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    My 600lb Life: Addiction, Enabling, More (RANT)

    NOTABLE! 
    Here's a funny paradox: personal choice is the highest principle, so everyone chooses convenience over principle. It's like that old riddle about democracy: what if the people vote for a tyrant? The mechanics of obesity, energy regulation, food intake are complex. It's tricky stuff even in a...
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    Nominations/Vote: Book Discussion (New Poll Posted!)

    BOOKS 
    I just saw Goggins on Lewis Howe's vlog a couple days ago. I'd like to go for Can't Hurt Me.
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    WIX vs Having a professional create a website

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    I don't mean to paint with a broad brush, but from my experience domain brokers -- people who buy domains and sit on them hoping for people like you to come along -- are ruthless about selling the properties they're squatting on. Expect to pay at least four figures, and don't be surprised if it...
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    Recommendation For Coding/Wordpress Forums

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    Hey @Mr.Rob Two quick questions for you: 1. Who is your hosting company? 2. Are you using Apache or Nginx? If you can't answer one or both, that's fine. If you've got shell access with your hosting account I can walk you through some changes to make your WP site blaze. If not, it's a...
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    Fox's 2019 Make $100k Starting Web Design from Scratch Challenge

    SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Astra and GeneratePress are hard to go wrong with.
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    Understanding The Internet And Its Young Majority

    MARKETING 
    Edge.org
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    Get to the point

    Yo dawg I heard you like to ask questions about asking questions when u ask questions about asking questions, so I put some questions in yo questions so you can ask questions about asking questions while u ask questions
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    I started my own business!

    EXECUTION 
    This can be easy or hard depending on who you're hosting with. A quick look at your site and there are a few things that look like easy fixes: 1. The HTTP version of your site goes through two redirects, from HTTP -> HTTPS, then from the tld to www, which adds a couple of seconds to load...
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    Need feedback on my copywriting

    HOT! MARKETING 
    You know if you go back and read Gary Halbert's newsletter on the 30-days-to-hand-copying-mastery, you notice something important. He lists a whole bunch of steps that begin with reading, to get the basics down, and end with the would-be copy expert learning a process of creating ads after...
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    Have Smartphones Destroyed Humanity?

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    About a year ago my two toddlers "discovered" TV. That means, my wife and I figured out they'd be quiet for a few minutes if there was a cartoon on. Now, I've put my foot down that they won't have access to addiction-tech until sometime (much, much) later. But a few months ago I realized I...
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    Have Smartphones Destroyed Humanity?

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    Down here we've had a no phones while driving law for close to ten years. Right now looking out my window (I'm near a traffic light on a busy road) I won't have to wait five minutes to see at least one driver with head to phone. The potential costs don't even register compared to the incentive...
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    Raising $100,000 for charity through a virtual summit on Sales & Marketing

    MARKETING 
    Right, I'm thinking of a simple whitelisting feature...block everything except whatever domains/URLs are in whitelist.txt (or whatever) It would be amazing if I could block everything except for some music streaming services and a handful cloud apps that are actually useful for working.
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    Raising $100,000 for charity through a virtual summit on Sales & Marketing

    MARKETING 
    This may be totally off your radar, but I'd love it if one of these self-disciplining web-firewalls would work natively with Linux. The only options I've been able to find involve setting up squid proxies or futzing around with iptables, and that ends up being a bigger distraction than the...
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    Think Big, and Then Think Bigger Than That.

    GOLD! 
    I also shy away from the GUNG HO! attitude. Having followed Jocko for a few years, he is refreshingly unlike that, a very thoughtful and insightful person. I bought a copy of DoL when it came out a few weeks ago. It's in the queue to read. I'll leave a short review after I've finished it.
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    A Room Full of Opportunity (Follow up on the darn leads!)

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    Thinking back over expensive things I've bought, almost a perfect 10/10 are purchases that took multiple (as in, 10+) touches before pulling the trigger. It isn't because I didn't like the product. It isn't because I didn't trust the pitch-man or the company. Mostly isn't to do with price. I...
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    Master of My Own Fear - Primarily Weight-Loss *155 pounds lost*

    GOLD! 
    Great job! That's progress to write a letter about. I don't know if you'll find any good numbers on a proper height/weight ratio. BMI is pretty useless except as a general barometer. 160 would be on the thinner side at 5'11, 180 probably closer to a comfy resting weight as @LightHouse...
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    From Academia to Fastlania: Second Act in my Life

    INTRO 
    Great story. I'm in a similar boat right now, though I'm not nearly as far into the University Machine as you are... seeing lots of careerists blindsided by cost-cutting and restructuring, entirely unprepared for a more entrepreneurial spirit. It occurred to me several years ago that there...
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    Have You Read Psycho-Cybernetics? (& Know of Similar?)

    Psycho-Cybernetics is an amazing book. The behaviorist psychology behind the prescriptions is a good 60 years out of date now, but the therapeutic what-to-do advice in the book is just fine. If you really need a more up-to-date theoretical justification than the simple cybernetic...
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    2019 Fastlane Summit - Announcement

    MEETUPS 
    Checking in. As far as entrepreneurial know-how, I don't have much to say compared to the big names around here. In 9 threads out of 10, I'm going to hang back and listen to the people who are bringing hard-learned wisdom. But knowledge is granular, and occasionally there's that 1 in 10...
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    Time Mgmt: Opportunity Cost Of Gym Membership

    RANT 
    Two things: 1. Back when I was still powerlifting, the #1 thing that made the difference between crushing it and "meh" was being in a gym full of strong people. There is nothing -- let me repeat this in big letters, NOTHING -- that can improve your training more than being in a gym full of...

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