🎤 S.W.I.P.E.S. Email (Friday February 2nd, 2024)
Swipe📁 • Wisdom🧠 • Interesting🧐 • Picture🖼 • Essay📄 • Splurge✍🏼
Edition: Friday, February 2nd, 2024
A fun email for Friday. I hope you enjoy!
🎤 Listen to this email here:
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Swipe:
I never realized what a monopoly on mountains the West had till I saw this color coded topographical map!
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I’m more used to seeing maps like this which don’t convey much information besides state borders:
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Wisdom:
Checkout this image of a San Bernadino locomotive factory from 1928:
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Thoughts that come to mind when I see this image:
• Capitalism
• Hard Work
• Commerce
• Engineering
• Job Creation
• Elbow Grease
This is what built America.
I’m very thankful people in this harsh work environment paved the way for me to sit in air conditioning on a laptop while I'm sick with flu and working from bed:
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Interesting:
Woot! I hit 100,000 subs on YouTube!
Do they still send out those silver plaque thingies?? Hope I can get one still!
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Here's the lifetime channel stats, with most of the action happening only recently:
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Picture:
This is the best office ever: Laying in bed on a rainy day finishing up a book 😁
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P.S. Yes I realize there are TWO pictures of me working from bed this past week 😂
I was down with flu so there was a lot of bed hanging out time!
Essay:
Wow…since 2019 there are roughly 60,000 more design agencies listed on Clutch.
This is likely caused by:
• More solopreneurs entering the game.
• Remote work makes this more possible.
• Starting an agency is very low effort thanks to the internet + organizational tools like Slack, Notion, Google Docs, AirTable etc.
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It's been really cool to watch the barrier to entry to starting a business (like an agency) drop so low.
It used to take lots of money, time, and employees to start something like this 20 years ago....now with a laptop and a few hours you can get it done.
Paul tells this cool story about how his daughter started in online shop in 26 minutes:
Splurge:
Compared to blog posts and social media, there's something about a BOOK that feels immortal.
Today marks the day my friend Noah Kagan's writings and teachings are cemented in history with his book Million Dollar Weekend :-)
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There was a book launch party, and here's @noahkagan hitting a piñata during the party....can you guess what's inside it?!?!
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.....the answer is candy and money 😂
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I hope you have an awesome February!!
And I hope you enjoyed these Friday tid-bits!
Sincerely,
Neville Medhora
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