Scott Brills

🌎 International Entrepreneur & Adventure Capitalist
🍸 Nomadic Distiller & Libation Adviser
🦁 Chief Mzungu @PamojaSafaris
🍣 Lead Foodie @EatJapanTours

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@noahkagan HBD Homie! 🙌

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

american craftsmanship is declining. 20 years ago, if you wanted to manufacture a reason for a war, you had to make a map and do a little presentation at the UN. now you just say anything.

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@maneesh Tbf, if this actually WAS a Japanese invention, I wouldn't be surprised one bit. 😂

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@Travis_Jamison Whoa.

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Have always felt this way — going it more or less alone for many years without a tribe can be ROUGH.

[Sam Parr @thesamparr]

Paul Graham on ambitious founders needing to be around other ambitious people.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: build small pockets of doing nothing on purpose. The line at the store. Waiting for a meeting. Sitting in traffic. Those are chances to think. Most people bury them in their phone. Leave space. Just let your mind wander. Don’t numb the gaps, use them.

[Sam Parr @thesamparr]

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately:
Most decisions are small.

What’s for lunch. Which app to cancel. Whether to take the meeting at 3pm or 4pm.

Tiny stuff that moves the needle maybe 1%.

But every few years, you get a choice that acts like a lever.

One decision that tilts everything that comes after.

For example, in 2012 I moved to San Francisco after googling "where rea internet companies started?".

in July of 2014 I quit drinking. Everything change.

In 2016 I started a newsletter that I eventually sold and changed my life.

However, what’s hard is big decisions don’t always look important when you’re making them.

They can just show up disguised as regular Tuesday choices.

- Join the gym or stay on the couch

- Start the side project or keep watching Netflix.

- Cold email that person you admire or scroll twitter instead (i’ve made so many huge connections over cold email, including with my co-founder Joe!).

Small decisions compound daily.

Big decisions compound for decades.

Here’s how to spot the big ones: The choice makes you slightly uncomfortable.

If it feels too easy, it’s probably not the lever you’re looking for.

It involves other people who are ahead of where you want to be.

Growth happens fastest when you’re the least experienced person in the room.

This makes you feel nervous almost. And there’s no immediate payoff.

The best decisions pay dividends for years, not quarters. It costs something real - time, money, comfort, or pride.

Free rarely changes everything.

Most people miss these moments because they’re optimizing for the wrong thing. They want guarantees.

They want to see the ROI spreadsheet. They want proof it’ll work before they try. But leverage doesn’t work that way.

I think about this a lot because I see it with Hampton.

Many join thinking they need help with some specific business problem.

Should I ask my co-founder to leave? How do I price this new product? Is this investor term sheet fair?

Fair enough. Those are real problems.

But the actual value isn’t solving one problem.

It’s having 7 other people like you in your corner for the next thousand problems.

One choice - surrounding yourself with people who’ve been where you want to go - influences every choice that comes after.

Anyway, that’s my take. Most choices are small.

A few change everything.

Obviously the hard part is recognizing which is which.

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UPDATE: I survived.

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Off for my 4th @TheAdventurists Rickshaw Run—the first road rally I've done since I did the Jaisalmer-Kerala leg in January 2018. This time I'll be starting in the Himalayan mountains and heading to the sweltering deserts of Rajasthan. Adventure ho! DFW-EWR-DEL-IXL

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@jdigiacomo @allenwalton ...and seeing the quality of the images/autofocus speed. It's what I use for all of my businesses now, as well as any trip I want to lug around a larger camera. Amazing quality for both images and video. (A7R V)

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@jdigiacomo @allenwalton I was a Canon guy for 16 years or so, then switched to Nikon for my business camera, as I heard it had faster autofocus and was better in the field for what I needed it for. After five years I switched to Sony Alpha on the recommendation of MANY pro photographers.

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@Travis_Jamison I can second this 💯

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@jessicamalnik @anferneec @ThatChristinaG @NASASocial How did I *just* get the notification that I was tagged on this post?? 😂 (you're welcome anytime Jessica! Next one starts November 29)

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@NeelBParekh If you think that's bad, don't delve into the colonial history of Italy or Belgium! 😂

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@JesseSchoberg Oh, the case has a built in battery w USB-C charging? Cool (albeit $$$).

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The indomitable @kevin2kelly shares 50 of his most insightful travel tips garnered via 50+ years of journeying around the world.

https://t.co/cpfxvdmapw

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@pagayaland @NeelBParekh @MaidThis @pamojasafaris Let me know! Standing by @pagayaland ~ 🐘

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@pagayaland @NeelBParekh @MaidThis @pamojasafaris 🙌

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@pagayaland @NeelBParekh @MaidThis Hit me up with the details and I'll assist however I can! 🙌