Phillip LeMaster

Software Engineer ➡️ Garbageman ➡️ Sold business in the 7 figures

Building the next great thing!

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

Oops.

Some more inconvenient facts for the AI doomers.

[a16z @a16z]

Remote work, not AI, may be the real culprit for recent grad unemployment

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[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

@paulg Agree. I always thought the ROI argument was a terrible take because of what you mentioned and that the costs always seem to go down once you let everyone compete for a while.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Don't get stuck in paralysis by analysis!

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

Few people understand that Ray Kroc started in door-to-door sales before scaling McDonald's.

The lesson?

Your current opportunity is not likely to be your last and can help form you into the person you need to be.

You might need to get rejected thousands of times before you learn the skill of sales.

Then once you find the right opportunity, it becomes easier to scale because you now know how to sell.

Oh and by the way... it's not too late.

He was 52 when he joined McDonalds.

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

Join my door-to-door sales team and this can be you. 😉

[Fabian S. @fabianschmid_09]

one of the single greatest tactic for your social life is the concept of "assumed familiarity". once you know this concept you notice it in every charismatic man. makes you instantly likable. just act like you've known others for years already.

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

While tech companies keep pushing AI doomerism, the data in the real world says otherwise.

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

Co-sign.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Signs you might be trying to get your frontier AI lab nationalized:

You compare it to nukes… threaten half of white-collar jobs… warn recursive self-improvement could end humanity… then race ahead anyway.

In other words, you want the government to save us from… you.

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

The more experience I get, the more I realize that 90% of the business advice out there is in books written 50-100+ years ago.

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

Especially as more and more people use AI as crutch to make decisions for them.

[Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee]

Your intuition is your best secret

[Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee]

Doing always beats thinking. The end

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

Just because people (or an AI) talk about a topic with confidence does not make them automatically correct.

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

"I don't understand the companies that sell door to door. No one buys anything at the door anymore."

One second while I grab the thousands of contracts we sold over a year.

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

AI companies asking for regulation is really just them creating moats for their companies so smaller startups cannot compete.

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

Co-sign

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Do not hang out with losers. It is contagious.

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

Everyone saying AI is too expensive for it to be useful is completely missing the boat.

This happens with all new tech and the price will inevitably come down.

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

It’s amazing how solvable your problems are if you just took the time to genuinely focus on solving them for an extended period of time.

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

🇺🇸✝️

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

I would be concerned, but $MSFT

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Microsoft, $MSFT, has started canceling Claude Code licenses, per the Verge

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

✅

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

.@danshipper: "The AI jobpocalypse is not a thing.

The mass unemployment thing that AI lab CEOs are talking about—that's not going to happen.

AI models make yesterday's human competence cheap.

But what's interesting is that since everyone's using the same models, it all looks the same. So it becomes commoditized. It's not valuable anymore.

And what humans do is we go in there, and we're like, yeah, we have all this frozen human competence from yesterday, how do I use this to make something new and interesting, today?"

[Phillip LeMaster @plemasterr]

The fear of not understanding the solution keeps more people out than their ability to solve the problem.