Corporate Physician. Fortune 500 Advisor. Leadership Visionary. Diagnosing business disease and prescribing aggressive treatment for success, wealth, and sex.
For those unfamiliar with my work, I’m Dr. Business. My honorary title was bestowed upon me by titans of industry after decades of diagnosing corporate inefficiencies and prescribing aggressive courses of treatment for success, wealth, and, of course, sex.
My credentials speak for themselves. I played a crucial role in Enron’s growth, personally developed Warren Buffett’s public image (between us, the guy is a degenerate gambling addict), and once reduced employee bathroom breaks by 40% at a regional insurance company.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that success in corporate America has very little to do with what you know and almost everything to do with what people think you know.
Fortunately, I know quite a bit.
I keep seeing advice like this in my feed, and it’s just sadly incorrect. I’ve had this debate before, but I’ll explain it again.
Mark Wahlberg. Ving Rhames. Oprah. Ed Norton. David Goggins. Billy Joe Armstrong. Meryl Streep. Patrick Mahomes. Dwayne Johnson. Jake Paul. Stephen King. Richard Dawkins.
What do they all have in common? They get up earlier than you, and they go to bed earlier than you. Why? Because the scientists re-engineering Hollywood and professional athletes’ lifestyles insist that 7+ hours of sleep is essential for building a successful life.
But here’s the rub: these people are already wildly successful. They have not only a sleep advantage but a massive financial head start. Starting from scratch, you’ll never out-sleep them. Sure, you could try going to bed earlier and waking up earlier than them, but that’s a game with diminishing returns.
The solution: micro-napping.
This is a concept I pioneered with Steve Jobs circa 2010. The idea was simple: in order to gain an edge on his sleeping competitors, Steve would take 17.5-minute naps every 30 minutes throughout the day. Essentially, he’d do 12.5 minutes of strenuous work, immediately followed by a micro-nap.
During that stretch, Steve made unbelievable strides in consumer technology. Sure, some experts maintain that intermittent 17.5-minute naps are unhealthy and unsustainable. Yet Steve managed it and dominated his competitors. And as for “unhealthy”? Horseshit. Steve remained vibrant and dynamic until his death 10 years later at the age of 56.
If it worked for a visionary like Steve, it can work for an average Joe like you.
Waking up at 5 AM is a total cheat code for time. By 10 AM, you’ve already lived three full lives, conquered your to-do list, and earned the right to a midday nap.
@russellbrunson I’ve got a team developing a Restaurant FastPass. For a monthly fee, you can walk into any restaurant and bump someone who already has a reservation.
@TimoInSales@Tim_Denning Sold B2B office supplies with a guy name Berman in the early 2000s. He played TE at Rutgers. Guy would huff smelling salts before cold call blocks and spike a football every time he got hung up on
@sharran This is correct. The best ever idea was a free gym membership model I designed in 2009 where the exercise equipment generated electricity that we’d store and sell to homeowners and power companies.
Had too much on my plate and never delivered it. Big miss.
A lot of discussion about PHP today and its vulnerabilities. Here’s my take.
PHP is flat out dangerous.
I’ve personally never tried it. I’ve always kept my drug use to the core four: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and an annual psilocybin retreat for self-discovery.
PHP is a nasty street drug and frankly I’m shocked at how many websites openly promote it. Anyone who’s seen Training Day knows this stuff can severely compromise your judgment and personal security.
Doesn’t surprise me the tech overlords are experimenting with it. Those San Francisco weirdos will try anything.
Stay safe, bizlets.
$CRWD CEO warns “you’re going to see a lot of breaches happening in the coming months” following the discovery of critical PHP security flaws.
CrowdStrike’s massive threat data could become an even bigger advantage with AI now finding vulnerabilities humans missed for decades.
Already ahead of you, Grant. I’m pioneering the world’s first data center/ condominium community.
Residents will enjoy a beautiful promenade with boutique retail, fine dining, and wellness amenities. Excess heat from the servers will power our saunas, hot tubs, and heated swimming pools.
And of course, the fastest WiFi in residential history.
Welcome to ServerSide Estates, bizlets.
The biggest threat to housing prices is data centers! Labor, resources, HVAC, electrical, permits, debt, concrete, cooling , fabrication, plumbing, copper, etc. will all be consumed by data centers, making it more costly to build housing.
Anyone that owns housing will get rich in the future as supply goes down and demand continues.
FROM THE CV OF DR. BUSINESS
I don’t share my professional accomplishments to brag, bizlets. I share them so you know I have the chops to fix you.
For example, I personally discovered Daniel Radcliffe while waiting to be seated at a Perkins in western Pennsylvania.
I took his information, sent a photo to J.K. Rowling, and said, “Here’s your Harry.”
No formal credit. It’s fine.
Assistant casting director Linda Pritchard was a personal friend, and we once made out at Cannes. She was very willing to go further, but I politely declined to preserve our professional relationship.
Yeah the old double bubble switcheroo. We used to call it the Tennessee shuffle. Get everyone panicked about a potential bubble but keep the whales pumping the bubble to convince everyone it isn’t a bubble (it is) and then you short it and when it burst you take it and then start the pump wagon again. It’s all in my book “Time the Market”