I like bands with 2 siblings as the front men. They often have awesome harmonies. Also, The Proclaimers were very, very cool. youtube.com/watch?v=ZF6vJobB…

A trait of people I call natural moneymakers: these people are maximizers. Diminishing returns are still returns. Jay Gould, who lived in the 1800s...John D. Rockefeller called him the greatest business mind of all time. Gould's wife had died, he had tuberculosis, and doctors gave him about a year to live. At dinner someone whispered that a railroad was about to go bankrupt and he could have it. His family begged him not to, the family had plenty. A week later he told them: I have to go back to my first love, making money. He made the deal and died about six months later.

This scam is going around. People texting saying they're me. And referring my latest podcast. Assume its not me. If you're unsure, ask to receive a selfie of my upper thigh tattoo while i'm wearing my fav underwear while i'm holding up the number 1. You'll know.

Shaan told a good story about one of our guests who every time his wife got pregnant, he'd buy a gas station, and that gas station covered the cost of the kid. The idea: only spend the second derivative. If you make $100k, you don't spend the $100k. You invest it and only spend what it throws off, maybe $10k, and you never raise your lifestyle past that.

Last week I talked to four creators doing over $1m a year in ad revenue, almost entirely from AI companies. All had fewer than 100k followers. Most of the ads are on Instagram. On My First Million, I shared what else I found: three others doing over $10m a year, with just a part-time assistant or a few freelancers. With AI getting all this funding, they have to spend the money somewhere for marketing. I don't know if this is going to last, but there's definitely a little trader gold rush going on right now. I think it's going to last at least for a handful more years. I've had a ton reach out to do ads with me on Twitter. Basically, I talk about something and get paid to do it and label it as an ad. I probably not going to do it on Twitter, but I would consider it for LinkedIn or Instagram if I love the product.

He's clearly read the book The Inner Game of Tennis. High performers have brain 1 and brain 2. But they need to listen to brain 2: the subconscious part. Disclosure: I may have mixed up the brain numbers.

Hampton started a physical newspaper. We did it for our retreats...members got these amazing newspapers that our team made. The strategy stolen from the Made to Stick book where they tell a story about this local newspaper that is thriving and when asked why, the publisher just said, "Well I name as many names as possible." So, we named everyone on the retreat. What they're up to, why they're interesting, and news about them. I'm now trying to make this post so I could pressure them into making the newspaper a monthly thing for our members.

There's a guy on youtube posting videos of him riding his bike and listening to music. Millions of views. Looks like he just started a month ago. I dig it. youtube.com/watch?v=ciWDuMau…

On My First Million, I talked about an old book I've been reading on John D. Rockefeller. He and his partner called competitors "enemies" or "friendlies." An enemy: they were willing to lose money before letting him profit from another pint of oil.

Tim Dillon on a generational run lately

We need to collectively agree: No gifts for kids bday parties (like your kids friends bday party). Call me a Scrooge! But we all just have to buy the same junk each weekend and no one actually wants it.

Small but meaningful difference in writing: same words but shorter paragraphs.

"The scenes of our life are like pictures in rough mosaic, which have no effect at close quarters, but must be looked at from a distance in order to discern their beauty. So that to obtain something we have desired is to find out that it is worthless; we are always living in expectation of better things, while, at the same time, we often repent and long for things that belong to the past. We accept the present as something that is only temporary, and regard it only as a means to accomplish our aim. So that most people will find if they look back when their life is at an end, that they have lived their lifelong ad interim, and they will be surprised to find that something they allowed to pass by unnoticed and unenjoyed was just their life - that is to say, it was the very thing in the expectation of which they lived. And so it may be said of man in general that, befooled by hope, he dances into the arms of death." Sent from a buddy. From this: onemorelibrary.com/index.php…

How to make good decisions: make very few of them.

Have a question for those with newsletters: has being on substack or any other newsletter platform giving you meaningful growth through their network? It appears the big benefit of Substack is subscriber growth via their network? Has that been your experience?