Patrick Epler retweeted
Canada is getting serious
Bank accounts can be seized / insurance policies cancelled
They want to regulate cryptocurrency
If the truckers win its going to cause major problems for governments of many countries, & they know this.
So they’re doing everything they can to stop it
Patrick Epler retweeted
DAOs are absorbing the internet. This is true across dimensions:
• Talent. Home for the internet's most gifted
• Capital. Controlling billions in digital assets
• Social capital. Where bright minds meet & collab
• Culture. Defining cyber culture
Gm, and let's begin 🧵
Patrick Epler retweeted
If customers don’t come back and buy your product again, it’s a product problem, not a marketing problem. 🙅♂️
Also there are way too many brands are out here pushing for subscription on first purchase. Why? No one wants to subscribe to a product without trying it first. 🤦♂️
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One big problem with the hyper specialization of marketing sub disciplines is that we are left with very few people who understand the whole. There’s hardly any career path that starts and ends integrated anymore, and we’re left with armies of frustrated people with blinders.
Patrick Epler retweeted
School is built on the lie that you have to get really good at boring tasks in order to become successful
Patrick Epler retweeted
Agency Life
*Creates +60k in monthly incremental revenue*
Client: "can you add a comma on this ad?"
*sighs*
Patrick Epler retweeted
1/ The first 18 months of a startup:
After starting my 2nd company in 2019, I decided I would write down useful lessons I learned or re-learned along the way. Some were hard-earned & others required steady focus. A thread that I hope may help other founders starting out 👇
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Jeff Bezos has a saying: “Good intentions don’t work. Mechanisms do.”
Long-term, you can’t solve problems by working more or trying harder. If you want persistent change, you have to fix the underlying system.
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Self-confidence is just a side effect of successfully doing what you once thought you couldn’t do.
Patrick Epler retweeted
Put 100 red and black ants in a jar and nothing will happen.
But if you shake the jar.
The reds think the blacks are the enemy and vice versa.
The real enemy however is the jar shaker.
The same is true in society.
Before we fight, we should ask ourselves.
Who shook the jar?