Jamie “Rhino” Rhone

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[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

The life of an #entrepreneur is full of pivots & you never know what opportunities will come your way. See below for my biggest professional pivot of 2024…

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

I realized you get further obsessing on your small daily actions than your potential big plans.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

I’m coming to the conclusion that the biggest challenge for Enterprise AI, and AI in general , as of now, is that it’s still impossible to make sure that everyone gets the same answer to the same question, every time.

Which is a great response to the doomers. AI doesn’t know the consequences of its output.

Judgement and the ability to challenge AI output is becoming increasingly necessary, and valuable.

Which makes domain knowledge more valuable by the second.

Am I wrong ?

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Great line from @shellypalmer that I’ll paraphrase - AI shouldn’t be a ghostwriter, it should be a sparring partner.

Best way to keep your job isn’t to dismiss AI. It’s to engage with it and find where it’s wrong.

In order for AI to know it’s wrong, you have to spend a lot of time building context and rules before you use it.

Which is something that 99 pct of people have no clue how to do. And unless you are in a tech company, there is the same probability that the boss(es) above you have no clue what I’m talking about.

And in business, AI never knows the consequences of its actions. It doesn’t have judgement. That’s left to you

If you learn how to get the best out of AI. How to challenge AI , like it was a competitive coworker or consultant, and how to bring judgement and the ability to explain in a manner your peers and bosses understand, you will thrive.

If you just regurgitate what AI gives you, you will be fired.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Whenever upset or anxious, ask “why” at least three times and put the answers down on paper. Describing these doubts in writing reduces their impact twofold.

First, it’s often the ambiguous nature of self-doubt that hurts most. Defining and exploring it in writing demands clarity of thought, after which most concerns are found to be baseless.

Second, recording these concerns seems to somehow remove them from your head.

[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

Wow, this is an amazing glimpse of the future…

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Anthropic is valued at $380 billion.

For nearly a year during its fastest growth period, their entire marketing operation was one guy.

Austin Lau, a non-technical growth lead, was running paid search, paid social, email & SEO completely solo.

Just Claude Code & some insane automation he built himself without writing a single line of code.

Here's the exact workflow:

- Export ad performance CSVs into Claude Code
- AI flags what's underperforming
- Sub-agent 1 writes headlines
- Sub-agent 2 writes descriptions
- Figma plugin auto-swaps copy into 100 ad templates
- MCP server pulls live Meta data to close the loop

Output went up 10x.
Creation went from 2 hours to 15 minutes.

Conversion rates beat industry average by 41%.

This isn't AI helping a marketing team.
This is one person replacing what used to be a 50-person department.

[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

Ummmm, ok. Speaking as an immaterial and irrelevant former fan of #KanyeWest, I hear what you’re saying…BUT!!!

The last line resonates the most with me, @nero will have to earn my (and others) trust. I’m cautiously optimistic and we’ll see how this plays out.

[MILO @Nero]

Page A18 of today's Wall Street Journal.

[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

#Amen

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Obsessed with being unemployable.

[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

Great point. Many don’t understand (or appreciate) the impact of entrepreneurial stakeholders (ie bankers, clients, investors, et al).

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Many entrepreneurs think they’re independent simply by starting their own business, but if you have a complex cap table, a bank loan that’s always on your mind, or silent (or loud) partners who see things different ways, there’s a very good chance you've just got a job, not a business. In practice, many entrepreneurs are actually someone else’s employees carrying too much risk and responsibility.

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Your startup can do anything but it can't do everything. Focus is key.

[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

@Broncos QB Jarrett Stidham looks like he’s having the time of his life…

[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

Praise be the Lord my rock who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.

As #entrepreneurs, we must be prepared to fight for our dream and must realize that “…a fight’s not a fight till there’s adversity.”

[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

One of the G.O.A.T.s just stepped down…

[Pittsburgh Steelers @steelers]

Statement from Mike Tomlin:

[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

When it comes to pitch decks, “truth in advertising” still has value.

https://t.co/zjoN1pYiZ0 via @YouTube

[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

No disagreement…

The current tech suite will certainly HELP accelerate the rise of the micropreneur; however, it’s critical to remember winning in entrepreneurship requires more than just having the right tech stack…you must also have product/market fit, emotional intelligence, tenacity, strong mental game, access to required capital and DRIVE!!

[Brooks Conkle @BrooksConkle]

I think with current tech we're soon to see an explosion of micropreneurs.

[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

The art of “Dialectical Thinking” is underrated.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

“The test of a first-rate intelligence,” F. Scott Fitzgerald reminds us, “is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Every month you're able to keep your startup alive the odds of success increase. Stay in the game and keep going.

[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

The holiday haze is officially over & I pray you are well rested.

Tomorrow is the first Monday of the year & it’s our chance to set the pace.

Don't wait for tomorrow morning to "figure it out." Let’s prep our minds tonight, lock in our routines & show up with intention.

Our goals are waiting.

#GiddyUp
#MondayMotivation
#FreshStart

[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

Great read on the rise of the solopreneur by ⁦⁦@jproco⁩. Key quote: “In 2025 [now 2026], ‘Shit-Storm Chaser’ is not a corporate title, but it might as well be.” These so called “shit-storms” are a major source of revenue for the #solopreneur

https://t.co/OhtN7CCiRo

[Jamie “Rhino” Rhone @jmrhone]

Amen…

Far too many get caught up chasing the competition where at best you can be the #2 always chasing the #1.

Better to double down on your strengths & be the best YOU, you can be (i.e. your own #1).

This is just as applicable to geopolitics/economics as it is applies to individual effort.

[a16z @a16z]

Marc Andreessen says that America's greatest strategic advantage lies not in mimicking China's centralized system, but in doubling down on its chaotic, competitive, entrepreneurial spirit.

“What if we become more like us? And what if we lean even harder into innovation, and even harder into creativity, and even harder into entrepreneurship?”