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I think about this story at least once a week.
"Earn with your Mind. Not your time."
Creators:
Stop asking yourself, "Will others be interested in this idea?"
And start asking yourself, "Am I interested in this idea?"
And that message starts with you.
This book called "The Assertiveness Workbook" that I started this weekend should be a required read to all Tech Mentors out there.
So good, yet so rare to see more folks using these techniques to shift both passive and passive-agressive communication (most common in Tech in my experience) towards true assertive communication.
Too bad most people never get past the idea part...
The lifestyle you want should determine the business you build — not the other way around.
How to differentiate yourself on the internet (and make extra $$$):
Use the 1:1:1 Formula.
Here are the AI prompts I use to brainstorm each piece:
when I write as if I am broadcasting, the people I attract are a lot less interesting to me
Innovators or entrepreneur do best when they are generalist jacks-of-all-trades. Inventors & founders with a broad but shallow experience across many fields beat those with narrow but deep expertise.
An exception is if change is happening quickly, then specialists can dominate.
whispers from the garden: they say it's more powerful than anyone imagined. the strawberry is almost ripe. 🍓
In my experience teaching experts to use AI for work, a big change happens when they stop feeling relieved or smug when AI can’t do something and instead try to figure out how to make the AI succeed
Ask the question: “if this was a human, what feedback or guidance would I give?”
At some point you realize that the permission you’ve been waiting for all along was your own.
just had a chat with someone who's seen it in action. mind blown. the world isn't ready for this level of intelligence.
"Uncertainty, not outcome, is the root of stress."
You are exactly as successful as you programmed yourself to be.
I focus on 2 metrics
It's good to get $$$$.
But if it takes 80 hours/week and 1 burnout, that's a bad deal.
Bootrsapped business = business on my terms.
a lot of executive dysfunction seems to just self-correct once you start doing things with friends and in community, instead of trying to brute-force everything alone
4 questions I reflect on every Sunday:
• What were my biggest wins of the week?
• When did I feel most energized and excited?
• What weighed on me throughout the week?
• When did I feel most drained or unexcited?
Helps me identify what to double down on and what to cut.
Sad to read. Any suggestions for him?
If I write 1 post on the spot, every day:
If I write 7 days of posts, every Monday:
The secret: having a plan.
We’ve got quite the lineup for our workshops coming over the next few months 👀
Every war is a conflict between social systems of information processing. Which is why the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk Oblast has had a shattering effect well beyond what could be predicted from the troop numbers.
War is a brutally physical phenomenon. But the war machines and the factories that produce them have to be run by humans organized in social information systems.
Today Russia is reeling because in Kursk Oblast the Ukrainians are exploiting well-known weaknesses in Russia's system of social information processing.
Authoritarian systems need order, rigidity, and the programmed response to maintain themselves. The mental habits this encourages do not handle surprise and out-of-context problems well. So the first major achievement of the offensive - operational and strategic-level surprise - was exactly what the Ukrainians needed to do put the Russians in a situation where their mental habits hinder any effective response.
The consequences are very visible. Five days in, the Russians still do not have an operationally coherent counter. They're throwing scratch formations of conscripts at the Ukrainians with poor coordination, inviting the Ukrainians to defeat them piecemeal.
Even once the surprise wears off, authoritarian systems suffer from a slow OODA (observe, orient decide, act) loop. Orders have to be passed up and down the hierarchy, going through more steps that are required when initiative is delegated down to lower levels. This produces lag.
To worsen the lag, the Ukrainians need to make the information environment as confusing and ambiguous as possible. An important way to do this is to multiply threat axes. Which is why pushing troops over the border of Belgorod Oblast is an important move.
The Ukrainians will develop more threat axes. Some will be real. Some will be feints. All of them together will constitute a massive pysop designed to jam and overwhelm Russian information processing.
The most important failure of the Ukrainians need to avoid is getting bogged back down into a kind of warfare that is relatively static, where the challenges are predictable and thus well aligned to the authoritarian mode of social information processing.