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

[Jrjohnny]

Maybe I don’t look very hard, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cop in Canada. Ever.

I see like five every time I drive my truck. They are way overboard here. But you know Texans love their cops. It’s like we have Stockholm syndrome here.

“Thank you officer for telling me I need to go 5 miles an hour slower and charging me $350.”

Its like fishing lmao.

We always see cops on the highway in Canada? On waze, people report where officers are.

We saw about 20 within a 1 km radius.

One time we were in the lane where you can go faster but there needs to be 2 or more passengers, my sister and I were sitting in the back seat and the cops thought my mom was alone.

They began to box her in and then I asked if I can wave hi to them and she rolled down my window.

I saw the police man’s face whip clean of his smirk, he nodded at me, spoke on the walkie talkie, and they left.

Funniest story ever.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

I've been knocked out of commission for the last few days because of this surgery and I'm reminded of this...

“A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one.” - Confucius​

 

[Genius01]

I've been knocked out of commission for the last few days because of this surgery and I'm reminded of this...

“A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one.” - Confucius​

Wow, sorry to hear about your surgery MJ.
Hope you're feeling better now.

Do get back to "commission" as soon as possible....hope you get back to full fitness soonest.

And yeah, that quote is absolutely spot on.
Nothing really comes close to good health, but most people don't realize it.
It only becomes obvious in its absence.

Good reminder for all of us.

 

[DCG]

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I cried as I watched the video and browse through the site......
This is The Era, This is the Era of AI.

AI is getting crazy I can see AI being a new form of leverage that you can have, similar to coding

 

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[Xeon]

AI is getting crazy I can see AI being a new form of leverage that you can have, similar to coding

Yup, especially AI coders are making bank now lol

 

[EngineerThis]

"Your environment reinforces who you were" -Alex Hormozi

 

[MattR82]

I don't spend as much time in here lately so I'm not sure if this has already been posted, but it really did make me smile. I'm by no means into violence and have a bit of sympathy for the guy as you can see he lives a wretched life, but it's great to see people fighting back. I don't even live in the states but it still personally offends me to see scum walking into stores and brazenly stealing.

 

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[Subsonic]

Sitting in a cramed hostel in Amsterdam rn at 2 am.
After loosing my wallet I almost had to spend the night as a homeless person.

Whole story is coming soon but I am grateful for the experience.

 

[EngineerThis]

Sitting in a cramed hostel in Amsterdam rn at 2 am.
After loosing my wallet I almost had to spend the night as a homeless person.

Whole story is coming soon but I am grateful for the experience.

Makes ya feel alive don’t it? And gives you great stories!

 

[MattR82]

Sitting in a cramed hostel in Amsterdam rn at 2 am.
After loosing my wallet I almost had to spend the night as a homeless person.

Whole story is coming soon but I am grateful for the experience.

Oh man, some of my best euro trip memories at St Christophers Inn the Winston Amsterdam lol.

 

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[Xeon]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OSrTppeoDr0



Delayed gratification + vision.

 

[Inventor001]

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” - Henry Ford

 

[monnffffiiiiiii]

In Belgium, a supermarket chain decided to franchise its shops and all of their employees have been on strike ever since.

Many shops have even completely closed. They're all suing one another.

Why would you hire people in a country where employees get a high salary, you pay 50% of their salary in taxes, they go on strike as soon as you change something, and the laws make it really hard for you to fire them?

No wonder the country is deindustrializing. The unions today vowed to "wage war" on the company.

 

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[WillHurtDontCare]

You always have options when shit goes bad.

This dude was a biz dev VP for some company. Their revenue tanked and everyone (including the CEO) thought they were going out of business, so he pitched 200 VCs and helped the CEO raise $40M to save the company.

Then the CEO stiffed him on his bonus - a great way to turn your best employees into competitors who want to run you out of business.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oux4EfdGFA

 

[GPM]

Has anyone here tried Nord Pass as a password manager? I'm still using LastPass, but it recently expired and I'm not too keen to keep using them.

I've used about 6 different VPN services over the years, and Nord is hands down the best so far (if someone doesn't use it but wants to use my referral code so we get someone out of it at least!). Seeing as their VPN services are so awesome, I was thinking about trying their password manager as well.

 

[OMDA]

Has anyone here tried Nord Pass as a password manager? I'm still using LastPass, but it recently expired and I'm not too keen to keep using them.

I've used about 6 different VPN services over the years, and Nord is hands down the best so far (if someone doesn't use it but wants to use my referral code so we get someone out of it at least!). Seeing as their VPN services are so awesome, I was thinking about trying their password manager as well.

Rightly or wrongly, I use the built-in one for Brave

 

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[EngineerThis]

Rightly or wrongly, I use the built-in one for Brave

Me too.. Also I use Tor Guard as a VPN it’s been fantastic and cost effective

 

[OMDA]

Me too.. Also I use Tor Guard as a VPN it’s been fantastic and cost effective

The best thing is the sync chain so that across devices, it maintains passwords and bookmarks (phone, laptop, desktop, tablet).

 

[Kak]

A line from one of my outgoing emails today:

Someone dominates this industry at every given moment. That means dominance is capable of being established… Why aren’t we working on establishing it?

 

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[OMDA]

Instead of driving to the gym the past few times, I've run there and back (a little over 6/10s of a mile). It's in the 90s and humid, but it gives me an enormous high compared to just lifting heavy things.

Also, went on my first group bike ride in a very long time. It was casual, but I ended up doing over 30 miles. An inspiring part was there was an older man who is apparently 82, still riding hard and fit in the heat.

 

[Matt Sun]

True?

 

[loop101]

Not sure if this business can recover from the damage, since it was one of their driving instructors.

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

Not sure if this business can recover from the damage, since it was one of their driving instructors.

There has GOT to be some kind of great marketing spin they can put on this...

 

[Ing]

@MJ DeMarco , I ordered a hardcopy of TMF and Unscripted via Amazon Germany, but they couldn t deliver and will send the money back. Where can I order a hardcopy of the books?

 

[Isaac Odongo]

Heart Plug - Scars To Your Beautiful

Stream Scars To Your Beautiful song from Heart Plug. Album: Know-It-All. Release Date: February 24, 2019.

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Have fallen for the song.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

@MJ DeMarco , I ordered a hardcopy of TMF and Unscripted via Amazon Germany, but they couldn t deliver and will send the money back. Where can I order a hardcopy of the books?

There is no Unscripted hardback, if there is, it is scam. Perhaps this is why your money was refunded.

TMF as a hardback should be orderable at Amazon Germany.

If none of this works, message me a a shipping address and I can get you a shipped price direct from my office. Be warned though, any shipment overseas will cost 2x-4x the cost of the book.

Thanks for supporting my work!

 

[Ing]

There is no Unscripted hardback, if there is, it is scam. Perhaps this is why your money was refunded.

TMF as a hardback should be orderable at Amazon Germany.

If none of this works, message me a a shipping address and I can get you a shipped price direct from my office. Be warned though, any shipment overseas will cost 2x-4x the cost of the book.

UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship : DeMarco, MJ: Amazon.de: Bürobedarf & Schreibwaren

UNSCRIPTED : Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship : DeMarco, MJ: Amazon.de: Bürobedarf & Schreibwaren

www.amazon.de

I have again ordered TMF . Its a gift for my son, who wants it as a hardback.

Thanks for supporting my work!

You are welcome. I love it.

 

[KiwiEC]

Recently I did a lot of marketing on LinkedIn to grow my business. It works well but I am still testing a lot of channels.

I decided to give a try to Twitter/X. Created my account, set up my profile, and then added a couple of small entrepreneurs who may be interested in what I do (and from whom I can learn too).

I tried two days, all I saw was weird jokes on pineapple pizzas and ramen profitability, or mediocre motivation speeches « Marketing is your mother, Sales is your father, show them you’re a worthy son ».

Everybody is copying each other. According to the Twitter « How To » guides I‘ve read, you have to write dozens and dozens of provocative posts/replies every day and hope some folks will follow you afterward. Everyone tries to do so, and the result is very sad.

Either I did not get the principle of it, or I’m definitely not made for social medias. LinkedIn is not perfect, but at least I’ve seen some value given there and there.

Am I missing something?

 

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[EngineerThis]

Recently I did a lot of marketing on LinkedIn to grow my business. It works well but I am still testing a lot of channels.

I decided to give a try to Twitter/X. Created my account, set up my profile, and then added a couple of small entrepreneurs who may be interested in what I do (and from whom I can learn too).

I tried two days, all I saw was weird jokes on pineapple pizzas and ramen profitability, or mediocre motivation speeches « Marketing is your mother, Sales is your father, show them you’re a worthy son ».

Everybody is copying each other. According to the Twitter « How To » guides I‘ve read, you have to write dozens and dozens of provocative posts/replies every day and hope some folks will follow you afterward. Everyone tries to do so, and the result is very sad.

Either I did not get the principle of it, or I’m definitely not made for social medias. LinkedIn is not perfect, but at least I’ve seen some value given there and there.

Am I missing something?

Is your ideal customer for your business on Twitter?

 

[KiwiEC]

Is your ideal customer for your business on Twitter?

I am targeting sales reps, freelancers and entrepreneurs. LinkedIn was the best pick to start as most of them come to it regularly.

But Twitter has a larger user base and everything is more fast paced. I wanted to give it a try.

I think my target is on both sides, but LinkedIn is way more suited for my marketing strategy.