Ken Ashley

Buried in @kenashley’s new book The Prescription is a tip so simple it stung: After every meeting, sit in your car and dictate everything you remember. The points. The highlights. The follow-ups. Why haven’t I been doing this? Rushing around spread too thin is exhausting. (I’ve dog-eared every third page. This is a buy-it, read-it, give-it-away book.)

One more for the books. I told the one and only @kenashley that I was going to be in the ATL last week and sadly, he was traveling out of town. What did he do? He made time to meet me at the airport after his travels but before my flight! We talked @creisummit and @REsimplifiinc technology and had a lot of laughs. Thanks for making the time, Ken, lucky to call you a friend!!

I sold Ocelli for 12k, yesterday he ran 3rd in the @KentuckyDerby & won 500k. And gues what? I'm celebrating. Because of what this means for everything we still have. Ocelli's brothers just became a lot more valuable. His mom Zalia is now a queen. The bloodline we've been building for years just got validated on the biggest stage in racing. One horse running 3rd at @ChurchillDowns does more for your breeding program than a decade of "he has potential" conversations ever could. But there's a bigger lesson here. Everyone passed on Ocelli because he had a "weird gait." Moved different. Didn't fit the template. Turns out that weird gait was elite. Top 3 in the world elite. The market constantly undervalues things that don't fit the mold. In horses. In real estate. In people. The ones who move different aren't always broken. Sometimes they're just built for something the rest of us can't see yet.