Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter

Spent 6 years in finance. Now I help finance and real estate founders grow on social media via ghostwriting. (Find me on LinkedIn, I do more there.)

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

Pro tip: Every time you're wondering if quitting your 9-5 was worth it, go to a Marriott, order a burnt Pike Place from the Starbucks in the lobby, and watch the corporate guys choke down parfaits in constricting collars at 7:17 AM.

Panacea.

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

The answer to this is very simple.

Just:

• Quit your job
• Find a work-stay program that pays room and board
• Work part time for the program
• Build your thing in your downtime

I did this at a coffee farm in Hawaii and it worked like a charm.

Led farm tours for 28 hours a week, got my two biggest expenses taken care of, got to live in Hawaii, got to build with low stress.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I don't know anyone who quit their job to live of savings and built something that made money before their savings run out except @AndreyAzimov

I always think it's the wrong way to do it

I think you should build something on the side and once it makes equal or more money than your main job or freelance gigs and it's stable, quit the job and switch

Being unemployed somehow makes people lazy and feel too relaxed to build something, like your day is fully free of commitments which sounds ideal but freedom isn't when stuff is built I think, you need constraints

I had income from my YouTube channel Panda Mix Show in 2013 when I started, and it took over a year before I made enough money to switch

Obviously I wish him well but I think better do the switch than hard quit

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

Funniest part is this is actually good advice. All-time highs historically lead to all-time highs.

(Yes, time horizons. I know.)

[Taylor Mathis @TMathSports]

If you have ANY extra income, even 5 dollars I would put it in the S&P 500, right now. Things are at an all time high!

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

@TJ_Bongiorno Remarkable stuff: https://t.co/FDcMdg9UMJ

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

@TJ_Bongiorno Have you ever listened to his podcast episode with Greg Isenberg? Funny to hear him go mask off and explain, in detail, how he engineers these.

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

@drewfallon12 Such an insane practice. Makes me pray on Beehiiv’s downfall.

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

Yo @LinkedInHelp — I've been running into constant issues recently, including posts being suppressed, issues leaving comments, and now users telling me my account does not display when they try to access it.

Can you please assist asap?

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

Content creator “thought leader” sellouts are 100x funnier than music or art sellouts.

At least in art or music, there is a layer of abstraction between your output and your Self.

But for their “thought leader” guys, their product IS their thinking.

At a certain point, you get big enough that it makes more sense to post drivel that only appeals to people who fill their bookshelves with rocks.

It’s more broadly appealing. Probably makes you money. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. I get that.

But imagine reviewing this tweet from your ghostwriter and going, “Yeah, that’s hard-hitting. That makes good points. I want my face attached to it. Post away!”

Secure the bag, surrender your pride.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

Imagine for a second you could choose your life at 35:

Option A:

Work from anywhere
$100K/month income
Do work that feels fun
Never get told what to do
Become a quiet millionaire

Option B:

Work a 9-5 job
Commute in heavy traffic
Make a salary that barely covers expenses
Ask your boss for permission to send an email
Work in an open plan office with noise-cancelling headphones
Barely see your family

Let’s be real. Which life are you choosing?

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

@maxwellcopy you're a mutant, dude.

8 years older than you and constantly taking inspiration.

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

@gregisenberg From our FAQs.

Think it helps that our user base is Type A to the max.

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

I built an AI coaching tool for financial advisors’ LinkedIn posts. $0-> $4,700 MRR with 117 users in 8 weeks.

It’s built on a year’s worth of real coaching I gave my advisor clients. I… do not beat around the bush when I edit posts.

The No. 1 piece of user feedback:

“This thing hurts my feelings. It’s brutal. Please don’t change it.”

Mean AI is a legit business model.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

This is the problem with AI right now in ONE screenshot.

LLMs are TOO agreeable. and that's actually a billion dollar opportunity.

There are MULTIPLE billion dollar companies hiding in plain sight here. the entire concept is just: AI that pushes back.

If AI is your employee...

Well, your best employee isn't the one who says "great idea boss" to everything. it's the one who tells you your idea sucks before you waste 6 months on it.

Brutally honest AI for fitness coaching. Dating profiles. Financial planning. Copywriting. Design feedback. Hiring decisions. Etc etc.

The niches are endless and nobody's building for them yet.

Someone please go build this

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

This is the problem with AI right now in ONE screenshot.

LLMs are TOO agreeable. and that's actually a billion dollar opportunity.

There are MULTIPLE billion dollar companies hiding in plain sight here. the entire concept is just: AI that pushes back.

If AI is your employee...

Well, your best employee isn't the one who says "great idea boss" to everything. it's the one who tells you your idea sucks before you waste 6 months on it.

Brutally honest AI for fitness coaching. Dating profiles. Financial planning. Copywriting. Design feedback. Hiring decisions. Etc etc.

The niches are endless and nobody's building for them yet.

Someone please go build this

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

Over the last 4 years, I've had a dozen friends ask me how to start their own thing. None of them have taken action.

I don't like to write a lot of "rah-rah-quit-your-job" stuff because I'm always nervous that my survivorship bias makes me blind to what actually qualifies as good advice.

But after talking to two more brilliant friends last week — people who could mop the floor with their bosses — and walking away from those conversations knowing they won't do a damn thing about it — I think my mindset is permanently changed on this.

If you have a marketable skill and nothing truly keeping you in place — it is not difficult to build a better, more lucrative, more fulfilling career than your 9-5.

Because 99.9% of the world just talks.

The saddest part is that most people who think they are capable of entrepreneurship are wrong. It's classic Dunning-Kruger. The less likely you are to succeed, the more confident you are.

And on the flip side, the people who actually *could* pull this off are the ones who talk themselves out of it. They assume everyone is at their level — of intelligence, of work ethic, of competence — so they stay put.

In 2022, I torched a six-year finance career and voluntarily razed my income to $0.

I can sit here and tell you:

Your competition is lazy, you are being hamstrung by bureaucracy in your current role, and no one in an office job actually works hard. You give like 80% effort for 65% of the day.

When you work on your own thing, you give 100% of what you have available for 100% of the day. You can accomplish more in a single day of self-employment than you could in a week of W2 employment.

The actual execution is easy. It requires a lot of hours, but it's easy.

The hardest part is simply picking what you're going to do, and sitting down for 7 days in a row to make progress on it.

Anyone can sit down and spin up a half-baked Google Doc when they're excited about an idea on Day 1.

But what about Day 2 when you realize your idea has been done already?

What about Day 3 when you realize you know nothing about LLC filing?

What about Day 4 when you realize you don't know how to generate traffic?

These problems can all be solved through a little bit of effort. But they're there on purpose — the universe's sawhorses. Pick one leg up, put it over. Then the next leg.

Easy.

But no one does it.

This is why you can give people step-by-step blueprints, and they still come back to you a year later saying:

"Your life is so cool. I wish I could do what you do. I just can't keep doing this job."

And at a certain point, you just start to smile and nod, because you know advice is powerless against the quicksand of inaction.

So I'm no longer worried about survivorship bias.

If you put in effort, you'll succeed.

But you won't.

[S.🎧 @1ssve]

losing my mind cause i just GOTTA find a way to make money from my passions because corporate life is NOT for me

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

Can someone equally up-to-date on the potential apocalypse that is Claude Mythos and personal finance tell me if I should be stockpiling cash or blindly buying SPY or buying a house?

Thanks.

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

@BenElenbaas Petway! A legend.

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

Used to pretend to be Daniel Horton in the driveway back home.

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

@AndrewTalksHoop Buzzed the hair and rocked 11 at St Mark because of him

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

@maxwellcopy @danmartell Hit me at the right time. Thanks for this.

[Adam Knorr | Ghostwriter @TakeActionCopy]

@antoineazar @brexHQ @tryramp Uncomfortably relevant is right. I was selling a portfolio that held SVB stock when they had their problems... Not a super fun time.