217 Wisdom and Advice Examples
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Stop Chasing Passion, Follow Your Fascination
Passion sounds sexy, but it’s vague and flaky. Fascination is different: you can see it in someone’s eyes, their posture,...
How to get honest feedback: THE GAP.
"Hey what would you rank this out of 10?" A meeting you just had, a performance, getting a reference check on a candidate...whatever. That's what you ask.
The answers are mostly always between 7 and 9.
"Awesome. What would need to get done to get those last points to make it a perfect 10?"
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Ask The Gap: Turn Soft Praise Into Fixable Feedback
Most people give you soft praise that feels nice and fixes nothing. “Great job!” is ego candy, not a roadmap....
Turn Trust Into Predictable Sales
Most people chase hacks, but the businesses that win long-term do something way more boring: they become insanely trustworthy. When...
Closing The Desire vs. Willingness Gap
Most people don’t fail because they lack desire. They fail because there’s a hidden price tag they refuse to pay....
Pick the Right Ladder to Build Wealth
Wealth isn’t one ladder, it’s four different ladders standing right next to each other. The image shows exactly why some...
Why Your Marketing Analytics Are Lying
Most marketers obsess over dashboards, but very few ask the only question that matters: is this actually making us money?...
Do Big Things, Expect To Be Misunderstood
If you want to do big things, you have to be okay looking crazy for a while. The image above...
AI-Powered Finance Orchestration Built Into Accounts
AI-powered finance orchestration sounds complex, but this hero section makes it feel as simple as opening an email. The visual...
Give Customers A Head Start, Double Completions
Look at that image: same basic punch card idea, wildly different results. The blank 8-slot card gets a meh 19%...
3 things I notice in CEOs who scale past $10M:
1. They hire for culture > skill
I once had to let go of our best designer at AppSumo. Flawless work but everything took 4x longer than it should. She couldn’t align with our "ship fast" culture. Hire a ship dirty designer and speed of learning went up. CVR closely followed.
2. They’re ruthless with their time
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Ayman Al-AbdullahHire for Culture, Protect Your Time, Delegate
Most founders get stuck between hustle mode and actual CEO mode. The business grows, but their calendar, stress, and decision-making...
Why Big Companies Move Fast On Risk
Big companies look slow… until there’s real risk on the line. Then suddenly lawyers wake up, budgets appear, and decisions...
Honest Long Copy That Wins Leads
Most truck ads scream at you in six words or less. This one from a stone countertop company pulls a...
Selling the Strange: Lessons from Credit Cards
Credit cards were once this bizarre, plastic future-tech nobody trusted. Now your grandma taps one without thinking. That shift from...
Focus On One Thing: Simplest Business Strategy
Most businesses fail not because their idea is bad, but because their attention is scattered. A thousand little projects feel...
Stop Cutting Jobs. Use AI To Upskill Staff
AI doesn’t have to be a headcount chainsaw. Used right, it becomes a promotion machine. The IKEA case in the...
No Customers, Bad Model: Startup Failures
This Notion table is a graveyard of startup attempts: 26 projects across 13 years, most with $0 revenue and a...
Don't Let Your Team Cap Your Vision
Most founders secretly assume their team can grow into their vision. The image above slaps you with a different reality:...
Most Billion-Dollar Brands Started After 35
If you think you’re “too old” to start a massive company, this chart should punch that thought in the face....
It's not sexy to say, but most of AI transformation has nothing to do with AI.
There are 10 steps in the sequence of making an internal process or external product AI-native.
Only 1 step is AI, and ironically, the other 9 steps are the far harder part.
Step 1: Identify the problem
- find the manual process worth automating. turn your brain off autopilot & turn on your "suck meter". ...
Alex LiebermanDo These 9 Non-AI Steps First
Everyone wants the magical AI button. But if you skip the boring groundwork, that button does nothing. These 9 non-AI...
Sam ParrScale to 20M Without Becoming the Bottleneck
Most founders secretly wonder what’s in that screenshot: can you cross $20M or $50M in revenue while only working 40...
Bezos had the 2-pizza rule:
Never have a meeting that can’t be fed by 2 pizzas
I never understood this rule because I could eat a pizza by myself
I have the 2-car rule:
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Ayman Al-AbdullahTwo-Car Test: The Founder vs CEO Line
Everyone loves the romantic “founder stage” of a company: small team, fast decisions, zero meetings about meetings. But there’s a...
Sam ParrTurning a Land Rover Snub Into $2B
When Land Rover rejected his dealership application, most people would’ve sulked and moved on. Instead, he turned the snub into...
Most people can't actually explain what AI is to a friend/coworker.
Take a page from Dr. Seuss (trust me) & you'll be set.
When someone asks me "how does ChatGPT actually work?" I used to reach for words like "pre-training," "back propagation" and "transformers." And I'd watch their eyes glaze over (understandably) in real time.
So now I just say this:
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Alex LiebermanEnd AI Fear With One Seuss Analogy
AI freaks people out mostly because they can’t explain it, not because it’s actually that mysterious. This post gives you...
What Marketers Can Learn From Elon’s Bet
Elon keeps making ridiculous-looking bets that somehow turn into trillion-dollar industries. Most marketers play small, safe, and scared… then wonder...