Britain Jacobson

Startup operator at PermitFlow
Practitioner of discipline

[Britain Jacobson @BritainJacobson]

@stephsmithio Gaunt

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@drgurner @mwseibel Agreed!

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@drgurner @mwseibel I wonder how the relative Cost of Living impacts those #s

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@TheresaBish1 @shawngorham Ember Mug

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

Breaking: The House just voted to block the release of congressional sexual misconduct reports

They voted 357-65 to block it

182 Democrats & 175 Republicans voted to block it

[Britain Jacobson @BritainJacobson]

@housleyd @CRELeasingLawTX @thejeremytjia - your moment! :)

[Britain Jacobson @BritainJacobson]

@brickywhat @johncoogan He used AI

[Middle Earth @_middleEarth]

Aragorn Meets the Legendary Warriors in Minas Tirith

[Ben Wilson @BenWilsonTweets]

Hannibal nearly broke Rome.
His name alone inspired existential fear.

His secret weapon wasn’t elephants.
It was an obsession for information.

Here’s how 🧵

[The Stoic Emperor @TheStoicEmperor]

The feed is infinite, but your lifespan is not.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

The only thing that matters in consumer software is velocity of shipping. You will regularly be wrong about what people want: no one is a perfect psychologist. But if you are out at the frontlines with concepts everyday, your team will have their finger on the pulse of users and know where to add fuel.

[Britain Jacobson @BritainJacobson]

#buildwithPermitFlow

Love being apart of our team!

[VraserX e/acc @VraserX]

Jeff Bezos says bureaucracy as we know it won’t exist in 5 years

In a fascinating conversation, Jeff Bezos talks with Francis Suarez, the Mayor of Miami, and completely dismantles the idea of traditional bureaucracy with a bold and surprisingly simple AI vision.

🤖 The vision: building permits in seconds
Bezos outlines how AI could transform the entire permitting process:

•Today: Getting a building permit takes months, even though the answer is almost always “yes.” People are just forced to wait.
•Tomorrow: An AI reads the plans, knows every regulation, and gives a decision in about 10 seconds.
•Smart feedback: If the answer is “no,” the AI instantly lists the exact changes needed to turn it into a “yes.”

💰 Why time really is money
From an entrepreneur’s perspective, the cost of delay is absurd:

•Large construction projects in Miami are multi-billion-dollar investments.
•Interest and running costs alone can hit $200,000–$400,000 per day.
•Every day an application sits on a desk literally burns money and patience.

🤝 The deal that didn’t happen

•Suarez immediately calls it a “$100 billion idea” and jokingly tries to recruit Bezos to build it together.
•Bezos laughs and declines. He says he’s too busy and sees this as a massive opportunity for startups to solve the problem for cities worldwide.

The takeaway is hard to ignore:
This isn’t about faster paperwork. It’s about removing friction from society itself. Once AI handles decisions that are already rule-based, bureaucracy stops being a bottleneck.

My take: systems that exist purely because “that’s how it’s always been done” are living on borrowed time. Five years might even be generous.

[Britain Jacobson @BritainJacobson]

@APompliano Need to add
https://t.co/nB1W6kRZmt

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Responsibility is an Honor.

True in your professional life -> responsibility over your team, your employees, your work & craft.

True in your personal life -> responsibilities with your spouse, family, or home.

The weak shirk it.
The strong embrace it as an honorable position.

[Britain Jacobson @BritainJacobson]

@BenWilsonTweets I wonder if most folks mistake unhappiness with the premise underlying "deep restlessness". It's a fine line, for sure. But important to differentiate between the two to successfully solve for enjoyment in life/work.

[Britain Jacobson @BritainJacobson]

@thesamparr Do you still enjoy cigars, Sam?

[Brent Beshore @BrentBeshore]

Earlier in the year, I was praying about a series of particularly difficult challenges and some tough upcoming conversations. My heart was anxious and troubled. As God often does, something came up in me.

I felt God kindly reminding me that every day I have 10,000 blessings, so many blessings that I could literally spend all day and night thanking him for them. And, I will always have 10 problems, many of which are worries over the blessings I’ve been given. When those problems are solved, more will pop up.

The question I have to ask myself daily, or perhaps even hourly, is which do I focus on? 10 problems, or 10,000 blessings? We’re told that in this life we will have trouble. But we’re also told to fear not, for God is with us and for us.

I don’t know what next year holds for any of us. I do know what I’m hoping for you: that you’d receive good gifts in the form they actually arrive – often small, often ordinary, and often disguised as a hard conversation, a needed boundary, or an unexpected kindness.

May you be given the kind of success that doesn’t hollow you out, and may you be protected from the success that does. May you have the rare desire to want less of what doesn’t last, and more of what does.

[Britain Jacobson @BritainJacobson]

@sunnyriorio @BenWilsonTweets @LinkofSunshine Here's your answer - all you had to do was click the Grok button

[Britain Jacobson @BritainJacobson]

@robdyrdek I've been waiting for this since your MFM episode... Heck Yeah!

[Britain Jacobson @BritainJacobson]

Heard this on a Tim Ferriss episode YEARS ago (I think with Michael Phelps) and couldn't agree more. One of my favorites

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

This really helped me the first time I heard it.

Champions interpret anxiety as excitement.

“I’m nervous” vs “I’m hyped”

A tiny tweak on how you perceive your own reality can absolutely change whether you thrive or dive under pressure.

How you frame it is how you feel it.