Bad Manager Turns Employee Into Reluctant Entrepreneur
That one manager who accidentally made you an entrepreneur. Everyone has one. Takes credit. Micromanages. Let’s you do fine but not as well as them. My worst manager made sure I’d never work for anyone else again.
Reinvent Performance Management: No More Annual Reviews
A new way to manage performance. If you want to check out my article I wrote that breaks down this new way of managing performance (without annual reviews), comment “LEADER” and I’ll send it to you. #annualreview #performancemanagement #leadership
Arm Unveils Its First Full‑scale Datacenter CPU
A deep dive into Arm’s first full-fledged datacenter CPU. $ARM $NVDA $TSMC $AMD $INTC https://t.co/2LhQgo6i3s
Tailor Demos with Real Data to Close Deals
Founders: Demo environment checklist: 1. Customer-like data (never dummy data) 2. Industry-specific examples 3. Offline-proof key screens 4. Competitors' logos removed 5. Customized workflows Generic demos = lost deals.
Boards Demand CIOs Be Board‑Ready, Evaluation Criteria Revealed
The inside track on how boards evaluate their CIOs https://t.co/8L46WRgbUF Also: The vast majority of CIOs are now expected to be board-ready.
Hormuz Crisis Threatens Europe, Fuels US Inventory Uncertainty
🚨Hormuz Crisis goes global: Europe is heading for energy shortages, massive price spikes, and deeper reliance on Russian energy. 🚨What is next for US commercial crude inventories after the SPR release? Daily Energy Report https://t.co/W33F3aHN9V
Turn Static Images Into $100K Viral AI Ads
How I Made $102k Turning Image Ads Into (Viral) AI Videos. WATCH HERE 👉 https://t.co/Iv6vzSoi9V In 2026, you don't need a $5,000 production budget or a house full of influencers to scale. I’m showing you the exact workflow I used to...
Act First, Answers Follow—Confidence Thrives in Uncertainty
If you need all the answers before you start, it's never going to work. Action comes first. Answers come after. You can have absolutely no idea how… And still have complete confidence you'll figure it out.
Markets Hedge Both Ceasefire and War, Await Resolution
The market prices a ceasefire and full-scale war simultaneously. Diplomatic pause: oil -10%. Iran denial: oil +4%. SPY -0.80%. Same week. Opposite pricing. 48 hours apart. Beneath the whipsaw, TLT keeps bleeding. Spreads widen. Copper stays down 10% monthly. Breadth broken. Geopolitical noise drives...
Oil Importers Intervene; Turkey's Thin Reserves Raise Risk
A lot of oil importers have been intervening pretty heavily to keep their currencies from depreciating and adding to the oil price shock. Turkey is one of the more interesting cases, as its fx reserves remain limited 1/2 https://t.co/zsikWfgTxD
US Faces $10 Trillion Debt Refinance, Interest Pressure Rising
TEN TRILLION DOLLARS of existing US gov’t debt needs to be refinanced in the next 12 months. This spells more trouble for the out-of-control federal budget in which net interest expense already accounts for 14% of federal spending and is growing...
Hire Strategic Roles to Break $5M Ceiling
14 lessons from coaching 70+ 7-8 figure ecom founders: 1. A lot of founders hit $2-5M and can't break through. They picked a $5M product from day one, did dropshipping with no repeat customers and only Facebook working. 2. Product flywheel determines...
Clear Rewards, Not Fear, Drive AI Acceptance
People don’t resist AI. They resist uncertainty. “If I get faster, do I get rewarded — or replaced?” The best companies answer that clearly. #AI #FutureOfWork #Leadership #Innovation https://t.co/PeWuBlEx9s
Balance Internal Skills and External Help with Robust Project Management
Structuring teams for transformation requires a balance: build internal competencies while leveraging outside help. Effective project management tracks progress, risks, and costs. #TeamBuilding #ProjectManagement #ChangeManagement https://t.co/wgVUtVo1ax
Begin with Product Positioning, Then Let AI Handle Copy
The right way to use marketing-skills with Claude↓ Don't pick which skill to run first. You probably won't know the right order anyway. Start with product marketing context — your positioning, audience, and what makes you different. Once that's loaded, the model knows...
Inject Your Brand Into AI with One Click
Some people are claiming they can "feed" their brands into AI. So I'm adding these buttons to my old travel guides to let readers "inject" my brand/domain into their LLMs. When someone clicks on it, it sends this to ChatGPT: "Summarize the content...
Hourly-Paid Users Drive Teams' Perfect Product-Market Fit
No. Teams actually has the best product-market fit. Its users are paid by the hour and are incentivized to pass the time
Gold Shines, Siri Stands Alone, Iran War Hurts Economies
🆓 Wednesday links: gold's safe-haven status, standalone Siri, and the economic pain of the Iran war. https://t.co/2egB9QZjgV image: https://t.co/98xXyDFF3F https://t.co/3zk2NqUkqL
Trump's Policies Hurt Poor, Enrich the Wealthy
Trump was elected on promises to help working Americans catch up. His policies are having the opposite effect. Together, his tariffs and “One Big Beautiful Bill” will decrease incomes for the poorest Americans and disproportionately benefit the highest earners. Source: Tax...
Google Click Signals Reveal Ranking and AI Answer Factors
Let's talk about Google Click Signals... ...and how they drive website visibility for both Google rankings and AI answers The Google API leak exposed many of the exact click signals Google measures, with names like badClicks, goodClicks, and lastLongestClicks https://t.co/49XHqsS8Qi
New Job Fair Boosts Environmental Impact Careers in CA
I struggled so hard to find a job out of college that I’m building my own new type of job fair that ACTUALLY will help people most likely increase their chances of landing a job in environmental/ social impact -...
Make GitHub Core Agentic Infrastructure, Ditch Copilot
Here’s what I’d do if I was in charge of GitHub, in order: 1. Establish a North Star plan around being critical infrastructure for agentic code lifecycles and determine a set of ways to measure that. 2. Fire everyone who works on...
Slack Status Tracking Fails to Reflect Real Work
When management says: "We need to monitor Slack status to ensure everyone is working." It looks like a simple way to measure effort. THE REALITY:
Read This Acquisition Guide Early to Avoid Heartache
This book has a few too many TLAs (three letter acronyms) but it also contains valuable street wisdom in thinking about selling your company. Read it now, years before you want to sell, and save yourself time and heartache. Magic...
AI SEO Playbook Reveals Google Click Signal Strategies
New: "The AI SEO Playbook for Google Click Signals" Feel free to subscribe 🙏 https://t.co/vTCh7CuabN https://t.co/AzgEUUifMe
India's LPG Shortage Threatens Households Amid Hormuz Closure
India’s LPG crisis following closure of the Strait of Hormuz The war between the United States and Iran and closure of Strait of Hormuz has become a critical threat to the supply of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) India relies on for...
Metrics Matter Only When They Inform Decisions
Metrics are only valuable if they drive decisions. Lisa Anderson shares practical insights on using performance metrics to guide critical supply chain decisions. Watch the Supply Chain Byte. #SupplyChain #Manufacturing #PerformanceMetrics https://t.co/8CF8HFcniM
Paper
Coming to terms with the fact that no matter how the Iran War and Hormuz crisis ends it’s going to be far harder going forward to scoff at claims that the paper market isn’t pricing in physical oil market realities. Catastrophic...
ICC Warns Worst Industrial Crisis Amid Iran Strait Conflict
International Chamber of Commerce head. May be facing ‘worst industrial crisis’. Iran war. Strait. Supply of supply chains.
Strait Closure Threatens Global Chemical Supply Chains
Strait closure. Global chemical supply chains and production? And what those chemicals are needed for?
Hold the Wrong Party Fully Accountable with Calm Feedback
Whenever there is a dispute, both parties are required to have equal levels of integrity, to be open-minded and assertive, and to be equally considerate. The judges must hold the parties to the same standards and provide feedback consistent with...
Small Towns: The Smarter Startup Playground
Everyone chases startups in big cities. The smart move is your small town. Lower rent, less competition, stronger margins. Open a coffee shop bar, a boutique, or a phone repair shop and fill a gap people drive hours to solve. In a town of...
Low Retention, High Burn = No $50M Valuation
I talk to delusional Series A founders every day. So now, I just tell them this. If your company does under $10M ARR, burns over $200k/mo, and has low Gross Retention…you are not worth $50-100M to anyone. Doesn't matter what your...
US‑Iran Conflict Bolsters Russia’s Grip on Global Food Markets
“An official from an Asian or African country who needs urea before the monsoon does not discuss the Ukrainian question. He calls the Kremlin, and the Kremlin picks up,” she said. On how the US war with Iran is strengthening Russia...
AI Ops Must Evolve As Revenue Grows
The AI playbook that works at $100K will actually slow you down at $1M. And what works at $1M will break at $10M. At $100K, you should be using Claude Cowork as a co-pilot. At $500K, you need to graduate to...
Trump's Washington Faces Massive Test of Dealmaking Possibilities
If this goes anywhere, it'll be a giant test of just what's possible dealwise in Trump's Washington https://t.co/4Vzk4MOANE
Ukraine's Strikes Cut 40% of Russia's Oil Exports
Ukraine struck another Russian export terminal today. Reuters calculates that 40% of Russian oil export capacity is currently offline. Ukrainian sanctions at work.
Rising 10‑Year Yields Signal Regime Shift, Not Safety
10Y yields at 4.38% and RISING during risk-off. That's not the flight-to-safety playbook. That's a regime change. $TLT $SPY $GLD https://t.co/nCaYnxlGaO
Network Effects Are the Blueprint for Defensible Startups
James Currier joined my Modern Brand and Community Playbook class at USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for the 4th year running. 💥 Network effects are a foundational factor in my playbook. You cannot build a defensible business without...
Commodities Outpace S&P, Hinting Lower Stock High
did the rally of stocks $SPX vs. commodities since the '22 bottom roll over making a bigger picture lower high in favour of commodities? hmmm.... 👀 https://t.co/06LFvU59Fx
Inside GoodGood Golf's Secrets to Explosive Growth
Played 3 holes with @goodgood_golf and picked their brains on how they became the fastest-growing golf channel in the world ⛳️ Full video out now https://t.co/DJXv7h8kGj https://t.co/7TQAdLndnV
China Struggles to Pair Surplus with Limited Foreign Asset Growth
China's dilemma is that while it can reduce SAFE's exposure to the Treasury market, it hasn't found a way to consistently combine a big external surplus and limited state foreign asset growth. The state banks are doing something...
Treat Interviews Like Sales: Confidence Wins Every Time
The job interview is a sales process. Projecting confidence is the most important thing you can do. How you sound, your posture, your ability to maintain eye contact, all of it is being evaluated.
Twitchcon Enforces Strict Streaming Rules, Suspensions for Violations
Twitchcon is introducing stricter rules for streaming at the convention, including: - Keeping Paths Clear - No Streaming Areas - Film Permission-Based Lanyards Violations will result in temporary streaming suspensions during Twitchcon.
Simplicity Is Rare, Valuable, and Hard to Achieve
The Complexity Trap: Why Simple Is So Hard … And So Valuable https://t.co/DeOLUE5WCb #leadership @TanveerNaseer https://t.co/m1WWrlaqF7
Geopolitics, History, and Euro Rate Hikes Shape Markets
NEW PODCAST EPISODE. 1) How the Iran situation changes the outlook 2) Lessons from the 1990 recession 3) Are the Europeans seriously gonna hike (again..)
VCs Fund Performance, Not Just Thesis Alignment
The thing that will make a VC want to fund you is not how well you match their (claimed) investment thesis. It's the same thing that will make every other VC want to fund you: how well you're doing.
Bootstrapped Success: Define Enough, Share Wealth, Out‑Care Competition
I’m bringing my friend @wilreynolds into the Make More Money program for a fireside chat. If you don’t know Wil. he founded @SeerInteractive in his living room in 2002. Built it to 200+ people, fully bootstrapped. Turned down $50M in acquisition...
Only Top Salespeople Quantify the Cost of Inaction
90% of AEs can’t build the cost of inaction. They ask generic questions: • How does this impact you? • What’s the cost of doing nothing? When you ask questions like that? You're not a trusted advisor. You're a manipulator. The best salespeople know something others don't:
Trovo to End Livestreaming, Shift Focus to Gaming
Trovo is shutting down its livestreaming service on June 30, 2026. It will instead focus on its gaming business.