Ben Killen

Business Development Guy - Crypto | Web3 |Scientific Mind | Growth Marketer - ‘Making magic’

[Tyinlife @tyinlife]

We've got a curated network of 940 crypto, AI & biotech operators in Bali for 5 years now.

We launched an "AI for good" workshop series teaching our members to build their own agents from scratch.

A workshop with @Truunik was last week 5 more to go

@AnthropicAI , lets talk.

[Tyinlife @tyinlife]

It's not a hypothetical

103 inner circle members, $85M deal flow through the network. Founders, investors & operators across 6 continents & many of them are based in or floating through SEA

These are the people who decide what gets built on which stack

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

@tyinlife Ivan an incredible spirit. Very excited to see the vision this great soul will bring as we build ☯️

[Tyinlife @tyinlife]

This has been a long time coming.

For a while now I've wanted a business partner like @beniskillen

Someone who can help take what i've done with @collective_eth over the last 6 years & supercharge it for its growth into the next stage.

He's the kinda guy who takes massive topics & is able to distill it into digestible & actionable roadmaps for people to benefit from.

He's an athlete & great team player.

He's spent years now with a beautifully simple approach.

1) identify a business model with a tonne of unlocked value potential

2) Doesn't ask to be paid up front, simply says "let me show you how much more money & impact this can do & you can pay me later"

3) a PROPER systems thinker who can balance my "flow" & raw energies.

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A) He's going to be running workshops for our members, designed to help them make even more money while working even less.

B) Since he's gotten here he's already systemized a bunch of stuff I used to do on the fly & the system is starting to feel like it can operate without me.

C) & finally... I'm not the one random tall dude who's way taller than everyone else 🤣 (can you tell he was a basketball legend?)

So what does this mean for our members?

ALOT more value -- for the exact same price.

Our inner circle members will continue to benefit for many many years to come.

Your businesses will grow & Your network will grow.

Your tribe will have your back & you will never walk the path alone again. (oh & ... it'll be a tonne of fun while you're at it <3)

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

"Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else." - Aristotle

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

I always wondered why most billionaires continue to work more hours than most people on this planet.

After 10+ years in business I realise that works gives us peace.

Our spirit lives in our work, when we align ourselves properly.

Our work works on us, more than we work on it.

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

@tyinlife I always wondered why most billionaires continue to work more hours than most people on this planet.

After 10+ years in business I realise that works gives us peace.

Our spirit lives in our work, when we align ourselves properly. The work works on us, more than we work on it.

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

Heroes use pain.

Villains are used by it.

Be the hero of your own story.

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

@tyinlife @collective_eth To a world of work that allows us to move closer to top of the self actualisation pyramid 🫡

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

The ultimate form of self expression is business

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it... Life is long if you know how to use it.” — Seneca

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

How to not worry about money:

1 - Define a big goal. 3+ years. Dissect it.

2 - Allocate time so you spend energy on what moves the needle.

3 - Connect work to milestones of the goal + earning more p/h.

4 - Form a dopamine loop. Love the journey.

5 - Spend less than you earn.

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

If you don’t decide exactly what you’re going to do with your time in advance it will be decided for you.

Live deliberately.

You are the hero of your own story. Don’t be an NPC.

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

We evolved to control our own body weight.

Climbing, squatting, crawling.

The human body adapts to its environment.

When we don’t do what we’ve evolved to do, we adapt in a way that goes against our evolution.

Functioning as we’ve supposed to has become extra ordinary.

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

Personal excellence is the ultimate rebellion.

The best step to fixing everything you don’t like about the world starts with self.

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

Creating value doesn’t have to come in the form of something physical.

Knowledge is the currency of the 21st century.

Instead of building another clothing brand, why not seek to solve a life problem?

Our world needs its problems solved, not more ‘stuff’.

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

Truth is relative.

Humans don’t possess the sensory organs to perceive everything in the universe. We’ll never be able to know everything.

When frustration creeps in from someone else’s truth it can pay to keep fundamental science in mind.

Smile. Don’t be too serious :)

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

Work life balance is more useful when conceptualised over a longer timeframe.

Daily = living for 5pm.

Weekly = living for the weekend.

Monthly = living what matters.

Quarterly = living to celebrate achievement.

Annually = living a new identity.

Longer term = bigger goal.

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

Anxiety is the best sign that your energy is being used in the wrong way.

We’ve all got a purpose inside of us. When we’re moving towards that purpose, anxiety goes away.

[Ben Killen @beniskillen]

Chase your thing. The thing you’ve been sitting on for years.

The thing that screams out at you when you’re on a run.

The thing you know you could bring to the world.

The thing that will turn dream to reality.

It might not work out. But it will send you where you need to go.