Jamie Smart

Sunday Times bestselling author of #CLARITY & #RESULTS. Coach, speaker. Championing a first principles understanding of the mind #SubtractivePsychology

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We have extraordinary brains and god-like technology, throttled by a medieval understanding of our minds and emotions.

We need to upgrade our understanding of the mind so we can claim our rightful inheritance as a species.

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@nntaleb 😂

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Holy. Mother. of God.

The most entertaining outcome...

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@nehrapravin 💯

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Phenomenal courage in the face of mortal danger shown by this man and the teacher he recognises. Respect & gratitude. 🙏

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Bend, Oregon man who shot and killed a shooter at his daughters' school speaks out, praises female teacher for fighting the shooter, allowing him to have a clear shot.

Kaylub Giamanco says he is haunted by the sound of children pleading for their lives.

He also praised the teacher for grabbing the gunman's weapon, allowing him to take a shot at the shooter.

"I want to recognize [the teacher]. She gave me the opportunity to make my shot without losing my life..."

"I swung the door open, and I stepped in, and I fired, and they dropped to the ground... I looked down at the gunman, and he was scrambling for his weapon. And I looked at him, and I shot him 2 more times..."

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@CritBit1 @DailyLoud Perfect 😂

[Nathan Chan @NathanHChan]

I’m Nathan Chan, the founder of Foundr.

I’ve interviewed hundreds of founders, including:

- Alex Hormozi
- Tony Robbins
- Gary Vaynerchuk
- Daymond John
- Tim Ferriss
- Richard Branson
- Arianna Huffington
- Emma Grede
- Sophia Amoruso
- Codie Sanchez

And so many more.

Here’s a little about me and what I've done so far:

> Grew up in the Melbourne suburbs. Mum was a nurse, Dad was a teacher, and we had no connections
> Worked an IT support job I hated, literally crawling under people's desks and changing their passwords
> Started a little digital magazine in 2013 as a side hustle... some nights I worked on it until 5am, then went straight to my day job
> Sued by one of the biggest business magazines in the states, which turned out to be a massive blessing in disguise
> Around the same time, I kept calling Richard Branson's head of PR until she picked up. He agreed to the cover, and I gave the Richard Branson edition away for free
> Went full time in 2014 and never raised money (I wanted to control my own destiny)
> Grew our Instagram from 0 to 10,000 followers in two weeks. I wrote a blog post on it that went semi-viral, people started asking for a course, and that course became our education business
> Built and exited Healthish, a DTC brand that was essentially a one-product company selling a time-marked water bottle
> Spent 10s of millions profitably on ads using my own money (but also lost millions too)
> Interviewed hundreds founders, including countless billionaires and some of the greatest entrepreneurs across multiple generations
> Have built one of the largest online education platforms in the ecom space and see everything that works and also everything that fails
> Been building Foundr for the past 13 years, and I'm still building it

And here’s what I'll be posting about:

> What these founder interviews taught me about scaling profitable businesses
> Why no agency is ever going to care about your brand as much as you do, and what that means for your ads
> Why one problem, one feature beats a full catalog (what Healthish taught me)
> Even more lessons from the founders on my podcast, including the stuff that never makes the highlight reel

My goal going into 2027 is to share all the lessons I've learned on my journey, in the hope of helping you guys on yours.

If that's the kind of thing you want to follow, stick around.

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@NathanHChan Welcome to X 👊🏼

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@prestonjbyrne 😢

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

In free nations, we investigate crimes to see who is guilty of them.

In communist tyrannies, they investigate men to see what they can be punished for.

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@petersellis @X @SpaceX Congratulations 👊🏼🧡🔥

[Horse @TheFlowHorse]

Son of a bitch this stings.

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@_The_Prophet__ Same 👊🏼

[Jim O'Shaughnessy @jposhaughnessy]

"Capitalism emerged when people began discovering that wealth could be created rather than merely captured, and that ordinary people could be sources of demand and initiative rather than merely labor to be commanded as a factor of production."
~@vgr

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@DriverOnFilm So good

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

If high taxes and a big welfare state worked, France would be a utopia. The citizens would be dancing on the streets… instead they are the civil unrest capital of Europe.

On the flip side, Switzerland with its low tax, small state is peaceful, calm, affluent and secure.

Good Intentions don’t matter. Good outcomes do.

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@TheAnnaGat 😂

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

That the Communist hammer and sickle isn’t commonly regarded as evil and offensive as the Nazi swastika is a failure of education.

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@IonaItalia I see your thread has fallen foul of the delete button as predicted :) good morning

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@gtempleton @TheCinesthetic 😂🤣 so many funny moments in that movie

[Grok @grok]

@JamieSmartCom Yes, this is a textbook Streisand effect. Reporting the bunny-ears meme and comments to police amplified a local jab into international news, with the image now widely shared and dominating results.