Alex Potton

@theymademeleave Ask for lemon and ice, a classy touch.

Drinking tap water at the pub because you’re broke is actually very chic if you pretend it’s just a health thing

you pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world

Honestly, Ben Affleck actually knowing AI and the landscape caught me off guard, but as a writer, makes sense. Great takes across the board.

“The first $100,000* is a bitch, but you gotta do it. I don’t care what you have to do. If it means walking everywhere and not eating anything that wasn’t purchased with a coupon, find a way to get your hands on $100,000." -Charlie Munger *$200,000 in today’s dollars.

@linmeitalks !

this is probably an unexpected opinion coming from me... entrepreneurship is over-sold and self-awareness is under-sold 👇🏾 The not so popular truth is, most people would be happier with a good salary than a successful startup. But social media continues to push a generation to optimise for lives they don't actually want. Entrepreneurs like me get a lot of likes and followers when we tell people to quit their jobs and chase their dreams. But here is the context that we nearly always miss👇🏾 Entrepreneurship can be really really boring - you will have to do things you do not enjoy. You will deal with big, hard, stressful problems, every day - including bank holidays, christmas and any other time off - for years. If you're lucky enough to be successful, the problems will get bigger, not smaller. You will not have one boss. You will have hundreds - every customer, every investor, every employee. You will answer to them 24/7. You will probably work 3x the hours you do now, have 10x the stress and a tiny probability of significant success. A recent survey found 87.7% of founders deal with at least mental health issues. That's not a bug. It's a feature of entrepreneurship. You'll see your kids less. You'll probably earn less (for years, maybe forever). You will probably pay yourself last and as little as possible. You'll struggle to switch off. Forever. Your phone will probably become a prison. And here's the punchline: If you succeed, it all gets harder. More money = more complexity. More growth = more anxiety. More success = more people depending on you. In life, when you find yourself following someone else's playbook, you are at risk of winning someone else's prizes. All I'm saying is be intentional. I'm not AGAINST entrepreneurship, I'm FOR self-awareness. Truth "wealth" is probably👇🏾 ✅ Knowing what game you want to play and why ✅ Having the courage not to play other people's games ✅ Understanding your real strengths and weaknesses ✅ Designing within them, not against them Happiness is not about the structure, the social media post or the story. Happiness is about alignment. Building a life that's aligned to whoever you are! This does the beg the question, why do I do it? If I'm honest, the answer is probably....I don't know. It's probably some blend of lower t trauma, my inability to fit inside normal structures like school and conventional work-places (I was fired a few times), my adhd brain that makes working on something for 14 straight hours feel like 7 minutes and some childhood self-esteem issues. Whatever the reason, this is who I am and what works for me. This is the weird way I make myself happy and fulfilled. To someone that is not me, it would probably feel like torture. And to me, their life would probably feel like torture. And that’s the thing… when you create a life that feels like home to you, it will probably look like hell to tourists. Please know what you are not!

if u can’t sacrifice anything u can’t change anything

Directed a music video for Fountain's 'Honest Man', with a wicked team -- link for full vid: youtube.com/watch?v=9OVvSD… dir: alex potton 1ad: boris wanji dop: ethan lodge 1ac: harry coleman gaff: mark kidsley grade: alexandre nerzic rental: unit bag

@fintech_shark !

When Charlie Munger was in 30s -his wife divorced him, took his house -he went bankrupt -his 9YO son died of lukemia in his arm -he lost an eye, docs removed his eye w/o anesthesia -he lived in a dingy apartment and drove a run down car. Yet, he didn’t let hardship define his life and went to become one of the most successful investors ever. No matter how deep we fall, we never fall far off from the hand of God. Never give up anon!

@BrianZisook Drive precedes all 3. So many talented and creative artists that take their foot off the gas way too often, and don't reach for the grab.

I spoke with one of my favorite record executives this week and asked what it takes to become a star. They said an artist needs 3 things: talent, creativity, and drive. Most artists don’t fall short because they lack one. It’s because they don’t have all three.

excuses for their uselessness

@maxbiddle98 Key word ‘teenagers’. Half of us were pricks in our teens.

@nazfromnewham He says a lot in order to say a whole lot of nothing

@premnsikka Sweet. More tax. Seems really sensible.

UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries. It is hard to know why so many people want giant SUVs. They damage roads, create more pollution, cause more serious injuries and take up bigger parking spaces. Tax them. theguardian.com/money/2025/sep…

I’m giving away a *FREE* full creative rollout for an upcoming artist and their single - alongside my bro @BWGRX - Press shoot, music video, social assets, single artwork. The works. Details and submissions to enter on Instagram: instagram.com/p/DMOD1-1sg6c/…

‘viral’ is a byword for ‘avoid’.

Artists running to DJ AG when they’ve got a new release to promo are missing the point entirely and just look lost in their marketing strategy.

fred again was on plaque boy max showing the whole world his entire production layout and didn’t flinch cause real artists know it’s not the tools it’s the chef that makes the art

@Oluwalinda_ MOST people believe McCann’s should be locked up, it’s why the discourse was always so strong. People still support find Maddie, but I don’t know anyone who supported the parents. But they can’t be prosecuted here because their neglect wasn’t committed here.

Someone just made an incredible comparison, and I’d love to hear how all the people arguing that this woman deserves prison would respond to it: Think about Madeleine McCann’s parents. They left her alone to have dinner and drinks with friends, yet the entire country rallied around them with sympathy. Let’s be clear: going out for dinner and drinks wasn’t essential—they could have stayed in their room to eat and still watched over their child. They were never prosecuted. Not a single charge. Now, compare that to this woman: she’s dealing with mental health challenges, physical deterioration affecting her vision, an absent father who hasn’t been held accountable, and a system where social services utterly failed to do their job in assessing the risks to her children. Yet people are telling me she should’ve been “in her right mind” to have kids and therefore “in her right mind” to care for them? What about the mentally sound, sober parents who left their child alone for seafood? I can’t deal with the double standards tonight.

I find it deeply troubling how often mental health is overlooked as a genuine factor in tragedies like this. She lived in squalor, surrounded by rubbish—a clear, unmistakable sign of depression or diminished capacity. Yet, where were social services? How did they fail to notice the dangerous living conditions that ultimately contributed to the fire spreading? And the so-called grandparents, quick to criticise —where were they? Where was their son? Why was she left to care for four children entirely on her own? Yes, leaving the children was neglectful, but let’s not distort the truth—she didn’t leave to party; she went to buy groceries. Anyone who has dealt with young children can understand the overwhelming challenge of preparing four kids for a simple trip to the shop. This woman was failed by everyone around her—family, the system, society—and yet she alone is being punished. It’s hard not to wonder if her sentence would have been the same had certain optics been different.