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Brave man.
Prayers sent 🙏
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You don't need friends for this, just a popular Twitter account. But if you ever end up in a spot like this, I'll send you some money.
The bigger problem is having the courage and humility to ask.
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I think this is nuts too, but I feel it calling to me.
I wonder what I'm supposed to discover doing this.
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But for some inexplicable reason we want to push further.
We're going to try one meal a day for a while, see how it feels. That means a 22 hour fast each day.
And to make it even more interesting, we're going to do a pushup challenge - 5000+ pushups in 30 days - up to 800+ a day.
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Salamis, the one closest to Athens. We're on the far side of it though so it's a tiny village with a beach and virtually no people this time of year. The way is warm enough for our Canadian skins for the most part though so we swim quite a bit!
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Oh that's so cool! Where is the house? Country side somewhere?
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I'm doing great! We started out nomad journey and after 3 months settled into a sort of routine on an island in Greece. Can't stay here much longer l, visa is only for 3 months so we'll be moving around again soon + first Israel and then Albania.
How about you?
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💪
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Yeah, let's book it!
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decided to raise my prices more than 3x. I'm now charging a whopping $1000/hour and actually feel I'm worth that amount (transitioned first client from $300 for $600 per hour and that was a "discount") 🤯
I think we should keep talking 😂
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It was a great chat man, and unlocked some really cool things for me too. I did the 101 exercise too and realized I was avoiding selling because I was fearing rejection, and once I broke through that and got back into selling mode, I had another breakthrough this morning where I
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Reminds me it has been a a while 😂
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Chats with me will always go deeper than you plan.
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I think it might just be the event horizon. We just can't quite punch through what would happen with the next leap in capabilities (or perhaps just humans adjusting to existing ones) so we're stuck having the same optimism/pessimism debate with little progress.
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Those books are 1% about reading them and 99% about doing what's in them which always feels counterintuitive and sometimes feels insane.
And yes, there is opposing advice in different books because different people need different things at different times.
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To be fair, I think we've achieved and surpassed what we would have considered AGI back then.
In 2021 GPT could barely string a few coherent sentences together.
These days I ask for, and carefully consider, Claude's advice on my most important decisions.
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It's such an incredible experience watching her paint my facez there's so much love in every stroke of the paintbrush.. I was watching captivated for the entire hour she did this.
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My life is learning water colors. It's her first attempt. Made me look sadder than I feel 😂
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Pricing is a bitch. Always get pulled towards to low and too high, because it's a trilateral decision between you perception of your own value, the specific audience you're targeting, and what they think it's worth. All aspects are malleable which makes it a crazy three body problem.
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That's a great take. It's hard to generalize with B2B, which is why a lot of B2B companies combine a product with some kind of white globe service.
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One a month, eh? That's quite a schedule. What have you learned so far?
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This is the way. It's even better when instead of pitching you're having conversations to help you figure out what the MVP should even be in the first place.
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That's the beauty of external motivation. However much I spent cultivating internal motivation, I still find external pressure extremely effective - provided it's real and actually aligned with what I want to be doing.
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Absolutely!
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Yep. We actually stumbled into that accidentally - we were in Guatemala for the summer and they were spending so much time on their devices that we thought we should start teaching them some things. Turns out we all enjoy homeschooling quite a bit.
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Today is our first day of nomading! Starting with Greece and then we'll see. Doing it with 2 kids is different but still very cool.
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He does write better than I do. But he can't write on topics I haven't discovered yet or about insights I haven't had. He's not living my life (or any life at all) so there's no risk. When he does start to live his own life, he would be authentic about his own experience which is 💯.
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It's kinda crazy that prlper use of language is a sign of AI vs. a person. But yeah, it's a clear sign.
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Thought about it some more. I think good copy (and good sales technique) can tap into something a person is already willing to buy and then show him how the product is exactly what he's looking for. Way easier to do 1:1 than with copy though.
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Can't be done through manipulation. Can only be done by already being what she's looking for in the first place. Good copy works statistically, but individual decision making seems pretty random.
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Seems to happen more because I'm ready for something, not because of anything they say on the website. So much of the sale happens inside the prospect's head it's funny how much attention we pay to the crude nudges we apply through copy. It's like trying to get a girl to fall in love with you.
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I'll be sliding into your DMs soon 😂
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Unless you prefer Go 😂
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*building
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If I end up build a mass unfollow tool and that gets me followers, it would be peak irony 😂
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There's a joke in weather forecasting that you can replace all of it with "today is going to be more or less like tomorrow" and it will be right more often than the current models. Same energy.
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That's very easy.
print "Nothing important happened."
😂
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...and wouldn't care if you did.
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Sent you a connect so you can connect and then unfollow me! 😂
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You can still remain connected but unfollow them!
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The crazy thing is that nobody built a mass unfollow tool for LinkedIn yet. It's such an obviously needed thing, especially since your feed is full of things other people hit *like* on. I need to follow people whose *taste* I like, not even their opinions or them as human beings.
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They won't know. You're still connected, you just don't see them in your feed.
Unfortunately it's very slow and manual - took me a couple of weeks intermittently.
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whose taste you trust you get a great feed. I'm following 4 or 5 people right now - you're one of them! And my feed is a delight now. Much better than either on X or Bluesky actually. And the notification controls are much more granular too.
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I recently got on LinkedIn too and for the same reason and I think I cracked the code for it. Its algo is actually really simple - most of the time it shows you things people you follow interact with.
And it turns out that if you unfollow everyone and then very very slowly choose only the people
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It's the same thing on a vastly different scale. Trimming is a harsh word though. Do you consider firing people as fundamentally unethical? Because any time there's a big wave of layoffs people get hurt. And isn't there a decent severance plan in place for DOGE related layoffs?
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He feels like what I could have become if I was smart enough and didn't discover the softer side of my heart at some point in life and took a different turn.