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Servant leader, student, future of work and AI in healthcare, storyteller, investor. Previously: Stanford Healthcare, UC Healthcare

[David @TheHonn]

My best world and folk music albums of 2022, starring (in no particular order) @arooj_aftab, @CimarronCol, @jasdeepdegun, @FatouMusic_, @LirazCharhi, @KoboTown, @LucreciaDalt and others not on here ... https://t.co/REVS924S9V

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Does Your Business Need an Anti-Chaos Officer? https://t.co/7BbLrYnmIh

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The Race Between Complexity and Control

Ultimately, we all participate in the race between complexity and control. We are trying to survive and thrive and stand out and find a stable footing.

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Invest

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

10,000 boomers retire a day
8-10% own a biz
2.4 million boring bizs for sale

Problem: Their kids want to Tik Tok not take over a plumbing company, and scaling SMBs is hard

Solution = invest in picks & shovels

Enter, Contrarian Thinking Capital: boring biz infrastructure fund

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@brandur @goodinvesting1 He sold another multimillion dollar instance of sales force to the city with that Prop. Good business.

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Quality people: are you a bullet or a barrel?

[Jason Garcia @SirJRG]

“They can motivate their team, and they can edit themselves autonomously. Whenever you find a barrel, you should hire them instantly, regardless of whether you have money for them or whether you have a role for them. Just close them.”

3/3

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Every. Damn. Time!

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

Years ago, I helped a toxic employee move on...

We all came in the next day.

It was like removing an invisible, dark cloud.

People smiling.

Moods instantly improved.

I learned how much we underestimate the impact of negative people.

[The Wolf of Franchises 🍟 @franchisewolf]

TL;DR - Crumbl's advantages:

✅ Great product
✅ Iconic branding
✅ Leveraging social media
✅ Creating a sense of scarcity
✅ Investing in technology from day 1

[Josh Johnston @joshykobyashi]

"I know a big questions on your mind is price. That question would be on my mind too. As you might imagine, there are several factors that affect pricing for what we offer. If I can ask you a few questions, that will allow me to provide the right pricing for you. Is that cool?"

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

For this reason, you want to be strategic about when you launch:

"The great irony is that once you start having numbers, investors start to really care what those numbers are.” —@caitlinbolnick1

[Jared Dashevsky, MD, MEng 💌 @jareddashevsky]

Business-wise, Levels will flourish as a company

There's a massive market of fitness and health fanatics who will do and pay anything to stay at the forefront of their health.

Look at Whoop, for example. Extremely expensive, but people are paying!

[The Real Estate God @TheRealEstateG6]

So I would highly suggest going down more rabbit holes

Just because a deal doesn’t work on the surface level doesn’t mean you shouldn’t dig deeper (as long as it’s good real estate)

Yes it takes more time and yes it’s inefficient but the accrued knowledge is extremely powerful

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@work_matters That does seem like an improvement, hopefully along the way of breaking out of this cycle completely

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@burritojustice Is that the international superspreader virus recombination facility gracing our port yet again?

[Neel Parekh @NeelBParekh]

@MaidThis So, I implemented a retro-fitted 'Lite' version of EOS that seems more simple (I'll call this EOS Lite)

I have all of our franchisees learn this system and implement themselves.

I was recently featured on the Tropical MBA podcast about EOS: https://t.co/pEaCW5dYRP

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@wongmjane The end of the pilot, possibly

[Andrea S. James @AndreaSJames]

Elon leads by reasoning from first principles, meaning that the only laws everyone must follow are the ones set by the physical universe. This spoke to me as I have always loved physics and comp sci and had chosen to study those things in college. /4

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@Levijameshere Buying risk reduction is cheap insurance. Full stop.