Ben Beideman

Dream it. Plan it. Build it. | SMB AI @tekcesta | Non-Profits @peakdatanet @techlitalliance @restartsmarter | Cats & collabs welcome, reach out 🐱🚀 | NFA

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

The richest people I know are doing one of 2 things:

Going all‑in on AI - building, and not sleeping while they try to understand what is coming.

Selling everything - cashing out and going to Europe, New Zealand, or off-grid.

Weird how few are in the middle.

[Leila Hormozi @LeilaHormozi]

Just a friendly reminder that you can reinvent yourself at any age. There’s no rule saying “you must remain the person you are forever.” If you want to change your job, move cities, get in shape, start a business, or all of the above… you can do it. You don’t need permission to reinvent yourself.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The future is going to be AMAZING with AI and robots enabling sustainable ABUNDANCE for all!

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Ten lazy years can vanish the moment you lock in. Six months of discipline, clean habits, and daily focus can erase a decade of wasted time.

[stepfanie tyler @stepfanie]

bare minimum for being healthy/fit is actually super simple:
- eat less food (to lose weight) or the same (to maintain)
- walk 1 mile daily
- lift a couple times a week

being in great shape is still stupidly simple:
- all of the above (+ a few extra miles/week)
- take creatine
- eat home-cooked meals only

it pains me to see how much people complicate this—every excuse around the above is pure cope

you don't need fancy protein powders or granola bars or gym memberships or cold plunge pools, saunas, red lights, organic this-or-that, etc etc etc

it is SO BASIC

if one of your goals for 2026 is to be healthier, i recommend ditching all the guru and influencer advice and "protocols"

*subtract before you add*

it's not easy, but it is SIMPLE AF

i know you can do it. i'm rooting for you! 🦾

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

It's time to build the US Tech Force. 🇺🇸

[Ben Beideman @benBeideman]

@BillyM2k Strep throat?

[Thais Castello Branco @thaiscbranco_]

seeking technologists who want to end AI slop.

if you:

- think “i could fix her” about a model frequently
- hate purple gradients
- know what cerulean is
- obsess over evals
- love beautiful data, and retrieving it
- have unreasonably good taste
- want tech to ~ feel ~ right

...this is for you!

usual suspects might be researchers, engineers, designers working on personalization, post-training, creativity, multi-modal or gaming. or maybe you’re cracked and have a creative hobby you take very seriously, that counts ;)

in person, in SF. generous comp. intensity coming from a place of obsession. a tight group of great, high-agency, low ego, outside-the-box thinkers.

if this is you, DM me! if you know a taste-obsessed friend, DM them!

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Six months of focus can erase 10 years of drifting. Discipline builds momentum. Momentum makes your past stop controlling your future.

[Atem @AtemPsyche]

@tailopez Discipline becomes easy once you realise there is no other option to get to where you want to go...

...Because success requires you to move despite how you're feeling.

Bite the bullet. Do the work. Put the reps in.

[Ben Beideman @benBeideman]

@finallyx Good odds

[Ben Beideman @benBeideman]

@KateClarkTweets Congratulations!

[Shibetoshi Nakamoto @BillyM2k]

never be afraid to be yourself

unless you’re lame

then work on yourself, and then never be afraid to be yourself 🤣

[Ben Beideman @benBeideman]

@asherhoffman_ Congratulations!

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

The thing about AI is that you can finally do stuff at the speed of ADHD

[Jen Stark @Jen_Stark]

Dream come true 🎨🌆🍎

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Prediction:

By 2030, every company will need to become a media company.

[Randi Hipper @missteencrypto]

The past 2 weeks in Dubai has been a God send…

- I’ve met the top industry leaders both in Bitcoin and traditional finance

- I’ve seen the other part of the world that people said I was crazy for going to

- I delved into another culture that embraced me with open arms

- I thought my dreams were big before, now they’re on a whole new level

- Education is worth more than hype

-I learned a higher level of discernment. Some want to build you up, to tear you down and manipulate you. It’s important to ignore them- they’re deflecting from their own insecurities as “the little that the righteous has is better than the abundance of the wicked”

- There’s so much more to life and this industry that meets the eye.

Now more than ever, I’m ready to help move forward the most peaceful revolution in history and change the world. Thank you for being on this journey, we’re all doing this together ❤️

[ecomchigga @ecomchigga]

sat next to a guy on a flight who smelled like old money

rolex. tailored suit. reading a physical newspaper like it was 1987.

figured he was some finance executive or inherited wealth.

we got talking. I mentioned I sell stuff online.

he put down his newspaper.

"what kind of stuff?"

digital products. courses. ebooks. that kind of thing.

he smiled weird.

"I made $4 million last year selling a PDF about aquariums."

I thought he was messing with me.

he wasn't.

this guy is 61 years old. spent 30 years as an accountant. hated every second of it. retired at 55 with decent savings but nothing crazy.

his hobby was aquariums. had been keeping fish tanks since he was 12.

"my wife told me to start a blog so I'd stop boring her with fish facts."

so he did. wrote about aquarium stuff 3 times a week. water chemistry. tank setups. fish compatibility.

for 2 years nobody read it.

"I had maybe 50 visitors a month. all probably bots."

but he kept going because he had nothing else to do.

year 3, one article ranked on google. then another. then another.

suddenly he was getting 100K visitors a month. all people searching for aquarium help.

"I realized these people would probably pay for a complete guide. so I wrote one."

147 pages. everything about setting up and maintaining an aquarium.

priced it at $47.

first month: $6K
first year: $340K
last year: $4.2 million

from a PDF about fish tanks.

I asked about his marketing strategy.

"I don't have one. google sends people to my blog. blog mentions the guide. people buy it. I go play golf."

no email sequence?

"I have a newsletter. I send fish tips once a week. sometimes I mention the guide at the bottom. that's it."

no upsells?

"I made a second guide about saltwater tanks specifically. $67. people who bought the first one usually buy the second. that's my whole business."

no team?

"my wife helps with customer service. we get maybe 10 emails a day. most are just people showing us their tanks."

this 61 year old retiree built a bigger business than most "entrepreneurs" I know.

no ads. no funnel hacks. no growth strategies. no personal brand.

just mass expertise in one weird niche and patience to let it compound.

before we landed he gave me advice I didn't ask for:

"everyone your age wants to get rich fast. that's why most of you stay broke. I wrote about fish for 2 years before making a dollar. now I make more than I did in 30 years of accounting. speed is overrated. patience pays."

the plane landed. he grabbed his newspaper and walked off.

probably went home to feed his fish.

[Johan @Adityapandeydev]

This one from Elon stuck with me.