For those of you who market on TikTok to US audiences, is a US sim a must? What is your setup to reach mostly US market?

Kinda funny that when you're truly obsessed about what you do, rest days take the most effort.

Reading Reality Transurfing for the first time now after so many people recommending it and swearing by it. Something about the way it's written is so good that it makes things click in your head even though you already kinda knew them. Life really is a mind game.

For anyone interested in startups and building something that makes an impact, I really recommend the NFX masterclass about speed. It came out a few days ago and it's really eye opening.

Does anyone know the best method for creating US TikTok accounts without overpaying $100+/month for someone to do it for you?

Been away from X for far too long, working on my own things and trying new ideas, but excited to connect with people again and post things that others may find useful. Time to take this X thing a little bit more seriously :)

Most businesses don't need a better product. They need a better follow-up system. I've seen clinics lose 40%+ of leads because nobody replied within 2 hours. Automate the first response. Personalize the second. Close on the third. Speed wins more deals than quality.

OpenAI plans to spend $600 billion on compute by 2030. Meanwhile a study found developers are 19% slower when using AI coding tools. The companies building AI are printing money. The companies blindly adopting it are burning it. The gap between using AI well and using AI badly has never been wider.

Read 50+ books on business in the last 2 years. Could've skipped 45 of them. The 5 that actually changed how I think: 1. The Almanack of Naval 2. $100M Offers 3. Zero to One 4. The War of Art 5. Thinking in Bets Everything else was the same ideas repackaged.

Unpopular opinion: "networking" is mostly a waste of time when you're early stage. Build something worth talking about first. The right people show up when the work is good.

Building AI tools for small businesses taught me something: they don't care about the tech. They care about "will this save me time and make me money." Stop selling features. Start selling the outcome. One clinic owner told me "I just need fewer no-shows." That's the whole pitch.

The best marketing doesn't feel like marketing. It feels like someone who gets your problem explaining how they solved it. That's it. That's the whole framework.

Cold email in 2026 is not dead. Lazy cold email is dead. AI spam filters got smarter. Generic sequences get buried. What works: hyper-personalized first lines, real value props, and treating outreach like a conversation - not a numbers game. Quality over volume wins every time.

Most founders spend months perfecting their product before showing it to anyone. Then they launch and realize nobody wanted it. Ship ugly. Ship broken. Ship before you're ready. The market will tell you what to fix.

Klarna replaced 700 customer service agents with AI. Canva turned engineers into AI overseers. And people are still debating whether AI will "take jobs." It already did. The question now is: are you building the AI or getting replaced by it?

Building something nobody asked for is scary. Building something everyone already has is pointless. The sweet spot is building something people need but can't describe yet.

Unpopular opinion: most "networking" is just people collecting LinkedIn connections they'll never talk to. One real conversation beats 500 followers.

The best salespeople I know don't "sell." They show up with something specific, for a specific person, at a specific time. Generic pitches die in inboxes. Specific ones get meetings.

Everyone talks about finding product-market fit. Nobody talks about finding message-market fit. You can have the right product and still get zero replies because you're describing it wrong. I rewrote one cold email 11 times before it started converting.