I often say that you reach a point as an entrepreneur where you seek out harder challenges to achieve the dopamine hits that you had earlier in your career on simpler problems.
As an entrepreneur, facing newer and harder challenges in business is all about building muscle.
At some point, the pain is the reward.
Only seasoned entrepreneurs (with plenty of failure) will understand this.
Will Smith reveals the studio wanted Eddie Murphy for Bad Boys but Martin Lawrence refused to do it without him
“The studio didn’t want me, Martin had the script, so the studio didn’t want me and Martin said he wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t with me”
“Martin had the script and he was looking at Eddie, and his sister was like I really think you need to do this with Will, and he thought about it and he called me and we had a meeting”
“The studio was like no, it’s like both of us were successful on TV but we weren’t Eddie, so they wanted to do it with Eddie, and Martin was like after we met, nope”
“he called me to come to his house to pitch Bad Boys, we had a dinner at his house and we met that night for Bad Boys”
Mike Brown tells a story about what he learned from Gregg Popovich:
“I learned this from my time in San Antonio never forget at the end of my first year we as meeting as a staff Pop says, he’s mumbling under his breath I got to thank Tim Duncan, I’m thinking you got to thank Tim Duncan why you saying that? And he said he used to call me Mikey “He said Mikey if you’re best player doesn’t allow you to coach him you have no shot at coaching anybody else on the team and Tim allows me to do it.” And I will say this man to my left allowed me to coach him which allowed me to coach the rest of the team and made my job easier. So, thank you both.”
(Via @Roommates__Show)
Beyonce releases a full 7 minute vlog documenting JAY Z's hair journey going from locs to an afro for his Roots picnic performance 🔥
She reveals that the transformation took 7 whole days, and that Hov done so to honor his late father.
The mindset that a CEO's workload drops after a company launch is a total myth. John Ferguson, CEO of Pivot Supply Chain Solutions, clears up common misconceptions about stepping into leadership.
Instead of scaling back his hours, stepping into the executive seat meant doubling down on his commitment to a 24/7 workflow. For founders looking to transition their operations from a basement startup to a scalable enterprise network, success hinges on putting in the hours while building robust management layers that keep the company moving continuously.
Spot rates are surging and contract rates are following.
The sustainability of the rally depends on how disciplined carriers are from adding too much capacity.
Carriers are playing it safe, trying to repair balance sheets and focus on profits, which will restrain capacity growth.
If only you brothers would read the scriptures. These are the type of women who will finish you.
Proverbs 5:3-11
" For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave."
Simply put, logistics is about getting a load from point A to point B. That has not changed in thousands of years. Thinking AI is going to come in and change the industry is asinine.