TJ Weber

father, world traveler, entrepreneur, consultant

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@CollinRugg Just the thought that people now have the money to buy this thing is ridiculous.

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@bxieus Yes. Shenzhen North Metro Station 3 days before the start of Lunar New Year festivities.

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@CurtisDavis @elonmusk @Tweet137188103 Pretrial, the judge ruled that the SOL issue would go to the jury. She stated that if the jury found the claims untimely, she would “highly likely” accept that finding and direct a verdict for the defendants (which is exactly what happened).

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@honeymoon250 All of em. I was doubting #12 for awhile but realized that was the only way to get singles off the radio to play later back in the 80’s.

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@RonTannert @WarrenVsCCP Our wood burning stove in wife’s hometown will run for days and feed hundreds during a banquet. I’ll take gas or wood burning over electric.

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@WarrenVsCCP I’ll take this countryside over the city any day of the week.

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America needs someone like Jamie Dimon as President since very few people are qualified to unite America instead of dividing it.

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Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, says that US Government raising taxes doesn’t do anything to help the average American

He says raising taxes does nothing because Congress just launders the money to their friends, special interest groups and “17,000 lobbying groups”

“I don't know anyone, and you guys in the room, you might be Democrats, Republicans who thinks that sending another trillion dollars to Washington D.C will actually improve anything. So when you say raise taxes, if you said raise taxes and directly give it to the people who need it, do it. That does not happen. It goes to all these interest groups, and they give it to their friends and all that.”

“Which is why the people are considered a swamp. It's kind of a swamp, the 17,000 lobbying groups. But bank companies are guilty too. They're just fighting for their one self-interest as opposed to what's good for my country”.

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@Jason I’m in

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@teacherai_app @shiri_shh Terrifying….

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Charles Schwab ran the largest steel company in the world.

He had access to every consultant, every system, every productivity tool available in 1918.

He said a 15-minute conversation with a man named Ivy Lee was the most valuable business advice he ever received.

He paid him $25,000 for it. The advice fit on an index card.

Ivy Lee was not famous. He was not a philosopher or a scientist or a professor at a prestigious institution. He was a productivity consultant who had spent years watching extremely capable people fail to do their most important work, and he had developed a precise theory about why.

The theory was not complicated. It was uncomfortable.

The reason most people never do their most important work is not that they lack time. It is that they never decide what their most important work actually is. They arrive each morning at a pile of tasks with roughly equal claim on their attention, choose based on whatever feels most urgent or easiest in that moment, and spend the day moving through a list that was never designed to move them forward. They are busy in a way that feels productive and accomplishes far less than it should.

Lee asked Schwab for 15 minutes with his executive team. Schwab agreed. Lee walked them through six steps. He asked them to try it for three months and pay him whatever they thought it was worth.

Here is the system.

At the end of every workday, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow. Not ten. Not twenty. Six. If you cannot decide what matters enough to make that list, you have already identified the real problem.

Prioritize those six items in order of their true importance. Not urgency. Not ease. Importance. The thing that will matter most three months from now goes first, regardless of how uncomfortable it is to start.

When you arrive the next morning, begin immediately on item one. Work on it until it is finished. Do not touch item two until item one is complete. Do not check email. Do not attend to whatever walked through the door. Item one, until it is done.

Move through the list in order. If you reach the end of the day and items four, five, and six remain untouched, move them to the next day's list without guilt. They were not the most important things. The most important things got done.

Repeat this process every day for the rest of your working life.

That is the entire system. Six steps. Four minutes the night before. No app required. No morning ritual. No tracking software. An index card and a pen.

What Lee understood that most productivity systems miss entirely is that the bottleneck in human performance is almost never capacity. It is prioritization. The average knowledge worker has more than enough hours in the day to accomplish something significant. What they do not have is a forcing function that makes them decide, the night before, in a calm moment free from the noise of the incoming day, what significant actually means for them tomorrow.

The morning is the worst possible time to make this decision. The morning brings email and notifications and other people's priorities and the accumulated urgency of everything that did not get done yesterday. By the time most people have decided what to work on, an hour is gone and the decision was made by their inbox rather than by them.

Lee's method moves the decision to the evening, when the day's noise has settled and the mind can assess without distraction. The prioritization is done before the chaos begins. Which means the next morning, there is no decision to make. There is only execution.

The second insight embedded in the system is the single-tasking constraint. Item one, until it is finished. Not item one until something more urgent appears. Not item one until you have checked in on items two through six. Item one, finished, before anything else receives your attention.

This runs against every instinct that modern work has trained into people. The entire infrastructure of the contemporary workplace is designed to fragment attention. Email expects a response within hours. Slack expects a response within minutes. The open office assumes that any question is more important than whatever the person being asked is currently doing. The result is a workforce that is in constant motion and making almost no progress on anything that actually matters.

Lee's method is a direct refusal of this dynamic. It does not negotiate with urgency. It does not make exceptions for whoever shouts loudest. It asks you to decide, once, what matters most, and then protect that decision from everything that will try to override it the next morning.

Charles Schwab ran Bethlehem Steel. He had seven hundred employees. He had more operational complexity, more competing demands, more legitimate urgency than most people reading this will ever face.

He tried the system for three months.

Then he sent Ivy Lee a check for $25,000 and a note saying it was the most valuable business advice he had ever received.

The system has not changed. The morning has not gotten less chaotic. The inbox has not gotten smaller.

The only variable that was ever under your control was what you decided the night before.

Six things. In order. Starting with the first.

The most valuable productivity advice in history is still free.

Most people will read it, find it obvious, and go back to checking email.

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@serpentza Gonna start to look like that Shenzhen-HK Border 😎

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@DLMarble @KenPaxtonTX In all fairness, they do wear the most Yoga pants....

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@alphafox If we only had a basement so we could use the garage 🤣🤣🤣

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I am still a firm believer in all sources of energy, but stop the rising costs of solar and wind for rural farmers and small businesses. Please write to Congress to keep solar growing in rural communities! https://t.co/toyKMOoNCa
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@TiffanyFong That’s absurd. Diesel is $1 cheaper. Here in Texas I’m paying over $1 more.

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@TiffanyFong I’ve got a couple hens in my flock that lay them. How much does your all natural grocery store charge for a dozen?

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@Lily4Liberty @QDSMom @FBIDirectorKash CIA should be in the schools to flip the students….

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@Zachary_Media @soundhunter @GoogleLabs Probably worked for that Lifetouch CEO in the Epstein files.

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@soundhunter @GoogleLabs Stop complaining. Embrace it. Innovate. Grow with it.

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@Cernovich There are narrow exceptions. Hong Kong Chinese for example are automatic Chinese nationals. Taiwanese (which wouldn’t apply to her) but the are still Chinese).