Tiers of Quality
Lowest tier:
- Thinking about planning, no real preparation, and no action.
Low tier:
- Planning, no action.
Mid tier:
- Straight to action, no planning.
High tier:
- Some planning, then action.
Divine tier:
- No conscious thinking initially
- Then planning so rigorously & methodically your action emerges as a burst of deep unconscious knowledge
- Surgical level of conscious refinement
Robert Sapolsky es un neurocientífico de Stanford que demostró que el estrés crónico es el asesino silencioso que los médicos ignoran.
Reveló 10 hábitos que haces todos los días y que te quitan años de vida.
1) Repasar conversaciones en tu cabeza
Richard Feynman stood at a Cornell blackboard in 1964 and explained the problem every AI lab is fighting in 2026. The BBC filmed it. Almost nobody watches it.
The lecture is about why nature only answers in mathematics. Every team forcing language models to reason is hitting the wall he mapped 62 years ago.
He was 46. The Nobel Prize came 11 months later. The footage survived on film reels and now sits free on YouTube with fewer views than a keyboard unboxing.
Watch the blackboard section near the middle. He takes 1 of Kepler's laws and rebuilds it from nothing, with notation a 12-year-old can follow.
No slides. No jargon. 1 piece of chalk.
An ML engineer I know paused it 4 times and made his whole team watch it before standup.
You're 62 years late. The lecture is still free.
Who’s in your FRIEND CIRCLE? Seasonal, people? Reason People or Lifetime people? And then check what’s happening in your life and REMEMBER GIFTS AND OPPORTUNITIES and your new life will come through other people. #Friends#chosen
I took my time to put together 3 of the best books on communication so you don’t have to spend hours searching.
https://t.co/OujZjzJKKq
This is a goldmine if you want to become a better communicator.
→ How to Win Friends and Influence People
→ Crucial Conversations
→ Never Split the Difference
Save this. You’ll thank yourself later.
YouTube Documentaries for the Weekend.
1. Flatpack forests - IKEA’s practices in the Carpathian Mountains | DW Documentary
2. How the Mafia’s cattle are terrorizing Italian villages | DW Documentary
3. THE CAMBODIA TRAP | How Kenyans are trafficked through fake job advertisements abroad
4. Inside Russian-Run Prisons in Occupied Ukraine - BBC World Service Documentaries
5. China's 'Silicon Valley' In Hangzhou: Home Of DeepSeek, Alibaba and Ant Group | CNA Correspondent
6. Recovery or ruin: Can Germany escape the crisis? | To the Point |DW News
7. AI’s Next Race: Cost, Control, and Compute |CNBC
8. Why is Europe changing its attitude towards African migrants? | Population Bust | Aljazeera English
9. Thailand’s sex worker legal limbo - Asia Specific podcast, BBC World Service
10. The Zero-Tariff Journey of Kenyan Avocados to China |Citizen TV
11. E-scooters promised Europe a revolution. What happened? | DW News
There is a process that I have used, and still use, to reignite life...
Create two timelines—6 months and 12 months—and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great cook, be fluent in Chinese, etc.), and doing (visiting Thailand, tracing your roots overseas, racing ostriches, etc.) in that order.
If you have difficulty identifying what you want in some categories, as most will, consider what you hate or fear in each and write down the opposite.
Do not limit yourself, and do not concern yourself with how these things will be accomplished. For now, it’s unimportant. This is an exercise in reversing repression.
Be sure not to judge or fool yourself. If you really want a Ferrari, don’t put down solving world hunger out of guilt. For some, the dream will be fame, for others fortune or prestige. All people have their vices and insecurities. If something will improve your feeling of self-worth, put it down.
Drawing a blank? In that case, consider these questions:
1) What would you do, day to day, if you had $100 million in the bank?
2) What would make you most excited to wake up in the morning to another day?
Don’t rush—think about it for a few minutes.
If still blocked, fill in the five “doing” spots with the following:
— one place to visit
— one thing to do before you die (a memory of a lifetime)
— one thing to do daily
— one thing to do weekly
— one thing you’ve always wanted to learn
What does “being” entail doing?
Convert each “being” into a “doing” to make it actionable. Identify an action that would characterize this state of being or a task that would mean you had achieved it. People find it easier to brainstorm “being” first, but this column is just a temporary holding spot for “doing” actions.
Here are a few examples:
1) Great cook —> make Christmas dinner without help
2) Fluent in Chinese —> have a five-minute conversation with a Chinese co-worker
Determine three steps for each of the dreams in just the 6-month timeline and take the first step now.
Define three steps for each dream that will get you closer to its actualization.
Set actions—simple, well-defined actions—for now, tomorrow (complete before 11 A.M.) and the day after (again completed before 11 A.M.). Once you have three steps for each of the four goals, complete the three actions in the “now” column.
Do it now. Each should be simple enough to do in five minutes or less. If not, rachet it down. If it’s the middle of the night and you can’t call someone, do something else now, such as send an e-mail, and set the call for first thing tomorrow.
If the next stage is some form of research, get in touch with someone who knows the answer instead of spending too much time in books or online, which can turn into paralysis by analysis.
The best first step, the one I recommend, is finding someone who’s done it and ask for advice on how to do the same.
Your wife should be the first person to know your plans, your struggles, your debts, and your wins. As a husband, your first instinct should be, “I need to tell my wife.” If you fall, she falls with you. If you win, she celebrates with you. If you fail, she should be the first to comfort you. That’s what marriage is about.
I do an exercise called “fear-setting” at least once a quarter, often once a month. It is the most powerful exercise I do. Fear-setting has produced my biggest business and personal successes, as well as repeatedly helped me to avoid catastrophic mistakes.
Who are you when nobody is clapping?
Who are you when nobody rates you?
Who are you when your name is being dragged?
Who are you when your own family move funny?
Who are you when the system blocks you?
Who are you when the people who said “I’m here” suddenly vanish?
Who are you when you’re alone with your thoughts and no distraction can save you?
Who are you when you’re angry but still have to stay calm?
Who are you when the truth is twisted and you’re still expected to act normal?
Who are you when you’re being tested and nobody even knows?
Who are you when you want revenge but your soul says discipline?
Who are you when you could crash out, but choose silence?
Who are you when the old you is dying and the new you hasn’t loaded yet?
Who are you when you’re forced to sit with yourself and realise you were the problem too?
Who are you when life removes everyone you were using as a distraction?
Who are you when the universe puts you on airplane mode?
Who are you when you’re not getting likes, love, money, sex, attention, or sympathy?
Who are you when the lesson keeps repeating because you keep acting brand new?
Who are you when comfort is calling, but growth is dragging you by the hoodie?
Who are you when your ego wants war, but your future needs peace?
Who are you when you finally realise nobody is coming to save you?
Who are you when you have every reason to quit, but something in you still refuses?
Who are you when life takes the fake version away and leaves you with the real you?
Brad Jacobs has done over 500 acquisitions in his career.
His latest acquisition was for $17 billion.
Brad spoke about the toolkit he uses for acquisitions:
"I'm good at figuring out what the right industry to consolidate is and I have a toolkit.
I find the right industry.
I find something that's large.
I find something that's growing.
I find something that’s fragmented.
I find something that we can buy at reasonable prices.
I find something where technology could be used. I find a not very tech-forward industry.
I find something that AI and automation are not going to disrupt anytime in the near future.
I find industries that have certain characteristics to it, whether it was garbage, construction, transportation, or logistics.
They all have the same characteristics, they have the same traits.
Then I put together an amazing team….”
Alex Hormozi revealed exactly what business to start if you are broke:
1. Every business idea comes from one of three sources, what Hormozi calls the three P's: pain you personally overcame, your profession, or your passion. There is no fourth category.
2. A pain-based business often starts with something you already solved for yourself. A woman managing lunch for nine kids built an entire organized system around it, and that system itself became the seed of a business.
3. A profession-based business comes from a specific skill you already get paid for. A registered dietitian who learned how to bill insurance during a brutal 12-hour, six-day workweek turned that narrow skill into teaching other dietitians, and now earns close to a million dollars a year with only 5,800 Instagram followers.
4. A passion-based business comes from what you cannot stop consuming in your free time. Hormozi's own obsession with fitness content eventually led coworkers to literally offer to fund his first gym because his passion was so obvious to everyone around him.
5. You do not need the perfect idea on the first try. Picking something, even a flawed version, starts the iteration process. He calls this finding your best bad idea, because a bad idea that keeps getting refined eventually becomes a good one.
6. Once you have your what, you choose your who from three groups: people like you, people you have already helped before, and underserved markets. Most successful businesses come from the first two.
7. Sara Blakely built Spanx by solving her own personal frustration with underwear. Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook by solving a problem inside his own dorm room. Personal problems scaled into billion-dollar businesses more often than people assume.
8. Hormozi's first ever dollar came from casually helping a woman at his gym with her food choices. After an hour and a half of conversation at a pizza shop, she handed him a $100 check without him ever naming a price.
9. Narrowing your audience using at least three specific traits, age, profession, and a specific pain or interest, makes your message land far more powerfully than vague targeting ever will.
10. Getting more specific does not shrink your income potential, it grows it. A generic time management PDF might sell for $19. The same idea narrowed down to outbound sales reps in the garden and power tools industry could sell for $10,000.
11. The narrower and more specific your niche, the fewer competitors you face. Hormozi describes this as having the only lifeboat in an ocean full of people struggling to stay afloat, which means you can charge whatever you want.
12. Every offer needs two halves: the good stuff your product delivers, and the bad stuff it helps people avoid. Motivation only comes from one of these two forces, gaining something wanted or escaping something hated.
13. Vague promises like "lose weight fast" stopped working decades ago. Specific pain points, like the exact sensation of your thighs chafing in the sun, bypass people's skepticism because the specificity proves you actually understand their problem.
14. If you are not the target customer yourself, interview real people using direct questions: what are you struggling with, how long have you struggled with it, what have you had to give up that you loved, and what have you had to start doing that you hated.
15. The entire offer collapses into one simple formula: I help to get a good outcome without a bad outcome. Hormozi's own example: "I help 45-year-old women who just had kids get back into their high school jeans without giving up time with their family."
16. A unique mechanism is the special process or system that makes your solution feel different from every competitor's, even if the underlying mechanics are similar. P90X built an empire on the concept of muscle confusion. Weight Watchers built theirs on a points system.
17. A unique mechanism does not need to be scientifically revolutionary. It simply needs to feel like the missing piece that makes everything else finally click into place for the person buying it.
18. The simplest way to get your first five customers requires no funnel and no ad spend. Greet someone, compliment something specific and genuine about them, insert your one-sentence offer, and ask if they know anyone who might benefit from it.
19. Repeat that outreach process for four hours a day or until you have contacted 100 people, whichever comes first. Consistency in this single action is what produces the first five paying customers, not perfect marketing or branding.
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