If you've got a client or two but it still doesn't feel like a real business yet, this list is worth a slow second read.
Because you're not missing 19 things... you're probably missing like 4.
You already did the hardest part which is getting a client.
And I can almost guess which 4 without knowing you, because it's the same ones for everybody. The outreach you're not sending, the audit you're not charging for, the retainer/maintenance you never bring up.
Go find the stuff you're dodging.
I find it fascinating that women got everything they ever wanted. Education, careers, wealth, power, sports, children at any age.
And seem to be more bitter and demanding and self-centered than we’ve ever been.
Wild study
Humans are telepathic. But our body suppresses it because it would be too much to handle
This is why yogis who meditate a lot and quiet their mind, seem to regain these superpowers.
Quiet your mind and it's incredible what you can do.
I speak for a lot of men when I say this:
A man can be running on 4 hours of sleep.
He can stay up until 2 AM and still wake up at 6.
He can have more bills than money in his account.
He can be buried in debt.
He can be broke as hell.
He can be carrying problems he hasn't told a single person about.
He can be lonely.
He can feel like nobody notices his effort and nobody is coming to save him.
Yet somehow, he keeps moving.
He goes to work.
He shows up.
He keeps trying.
He keeps building.
Because deep down, most men carry a stubborn belief that things will get better.
Not today.
Maybe not tomorrow.
But eventually.
The business will grow.
The debt will get paid.
The hard work will pay off.
The bad season will pass.
It's not always confidence.
Sometimes it's pure faith.
Faith that if they keep showing up, keep grinding, and refuse to quit, one day everything they've been fighting for will finally work out.
And honestly, that quiet faith is what keeps a lot of men going.
We talk a lot about what makes a man a bad husband, but I think we need to get a lot more honest about what makes a woman a bad wife too.
Sometimes it’s chronic irresponsibility, poor stewardship of the home, entitlement, selfishness, laziness, or expecting other people to keep compensating for the things she doesn’t handle.
Maybe she’s careless with money. Maybe she doesn’t manage the home well. Maybe she creates chaos, doesn’t follow through, shirks responsibilities, or gets used to the fact that her husband will eventually step in and handle whatever she leaves undone.
And if she’s attractive, affectionate, fun, nurturing in other ways, people can be very tempted to soften all of that.
Once you share a life, your irresponsibility stops being just your problem.
Her lack of discipline becomes his burden. Her poor decisions affect the household. Her unwillingness to carry her share means somebody else has to carry more.
Women can absolutely under-function in marriage too.
We should be willing to say that out loud. Expecting a grown woman to be responsible, useful, considerate and capable of carrying her share of family life shouldn’t be an outrageous standard.
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Honored
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After the masterclass goes up I'll be uploading 8 videos a month. So you can hear me yap about AI implementation twice a week. Can't wait for this one.
Scottsdale is becoming a terrible place to live. I say this with a heavy heart as my family has been here for 6 generations long before it was known for shopping and influencers with rented lamborghinis.
The city and county managers have sold out to developers so that there is no longer a sense of place. You cannot tell you are in a beautiful desert valley and you must be in an ugjy high rise condo to appreciate the mountains that surround the valley in the distance. Big box stores that appear 3 stories high from the outside but are just high ceiling single stories scar every view. The low testosterone enshittification rules or shall I say rues the day.
Last day in Lake Tahoe.
- 2 Boom discovery calls
- 3 AAIC Onboarding calls
- AAIC member case study interview
- 2 Boom client meetings
- Boom team meeting
@Kr00ney@DivesTech@BeckyQuick Preview to entrance of lender of last resort. The gov tax payer. These people have no shame. Buckle up. The bond market will fix this shame.
Zuck just open sourced a 30B model that runs on a laptop. And he says the weights for Muse Spark 1.2, Meta's newest foundation model, are next.
Pay attention to the timing here.
Meta sat EXTREMELY quiet on model releases for the past few years while OpenAI and Anthropic raced each other to the frontier. Now Zuck is opening everything at once.
This is an attack and I think it's a smart one.
Look at what's happened in the market this year. In May, OpenAI and Anthropic both launched enterprise consulting ventures within hours of each other. Anthropic's is a $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs. OpenAI's has over $4 billion behind it. The labs figured out that selling model access doesn't get AI adopted. The money is in deploying systems inside companies, and now they're spending billions to own that layer.
But think about what that move signals to their customers.
A company's edge in 2026 is its data, its processes, and the way it operates. When all of that flows through a closed API, your alpha lives inside someone else's model. And now the labs that own those models are deploying engineers across every industry, including yours.
Executives see it. That's why open source demand is exploding right now. Companies want models that run on their own hardware, hold their own data, and answer to nobody who might end up on the other side of the table.
Zuck saw the same thing. Meta makes nothing selling API tokens, so he can do the one thing the closed labs can't afford: give frontier models away for free and become the default open lab that every company builds on.
Companies have had access to intelligence for 3+ years now. What they're missing is the data, the processes, and the architecture to actually use it. That's been true on every build we've delivered, and free local models push it even further.
Starbucks showed the demand side of this shift and Zuck is flooding the supply side.
The implementation layer sits in the middle of both, position yourself there.
When you stop caring about what people in your life are creating, you stop caring about those people.
Be proud of not just your accomplishments, but take an active interest in what those around you are doing as well and support them.
"Every time I join a call, I learn a lot. That's been the biggest benefit."
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