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    #DeleteFacebook

    SOCIAL MEDIA OFF-TOPIC 
    Oh, well that's no longer a good reason. Facebook builds profiles from your data even if you don't use the platform. Unless you're avoiding any sites that use the Open Graph, and using a good script blocker to keep the tracking pixel away, and have been for years, there's almost a 100% chance...
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    Marketing and the Monkey Brain

    MARKETING 
    Did I not make the point clear enough? Note to self. The point about social life and the influence of others is just this: you don't have a self independent of what you do for other people and how you respond to other people. This goes deeper than just what "you" learn at school or whatever...
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    Marketing and the Monkey Brain

    MARKETING 
    Imagine a child is born during a long sea-voyage in the 19th century. The ship is soon caught in a storm. By a miracle the baby washes ashore on a lush tropical island. There are no other humans around. A curious monkey soon discovers the crying infant on the beach and feeds it a banana. Flash...
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    Dealing with frustration from dropping bad habits.

    MINDSET 
    The best replacement for old bad habits is new good habits. Two helpful thoughts to keep in mind: 1. Habit has as much to do with environment and structure as it does with what's going on in your head. You might be surprised at just how much of the things you do regularly aren't so much...
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    Falling Back in Love With Writing

    EXECUTION 
    I do, but it's on the inside since I'm paranoid about being too public. But I'm also a (soon to be recovering) academic who wants to make something out of the writing business. I'm tinkering with a few business ideas at the moment while #ivorytowerlife winds up.
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    Falling Back in Love With Writing

    EXECUTION 
    Best of luck with everything @404profound Your story sounds very familiar to me! @ch3wy : The standard internet recommendations for your question are the Strunk & White style guide, which makes sure you have the basics of writing in English, and Stephen King's On Writing. As much as I like...
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    Marketing Agency - (Not a Tai Lopez Wannabe) Finally Going on My Own

    MARKETING 
    Great thread here. It's both motivating and jealousy-inducing at the same time ;-) Adding to the watch list for sure.
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    VeChain Thor (VET) Cryptocurrency Thread

    CRYPTO INVESTING 
    Draper was a big backer of Tezos: Billionaire bitcoin enthusiast Tim Draper is backing a new cryptocurrency for the first time But I don't know if that counts as backing a coin, as they still haven't released any tangible product after that record ICO.
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    [Progress] Sanctus Nutrition - Supplement Company (and first real entrepreneurial pursuit)

    NOTABLE! 
    Minus this typo of course.
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    [Progress] Sanctus Nutrition - Supplement Company (and first real entrepreneurial pursuit)

    NOTABLE! 
    Seconding all of this. I've got a background with your market in supplements & fitness. If you want to have any questions about how to make moves on this, feel free to get in touch @Brewer07
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    If I'm giving them the value that they have asked for why aren't people donating?

    Let's say you're a nutrition coach. An overweight client comes to you for a diet plan. You ask them what they want. They say "to lose weight" Almost a no-brainer, right? You ask them to keep a food log for a week so you can review their eating at your next meeting. When you review the...
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    Lex DeVille's: Guru Cults Exposed: The Tactics "Experts" Use To Pull You In & Suck You Dry

    GOLD! MARKETING 
    The word "identity" might be better than the word "cult". Saying that people here identify with the entrepreneurial mindset, that being unscripted is part of how they (we) understand them (our) selves, doesn't have the downsides of calling it a cult, though it still gets the same point across...
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    #DeleteFacebook

    SOCIAL MEDIA OFF-TOPIC 
    That's about the gist of it, yes. As @Invictus said, Deep Work makes a strong case for working in high blocks of time, with a high quality of focus, if your work involves any sort of cognitive effort -- which most everything that isn't manual labor does. You cannot get that quality if you...
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    #DeleteFacebook

    SOCIAL MEDIA OFF-TOPIC 
    Count me in with you social media skeptics. A few years back when younger people were still using FB, I had to hear that "you need an account like you need a phone". I was already checked out of the platform even back then, taking a few six-month-long account closures to prevent temptations...
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    [Progress] Sanctus Nutrition - Supplement Company (and first real entrepreneurial pursuit)

    NOTABLE! 
    ALCAR with tyrosine and theobromine is a hard to go wrong with.
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    Web 3.0 (Ethereum) is happening, and most people have no idea what it even is.

    GOLD! IDEA 
    This was a big selling point on cryptography for some forward-thinkers back in the late 80s and the 90s. Neal Stephenson even wrote a couple of novels around that time that involved cryptocurrencies destroying nation-states by preventing them from collecting taxes. Then again, there's also this.
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    Does your "get rich" internet guru only make $28K/yr?

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    I forget a lot of things these days, but I'm pretty sure this isn't one of them. What you're saying here is not quite the point I was getting at. I don't doubt this stuff works; in fact I said as much in the post you're responding to. My question was more to do with whether some people...
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    Does your "get rich" internet guru only make $28K/yr?

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    It shames me to admit this given the quality of the book, but the "Lambos and road to wealth" theme came *this close* to putting me off TMF. I think you're zeroing in on a real trend, though. You're not the first I've heard mention that the landscape is changing, as far as what kinds of...
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    Lex DeVille's: Guru Cults Exposed: The Tactics "Experts" Use To Pull You In & Suck You Dry

    GOLD! MARKETING 
    I don't have any stake in the question of whether Musk is or isn't a con man (I think worrying about that kind of question is time-wasting gossip if it doesn't affect you) but it's interesting that you put things this way. What would count for you as a "rational explanation, based on logic"...
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    Web 3.0 (Ethereum) is happening, and most people have no idea what it even is.

    GOLD! IDEA 
    Without straying into the back-and-forth here, it's worth expanding on the potential in the blockchain technology. I was originally on the fence about crypto a few years ago, and I don't think it's unreasonable to be hesitant at this point in the hockey-stick. (Some of this may have been said...

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