Here's a framework I'm using to rethink meetings and productivity, as this is a struggle we're universally experiencing.
A thread:
1. First acknowledge that you, and you alone, are responsible for defending your time.
NO ONE ELSE is going to defend your time for you.
Just as we "Secure your own mask first before assisting others" - defend your time first, then defend your team's.
Feb 5, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
"Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful" - Warren Buffett
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
Jan 23, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
1/ As big and influential as we may believe Apple, Google, or Amazon are - they don't hold a candle to the Dutch East India Company.
The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was one of the first joint stock companies in the world.
Amsterdam was the financial center of capitalism for two centuries because of it.
Jan 1, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Meta thread about "Going Pro" on Twitter.
I've been a Twitter power user since 2008 or so. Long time.
I've watched it change from an impromptu conversation or watch party platform to a place for people to build their professional reputations and network.
2/ In many ways it's matured into a more effective professional platform than LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is (mostly) about collecting the professional contacts you've met.
The original Penn Station (demolished 1966) was "the single greatest architectural loss" in NYC.
"The architecture critic Vincent Scully summed up the difference: Through the old station "one entered the city like a good... One scuttles in now like a rat."
Moynihan Train Hall does it justice. It'll be a bit before I'm back on Amtrak regularly, but I'm looking forward to it.
Old Penn Station, for context:
Dec 21, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Fintech thread:
Prior to Curve my background was startups, generally, and my domain expertise had been growth/ martech/ driving traffic and building, selling businesses atop that.
The last year has been going from 0 to 100 in all things payments and fintech.
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A few things I’ve learned, resources I’ve gone back to, and what surprised me as an outsider:
1. Fintech innovation is predicated on testing the limits of regulation and overcoming (or inventing an alternative to) existing infrastructure.
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Dec 13, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Talking with a younger relative considering college as a nontrad (he's 30):
I would only go to college if you had a job in mind and you needed a specific degree to do it.
Barring that I think a trade school is far better ROI.
He replied:
"I really haven't found any trade schools that I'm interested in unfortunately."
Dec 6, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
One of my favorite things is finding a way to use internet / marketing/ or code knowledge for non-tech applications.
Ex:
- Looking for self-storage facilities owned by small operators.
- They may not know to list their businesses on GMB or how to distribute their website.
- As a result, if you’re just searching “self storage near X” they may or may not show up.
- That doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t have a site.
- So I look up the most common Wix for Self Storage SaaS providers.
Nov 29, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Holy crap Grosjean's car was cut in half! #F1
He was in this part of the car, that physically went through the barrier, at over 100 mph.
You can see the halo that saved his life in this photo.
Nov 27, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. I'm hiring.
2. Because I've worked in/ on a jobs board in the past (that was fun @ShanePike) I found myself thinking through a lot of old lessons, stats.
This post doesn't seem to exist on the web anymore, but I referenced things I learned from it several times this week.
The way people search for jobs is cyclical day-to-day every week.
May 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
What's the most bizarre, highly-compensated job you've ever heard of?
Example: I met a CDL driver at the Gainesville, FL airport who delivers custom ordered RVs for a living. Drives them wherever nation-wide, flies or takes Amtrak home. Earns over six figures.
Commercial salmon boat captains in Alaska pull down highly variable incomes (they have to manage expenses, incl diesel fuel, deckhand salaries, licenses and food) but in good years they clear 60 - 80k in ~8 weeks between May and end of July.
Nov 9, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"Some 33% of people who traded in cars to buy new ones in the first nine months of 2019 had negative equity, compared with 28% five years ago and 19% a decade ago..."
