Erick Monzon

If you find the world difficult to understand, read "Sanity is the future of Wealth" by @aaron_clarey If you still don't get it after reading it, read it again. It's not that hard.

Lesson there for aspiring email copywriters. It's not about the bs tactics. Relationship,Authority,Offer >> Tactics

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There is a difference between a copywriter and a prompt operator. I am seeing it more clearly every month. I will open a doc from a new hire and the copy will look fine. Clean sentences. Decent rhythm. Nothing obviously broken. Then I ask a simple question. Why this line? Why this angle? Why this order? Silence. Because the truth is, the work was assembled, not decided. AI did not ruin the craft. Delegation did. Judgment is the job. Taste is the job. Discernment is the job. If you cannot explain why a line earns attention, holds it, and converts it, the result is accidental. And accidental results do not scale. Here is the rule I give younger writers now: Draft alone. Edit with AI. Finalize alone. That order protects the muscle. AI should amplify your judgment. Not replace it. Be an operator. Not a typist.

@chrisorzy The Sweetest Victory rules!

The Rocky IV soundtrack stays on for the next 18 months

R.I.P. @ScottAdamsSays

Herd theory You don’t have to convince everyone, just a few

@BowTiedTrance Please add me to the list

I'm adding every single person by hand as requests come in. You should get a notification that says something like, "BowTiedTrance added you to List Sipper Siblings."

@nicktheriot_ Guide

I'm going to delete this post in 48 hrs... Because I just dropped the full MASTERCLASS guide to dominate Q1 2026 with Facebook ads. This is the exact GOD-TIER Q1 strategy we use to take ecom brands from $1k days to $30k+ days while everyone's tanking in January. We charge $10,000/mo to do this for clients… But today, I’m giving it away 100% FREE. Comment "GUIDE" and I'll send it to you.

Scott Adams, facing death, shows us how to live. Someone recommended “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big” by Scott Adams. I had burned out on mainstream books, but picked it up, and was hooked. He had put into words a way of living, similar to one I had found, except his approach was systemic and analytical. Better than my own slapdash notes. Outside of religious texts, Adams was and is as close to a “guide to life,” as you’ll ever find. And even if you’re religious, you still live in this world, and would be wise to learn how to navigate it. Scott is closing in on the end of his life, and even now he is creating new beginnings. I’d better write this now, I won’t be able to when it’s too late. After losing Charlie Kirk, a lot of us are wondering how we can possibly write another obituary. While there’s much to complain about the internet and social media, those mediums expanded the sizes of our communities, our influences, and indeed our families. Too often we find new ways to hate people, instead of finding new people to love. Scott Adams comes up in conversation at every social event I host. “How is Scott Adams doing? Will he make it?” We all talk about streams we watched and lessons learned. It’s a memorial except he’s still alive. Scott would love to hear that, which is why I have said so repeatedly. I’ve lost too many people, via death or fallings-out, to leave feeling unexpressed. He’s been a surrogate father figure and mentor to millions of people. Scott Adams is not liked, he is loved. People don’t “like” Scott Adams, they aren’t “a fan of his.” They love this man. And I do as well. I’m still living in denial of his fate. We all are. We’d been making a film about the meaning of life, and while Scott Adams had been in both of our other films, we hadn’t booked him for Meaning yet. Then we found out he was going to take the ride of assisted suicide. Foolishly, we had assumed he’d always be around. Nobody ever dies, right? Your dad will be there to take your call the next time you phone home. Your friends aren’t going anywhere. That’s how we too often live. We could book Scott later. We reached out and he graciously agreed to be interviewed. We all knew it was going to be our last interview together. Scott and I are both efficient with our time. When a moment is over, it’s time to go do something else. Obligations call. The crew pushed this one as long as we could. After the interview wrapped up and the gear was packed and it was time to go, there was an awkward pause. I broke it. “Scott, we love you.” He said thank you. “No, Scott, we love you, I mean it, we all do. We love you.” None of us broke down crying, not that there would have been any shame in that, but we no doubt all soon will. Well then, what is the lesson of Scott Adams? On a practical level, the lesson of Scott Adams is the power of showing up. Nobody works harder and on a more regular schedule. You can set your clock to Scott’s show. Too many of us wait for the muse of inspiration or the jolt of information to force us into action. Work, everyday, maybe in obscuring and without tangible benefits for years. Eventually you’ll hit your mark and go beyond. Scott plugged away with his streams from a small account (after a huge career via Dilbert) and soon became must-watch, and then transcended his role to becoming something much more. On a spiritual level, we might ask, why do we love Scott? It’s not because he’s so smart (he is). There are not shortage of intelligent, clever, Machiavellian, and rich people with podcasts. When one of them dies, what is lost? All of that Ego and desire for adoration, and does anybody even care? When those people fall while living, who will be there? Scott is loved because he’s devoted his life to service to humanity. “What is the meaning of life,” is the question we ask every interviewee, and Scott’s answer, “Be useful to humanity.” Despite pain, sickness, and inevitable death, Scott is doing his daily streams, serving his country and all of humankind until his end. He’s a light to the world and a mirror for all of us. What exactly are we doing with the gift of life given to us by God. (Scott believes in the Simulation, but I believe God evens this all out in the Judgment.) Are we doing enough for others? Are we doing anything for others? Like everyone else, I’m capable of throwing myself a pity party. Sometimes when life is going too well, and I don’t have real problems, I invent some. That’s where the Ego brings you, recursively worshipping itself, and when that fails, tormenting itself, as each path leads to its own attention. May all of us live more like Scott Adams, and may God bless his immortal soul when he passes. P.S. I ran this article through Grok for typos. The original version had “immoral” soul where I meant it to read “immortal.” I think Scott would have had a great laugh had that typo been left in.

Most of what stops us isn't real.

@emmaeni__ @dougdanna A real master of the craft

@dougdanna Who’s that guy?

To be a great Copywriter you MUST learn: - research - psychology - copywriting - storytelling, - how to get paid over and over and over! FROM someone who has actually done it. I know a guy...

@free_ai_guides Alex

Alex Hormozi helped thousands build $100M offers. So I made a Hormozi Mega-Prompt that turns ChatGPT into a value-creating machine: → Offer creation → Pricing models → Market analysis → Value stack generation → Pain-point insight extraction If you want ChatGPT to think like Hormozi, this is the one. Comment “Alex” and I’ll DM it to you.

@itsme_urstruly Pai Mei's cat

What would you name this cat 😂

@matt_gray_ IG

Instagram becomes a growth machine when you stop posting randomly and start using a system. Here’s what actually moves the needle: • One idea becomes 20 plus posts • Your visuals become instantly recognizable • Comments turn into email subscribers automatically I built a free Instagram Flywheel that breaks down the 3 systems I used to scale to 950,000 followers and $2.3M in revenue. Comment “IG” and I’ll DM it to you (follow me first or I can’t DM you)

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces. But I see everything. Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments. One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?" "6:15," he said, confused. "Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it." He blinked. "You... you can do that?" "I can now," I said. Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?" "Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing." He cried. Right there in the parking lot. Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic. But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!" "Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel." He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us." The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over." Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it. But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note, "Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends" People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket. I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece." So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones. Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees. It's not glamorous. But it's everything." Let this story reach more hearts.... Credit: Mary Nelson

@copywriter_adam Swipe

This genuis was one of the best copywriters. His book sold for $3k back in the 70's and 80's... And the people who read it from cover to cover became millionaires. I collected 119 of his best-performing ads and sales letters. If you want it: - comment "swipe" - follow (so I can DM) - RT (optional) And I'll send you the link! (no opt-in required)

@knoxtwts Pipelne

you could be generating $100k/mo if you knew these propaganda warfare tactics... there's a group of operators running "belief pipelines" at $100/day that just leaked their complete system for FREE... one jumped from $7k/mo to $31k/mo, spending $30/day on retargeting, another generated $140k additional revenue, showing belief-shattering assets to website visitors for $0.02 per view... same psychological brainwashing frameworks that reprogram objections out of prospects before calls even happen while you're posting 5x daily, hoping for luck here's what separates $5k months from $100k months: - you: create value content, hope the algorithm shows it to buyers, book calls that don't close, stay stuck at $5-10k/mo - them: pay $5/day to force belief-shattering info to hot leads, systematically dismantle objections, close 50-60%, print $100k months we had to redact the "domino belief cascade" section from this FREE doc because it shows how to reprogram thinking patterns without prospects realizing they're being manipulated follow, like & comment "PIPELINE" and i'll send the complete propaganda warfare system for 100% FREE

@TheCopyTitan Bring the goods, Sir!

I started writing copy in late 2016. But until mid-2018, I’d never made more than $1,000 per month through copy alone. And until early 2020, I didn't get professional feedback on my writing. Which means for over 3 years, I was mostly working in a vacuum. That led to some embarrassing WhatsApp messages, losing good clients, and feeling lower than the grass we step on. But when I finally committed to writing copy daily, and I invested in a mentor… Things began to shift FAST. How FAST? Well, I went from barely making $1,500 per month to $6,000 per month. A few months later, I had my first five-figure month. And a year later, I became part of the Elite VSL Mentorship of one of the best copywriters in the world. All this happened because I committed to writing daily under the guidance of a mentor. However, I was ponying up north of $1,700 every month. Which is a TON of money. Thankfully, you don't need to pay that amount to get my 1:1 feedback. In fact, you can even get it for free. I put together a few details about that in a short Google doc. Interested in reading it? Drop a comment below.

@casualhyped SEND

Ok f*ck it... I just open sourced a tool to completely automate mass X account farms Completely free, no sign up or anything >Scrape the most successful accounts in your niche >Feed them into the LLM >Mimic exact behavior and virality Comment "SEND" and I will send you a download link + guide (must be following or I can't DM). People who RT + Like get it quicker.

@ZubyMusic Welcome Zuby! Enjoy your trip

This is my second time in El Salvador... Every local I talk to here has stories about how horrifically violent the country used to be. Murder and extortion were just the norm every day. Freedom didn't really exist because basic safety didn't. The vast majority of Salvadorans are very happy about the turnaround. Nobody in the Western media cared when the whole country was controlled by evil gangs and dozens of citizens were getting killed daily. Now that the country is safe, their coverage is fears about 'human rights' and 'authoritarianism'. Unserious people. Luxury beliefs in action.