they aren't currently doing.

I asked Munger about finding talent. He gave a curt answer: 'I only hire people who have done it.'

I then followed up and asked about hiring younger people.

His reply: 'I don't.'

Some of my most bone-headed (and insanely expensive) mistakes have been hiring fancy people from big Fortune 500 corporate gigs and putting them in charge of smaller companies.

There’s a saying, “You can take the man out of IBM, but you can’t take the IBM out of the man.”…

I quit my dream job today.

After over a decade of building Dribbble and Creative Market, I’ve decided the time is right for me to close this epic chapter in my life and bring in a new leader.

While I believe I was the right CEO to grow Dribbble’s users from thousands to tens of…

“One of the first things to notice about professional gamblers is that there are no professional roulette players, slot players, or craps or keno or lottery players. That is because you cannot win at those games; the house has a mathematical edge. The longer you play, the more…

So last year Wayfair.com, an $8B company, launched their own AI interior design tool

This week someone at Wayfair asked me to cancel their subscription of InteriorAI.com, which is my AI interior design tool launched 2 years ago

I was confused why would they sign up to it…

OMG!! I've been caught doing something not remotely similar to Trump! I guess all I need to do now is start a fraud college, steal classified docs, bankrupt casinos, pay hush money, grab pussies, discriminate in housing, cheat at golf and foment insurrection and you'll revere me!

The greatest communicators have only two rules: brevity.

One of the strangest things with tip culture is who does not get tipped.

Waiters yes, flight attendants no.

Uber Eats driver yes, UPS driver no.

Valet yes, front desk no.

Companies kill their own messaging over time.

4 bad habits seep in as they grow.

Here's the breakdown:

'I want to roll up a fragmented industry' starter pack:

In January, I turned 38.

I'll probably die in about 17,824 days (ChatGPT's best guess).

Here's a list of 38 things I've learned over the last 13,952 days of my life so far:

1. If you're nice to someone, they'll probably be nice back.

2. Criticizing someone's ideas will only…