Live video of American small businesses using these new platforms for sourcing offshore talent.

Thanks for calling. Your business is very important to us...

... and that is why we have this AI pushing you to our confusing website, and we put this call center in the cheapest outsourcing country possible.

Your estimated wait time will be 36 minutes.

Lots of talk about identifying IQ or “smarts”:

One thing I’ve noticed is the savviest+smartest of these people are so good, you never find out how clever they are until it’s too late.

Some are so good everything thinks they are simpletons even.

Sometimes I open up twitter with an irrational desire to just spend an hour educating everyone on why they’re wrong (even if they’re not.)

Then I come to my senses, close Twitter and watch cat videos on TikTok instead.

Going on vacation to Europe is _________.

Unavoidable things in life:

• Death
• Taxes
• Your teenager borrowing your car and returning it almost out of gas

Building a business is a perpetual game of Whack-a-Mole:

You fix your sales team and process.

Then, marketing starts to struggle.

Fix that.

Then, product, and then CS, and on and on.

The only mistake is thinking you can avoid playing the game.

My latest Twitter conspiracy theory:

The dumb porn/spam bots here are obvious. And easily caught*.

But they are a red herring.

I've noticed:

An explosion of anonymous/negative accounts recently in replies.

They write horrible replies, rarely write original posts, and make

I spend my time incubating businesses and helping them run.

But I didn’t start out doing that.

Here’s how I found my life’s work:

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STEP 1: I intentionally tried many jobs in my 20s and early 30s.

I didn’t worry about maximizing pay, just paying the bills.

Exposure mattered

My latest thought about the US:

Our country would be better if we stopped, by default, assuming everyone's opinion had merit.

It's a big part of why we can't build anything or innovate.

The whiners hold too much sway.

You know how the US food supply is screwed?

I go to Canada/Mexico/EU and the ingredient taste/quality/etc is 100x better.

STARTUP IDEA:

We open a grocery store, but it's 100% Canadian food imports.

Nothing American-made or grown.

I'd do all my shopping there.

Who's in?

I'm in a group chat with a dozen creators trying to do Twitter well.* We talk about strategy, etc

Everyone is STOKED that the algo now promotes threads again.

Threadbois are back.

I'm sorry.

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(*We don't do that like trading stuff you hear about. We're actually friends.)

A pattern I’ve noticed:

Many of the best on Twitter are terrible at cocktail parties.