Josh Campbell

CEO at Human Improvement @buyhi_co | advisor | former president @dosist

[Chris Powers @fortworthchris]

Population growth in Texas 2020-2025 8.3% vs national average of 3.1%.

DFW, Austin Metro, Houston Metro all 10%+.

Austin expected to grow the most in 2025-2030. 🇺🇸

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Do everything in your power to move to Austin.

[Jason Scharf @Jason_A_Scharf]

The Austin brainwashing is accelerating!

Love this @Codie_Sanchez 🤠🚀🦾

[ATX RE @atxREpodcast]

Saw a great newsletter this morning by @NewsLambert

As you may know Austin led the nation on the way up in terms of home price increases and is currently leading the nation on the way down.

I hope we are experiencing FIFO.

First in first out of the cycle.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

America's homeowner population has stopped growing, per Redfin:

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Today, we're announcing a new $40B investment in Texas through 2027 to build Cloud & AI infrastructure and support thousands of new jobs. 

This includes new data centers in Armstrong and Haskell Counties and a major investment to strengthen energy resilience and abundance. We're also providing funding to more than double the projected pipeline of new Texan electricians to power the AI era.

We've proudly called Texas home for 15 years. Thank you @GregAbbott_TX for your continued support.

[J.B. Sauceda @jaybsauceda]

I’ve lived in Austin 22 years and took these two skyline photos about 20 years apart. Here’s what I know.

Anyone who complains about it changing hasn’t lived in any city apparently. They all change.

Is it perfect? Nope.

Is it great? Yup.

Can it be improved? Always.

I’ve considered leaving at times, but always talked myself out of it for a few reasons.

If you love Texas, there’s no better place to home base and explore the state from. Airports, highways, etc. It’s easy to get elsewhere.

It’s hard to have a bad meal. It’s difficult to plan a bad date night. There are cities with a lot less to do.

The University of Texas keeps it young and refreshed with new faces. It’s an energy that’s hard to miss even with all the growth.

If you’re an entrepreneur there’s no more collaborative city. There are plenty of “crushing it” culture losers, but they’re way outnumbered by super cool down to earth builders who just want to build and support the other entrepreneurs in the community.

And that’s the aspect of Austin that has never died in my opinion. It doesn’t take itself too seriously.

Do the politicians make it out to be a caricature of itself? Sure. But they all blow everything out of proportion. You’d be well suited to ignore most of what they say and experience life in a city for yourself.

At the end of the day, cities are like cars.

Some folks like Silverados and Suburbans.

Some folks like Sedans or those weird cube cars.

To each their own. Live in or drive what you like as long as you like it.

I like Austin. It’s the Renaissance man of cities. It may be hard to describe it fully, but it does a lot and its resume does the talking.

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Mike Rowe: “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code.”

“Well, AI is coming for the coders.”

“It’s not coming for the welders, the plumbers, the steamfitters, the pipefitters, the HVAC, or the electricians.”

“In Aspen, I sat and listened to Larry Fink say we need 500,000 electricians in the next couple of years—not hyperbole.”

“The BlueForge Alliance, who oversees our maritime industrial base—that’s 15,000 individual companies who are collectively charged with building and delivering nuclear-powered subs to the Navy … calls and says, we’re having a hell of a time finding tradespeople. Can you help?”

“I said, I don’t know, man … how many do you need? He says, 140,000.”

“These are our submarines. Things go hypersonic, a little sideways with China, Taiwan, our aircraft carriers are no longer the point of the spear. They’re vulnerable.”

“Our submarines matter, and these guys have a pinch point because they can’t find welders and electricians to get them built.”

“The automotive industry needs 80,000 collision repair and technicians.”

“Energy, I don’t even know what the number is, I hear 300,000, I hear 500,000.”

“There is a clear and present freakout going on right now. I’ve heard from six governors in the last six months. I’ve heard from the heads of major companies.”

@mikeroweworks

[MJ @morganisawizard]

anyone who can run a sub 8 minute mile should get a massive tax deduction

[Dan McCormick @damccormick13]

WSJ covering the rise in creatine usage by women this morning.

- Creatine sales to women up 320% YoY
- Creatine sales to men up 85% YoY

Thanks to @saraashleyo for the coverage. Create's 2024 revenue numbers were shared in the article. in 2025, we're seeing similar levels of growth as the rest of the category.

Text your mom, girlfriend, girl-that-is-a-friend, wife, grandma, female coworker, or any woman in your life and try to convince them to take creatine. Reply with screenshot, and if you succeed, we'll send them a free month of Create's newest flavor.

[Josh Campbell @JoshCampbellCAN]

@thesamparr 100%

[Chris Koerner @mhp_guy]

This is exactly why I try to hire cheap handymen.

This picture happened today, and it happened because I broke my own rule: I hired an expensive handyman.

Let me explain.

I've noticed an inverse correlation between what a handyman charges and his quality of work.

If no-website-Juan shows up in a truck to fix your drain, he'll be in and out in 20 minutes, charge you $60 and do a perfect job.

If you get an automated text from a sophisticated company with a wrapped truck, they'll charge $250 and it'll be 50/50 if they do a good job or not.

Our dryer wasn't drying, so I asked a friend for a recommendation.

He referred a company that appeared sophisticated and expensive but hey, I don't do full due diligence on a dude coming to fix a dryer. Sure enough, I got an automated text.

I broke my own rule because it was a referral.

A dude showed up that didn't speak English, replaced the dryer hose and then I got an invoice for $290. Robbery. Whatever.

I knew that wouldn't fix it, but he'd already left. It still didn't work, so we called them back.

He came back today, went up in the attic to better see the vent and stepped through the ceiling in the process.

Then he threw the already dry clothes back in the dryer, turned it on, showed they were dry and said "See. It's fixed."

We explained they were already dry but he didn't understand us.

Then I dug deeper. The "sophisticated" company has 200+ fake 5 star reviews, a dozen "locations" across DFW and their corporate address is a UPS store.

Classic.

$310 to keep my dryer broken and a hole in the ceiling.

Next time I'm going cheap. I'm calling nine Juan Juan.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Seth Meyers Goes Quiet as Ex-NBC Anchor Torches Democrats for ‘Insulting’ the Working Class

“It is tough love time for the Democratic Party. I think it needs to be stripped down and rebuilt.”

Here's how they alienated working-class voters, according to Brian Williams:

1. Ignoring Rising Costs: "A 12-pack of Bounty [paper towels] is $40. Rich folks don't feel that. Poor folks already switched to Sparkle during the COVID lockdown."

2. Touting Stock Market Success While Ignoring Economic Hardship for Regular People: "I think telling them that the Nasdaq is gangbusters is further insulting. It's insulting."

3. Downplaying Border Issues: "I think the biggest unforced error of the Biden administration by far was the border.... To tell people it's not a problem is insulting."

4. Providing Benefits to Migrants While Ignoring Citizens: "For the working class to see incoming migrants getting welcome bags, debit cards, and motel rooms is probably insulting as well."

5. Failing to Address Biden's Cognitive Decline: "I want to know who thought it was a good idea that Joe Biden stand for another four years at 80 years of age and 37% popularity."

[Sean Sweeney @seandsweeney]

A real estate developer's role is often compared to that of a movie producer.

What is a real estate developer responsible for? 🧵

[Derek S. McCarty @D_Mccarty]

You could teach all you need to know about “brand” off of this
- A consistent experience that leverages equity and drafts off identity
- Obsess over experience
- Simplify and repeat with high frequency
- Build direct meaningful relationships with customers
- Win the trenches

[Josh Campbell @JoshCampbellCAN]

@Nrcoope I’ll take the under

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Less than half that amount

[Antonia @antonia_mdprjct]

Quick primer for anyone in tech looking to 'disrupt' anything in the world of real estate or construction:

[Sam Parr @thesamparr]

Coming up on Moneywise:

- guy starts/sells company. Makes $50m
- he lives in a 3,000 person town.
- owns a nice office in middle of city, employees dozens of locals
- employees use the office like a community center. watch sports w/ fam, use gym, etc.
- company has community BBQ, events, charitable stuff regularly

That's rich, to me.

That's so much better than:
- working solo
- being worth 2x in NYC
- getting rich remotely, alone

Having $50m in town where you have impact, can meaningfully change lives, and physically see your impact.

$50m is a lot anywhere. But in a smaller town, $50m is like $500m in NYC.

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

I can’t think of a single founder I know who grew their startup into large company, tried the approach of “hiring and delegating at scale”, and didn’t end up with a disaster.

From Paul G’s new essay, Founder Mode