Brooks Wiley

I've said before that ship captains during the age of discovery were some of the most impressive human beings to ever live. We have trouble appreciating just how unimaginably great these men were. They had to play the role of navigator, cartographer, astronomer, logistics manager, military commander, judge, police captain, diplomat, CEO, recruiter, accountant and governor, all at the same time, and all under extreme duress, out in the middle of the ocean, cut off from the rest of the world where the penalty for one wrong decision was the death of everyone on board. These are some of the most brilliant and gifted human beings the world has ever known. Nobody on Earth today can come close to matching them. They had a level of both skill and physical courage that just doesn't exist on the planet today.

The gates of common sense are open night and day Smooth the descent And easy is the way Make common sense common again Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

@termsheetinator bank

Prospects can be deep in your sales cycle and secretly think you're a scam. They won't tell you. They'll just go quiet. Here's what fixes it: Reference Bank™ Signed, one-pager written with a real client's company letterhead that says: "We hired this firm/agency. Here's what they did. Here's what we got. We'd recommend them + work with them again" I put together a free guide that covers: 1. What a Reference Letter is and exactly what goes inside it 2. When to ask your client for one - and the exact channel + words so it doesn't feel like a favor 3. When to send it to a prospect - and how to frame it so it lands 4. How to update it as results come in - legally, without going back for a second signature 5. How to build a bank of them without burning your best clients Comment "BANK" and I'll send a guide + letter example.

An incredible private microschool in Austin has space for a few more 5-6 year old students. Montessori-inspired, very high touch experience with highly qualified educators, beautiful secluded environment surrounded by nature, I’ve been an advisor for several years, sophisticated hands on STEM program, great peers, sliding scale tuition. DM me if you might know a child who would benefit from such an environment.

@VadimStrizheus clip

Vibe-marketing is cool and all but… having a 24/7 OpenClaw clipping agent that PRINTS VIEWS is 1000x better. All I do is paste a YT link: OpenClaw analyzes, clips, schedules, AND POSTS without me touching a SINGLE THING 🤫 Comment “Clip” and I’ll share my workflow.

@ZaneNavratil @DekelBar_pb can vouch for me. In split age Pro @ Nationals

@Brooksasaurus Pics or it didn’t happen

Here’s why you shouldn’t copy JW Johnson

The biggest game of the first round is on Friday, when Long Island battles Arizona for iced tea supremacy

@BarbtheEvi17281 @KeruboSk RIP Dewey Decimal System

@Brooksasaurus @KeruboSk Microfiche made me motion sick.

Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.

@JohnErikFraker @KeruboSk 😆🤣

@Brooksasaurus @KeruboSk Grace!

@KeruboSk see..I needed some whiteout for my spelling on this post....but I sniffed it all.

@KeruboSk Gen X did this on typewritersl, sniffing white out, and microfiche research in the library.

Everyone should read this story... Imagine someone is struck by a poisoned arrow. A doctor is called to remove the arrow, but the man stops him. "Not so fast! Before you remove it, I want to know who shot me. What town or village does he come from? What kind of wood was his bow made from? Was it a crossbow or a longbow?" While he asks the questions, the poison takes hold and he dies. Like the man in the story, we occasionally get shot with the poisoned arrows of life. But ruminating too much on the nature of those arrows is unlikely to help. This is a trap we all fall into: We think we need more information to solve our problems, when all we really need is more action. The trap is becoming more challenging to avoid in a modern era where information is abundant. We've become conditioned to get our dopamine from information gathering. But you see, dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. It convinces you that information alone is enough. That it's sufficient. That it's all you need. But information alone is never enough. Information is nothing without action. The information meant to push you forward can quickly start to hold you back. Struck with the poison arrow, you feel a surge of satisfaction from learning that your attacker was from a nearby village, that his bow was made from oak, and that it was a longbow. And then, you're dead, because the information you wanted had become a distraction from the action you needed. This is what I call the Poison Arrow Principle: Never allow information-gathering to get in the way of action-taking. The next time you're in an overthinking loop, ask yourself: Do I really need more information, or do I simply need to act on the information I already have?

Brain Anderson trying to announce the game “NC State collects the rebound” Charles Barkley “NIL is ruining college athletics!” Brian Anderson “Texas takes a three and misses” Charles Barkley “I’ve really been loving the NHL this season, man Texas should be up”

CHARLES BARKLEY: "The NCAA is a bunch of scumbags. I have a fat ass." DICK VITALE: "I just spoke at a funeral last week. Every person I know is dying." BRIAN ANDERSON: "Longhorns by five."

@SouthwestAir posting SWA Customer Service's reply which is somehow actually dumber than the current system. So the software is capable of accepting $ and changing my seat, shortly before the flight but not capable of editing or maintaining the boarding group? This makes no sense.

I’m really sorry for the experience you had — that sounds incredibly frustrating, especially after paying for a seat upgrade with the expectation of an earlier boarding position. What you’re describing shouldn’t happen, and I understand why it feels like the process failed you. I’d like to take a closer look at what happened with your upgrade and boarding group. If you can share the confirmation number and the name on the reservation in a DM, I can review the details.

@SouthwestAir your new process is broken. I booked a choice preferred trip from ATX to FLL. Coming back I paid for $35 seat upgrade to move to row 8. You bumped me from Group 4 to Group 8. Was literally the last person on plane and not a single person was in Group 7...

asked attendant if this was a normal thing and he said yes.

so get on plane and all overhead bin space is full and attendant puts my bag in row 20. When flight was over 4 people in front of plane had bags 10+ rows back. So we all have to fight our way back or wait. Paying extra to get off plane earler and ended up with an awful and worse experience.

Sturgill just made the ultimate post show tank sesh music video. Generational stuff here.