Andrea Beck Stout

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[ayman @aymannpk]

only 0.04% use advanced AI and only 0.3% pay for AI tools

thats craaaazy af

most ppl and companies still don’t know how to use AI in their business

so the play is simple:
- learn the model
- Learn the business
- walk into the company
- show the results

Mark Cuban already called it and im not missing it

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When people come together to make an absolute banger
https://t.co/7vaBsTTw3v

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot.

Pluto’s icy Mountains.

[New York Islanders @NYIslanders]

104 year old World War 2 Veteran Dominick Critelli performed the National Anthem on the saxophone at tonight’s game!

[Àgbà John Doe @jon_d_doe]

As a parent, I think this video has taught me something useful.

I recommend that you should try it on your kids, too.

I have also shared it with my wife.

Credit: joe_drummer_boy on IG.

[Andrea Beck Stout @AndreaLBeck]

💡For the intellectually honest and curious… but they were probably already doing this anyway. (With their own brains 🧠, but also with AI since its advent.)

[Chidanand Tripathi @thetripathi58]

This guy literally dropped the best prompts

[Modo @ModoPayments]

Top 5 payments challenges we heard from subscription brands at SubSummit:
🛑 Involuntary churn from fails
🔁 No control over retries
🧱 Old tech blocking change
🧩 Want orchestration without systems swap
🌍 Need global & risk-aware routing

👉 Read more: https://t.co/ttkBVfY5x9

[Andrea Beck Stout @AndreaLBeck]

@christopherrufo @mcuban Corporate turnarounds don’t need to entail hamhandedly smashing things & flying by the seat of your pants on change management. Better to take drastic measures that are calculated decisions with well thought out plans for smooth transitions. e.g.:

https://t.co/LBNBggFEJb

[Andrea Beck Stout @AndreaLBeck]

Extraordinarily difficult change management while treating employees with dignity is achievable for leaders faced with the need for a system overhaul. But it doesn’t always go so well. Curious what people think about Grok’s list of success stories.

https://t.co/daMGrNaKAW

[Andrea Beck Stout @AndreaLBeck]

@bethanyjbabcock @405HomeBuyer It has been a long time, so should probably listen to it again myself. Here’s the episode:

https://t.co/UwTPz7HLde

[Andrea Beck Stout @AndreaLBeck]

Looking for high school reunion success stories 🏆

What made yours extra fun & memorable?

What was your class size & attendance?

I’m chairing our 25th HS reunion planning committee and want it to be one for the books. 💪

Our class was massive, so est. a few hundred attendees.

[Lorenzo Cortes ✈️ @Hoyatexas]

Excuse me I am a Dallas cowboys fan

[Andrea Beck Stout @AndreaLBeck]

@bethanyjbabcock @405HomeBuyer Bookmarking this… I’ll try to dig it up.

[Andrea Beck Stout @AndreaLBeck]

@bethanyjbabcock @405HomeBuyer I think the group I have in mind is or was based out of McKinney Texas, but if you’ve done the same, pleased to meet your acquaintance! That’s awesome.

[Andrea Beck Stout @AndreaLBeck]

@bethanyjbabcock @405HomeBuyer The examples I have in mind are on the building operations side. Relatedly, though, I heard a podcast a few years ago featuring a woman in commercial property management who built a property management software solution on top of HubSpot. It was super interesting.

[Andrea Beck Stout @AndreaLBeck]

@bethanyjbabcock @405HomeBuyer Oh boy, have I seen that movie. I have seen some incredible CREtech tools (firsthand), so there are definitely brilliant innovators out there, trying their best to serve this industry. Adoption is just painfully slow.

[Andrea Beck Stout @AndreaLBeck]

@bethanyjbabcock @405HomeBuyer Did you mean with respect to impact from that Google algorithm change or “isolated” in some other way?

[Andrea Beck Stout @AndreaLBeck]

@bethanyjbabcock @405HomeBuyer Yes, true. Interestingly, they’d been actively stoking their Community to foster UGC for years, leveraging their Academy and Partner/Provider ecosystem to contribute. Guess it wasn’t enough to offset. In any case, I thought they still had considerable awareness & share of voice

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Emotions you may have felt, but you were never able to explain.