Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

[MJ DeMarco]

It has never been easier to make money because service has become awful.

Our pool cover didn't survive the winter and has tears in it.

We contacted the company that installed it and they said they will charge $200 just to come look at it.

They gave us the date (which was May 18) and said they would arrive anytime during the day.

We stayed at the house ALL DAY waiting for these fckers, and they never showed. Not even a courtesy "sorry, we can't make it."

Multiple texts and emails during the day, never answered. They stood to make $200 just to show up for 20 minutes.

The week before, we contacted the company who did the AV install at this house, from the internet, to the home theater, to the wiring. We found the original contract where the original owners spent $55,000.

After 3 texts to the company, 2 emails, and 1 voicemail, think they ever got back to us?

Nope.

 

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[Antifragile]

RIP Sam Zell.

He was a visionary, a legend of the Real Estate Industry...

Here's a snippet on how he was like the Greek legend of Cassandra, there are some great lessons to be learned for any business from this man.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1659249806873866240

View: https://twitter.com/volodyagusak/status/1659249806873866240?s=20

 

[Fox]

Team Sky is an excellent example of a 1% gains across every conceivable little gain possible. They re-defined how cycling teams won Tour de France.

Turn the clock back to 2010 and Britain had never produced a Tour De France winning rider.

The team was founded with the primary goal of producing the first British winner of the Tour De France. To accomplish this, it was decided that the core of the squad should be comprised of relatively young British riders, supplemented with several established foreign names. The first roster of Sky riders reflected this, including the likes of; Thomas, Froome, Wiggins and Stannard, alongside Simon Gerrans, Edvald Boasson Hagen and Thomas Löfkvist..

Marginal gains yield major rewards​

The long list of triumphs enjoyed by Team Sky since their inception can be largely attributed to what is known as the ‘aggregation of marginal gains‘.

This philosophy was implemented by Dave Brailsford following his appointment as general manager of the team. In his own words, the basis of the theory is that “if you break down everything you could think of, that goes into riding a bike, and then improve it by 1%, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together. They’re tiny things, but if you clump them together it can be the difference between winning and losing.”

Their search for efficiency has included countless innovative tweaks, some of which may seem to the untrained eye to be tenuously linked to performance on a bike. Such changes include; travelling with their own mattresses and pillows to ensure riders sleep and recover as best as possible, colour coding water bottles to differentiate between water and energy drinks saving time on the road, and travelling on their state of the art team bus known as ‘The Death Star’, decked out with reclining padded seats, a shower, a treatment room, and a built in sound system.

Result? The British based outfit have produced the race winner 7 in a row.


Apply this to business - ANY business, and success is 10x more likely.

So true @Antifragile - and I really love this mindset also.

I used this exact 1% strategy recently with Instagram reels.

I had been uploading a month and not getting much traction.
Each video was getting like 400-500 views.

Then I broke everything down and tried to get some small gains in as many areas as possible...

- Switched from using the camera to using a DSLR
- Changed from a cheap mic to a proper lapel mic
- Studied the top reels in my niche and seen the most viral ones has around 120 words and 5-6 "cuts"
- Worked on improving the first few seconds with a much better hook
- Found the perfect time for me to upload at (9-9.30 Poland time)
- Rearranged the whole office to get a better angle for filming
- Found clothing with better colors on camera
- Improved my caption software
- Spent triple the time on editing
- Worked on the lighting

I was literally studying everything possible from background book positions, to voice tonality, to the most common word choice used in other viral reels ha.

The end result was going from an average of...


To having the reels taking off like this...


The goal now is to start applying this to Youtube, but for sure it is a harder challenger when a video is 10 minutes instead of 20-30 seconds.

What is crazy is how this adds up mathematically. If you can improve an idea or business just a little every day, soon it is WAY above the starting level.

 

[Fox]

They stood to make $200 just to show up for 20 minutes.

Does just nobody want to work, or there aren't enough blue collar trades? Or something else??

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

How big-tech views entrepreneurs... as if LinkedIn has no clue WHO is providing the jobs. Where is the NEVER button? Or, "No, I'm a business owner."

Does just nobody want to work, or there aren't enough blue collar trades? Or something else??

Both.

 

[Fox]

How big-tech views entrepreneurs... as if LinkedIn has no clue WHO is providing the jobs. Where is the NEVER button? Or, "No, I'm a business owner."

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Both.

Lol that is so condescending.

- Yes, I need a job
- No, but maybe yes I do need a job

 

[biophase]

So today I went to a website from a Google shopping link. I was on the website less than 10 seconds and did not enter any info. Less than 30 minutes later I got the email and I was subscribed to their email list.

How did they do this and is this even legal? I assume they got my email because I was logged into my gmail on the browser and I clicked a Google ad. I understand a retargeting cookie and serving ads on future websites, but an auto add to an email list?

 

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[Antifragile]

 

[GuestUser4aMPs1]

Needed a quick outline for a post I've been thinking about for a while
(an overview of Private Equity, Search Funds, etc.).

Asked ChatGPT to search thefastlaneforum.com to write in the style of user "Mike Partee"
(I got access to the web browser plugin) aaaaannnddddd......



Yo wtf

 

[MitchC]

Needed a quick outline for a post I've been thinking about for a while
(an overview of Private Equity, Search Funds, etc.).

Asked ChatGPT to search thefastlaneforum.com to write in the style of user "Mike Partee"
(I got access to the web browser plugin) aaaaannnddddd......

View attachment 48899

Yo wtf

Can you tell it to write the rest of the post? I’m on the edge of my seat here

 

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[c4n]

So today I went to a website from a Google shopping link. I was on the website less than 10 seconds and did not enter any info. Less than 30 minutes later I got the email and I was subscribed to their email list.

How did they do this and is this even legal? I assume they got my email because I was logged into my gmail on the browser and I clicked a Google ad. I understand a retargeting cookie and serving ads on future websites, but an auto add to an email list?

Did you click any "Sign in with Google" buttons/links on their website? That would give them your email address.

As for the legality of it - in the EU super illegal to do that, not sure about the USA.

 

[jclean]

Our pool cover didn't survive the winter and has tears in it.

We contacted the company that installed it and they said they will charge $200 just to come look at it.

They gave us the date (which was May 18) and said they would arrive anytime during the day.

We stayed at the house ALL DAY waiting for these fckers, and they never showed. Not even a courtesy "sorry, we can't make it."

Multiple texts and emails during the day, never answered. They stood to make $200 just to show up for 20 minutes.

The week before, we contacted the company who did the AV install at this house, from the internet, to the home theater, to the wiring. We found the original contract where the original owners spent $55,000.

After 3 texts to the company, 2 emails, and 1 voicemail, think they ever got back to us?

Nope.

I have a service myself this doesnt suprise me at all,
I think i have decent understanding in what people/ customers find important (keep your word, speed, quality) but still want to ask this question:

how would you prefer to be helped by a service company, what is important to you as a customer?

What would really suprise you these days ?

 

[Isaac Odongo]

My head is beginning to look ugly and smaller with very minimal air. Maybe I should readjust my barber shop activities.

 

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[mikecarlooch]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

I know this was already posted lol.. But amazing.

I told my family to stop congratulating me on getting a 20 dollar per hour job and when they ask why I showed them this.

Because 33 year olds are picking up mclarens into penthouses with cranes.

People know sh*t you don't know.

Don't congratulate me on a job. Ever. Congratulate me on my first large exit.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Because 33 year olds are picking up mclarens into penthouses with cranes.

Wow, that's a lot of lattes he didn't drink.

 

[eramart]

Finally, Amazon fixed the glitch that didn't allow me to download updated TMF on Kindle. Still had to resend it manually, but got the correct version now.

 

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[Jon822]

Wow, that's a lot of lattes he didn't drink.

You can't not drink that many lattes without 40(1)k latte matching.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

You can't not drink that many lattes without 40(1)k latte matching.

He also raised his insurance deductibles and with his McLaren now in his living room, he doesn't need to buy gas. He saves $1,104 a year which, if in invested in a safe indexed fund, will be worth $22,000 when he is 65.

 

[Jon822]

He also raised his insurance deductibles and with his McLaren now in his living room, he doesn't need to buy gas. He saves $1,104 a year which, if in invested in a safe indexed fund, will be worth $22,000 when he is 65.

He revealed one of his other life hacks as well: every other month he puts himself into a month long coma. Not only is that a lot of lattes that don't get purchased, but food, toilet flushes, and many other savings start compounding. When you start digging into the details, it becomes clear why he's so rich.

 

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[biophase]

Did you click any "Sign in with Google" buttons/links on their website? That would give them your email address.

As for the legality of it - in the EU super illegal to do that, not sure about the USA.

I did not click around. Basically I bounced off the site. Click and hit back within 20 seconds.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

I did not click around. Basically I bounced off the site. Click and hit back within 20 seconds.

The answer is likely buried in GMAIL'S 300 page Terms of Service.

 

[monnffffiiiiiii]

"Excuse-me, I can't stay, I have a daily Zoom session with my mindset coach."

 

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[c4n]

I did not click around. Basically I bounced off the site. Click and hit back within 20 seconds.

I was digging around a bit, and looks like they are using retention.com, which specializes in identifying users even if they are not logged in.

Edit: if you have a page dedicated to explaining why you are legal, you are probably at least a shady business:

How Is Retention.com Legal? - retention.com

This post will clear up all of the CAN-SPAM and CCPA concerns, along with documentation that you can pass along to your legal team that supports what’s in this post. 1. Retention.com is not GDPR or CASL compliant, so it’s only legal in the USA. Our database only contains email addresses in the...

retention.com

 

[Dean Irwin]

Check out this new bus stop sun shade LA announced yesterday at a press conference:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1659217934391341056

View: https://twitter.com/streetsblogla/status/1659217934391341056?s=46&t=cCxNl09OSXYckemGIpk7DA



Prototype was less than 10k to build. Tax dollars hard at work!

 

[GuestUser4aMPs1]

Wow, that's a lot of lattes he didn't drink.

In fact, he drank negative 1,385,282 lattes. A world record!

 

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[Kak]

Check out this new bus stop sun shade LA announced yesterday at a press conference:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1659217934391341056

View: https://twitter.com/streetsblogla/status/1659217934391341056?s=46&t=cCxNl09OSXYckemGIpk7DA



Prototype was less than 10k to build. Tax dollars hard at work!

Someone go do this for 9k.

Call the press conference lady.

 

[Private Witt]

Someone go do this for 9k.

Call the press conference lady.

Need to install a speaker in that shade and broadcast both Kaks show and Kakism one liners to the LA zombie population.

 

[GPM]

Check out this new bus stop sun shade LA announced yesterday at a press conference:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1659217934391341056

View: https://twitter.com/streetsblogla/status/1659217934391341056?s=46&t=cCxNl09OSXYckemGIpk7DA



Prototype was less than 10k to build. Tax dollars hard at work!

How is that even a sun shade? It would provide shade for a single person, for one exact period of time when the sun is lined up perfectly in the sky. They could have just put a basket beside the bus stop and buy 10,000 alibaba umbrellas to hand out and everyone would be so much further ahead.

What a joke. Classic government.

Don't forget that the entire press corp, and whatever official that was had to be paid for them time and scheduling to be there for that as well. That probably doubled the costs right there.

In other news....

 

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[Kak]

Need to install a speaker in that shade and broadcast both Kaks show and Kakism one liners to the LA zombie population.

$9450.99 with wakeboard speaker.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Too many employees simply do not care how long tasks or projects take and are perfectly content with endless revisions, details, and refinement.

Being an entrepreneur is all about results and effectiveness. You gotta ship the damn thing.