Russ Palmer

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[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

@SpaceX Congrats SpaceX team!!

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

@Davidenn0 @thegrowthguy “If knowledge was the answer, librarians would be billionaires.” access to information is no longer the bottleneck—execution is. knowledge without action is just potential energy gathering dust. - Dan Martell

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

“Leaders are readers.” - Verne Harbish @thegrowthguy

The ultimate reading hack I wish I’d known sooner:
Every time you meet someone successful, ask:
“What book changed your life?”
Then actually read it.
Ryan Holiday built his entire mind this way → Meditations, 48 Laws, Man’s Search for Meaning, and a flood of quake books.
One question. Lifetime advantage.
Stop guessing what to read. Steal the map. 👇

#Books #Reading #Stoicism

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

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[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

@hthieblot Halo… 16 player, rockets, prisoner or snipers canyon.

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

“All founders exit. The only question is whether the exit happens on their terms, deliberately and coherently, or on the terms of an event, a market shift, or exhaustion.” - Dr. Thomas Powell

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[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

“Hey…I’m from America. 250 years ago we were way bigger than 6 to 1 dogs. And look at us thriving now. WE are the toughest, most resilient people on earth. Nothing can stop us when we unite. Happy Birthday America!”
- Justin Gaethje after his win at the White House for the UFC Freedom 250 fights.

[danawhite @danawhite]

Happy 4th of July!!!!!!!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

Amen.

[Peacemaking Saint @PeacemakingSt]

George Washington consulted the Lord continually throughout his service to our nation.

We all should echo the words of his prayer:

“Almighty God, who has given us this good land for our heritage, we humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

“Bless our land with honorable industry, sound learning and pure manners.

“Save us from violence, discord and confusion; from pride and arrogancy, and from every evil way.

“Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought out of many kindreds and tongues.

“Endue with the spirit of wisdom those whom in Thy name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be peace and justice at home, and that through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth.

“In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail.

“All of which we ask through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.”

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

Go see this movie!!

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

YOUNG WASHINGTON

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🔥 HELL YEAH! A pilot just used his airplane to draw a USA 250th banner using his flight path

It took him over FIVE HOURS of flying time to do this.

What a PATRIOT! 🇺🇸

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

Great advice for anyone who wants to build a company.
You will hit a wall.
You will have failures.
It will be hard.

KEEP GOING, DON’T QUIT!!!

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

I’ll try and compress 20 years of experience into 30 seconds

Startups have a GREAT FILTER that kills almost everyone. It’s there to weed out the people who aren’t meant to build companies

The good news is it can be beaten - even with little or no capital. Once you beat it, you can do it again. You can choose to stay at the current level or attempt to level up

The level boss is always the same: if you quit, you fail

I can’t stress this enough: almost every skill can be learned. Never stop improving. You can acquire new skills, hire better people, change the product, pivot the strategy, or rethink your assumptions

You’ll hit the wall. Most will quit. But just keep going

If something isn’t working, change course. Change your vector: reassess your hypothesis, measure the results, and keep iterating

Also working hard compounds. The more quality work you can put in, the better your odds. There is no balance

Almost nobody succeeds on their first attempt

If you want it badly enough, you can bend the future in your direction

Just start. And keep pushing

[Nate Herk @nateherk]

Fable 5 is strong, but it's double the price of Opus, and it's only free on your Claude plan through July 7th.

So I dug into how to actually correctly when we all have to switch to usage credits.

Worth a 3 min read.

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

Interesting perspective…. Egyptian “forgot” how they built the pyramids. Romans “forgot” how to build the aqueducts.
Technology aka knowledge degrades like a muscle when it doesn’t get used.
Civilization is fragile… if there was a catastrophic event, nobody could rebuild the iPhone. Hell, not one person could even build a pencil. 😂

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Egypt forgot how to build the pyramids.

Rome forgot how to build the aqueducts. Some still carry water today. What they built still stands. Neither civilization remembers how they did it.

Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”

Musk: “And the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts. They forgot how to do it.”

No army invaded them. The knowledge just stopped getting used, and the moment it did, it was gone.

Same collapse. Compressed into fifty years instead of a thousand.

Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon… Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”

Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”

Capability doesn’t sit in a vault. It only exists inside the people doing the work right now.

The second they stop, it doesn’t pause.

It disappears.

That should not scare you. It should focus you.

Nobody loses a civilization to war. They lose it the moment they stop building.

Nobody is owed the future. It belongs to whoever keeps building it.

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

“If you want to be a billionaire, help a billion people.”
- Peter Diamandis.

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

Listen to this explanation by @DavidSacks as he explains what it really means for Elon as he “became” a trillionaire.
- His bank account didn’t grow after the IPO.
- He didn’t get more SpaceX shares.
- He can even sell the shares he has for 1 year.

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

This is an amazing framework that I will have my team use to empower our employees.

[Alex Lieberman @businessbarista]

I stole this idea and now use it with every single employee.

It’s the best illustration I’ve seen of teaching someone to be high agency.

It says there are 5 levels of work:

Level 1: “There is a problem.”

Level 2: “There is a problem, and I’ve found some causes.”

Level 3: “Here’s the problem, here are some possible causes, and here are some possible solutions.”

Level 4: “Here’s the problem, here’s what I think caused it, here are some possible solutions, and here’s the one I think we should pick.”

Level 5: “I identified a problem, figured out what caused it, researched how to fix it, and I fixed it. Just wanted to keep you in the loop.”

Using this framework, here’s what I say to every new employee…

You will live at Level 4 from Day 1 and as we build trust you will rise to Level 5.

Being high agency doesn’t just mean tackling problems in this way. It means your entire way of working should be oriented to being a Level 4+ employee.

Plz feel free to steal it as well.

And ty @stephsmithio for the framework!

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

Here’s a low cost way to run local LLM… Mac minis and software that connects them all. Wow. 🤯

[regent0x @regent0x_]

his “AI server” is 4 mac minis stacked next to the toaster

linked by free software into one machine that runs 235B models no single computer could load

regulated clients pay him $3,500/month each to use it

he has 6 of them

that’s $21k/month from a tower of silver boxes in his kitchen

the stack runs exo - open-source, $0, turns four separate minis into one pool of memory. the monitor shows all four nodes firing together, one model spread across the whole cluster

the thing nobody tells you about local AI:

a model either fits in your machine’s memory or it doesn’t run. that’s the wall everyone hits. it’s why people assume serious AI means a $40k server
exo walks straight through that wall. it splits one massive model across every box in the chain. four minis at $599 each suddenly run what a single high-end machine can’t touch

and the people who need this aren’t chasing the newest model

they’re the ones the cloud locked out:

→ a law firm with privileged case files
→ a medical practice under HIPAA
→ an accounting firm holding client financials

they need AI nowhere near a third-party server. a stack they can point to during an audit ends every objection

their models run on his cluster. the data never leaves equipment he controls
the breakdown:

→ 4 mac minis: $2,400 total
→ exo software: $0
→ electricity: ~$25/month
→ what he charges per client: $3,500/month
→ 6 active clients

the kitchen stack paid for itself in the first 3 weeks

month 1: 2 clients, $7k
month 3: 4 clients, $14k
month 6: 6 clients, $21k

he’s not running a startup with an office and a logo

he’s running four silver boxes between the coffee machine and a bowl of fruit, clearing $21k/month from hardware that cost $2,400

clients picture racks and cooling fans

reality is four minis humming next to where he makes breakfast

the cloud companies charge a fortune for compute and access to your own

he charges $3,500 a month for the one thing they can’t sell - a machine that never phones home

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

Want to start a business? Become an entrepreneur?
Here are Elons thoughts.

“Failure is not good. Failure is bad. But if something is important enough, then you do it, even thought the risk of failure is high. My advice for somebody who wants to start a company: Bear in mind, the most likely outcome is failure. Reconcile yourself to that strong possibility, and only if you still feel compelled to, do it.” - The book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success

[Russ Palmer @TitanAZ]

Are you a chef or a cook?

“A chef invents recipes from first principles; a cook follows recipes someone else wrote. Both can be skilled — a cook can be wildly talented — but the cook has a structural ceiling on the size of splash they can make, while a chef with persistence is almost certain to make one.”

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