Tim Stepro

"Software engineer by day, software engineer by night" - unknown

[Sam Parr @thesamparr]

I contacted Ben during Covid. I randomly came across his podcast.

He had the audacity to call it “how to take over the world”. And the theme song punched you in the face. It was one of the best shows I’d ever heard.

So, we convinced him to work part time for My First Million, which is when we all got close.

Ben is incredibly wise and such a wonderful person. He’s incredibly patient. And has a way about him where you feel like you want to come to him with problems because he has this wise energy about him that’ll help solve whatever you’re facing.

What he’s facing is horrible. I’m very happy he’s sharing and that it helps.

Looking forward to an episode on how to take over cancer.

[Ben Wilson @BenWilsonTweets]

The Cancer Episode

> My diagnosis and prognosis
> What this means for How to Take Over the World
> A few thoughts on death
> See below for links to GoFundMe, etc.

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@JesseTinsley DM'd

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If Steve Jobs were still alive, he would have the moral authority to face and maybe even to solve this problem. But I doubt anyone in the phone business now does.

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@Kristen20051 @davidsenra @tobi what inspired you to do that? Super dope.

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@aymanalabdul Questions for you:

1. When you hire them, do you tell them this? I'm guessing not. Or maybe it scares away low performers?

2. How do you deal with them in 2 weeks? I doubt you PIP.

3. Does this hurt morale or protect it? I'm guessing doing this protects it in the long run.

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@KevinHenrikson So true; you don't want to be the last guy on the team to sign up for claude code. Very scary position.

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@myfirstmilpod @mhp_guy Brilliant way to figure out supply and booking rates. Love it

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@Kpaxs https://t.co/As6H370GjD

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Current status: Retardmaxxing.

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@BenWilsonTweets, what are your thoughts on this?

Wouldn't Napolean look back to reflect? Or was he too busy looking forward?

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Great men of history had little to no introspection.

The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself.

@pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about:

David: You don't have any levels of introspection?

Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible.

David: Why?

Marc: Move forward. Go!

I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home.

David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection.

Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self.

He just woke up and was like:

I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again.

Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective.

All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s.

Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff.

The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology.

And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual.

We need to criticize the individual.

The individual needs to self criticize.

The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past.

It never resonated with me.

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@mbertulli Can you expand more on 7?

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@aymanalabdul Let's say you don't have customers yet; you're still in the early phases.

How do you get potential customers to answer these types of questions?

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@JesseTinsley super inspiring, thank you for sharing

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@mbertulli I love this idea, I need to try it out. Thank you for sharing.

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@iannuttall where did you find your niches? Struggling to find the niches to see what people would pay for.

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@AL_Nick_ @iannuttall where do you find those niches?

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@lulumeservey, hypothetical question: the US hacks Iranian TV channels; you get to decide the messaging.

What videos/messages do you show on those channels?

[Tim Stepro @tim_stepro]

@GeminiApp, can we get a `chat.` subdomain?