Bruce Winson

Qui audet vincit | Founder | Formerly | Blog: | Standard disclaimers apply

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

One of the reasons we should expect to see more Mamdani-esque politicians rise to the top of the Democratic Party is that it is now a legitimately socialist party.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Cuba has approved 176 free-market measures!

It’s the biggest and broadest overhaul of the island’s communist economy since the revolution!

The free-market wins again! Viva Cuba libre! 🇨🇺

[AverageAmerican @Average00037367]

@RedWavePress This is what the Democrat Party supports

[Jason Robertson @JRobFromMN]

This is a problem many on the Right don't want to accept

The Left is no longer "just like us they just want to have more welfare"

The left is abandoning Capitalism, Christianity and all of the values we used to hold as a Country,(and the right still does)

This isn't a "difference of opinion on tax policy", the left wants a full scale reimagining of our country into a Socialist/Communist Utopia they think could exist if we "just did it right this time"

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

She was 17, working as a Hooters waitress in Jacksonville, Florida, when the cooks walked out. She didn't know how to deep fry chicken tenders or fries. She went back to the kitchen and figured it out.

Two years later, Hooters asked her to fly to Australia to help open the first franchise there. She'd never been on a plane. She didn't have a passport.

She got the passport and went.

By 26, she was a vice president. She helped grow Hooters from 100 locations to over 500 in 33 countries and from $300 million to $1 billion in revenue. She never finished her undergraduate degree.

At 32, Cinnabon recruited her to be president. She was the youngest CEO to ever appear on Undercover Boss. Under her leadership, Cinnabon added 200 bakeries, expanded to 56 countries, and approached $1 billion in annual sales through partnerships with Taco Bell, Burger King, and grocery stores.

She grew up on a $10-a-week grocery budget. Three sisters. Single mom who left their alcoholic father when Kat was nine. The family survived on her mother's determination and multiple jobs.

"Every year on my birthday card, my mom writes: 'Don't forget where you came from, but don't you dare ever let it solely define you.'"

Kat was the first person in her family to attend college. She enrolled in an engineering program at the University of North Florida but dropped out to pursue her career at Hooters. She later earned her MBA from Georgia State University without a bachelor's degree, getting accepted through letters of recommendation from business leaders including Ted Turner.

After Cinnabon, she became Group President of Focus Brands (Cinnabon, Auntie Anne's, Moe's, Carvel, Schlotzsky's). Then in 2021, AG1 (formerly Athletic Greens) recruited her after the founder heard her on a podcast. She became President and COO, then CEO in 2024.

She's known for a practice she calls the "hotshot rule": every month, she asks herself, "If a hotshot took over my job today, what's the first thing they'd fix that I've been tolerating?"

Here's what Kat Cole's story makes me think about.

She said yes before she was ready. Every major career leap, from the kitchen walkout to Australia to Cinnabon to AG1, happened because she said yes to something she wasn't qualified for yet and then figured it out in real time. "Saying yes before you are ready is only half of it. You have to use your hustle muscle to close the gap."

Most people wait until they feel ready. They wait for the degree, the experience, the credentials, the confidence. Kat built one of the most impressive corporate careers of her generation by saying yes first and learning second. Every single time.

I think about that in my own work. I've never felt fully ready to start any of the businesses I've built. The readiness came after the commitment, not before it.

Kat Cole was a Hooters waitress at 17. Cooks walked out. She went to the kitchen and figured it out. Never been on a plane. Flew to Australia to open a franchise. VP at 26. Cinnabon president at 32. $10-a-week grocery budget growing up. First in her family to attend college. Dropped out. Got an MBA without a bachelor's. Now CEO of AG1.

"Saying yes before you are ready is only half of it. You have to use your hustle muscle to close the gap."

What are you waiting to feel ready for that you should just say yes to?

P.S. Building a 10-business portfolio (6 down). Documenting everything at nathanhirsch(dot)com/newsletter.

[Clemens Wergin @clemenswergin]

The Irish obsession with Israel is mind boggling

[TheJewishAlly @TheJewishAlly]

Thanks Adam.

Today, @AccuracyInMedia is outside the home of a Seattle Central College professor who told colleagues he was uncomfortable working with “Zionists,” described them as “racist genocidal rapist killers,” and called for HR action against Zionist employees.

Our mobile billboard is there today demanding transparency.

Take action now at https://t.co/YFhr8hNwbh.

[Traductor 🥹💕💐 @TraductorTeAma]

🚨🇨🇺| El dictador comunista y sucesor de Fidel Castro, Díaz Canel, acaba de reconocer que el comunismo no funciona.

"Los controles de precios no funcionan y llevan a la escasez de bienes y servicios y a la informalidad"

67 años tardó

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Zohran Mandani:

“The average Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is annoyed their education is not that valuable, and that the person who knows how to drill for oil has a more valuable profession”

“I think that annoys the fuck out of these people”

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

“We have taken the steps to ban your children from watching YouTube but if you would like to sign up for them to be chemically castrated, go right ahead.”

[James Dueck🇻🇦 @JamesDueck]

The Left: “Believe all women!”

British girls: “Here’s what happened to 250,000 of us.”

The Left:

[Alan Shatter @Alan__Shatter]

74 lashes for not wearing a hijab. This is the regime that is praised, embraced & celebrated by various Irish politicians, former politicians & celebrities, some of whom boast of their visits to Tehran. https://t.co/YrS09PDcAY

[Juliet Moses @JulietMosesNZ]

Anyone whose brain has not completely rotted with antizionism and has a skerrick of critical facilities left would ask how the “liberation of Palestine” (a mysterious term that presumably means the end of Israel but doesn’t quite sound so progressive put that way) “represents the liberation of the world”. Would the Sudan war end? What about Russia/Ukraine? Would China free the Uyghurs and Tibet, the Iranian regime collapse, child trafficking end, Afghani women be emancipated?

As for fascism, the cosmic powers of that evil state that the world must be liberated from must extend to time travel, since Europe actually has a history of fascism and there was quite a major bout of it that pre-dated Israel. Funnily enough, it featured language eerily reminiscent of that which Rooney uses here.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The reason they call me a Nazi is to encourage people to murder me

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

I've never seen anything like the speed with which people go from "oopsie did my toe just accidentally touch some antisemitism" to frothing Protocols of Zion sh*t. It's insane.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

.@dcexaminer: “Francesca Albanese has been placed back on the sanctions list. UN Watch director Hillel Neuer has made it his mission to oust her. He claims she has abused her position. ‘She uses her UN imprimatur to tweet out Hamas lies every 5 minutes.’”
https://t.co/2YlmBo4LM1

[Reuters @Reuters]

Cuban lawmakers unanimously approved sweeping reforms backed by the Communist Party and former leader Raul Castro that would privatize a vast swath of the country's socialist economy in a bid to survive punishing US sanctions https://t.co/T9qnNi6JoJ

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

An absolutely horrific story
A woman sexually assaulted by an immigrant
She begged him to leave
She's trembling on national television as she tells the world what happened

And what did she get for it?

Convicted for inciting racial hatred

Insanity has taken over Europe

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

The great lie is that society is divided between rich and poor.
The great truth, as David Friedberg puts it, is makers vs takers.

Makers build, create, and deliver real value: houses, software, art, businesses, and everything that moves civilization forward.

Takers watch, criticize, analyze, and politic. They push the lie that the rich hoard unfairly so the poor must seize it… all while positioning themselves to rule the chaos.

As @friedberg tells his kids: “At the end of the day, if you made something and someone else valued it, you were a maker. That was an amazing achievement. That is a great day.”

Takers thrive on division. Makers drive progress.

Time to choose your side.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

So many examples of Black male excellence, all alive today, and they choose to prop up a dead career criminal fentanyl junkie and a guy who’s in jail for stabbing someone to death.