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    Fiance is calling my business "his/our" business, threatening to sue me

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    Given what you've said here, we can figure on two things pretty reliably: 1. You know the right answer. 2. You are very unlikely to make a move on the right answer. The first thing is because, well, c'mon. You've said it yourself: you've made a bad deal. The second thing is that you know...
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    Fiance is calling my business "his/our" business, threatening to sue me

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    We only get half of the story here. True, it doesn't look good from what we've read so far. But I have to wonder, is any of this out of character? Is the guy generally a jerkass all around, or is this behavior news to you? Either way, just based on what you've said the other folks are right --...
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    Has Amazon become a monopoly?

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    If you think of economic behavior in the abstract, this is really all any transaction is: efficiently bringing together buyers and sellers. If you've got the technology to make that efficient, and somebody like Bezos with the vision and the determination to pull it off, then you'll out-compete...
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    Has Amazon become a monopoly?

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    The company itself doesn't worry me as much as the trend it symptomizes. I don't see much point arguing about what the word "monopoly" means when there are tangible consequences to deal with now, and a trendline which does not look nice. In fact monopoly is backward looking. What we are seeing...
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    Need advice on a specific idea to make my biz more fastlane-ish

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    I can't give you any specific advice on this because I am unfamiliar with your market. A question might be helpful to get some wheels turning. When people pay you for your 3D design services, what are they doing with the fruits of your labor? What's the difference between showing up to work at...
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    Need advice on a specific idea to make my biz more fastlane-ish

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    You could change this. What could you offer as a product instead of a by-the-hour service?
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    What's going on with Elon Musk? Eccentric or going mad?

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    Social media has a way of bringing out some of the worst habits and qualities in people. It turns individuals into mouthpieces for groupthink, it discourages thoughtful reflection and patience (and/or it selects for people who don't have these virtues), it makes trivial things seem much more...
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    I Dropped Out of College and Bought a Porsche. Here’s How.

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    What a great story. "Writer with depressive tendencies and a self-destructive streak" hits too close to home for me. I'm glad you're having success in overcoming it. (And you found it early in life, too!)
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    Porn site owner who enjoys fast lane success IAMA on Reddit

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    So I don't have any vested interest in the moral debate here, but I do think there is an interesting thread running behind that argument which could be taken back on topic (if we want to salvage some good discussion) Without wading into the topic of vice, a few things stand out as interesting...
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    Will AI end advertising as we know it?

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    I always find this kind of prediction cagey. I don't mean that he's wrong about the trend-line. He's very probably right that this is the way things are going. This kind of prediction always assumes that there is a radical transformation in one thing while nothing else about the fundamentals...
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    This is what 60 Pounds (27 KGS) Looks Like

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    I've been thinking about this a lot recently, in the group with @Kung Fu Steve , and it has really hit home to me how key being "in shape" has been to everything else in my life. I have never been a discplined person. In most things creative or productive, I've been that guy who starts a ten...
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    Money-Chasing Burns Bestselling Author...*Poof!* His pen name is gone.

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    Well you certainly can't keep us hanging with this juicy little morsel.
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    This is what 60 Pounds (27 KGS) Looks Like

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    Nobody thinks they eat badly. Nobody believes that the way they're eating is out of line with their goals. You'll see the exact opposite thing with skinny guys trying to put on weight. "But I eat so much," they tell you. It turns out that they'll slam an extra-large pizza and a half-gallon of...
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    Ready to take your business to the next level? I'll coach you.

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    Count me in.
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    Creating a General 'Lifting Weights' Udemy Course

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    Selling fitness information is never about selling fitness information. It isn't even about getting people results. Information is cheap, generic, and widely available. The odds that you're bringing something new to this space are zero. Results? How many personal trainers get results? Most...
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    Article 13, EU "end of the internet"

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    Ride it out another five, 10 years while the Very Smart Managers continue managing their way to complete self-destruction. In the mean time, I hear good things about Chinese and Russian controlled Internet infrastructure.
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    Advice: Has Anyone Groomed Themselves to Enter The American Elite?

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    I would find it strange to do this. Maybe I'm weird* but one of the reasons I like the Fastlane mindset is that it tells you that you don't have to do a bunch of things you don't like with people you don't care for. Whether that means a job working for one of my social 'betters' or having to...
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    Starting a Copywriting Freelance Business. How well do I sell myself?

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    This is your problem, friend. I know it's confusing, and that's one reason why you've just got to pick something and go for it. You probably can do what you want, eventually, but you almost surely won't get there by dabbling in lots of things while never acting on any of them. I'm not even...
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    Starting a Copywriting Freelance Business. How well do I sell myself?

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    If you go over to Upwork and search "copywriting" in the posted jobs, you'll get a mixture of everything from writing landing pages and email campaigns right on down the scale to the "need you to write fifty 500 word blog posts" with a budget of $20. I think a lot of people get into copy with...
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    Leangains and Kinobody: A case study of two fitness gurus

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    You know I'm having a real hard time seeing the upside of this point. To me this looks like a classic example of everything that is broken with the Internet Marketing way of doing business. If you have to qualify your success with "but at least it wasn't illegal", to me that says you've got a...

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