The idea of doing "less" gets a lot of love.But the truth is, 99% of people should be doing way more.• Create 100 ads per day• Write 100 tweets per day • Send 50 cold DMs per day • Make 100 cold calls per dayIn the beginning, more volume will solve your problem.— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) May 5, 2022
Too often our impetus is "I need to use a new tool" instead of "how can I use the tools I'm already using to solve my problem"— David Vargas (@dvargas92495) April 4, 2022
“Question I can't stop thinking about from @tferriss's interview with @jerrycolonna:
How am I complicit in creating the conditions I say I don't want?
Hmmm.”
“1. Nerds (people for whom curiosity is a dominant drive) are rare to begin with. Let’s say 5-10%
2. Friendly nerds and ambitious nerds tend to be broadly assumed to be separate camps, different and at odds
3. Friendly ambitious nerds are (seems to me) radical and ~0.01% rare”
“My Dad works at a crappy job, drinks too much, and his only friend is his brother.
I always thought he led an unfulfilled life.
But I had an epiphany:”
“@epolynya @Coveted Eventually I should probably write a post about this...
A big part of the answer is Uniqlo maximalism, but there's many other tricks too.”
(1) DO Lectures 在 Twitter: "Tats joined the DO team today. He’s been great. (That’s a lot of post-it notes…😅) Exciting things in the pipeline. #TeamsWin https://t.co/vUvxcnhBR2" / Twitter
“Nothing
is a mistake.
There’s no win
and no fail.
There’s only make.
This quote has been attributed to John Cage, when it is, in fact, from a list of principles for a class taught by artist and educator Sister Corita Kent in 1967-1968. Her principles for creativity follow.”
The Bible of Copywriting:The Adweek Copywriting Handbook.Back in 2007, legendary copywriter Joe Sugarman distilled his 40 years of advertising wisdom into 293 pages.And inside he shared his 7-step process for writing effortless, high-converting copy.Here's the breakdown: pic.twitter.com/viGGDbJfNk— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) October 15, 2021
The more you improve as a writer, the shittier your work looks to you and the greater it looks to everybody else.— Illimitable Man Bot • Red Pill (@IllimitableBot) April 4, 2022
The great danger is that we give in to feelings of boredom, impatience, fear, and confusion. We stop observing and learning. The process comes to a halt.— Robert Greene (@RobertGreene) April 6, 2022
There are three general types of interview podcast:- Smart person & smart person- Moron & smart person- Moron & moronThe market demands all three. Enjoy whichever is your poison.— Peter McCormack ☠️ (@PeterMcCormack) March 15, 2021
“Sahil Bloom grew from 0 to 500k followers in less than two years.
This allowed him to quit his job and he's now at 5x what he was making as a VC.
Here's everything I learned about how he operates his personal flywheel:”
"Every philosopher, like Plato, should be an athlete; if he is not, let us suspect his philosophy."—Will Durant— Robert ₿reedlove (@Breedlove22) April 3, 2022
The average price of a new home sold in the US has increased 25% over the last year and just hit an all-time high of $511,000. (h/t @charliebilello) pic.twitter.com/9mm7EVr776— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) March 31, 2022
Good podcast from @patrick_oshag."I've met people who are so charming and so good looking and so wonderful that they never failed at anything. And then, when they got later in life and they found a challenge, they didn't know how to deal with it."https://t.co/ewpSz6NoDx— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) March 29, 2022
I'm not really an introvert, average people are just boring, brainwashed and thick as fuck.— Illimitable Man Bot • Red Pill (@IllimitableBot) March 25, 2022
You won't see masculinity in middle class areas. Middle class people are soy. You wanna see masculinity? Gotta go to the low IQ shitty areas— Illimitable Man Bot • Red Pill (@IllimitableBot) March 22, 2022
Fame is more of a sacrifice than a privilege. Stupid people want fame because they don't realise wealth + privacy is where it's at.— Illimitable Man Bot • Red Pill (@IllimitableBot) March 22, 2022
It's better to fail because you're not good enough than fail because you're scared you won't be good enough.I didn't learn that the easy way— Illimitable Man Bot • Red Pill (@IllimitableBot) March 21, 2022
Concise writing is the ultimate "proof-of-thinking."To put something concisely means you've thought it through deeply and stripped away everything unnecessary.The next time you see 5,000 words of rambling, know the author isn't quite sure what it is they're trying to say.— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) March 26, 2022