One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people: Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Sounds simple on the

New podcast on recruiting (full episode). Links below. Curate People 0:00 The Best Only Want to Work With the Best 3:49 You'll Never Be Able to Hire Anybody Better Than You 6:45 Break Every Rule to Get the Best People 10:19 It Just Takes a Small Group of People to Create

The best personal branding strategy is to simply become undeniable.

Chris is the smartest email consultant I know. Use his AI.

This is great. He should be proud. Our own civilization should also start building beautiful and uplifting public spaces again. Beauty and truth are aligned, and as Jefferson noted, great architecture inspires us to take pride in our country, to be better citizens and leaders.

This is so good. I am so bad at it! RIP

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Founders: Have a standard 'going dark' sequence: 1. Friendly check-in 2. Share new case study/ROI data 3. Direct 'still interested?' ask 4. Break up email Don't let deals die from neglect.

If I was starting my writing journey from scratch, I would: 1. Write & publish 5 tweets per day 2. Publish 2 Atomic Essays per week 3. Craft 1 high-quality X Article per week 4. Block time to make 1 new friend per week Then, I would stick to this for 52 weeks in a row. Easy?

Starting to think the next workflow that gets built into the models is this idea of "decisions .md" or "philosophy .md". Every project you work on should have one of these that keeps a master log of every decision made for that specific project.

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Regular podcast listening list: - Acquired (business stories) - Affiliated by Click Bank (affiliate marketing) - Audience Bridge Insights (email) - Business Breakdowns (business stories) - Business Lunch (bootstrapped biz. advice) - Dakota Townhall (SD politics) - David Senra

My information consumption is now 1/4 X, 1/4 podcast interviews of the smartest practitioners, 1/4 talking to the leading AI models, and 1/4 reading old books. The opportunity cost of anything else is far too high, and rising daily.

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📂 SaaS ┃ ┣ 📂 Idea ┃ ┣ 📂 Problem Discovery ┃ ┣ 📂 Market Research ┃ ┣ 📂 Niche Selection ┃ ┣ 📂 Competitor Analysis ┃ ┗ 📂 Opportunity Mapping ┃ ┣ 📂 Validation ┃ ┣ 📂 Customer Interviews ┃ ┣ 📂 Landing Page Test ┃ ┣ 📂 Waitlist ┃ ┣ 📂 Pre Sales ┃ ┗ 📂

All roads lead back to 9 PM bed time, 5 AM wake up, 4 hours of deep, focused work creative work first thing, work out mid day to break it up, admin & calls in the afternoon, hang with friends and loved ones in the evening, repeat forever.

The clear white space media opportunities in tech: - full-time vibe coding + reaction streamer - tech late night show - Woj/Shams for tech rumors - MKBHD for software - OG FaZe House, but it’s a hacker house - daily founder vlogs - MTV Cribs, but for tech offices

In the mid 2010s, I experimented with something I called Capital as a Service (CaaS). Companies sent us their data, we ran it over a bunch of rules and sent back an automated investment decision. We funded more than 50 companies. That portfolio returned more than 2x DPI and