AI Trims Workforce, Keeps only Cleaners, Nanny
Big news from the Huber house: We have elected to make our team 50% smaller. The chef and gardener did not make the cut. AI has made our ability to do those jobs way easier. The cleaner and nanny get to stay. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Optimized Sales, Ads, SEO Boost Occupancy to 79%
We've gotten a lot better at 3 things in the storage business over the last 12 months: 1. Sales - we are great at leasing units. We have a script. We listen to every call. We have offers and asks and...
The Global Hiring Arbitrage Nobody Talks About
The video explores a growing hiring arbitrage: U.S. companies can staff sales, finance and operations with remote talent from Colombia, South Africa, the Philippines and other low‑cost markets, dramatically reducing payroll expenses. The speaker argues that while American workers remain...
Profit From Easy, Repetitive Businesses, Not Hard Glory
Always take the path of least resistance: I think too many entrepreneurs are gluttonous for punishment. They love doing hard things for the sake of it. They think success = glory after facing massive challenges. That is bullshit. Business is a series of games and...
Allocate 30‑40% Time to Sales, Hire Ops Help
Most business owners do things that are urgent, not important. If you aren’t spending at least 30-40% of your time selling new business and making strategic decisions to grow your company, then you need to hire someone to help you with...
Encourage
Good rule of being a dad: Don’t let your sons waste hours and days of their lives sitting out in the outfield. If they aren’t a stud, find something else to do.
Annual Grail Liquid Biopsy: Early Cancer Detection for the Wealthy
Everybody with a net worth over $5 million should do a Grail Liquid Biopsy every year. My wife, me and my parents all do it annually. $1k to do it. Every 3 years for $1-5 million net worth. Can give you super early detection...
Self‑Storage Deals Now Demand Full‑Scale Digital Ops
The days of buying self storage facilities site unseen and hiring somebody from the Philippines to run it are long gone. You need excellent digital ads, SEO, facility management, leasing team and more. The business is hard right now.
Easy Money Fuels Competition, Drives Up Real Estate Prices
In real estate: When the money comes easy, a lot of groups can raise money to buy deals. More competition for deals = higher prices = worse deals. When interest rates are high, operations get tougher, raising money gets hard, and fewer groups...
Adopt Entrepreneurial Mindset: Spot Opportunities Everywhere
If you think like an entrepreneur, it means you are always thinking about opportunities, how other businesses operate, and what you can learn from the people/companies that you interact with every day. https://t.co/3j6JFthbDg
Work, Not Retirement, Fuels My Lifelong Joy
The concept of retirement is hilarious to me. What do people do all day? Work is fun. Half the joy of life is feeling accomplished and getting things done. I’ll work 30+ hrs a week well into my 110s.
Success Comes From Years of Unglamorous, Consistent Hard Work
What most of the successful people I know have in common: They worked hard doing something that wasn't fun for 5+ years. Many times 10-20+ yrs. They started out trading their time for money. They did things that weren’t...
Relentless Sales Training Boosts Rentals and Reviews
Leasing units has been the main focus of Bolt Storage over the past 2 years. Our sales training has become relentless. Follow the script. Don't let them off the phone. Bring energy. Get the Google review, etc. We also rebuilt our call...
Overseas Hires Work Harder, Cost 70% Less
95% of my hiring is overseas. From executives to management to front line. They work harder, complain less and cost 70% less than hiring in America. If you are an entrepreneur and you aren't doing this I feel sorry for you. https://t.co/unrQYUcqfe
Why Starting Small Made Me Wealthy (Not Venture Capital)
The interview centers on an entrepreneur who built wealth by launching a modest pickup‑and‑delivery storage service rather than chasing venture‑capital‑fueled tech ideas. He later chronicled his lessons in a forthcoming book aimed at first‑time founders. He highlights that operating a cash‑positive,...
Self‑Storage Rentals Surge 48% Year‑Over‑Year
Self storage leasing is picking up for us: First 20 days of April 2026: 642 rentals Same period 2025: 435 rentals From 21.75 rentals per day last year to 32.1 this year. We are beginning to increase rents at a lot of our locations.
You’re Not Introverted. You’re Untrained.
The video tackles the misconception that introversion is innate, arguing instead that social confidence is a skill that can be trained. The speaker emphasizes that young people, especially those raised in protective environments, need deliberate practice in decision‑making and conversation...
Owners Are Primarily Recruiters, Not Just Managers
An owner’s job is to be a recruiter. They are in the business of finding, convincing, employing, and nurturing new people/talent to come work for them and help them do what needs to get done. https://t.co/eie20BbnMg
While You Party, Others Hustle and Pull Ahead
I’m concerned. Today I will drink beer and have fun at the gala. But all the people who didn’t get invited will work on their business plans and cold call all day. They are zigging when we zag and will be so far...
Parental Guidance Until Children Reach Financial Independence
I will be very involved in my children’s life decisions before they are financially independent from me. And I guarantee we will have a great relationship. More parents should take charge. Don’t enable children to do dumb things.
A Top EA Handles Everything, Transforms Your Day
A great executive assistant will change your life. For me, these folks: - Monitor my inboxes so I don’t miss important requests and opportunities being sent to me daily. - They filter and tag these messages/requests + FWD key asks to core members...
Fear Setting Turns Worst-Case Thoughts
Business is hard. Stressful. Difficult. But always dwelling and thinking about the worst thing that can possibly happen will cripple you and slow you down. Instead, I prefer to do an exercise called “fear setting” where you write down all...
NYC’s Unmatched Energy Inspires Awe and Ambition
My daughter won’t be allowed to end up in NYC. But it sure is a hell of a city. The energy. Food. Ambition. Nothing in the world like it. I’m amazed and inspired every time I visit.
Prioritize Important, Not Urgent Tasks to Grow Business
Too many business owners spend time on the urgent and not important stuff. It is comfortable and normal to get stuck in the flow. The important and not urgent stuff is hard, uncomfortable and very easy to procrastinate. But if you do it...
How to Get Rich Without a New Idea
The interview distills the central premise of the book – you don’t need a breakthrough idea to build wealth. Instead, the author argues that entrepreneurs should chase low‑entry‑barrier services and unglamorous trades that generate steady cash flow. Key arguments include rejecting...
Mini‑split Cooled My Master, Saved Energy
A mini split in my master bedroom was the best upgrade I made to my home. Get it cold in my room without running a 4 ton unit to cool 2,000 sf.
Night Moisturizer Delays Wrinkles, Keeps You Looking Younger
Rule #1 of not looking 50 when you are 40: Use a moisturizer at night. If you aren’t doing this, big wrinkles will come 10 years earlier than they are supposed to.
Stop Doing $10 Work If You Want to Make $10K Months
The video urges entrepreneurs to stop doing low‑value $10 tasks if they aim for $10K‑plus months, emphasizing a disciplined time audit and strategic delegation. It frames work into four quadrants—urgent vs. important—and stresses that the highest‑growth activities (sales, marketing, hiring)...
Small Firms Must Invest Like Giants to Survive
A few years ago I would have told you that a small scrappy company had a big advantage. I've since changed my mind and I understand the big advantages that larger companies have. Once you get a machine rolling down...
Three-Day Fast Triggers Free Longevity Boost via Autophagy
The best longevity drug in history is totally free. It's called autophagy. Several things happen when you do a 3 day fast: - your body cannibalizes bad cells / pre-cancer cells / heart plaque - gene expression changes at the 72 hour mark and...
Raise Adults, Not Dependent Children
The video argues that parents should focus on raising autonomous adults rather than sheltering children, and ties this philosophy to entrepreneurial leverage. The speaker describes letting his seven‑year‑old experience low‑stakes setbacks—missed stickers, a tipped bike, a dropped ice cream—so the child...
Self‑Storage Built for $2.4M Grows to $8M
We built this self storage facility in 2015. Opened the doors in 2017. All-in cost: $2.4 million. Acquired the property across the street for $500k a year later. It did over $100,000 of rev recently. It’s worth $8 million + today and we...
Validate Your Business Idea in Under Five Minutes
How to figure out if your business idea is any good in 5 minutes or less:
Great Chef, Bad Business: Cooking Skills Don't Ensure Restaurant Success
A friend of mine was an excellent chef turned failed restauranteur. He loved cooking. Was excellent at it. Had friends over often and really enjoyed cooking for them. He would get told by everyone who tasted his food "You should open...
The Real Reason “Normal” People Get Rich
The video argues that ordinary people become wealthy not by luck but by cultivating an “unwavering irrational confidence” that lets them act without external permission. Host describes “fear setting,” a Tim Ferriss‑inspired exercise where one writes the worst‑case outcome of a...
The Lie That Stops People From Ever Starting
The video centers on the myth that external permission is required to achieve wealth, illustrated by the speaker’s journey from a non‑real‑estate background to founding a private‑equity storage company. Key insights include: despite lacking a real‑estate degree and facing 95% investor...
Treat Business Functions Like Sports: Hire Coaches
Professional athletes watch game tape. People trying to get better at golf take lessons. In all areas of life, we get coaching, training, and help to get better. Why don’t we do this for key functions of running a business?...
Video Games vs Real Life: The Addiction Parents Ignore
The video tackles the growing concern that video‑game addiction is slipping past parental awareness, with many parents refusing to acknowledge the warning signs displayed by children as young as eight. The host argues that denial fuels a cycle where kids...
Only 1% Truly Thrive in Entrepreneurship
The cold hard truth: Most people are borderline incompetent. They make horrible decisions, constantly self-sabotage themselves, and have zero ability to delay gratification. This group basically gets supported by the other 50%. These folks take more value than they add. The next 45% is...
Nuclear Submarines Reveal Technology Beyond Moon Landing
The nuclear submarine technology blows my mind and makes me think it could be possible we landed on the moon. The fact it can stay under for months and shoot nuclear warheads from under water that surface, split into multiple airborn...
You’re Eating Plastic and Don’t Even Know It
The video warns that everyday plastics—from tea bags to polyester clothing—are silently contaminating our bodies with micro‑particles, turning routine meals and garments into hidden health hazards. Host cites specific sources: nylon tea bags release over three billion plastic particles when steeped, plastic...
Family Gardening: Physical Labor Relieves Stress Together
The best way to relieve stress: Plant a garden. Make it a big one with 8 or 10 things and do a lot of physical labor. Do it with your wife and kids.
No Candy, Yogurt Rewards: Raising Disciplined Kids
My kids aren’t allowed to have candy on Easter or Halloween. Horrific for them and a terrible habit. If they are good all day they get flavored yogurt (normally get regular) as a bedtime snack. I tell them it’s ice cream (they’ve never...
The Healthcare System Isn’t Built to Keep You Healthy
The video argues that the U.S. healthcare system is structured around episodic care rather than ongoing health maintenance, with primary‑care physicians (PCPs) often refusing patients’ requests for comprehensive lab panels that could flag hormonal imbalances, vitamin deficiencies, or early‑stage disease. The...
Validate with 20 Paying Customers Before Any Setup
Are you thinking about starting a business? Some might think you should begin by incorporating a company, building a website, purchasing equipment, getting insurance, working on your pricing strategy, making some ads, and setting everything up. Wrong. Your first step is to go...
How to Get Help in Your Business for $1,000 a Month
The video advises small‑business owners to outsource administrative functions overseas for roughly $1,000 a month, positioning it as a realistic alternative to hiring U.S. staff at $60k‑plus annually. The host breaks down the cost differential—$750‑$1,500 per month versus $80k per year—highlighting...
Reward High Performers, Remote Teams Thrive and Grow
Remote work gets a lot of hate. People working less, taking breaks, being lazy, etc. That hasn't been the case in my experience. My best people are throwing down 60 hour weeks and our companies are growing. If you create a culture where you...
Move Fast or Lose: The Brutal Truth About Winning
The video argues that a sense of urgency is the single defining attribute of winners, especially in the early‑stage startup arena where speed compensates for a lack of capital, talent, and brand. The speaker lists concrete habits—answering the phone immediately, replying...
Executive Health Retreat Uncovers Hidden Risks, Boosts Vitality
One of the most valuable things I’ve done in the last five years: An executive health retreat. I learned a few things: - I have the Alzheimer gene. Got on supplements to help. - I don’t have cancer. I got every organ imaged and...
Grok AI's Woes Stem From Soaring Power Costs
My bet: The problems you are seeing with Grok AI right now is power related. They can't get ahold of enough power. It is a land grab now and costs are skyrocketing. Everything about to come crumbling down once it becomes obvious just...