Dana Lawrence Lohn

@realEstateTrent Plan for how to change it without overly endangering bystanders? I think most if not all are ready for that.

Right on cue - just now, right in front of my eyes at a Duane Reade in Manhattan: A guy casually grabs a bunch of candy and heads for the door. One of the employees follows him, stops, and says, “Do good.” The guy responds, “Who the #%$ are you?” and tries to intimidate him. He walks out. The employee turns around and says to a colleague: “I wish I could just knock him out.” If you want to see this happen again and again, go hang out inside a CVS or Duane Reade in Manhattan And yes things are locked up because otherwise they would get easily stolen with zero consequences. Yes this is reality, and the majority don’t seem to want to see it changed. One of the mysteries of life.

@davidsirota Search credit unions. Re-infuse your soul.

I’m desperate for good podcast recommendations. Right now, my feed is basically 100 different shows all talking to the same 20 elites, celebs & podcasters about the same shit, which is a depressing reminder of the whole medium now being homogenized like everything else in media.

@401Casey Same. Corporate travel expanded my horizons.

I’ve always loved corporate travel. Doesn’t matter where they send me. I started my career in the upper Midwest: Fargo, Cheyenne, etc. never cared, fun to see. I’m at the Marriott rooftop restaurant in downtown Tampa making friends with the other guys in the same boat.

@KFILE This makes my heart happy. Joy in her memory.

I’m thinking of starting a project where I take a photo of my daughter’s memorial bench every weekend. I love all the New York scenes at it . All different people from all walks of life. It’s the best bench on Prospect Park West. Today someone was giving away free books.

@toddsaunders Right over the South Avenue border in Scotch Plains and all about AI strategy at Princeton Federal Credit Union, where our neighbor is the NJ AI Lab @ Princeton Carnegie Center. Oceans of resources abound.

I want to get the most AI pilled folks in NJ for a meetup in Westfield. I have no idea how to source or find these people so please X do your thing!

@AdvisorJohn Costco. They have buyers focused on this, they are obsessed and they won’t allow garbage to be sold under their name. Also, generous return policy if you wind up hating the thing for whatever reason.

Buying a mattress feels worse than buying a used car. But, my wife and I need one SOOO bad! I’m looking for suggestions. Some questions we have: 1. I hear of people buying them online, like through Amazon as opposed to going to those run down looking strip mattress stores. Is that the best way to do it? 2. Some have said don’t buy anything nice, just buy a new one every two years. This actually seems smart in a way because I feel like every one I’ve purchased seems to suck around two years. 3. My spare bed queen mattress is awesome. Why does it seem like king size mattresses fall apart faster? Your recommendations are greatly appreciated!

@skylarromines 100000000% times about this.

Do you want to be a VIP? No, not very important [ew] but a Very Interesting Person. Then you need to do new things. You need to get comfortable looking like an idiot. You need to be able to laugh it off, and mean it. You need to climb the mountain. You need to wear the risky outfit. You need to say hi to the stranger. You need to write the book. You need to create the product. You need to build the business. You need to take the trip. You need to try the new food. Or like for me today, you need to drive a motorcycle for the first time. And guess what? She may have looked a little [or a lot] stupid, but she’s doing alright :) It’s easy, especially as you get older, to fall into a routine and stop learning. Stop trying. Get stagnant. Don’t let that happen. What new skill have you learned lately? What’s next?

@elonmusk Do long-form anything.

Absolutely

@bgurley The guy who figures out how to thaw CISOs on a corporate-moat AI tool that powerfully rationalizes Outlook inboxes (with tools beyond Copilot) = $$$$$

I fear that AI has decimated the traditional email inbox as we know it. Too many personalized emails slip through spam filter. Hope someone builds a better mousetrap. This one is cooked in its current form.

The Robotics team from Wissahickon High School in Ambler, Pennsylvania, built the robot Miss Daisy XXIV that picks up balls and shoots them into a container.

@bethanyjbabcock Beautifully full circle!

Guys. My very first client I sold a deal for ever, over 15 years ago, googled me because he was in a 1031. He found the CRE Launch website and immediately signed up to sponsor a student in full 🥹 He was only 19 when I met him and he had inherited property after his father passed so we talked a lot about things like what a cap rate was and how to drive value etc. What a full circle moment!

@Michaelfiore Incredibly impactful

Last year I put my wife in charge of birthdays and anniversaries in our company. She’s super good. Whenever someone has a birthday or work anniversary she gets them a little gift card, cake, mini charcuterie board or something similar. They are small gifts, but people love that we remember and recognize them.

@walls_jason1 ROCK ON. AWESOME.

Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story. So here it is. I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school. Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger. 70% of the time? They didn't need it. The math is in the NEC — Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays. I got angry enough to build something about it. I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this." 6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll. I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work. But something shifted. Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter. I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people. If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try. EVchargeright.com

@realEstateTrent SKI DAY bliss

Never worked as hard in my life as I have for the first 2.5 months of 2026. Decided to take the day off tomorrow so I can go skiing with my son. Three months from now, he will have to share my attention with another boy, and I think about it a lot ❤️

@CardiffGarcia Could not agree more. On the endless treasure hunt now for this perfect pair of circa 2023 Ons …

When you find a pair of running shoes that are super comfortable and also fit your style perfectly, order ten pair immediately and stick the extras in a closet because they absolutely will be discontinued soon.

@AFettersMaloy @washingtonpost That is beautiful, startling and radical.

A few days after my mom died four years ago, I logged back into my @washingtonpost email and saw the following: dozens of kind messages from colleagues, a note from my boss rejecting my tidy little 2-day “bereavement leave” request and telling me to instead just take as much time as I needed, and a DoorDash gift card from my Features colleagues that was so generous it covered my delivery meals for, I kid you not, a year. The kicker here is that virtually none of them had ever met me. I was a relatively new remote worker and it was the pandemic; I had not once been to the DC office. I’ve worked a lot of places with a lot of wonderful colleagues, but I’ll never forget the startling, radical kindness I encountered that day. For as long as I’ve been here The Post has been full of these kinds of people – people who see others, who care actively, who show up. These are people you want on your staff and in your life.

@BobbyBancroft Exceptionally classy.

Georgetown hosts Creighton in 30 mins. The Washington Post has covered the Hoyas for decades and with today's news Georgetown has a message in their seat assignment notes for the sports department.

@realEstateTrent My girls would pick exact same.

For his 6th birthday, our son can choose any meal New York City has to offer tonight. So, we’re having Taco Bell.

@theficouple Born and raised NJ and that specific scenario seems unlikely, but your overall point is absolutely right: there is almost no new housing supply in NJ today; zoning and NIMBYism prevent most attempted development. Constrained supply means huge rehab opportunity.

Saw video of a house flipper in New Jersey: They paid $166,000 for a property that needs ~$105,000 of repairs. The new value will be ~$505,000 which means after 5 months of work their profit is ~$200,000. ...Why aren't more people doing this!?

My daughter wants to own Starbucks stock so every time we go there and someone buys something she makes a slice of that She’s 6.