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

[Andy Black]

Not sure what gurus have this mantra, but I learned to say "NO."

Not a guru, but I like Derek Sivers "Hell yeah, or no."

 

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[Isaac Odongo]

Could the summit be attended on invite only basis? Not invited not attend. Since MJ incurs some costs, could the attendees take more responsibility for their attendance in someway.

Invite, see who is willing to attend, then see who is willing to foot some of the bills in advance so that even if he or she cancels, the bills will have been paid.

Just something that leverages responsibility and cost.

 

[Isaac Odongo]

ChatGPT can be a damned slave. The thing is a robot.

WWrite for me this.

It does.

Make a list of all these.

It does.

Provide examples and explanations for all these.

It does.

When the printing press came, book production became easier and information came out faster and larger every passing day.

When the Internet came information was largely democratised. Gradually, Google became an enormous library.

Computers made it possible to type straight and print. But your typing speed was a constraint.

Now ChatGPT has radically reduced search time and accelerated typing time.

ChatGPT make the content list for a book of English to be used in high school. It types them in seconds.

ChatGPT write an exercise for practising how to use verbs to talk about oneself. It does it in a blink.

We humans only move to a higher level of thinking about how will use the flood of information we have. For teachers, ChatGPT has much of the content, our job higher now. We focus on how the content is packaged, sequenced, dosed, disseminated with the most ROI.

In short, life becomes easier.

 

[Subsonic]

I have been considering to just fully use chatgpt for my writing job. Even 3.5 writes better blog articles than me and in like a 100th of the time.

Still I feel bad about it since I feel like I am ripping the guy who I work for off. On the other hand it's a win win. I don't F*cking know.
Still I am slowly getting tired of writing 5k word seo articles about each different synonym for "hard skills" in German.

Would using chatgpt to write the texts and then just fixing them up a bit make me a bad person or freelancer ?

 

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[Andy Black]

I have been considering to just fully use chatgpt for my writing job. Even 3.5 writes better blog articles than me and in like a 100th of the time.

Still I feel bad about it since I feel like I am ripping the guy who I work for off. On the other hand it's a win win. I don't F*cking know.
Still I am slowly getting tired of writing 5k word seo articles about each different synonym for "hard skills" in German.

Would using chatgpt to write the texts and then just fixing them up a bit make me a bad person or freelancer ?

The guy is paying for output and results, not for input. Maybe you should even charge more because you're so fast at delivering now?

If I use a tool to bulk create thousands of Google Ads in minutes instead of doing them individually by hand over 2 weeks then should I charge less because it took me less time, or should I charge more because the client didn't have to wait as long for the campaigns to go live?

 

[Lex DeVille]

Why do I have to contact the City to find out where to dispose of old gasoline and why do I have to transport old gasoline to a special fancy hazardous waste center all the way on the other side of town to get rid of it?

Someone please solve this problem. This is stupid.

This guy gets it...

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Amazingly good video:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REId8lfmmhI

 

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[Xeon]

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

@Kak your less formal meetup made sense to me. The tickets were cheaper that way too since you weren't on the hook for a whole bunch of reservations, so that meant more people could attend. And everyone could make their own travel arrangements. I understand for @MJ DeMarco 's brand he would need a more formal venue and better quality control on the event, but perhaps another informal meetup could be arranged...

Like a 0.5 Summit? Lol

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Does anyone use the Public investment app? WeBull? I'm looking for a recommended investing app like Robinhood which is mostly mobile focused, something for beginners. Anyone recommend anything simple for a Gen Z'er?

 

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[Xeon]

Finally, a car that rivals, or even surpasses Pagani.
One of the most aggressive, wildest and radical car designs ever. Apollo Automobil's Intensa Emozione.

 

[GPM]

Every time I have to use a public washroom I am reminded that the AVERAGE IQ is 100. So half the population is lower than that. The fact that men can't even piss in a bowl properly reminds me of this constantly. Seriously. It takes ONE time using one of these things wrong to understand it results in splashing your own urine all over your pants and hands. Who repeats that mistake?

When I worked in a downtown corporate office I couldn't believe how disgusting those washrooms were. Literally every person in the building has a university degree other than the cleaners, and no knock against them they work harder than half the engineers, and they still don't know how to keep a washroom clean. It is barely even public, like the same 50 people per floor are the only ones who use it, so they are the only ones making a mess in there. It absolutely boggles my mind.

 

[Kak]

Does anyone use the Public investment app? WeBull? I'm looking for a recommended investing app like Robinhood which is mostly mobile focused, something for beginners. Anyone recommend anything simple for a Gen Z'er?

For my son’s trust fund, I use ETrade. It’s awesome on mobile.

 

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[Kak]

@Kak your less formal meetup made sense to me. The tickets were cheaper that way too since you weren't on the hook for a whole bunch of reservations, so that meant more people could attend. And everyone could make their own travel arrangements. I understand for @MJ DeMarco 's brand he would need a more formal venue and better quality control on the event, but perhaps another informal meetup could be arranged...

Like a 0.5 Summit? Lol

The event itself wasn’t less formal. We had a bunch of presentations and people sat and listened. It was the same general structure. Although, I think we forced every attendee to share something of value.

The Erie thing was totally informal. “Let’s all meet up and go to dinner” it just happened to be in another state.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Wow, so now educating people how to live Unscripted and non-compliant to the system is now considered extremism. How far we have fallen.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645267476962328577

View: https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1645267476962328577?s=20

 

[AnneC]

I refuse to put on an event for people who visit the forum once a year to grab a ticket and leave.

I agree. I don't think the old-school people here want to pay a ticket and sit through the speaker sessions, anyways... unless they're here because they have something to sell.

I only bought a ticket last time to help offset the costs, but we'd both agree that it would have been better for an active forum member to go. Thinking back, what I should have done is paid for a "scholarship" for another woman to go. Maybe you could allow me to buy a non-refundable ticket for a networking night, or something.

 

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[socaldude]

non-compliant to the system is now considered extremism

Sad to see different parts of our country deny the very values we were founded on. It’s denying human nature and it’s weakness in itself. We all have these mechanisms as humans and they need to be controlled. It’s like conspiracy theories. Of course a lot of them are true, it’s human nature to want to expand profit, power and control and sprinkle some lies around it. But no, let’s gaslight human nature in itself LOL.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Wow, so now educating people how to live Unscripted and non-compliant to the system is now considered extremism. How far we have fallen.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645267476962328577

View: https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1645267476962328577?s=20

Wtf? This is absolutely ludicrous...

 

[Kak]

I agree. I don't think the old-school people here want to pay a ticket and sit through the speaker sessions, anyways... unless they're here because they have something to sell.

I only bought a ticket last time to help offset the costs, but we'd both agree that it would have been better for an active forum member to go. Thinking back, what I should have done is paid for a "scholarship" for another woman to go. Maybe you could allow me to buy a non-refundable ticket for a networking night, or something.

@MJ DeMarco

What if there was a set of well defined parameters that determined whether a member was active or “in hibernation.”

With this metric, you could potentially only open an event to active and loyal members. You also give someone who wishes to attend a mark they need to hit.

Essentially a habit of valuable participation. Green light.

A habit of disappearing after events or only showing up for them. Red light.

Now, I think there’s the other side of this to consider, who could we attract back to the forum more consistently with a system that rewards such participation with an invite?

Require 6+ months of active participation for an automatic invite. Of course, you could invite others that don’t meet that requirement if you want someone specific there.

Maybe this idea helps get us closer to the money on in person meetups.

 

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[GPM]

I just got my GoPro 10 out of storage for the winter to charge up the batteries and stuff and get it ready to use for whatever. The last time I used it was like a year ago. It has been stored in a box in my basement.

3 of my batteries are swollen like balloons, and the only one not like this was inside the camera. They are all GoPro branded. WTF is going on? That's like $100 worth of batteries that are now useless after being charged maybe 10 times each, if that.

 

[Kevin88660]

Does anyone use the Public investment app? WeBull? I'm looking for a recommended investing app like Robinhood which is mostly mobile focused, something for beginners. Anyone recommend anything simple for a Gen Z'er?

Interactive broker can be slightly more complicated for beginners but I would say it is worth the learning curve, if you trade frequently.

 

[Robdavis]

I just got my GoPro 10 out of storage for the winter to charge up the batteries and stuff and get it ready to use for whatever. The last time I used it was like a year ago. It has been stored in a box in my basement.

3 of my batteries are swollen like balloons, and the only one not like this was inside the camera. They are all GoPro branded. WTF is going on? That's like $100 worth of batteries that are now useless after being charged maybe 10 times each, if that.

I don' t know if this is of use:

What to do with a swollen battery

Removal and disposal of a swollen battery can be dangerous, but leaving a swollen battery inside a device can also cause serious harm. Read all warnings carefully and proceed at your own risk. All batteries are hazardous waste and must be disposed of properly.

www.ifixit.com

TL;DR Swollen batteries are potentially dangerous and should be handled with care.

 

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[GPM]

I don' t know if this is of use:

What to do with a swollen battery

Removal and disposal of a swollen battery can be dangerous, but leaving a swollen battery inside a device can also cause serious harm. Read all warnings carefully and proceed at your own risk. All batteries are hazardous waste and must be disposed of properly.

www.ifixit.com

TL;DR Swollen batteries are potentially dangerous and should be handled with care.

Yes they can go boom-boom!

I had a wireless keyboard get a swollen battery and I put it in my yard on a brick in case it decided to explode as I didn't want that in my house.

 

[Vigilante]

Here's my take on the in-person meetups, having been to a few and having been gone from this place for a while (and I speak 0% for MJ, only my own observations):

1. The old school still hosts an annual meetup, it just has nothing to do with the forum
2. MJ was much more willing to stake this bet when the forum had a lot more givers, and a lot less takers. As he mentioned, his degree of calculated risk has everything to do with the ebb and flow of forum participation
3. If you want this place hopping (and a natural outgrowth of a healthy thriving forum is by extension interest in in-person meetups) than start to GIVE MORE and TAKE LESS and the forum will come alive again
4. Based on the activity or lackthereof I have seen coming back here, I think you could sell out a forum of people hoping to GET RICH QUICK but what has made the meetups work in the past is an all-hands-on-deck approach where the speakers fed off each other. It's not a TONY ROBBINS SHOW where there's a main attraction. It's not a seminar series where you have a bunch of headliners. The original meetups were everyone participates. The people you would want to have speak are not chimps that you give a peanut and they clap the symbols. There needs to be MUCH MORE CYNERGY for an old school type meetup to have the same value as you have read about.
5. Beyond the finances, it's a ton of work for the people who put this together to screen speakers, make arrangements, logistics, etc...
6. There's NOTHING that would prohibit you from meeting people this month in Dallas, or Tampa, or Houston, or where ever. Local meetups, although not sanctioned Fastlane Forum events, have ALWAYS been valuable for networking. Maybe start there.

Nothing's likely to happen in the immediate term. MJ's brand has been carefully managed. An event is either going to set up as a home run, or not happen. If you sold tickets NOW, 2 things would happen :
1. It would SELL OUT regardless and
2. Most of the people coming would be people you've never heard of or maybe wouldn't want to hang out with

So for those who really want a meetup in the future, INCREASE THE VALUE of the content on the Fasrlane Forum and the meetup will happen as a by-product of the success of the community. It's a heck of a lot of work, and based on what I have seen lately here you might have a tough time having a calculated ROI that makes any sense.

 

[xShepherdx]

Sturgeon's law says that "ninety percent of everything is crap".

What's crazy is that the difference between the bottom 90% and the top 10% usually ends up being a pretty small difference.

For example, today I'm going through the process of hiring a developer on Upwork to do some contract work on my website.

90% of the applicants failed to fill out the screening questions, were rude/condescending, or could not follow other simple instructions. This is really simple stuff, but most applicants just didn't do it for whatever reason.

Compare that to the top 10%. They answered all of the questions, explained things in a kind and professional manner, and some even took initiative and started looking into potential fixes for my problem without prompting. (That last one puts them in the top 1% and takes like 5 minutes to do!)

For you it might be answering phone calls right away, greeting every customer with a smile, or even just showing up on time every week. This stuff can be small, but doing that extra 10% might just earn you a customer for life.

Key takeaway: Don't be a sturgeon. Put in the effort and do a good job with everything you do. You don't have to be the absolute best, but you should always aim to be in the top 5-10% in whatever you do.

 

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[Bigguns50]

A new word has emerged, "Greedflation". I saw this happening during and after the pandemic. Mega companies were/are making higher profits even though their costs have increased. They either make their packaging smaller and charge the same amount, or simply raise their prices because they can. I've seen this in my small town where some businesses just raised their prices because of "inflation". Reality....I think it was just an excuse and opportunity to make bigger profits.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645434341483241473

View: https://twitter.com/Nicolascole77/status/1645434341483241473?s=20

 

[Saad Khan]

Why you can't have a fake FTE.

 

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[Dwight Schrute]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645434341483241473

View: https://twitter.com/Nicolascole77/status/1645434341483241473?s=20

Last year I had the great privilege of almost dying.
Luckily they quickly managed to fix me up and kept me at the hospital for
a week just to be sure everything's fine. Since I'm still the owner of a dumbphone
that meant: No interwebs for Dwighteyboi for 7 days. The horror!

What ensued turned out to be the best week I've had in years.

Now, being high as a kite on opiates and surrounded by flirty nurses played
a part in that, too, but what contributed the most in making the whole ordeal
an almost holy experience of presence and clarity was the total absence of digital clutter.

 

[Black_Dragon43]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOrn9UfIjvw&ab_channel=KrishnamurtiFoundationTrust