Mark Foster II
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Mark Foster II
@Mark_the_2nd
Just here for the takes
Off Somewhere in My Mind Katılım Kasım 2015
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@sk_solo7 “This is what you cheer for!?” is such a diabolical line!
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I appreciate this being presented to a wider audience.
Wrestling is a very particular thing for a very particular type of person, but when it’s clicking, it’s fucking undeniable!
I’m officially a #fanhausen
@DanhausenAD is going to be a fucking star!
#SmackDown

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@WWEDissected Sharp take.
But I wonder if this is WWE trying to recreate the WCW cruiserweight boom in ’96, where the style itself got over first.
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I understand that WWE purchased AAA, but they can't just assume that any luchadore they debut is going to be over; our audience is conditioned to see the luchadore as a character in and of itself, so when 18 of them debut in a year (lol), it all just feels the same. #Smackdown
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@Koruton_Karu13 A wrestler’s entrance is so essential in making them a star.
Pyro and a change in music honestly.
The song is generic and doesn’t compliment him as an athlete
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I think Carmelo Hayes could benefit from some pyro in his entrance, like when the trim fully changed and lights up #SmackDown
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"I've got a list of demands. I need a blimp, I need a Hall of Fame induction, a personal assistant, a personal cameraman. My face on all the trucks."
DANHAUSEN LISTS HIS DEMANDS TO ADAM PEARCE AND CURSES JUDGMENT DAY 😭
#WWERaw
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@EliteClubS0B Bruh this shit is genius! I laughed so fucking hard just now!!!
That’s some The Office level comedy!
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@bymaximise it's funny because most people's takeaway from this is that this is just slop
but whoever is running this account is incredibly creative, clever, and most importantly
has a real bias for action
great find. i love this kind of stuff and breaking it down
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@_kennythoughts Wrestling is just as much about the crowd as it is the in ring talent.
Chant until he passes out. But they never quite got there. Cena wanted it.
They gave up before he even did and that’s why the ending wasn’t as “epic” as folks expected.
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@_kennythoughts The person who lived by “Never Give Up” showed there’s wisdom in knowing when to let go.
That was great storytelling and the fact that it’s going over folks heads is the frustrating part.
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I think when we take a step back and stop being a little too smarky for our own good?
We may learn to appreciate this ending in time. John Cena. The definition of “Never Give Up”. Realizing he couldn’t fight more. That he had no more to give. That he had to give up…his time was up.
It’s poetic in hindsight.

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@MatznerJon This was good! I never viewed business this way. Thanks!
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I paid a lot of my expenses in college playing poker. This was 2004, 2005... the height of the poker boom.
ESPN was showing the World Series of Poker every night, and suddenly every dorm room had a game going.
I learned two things fast:
First, always play with trust fund guys because they're terrible at cards (game selection).
Second, pot odds and bet sizing matter more than the cards you're holding.
That second lesson changed how I think about small business growth.
In poker, you're not trying to win every hand.
You're trying to make +EV (positive expected value) bets....bets where the expected value, over time, works in your favor.
If there's $100 in the pot and it costs you $10 to call, you're getting 10-to-1.
You don't need to be certain you'll win. You just need to win often enough that the math works.
I see business owners who never learned this. They clawed their way to stability and then locked themselves into the exact same cautious, survival-mode thinking that got them there.
They won't spend $5,000 on anything unless they can guarantee it works. They need certainty. They need proof. They need someone else to go first.
Here's what you should be asking instead: What's the “pot size” (meaning how big of a deal is this if it works), and what does it cost to see the cards (what do i need to bet to figure that out)?
@AizikZimerman runs J Blanton Plumbing.
After buying it, he grew it from $5 million to $25 million in a few years.
One reason: he hires global talent recruiters constantly (Huge EV+).
Each one costs a few thousand dollars a month. Most months, they won't find anyone. But if one of them lands a single skilled plumber who wouldn't have joined otherwise... that plumber could add $1 million in revenue per year.
Do the math.
A $3,000/month recruiter costs $36,000 annually. Potential return: $1 million.
Aizik doesn't need a sure thing. He needs ONE hit out of ten tries.
Now if you want to be clever, you could subtract his COGS from this (But I don’t know his margins and you get the idea.)
Most plumbing company owners would never make that bet.
"What if the recruiter doesn't find anyone? That's $3,000 down the drain."
They want proof first.
Meanwhile, they're still stuck at $5 million (or whatever, you know what I mean here).
At Sagan, we spent the last year taking shots at new distribution channels.
Each one cost about $10,000 to test properly.
The first one didn't work. Neither did the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, or ninth.
Then the tenth one hit big. It unlocked what looks like millions of dollars in value.
Lucky?
Maybe.
But we were right to take the bet.
Every single fucking time. Each $10,000 gave us exposure to a potential outcome that could transform the business.
The “pot” wasn't $15,000 or $20,000.
It was seven figures. When the upside is that large, you can afford to be wrong nine times (or 90 times!) and still come out way ahead… as long as the math works.
Most business owners never do this math. They look at the $10,000 and ask, "What if it doesn't work?"
They're still thinking like someone playing with a short stack... where every dollar has to count, where one bad bet means lights out.
But you're not playing with a short stack anymore.
You have room now.
When you have room, the question changes. Not "Will this definitely work?" but "If this works, does it change everything? And can I afford to find out?"
The answer is almost always yes, if you're honest about what "afford" means.
Ruinous risk is real.
Can't make payroll?
You're done.
Out of the game.
But ruinous risk and spending money on something uncertain are two different things!!
If you've got six months of runway and consistent revenue, a $10,000 bet won't kill you.
What WILL kill you: playing so tight that you never find the next big move.
You'll plateau. You'll optimize. You'll get really good at doing exactly what you're doing now. Five years from now, you'll still be doing it, wondering why everyone else is growing faster.
The real enemy is the story you tell yourself about risk. You think losing a hand means you played it wrong.
Sometimes you make the right bet and lose anyway. Variance happens. You can't control outcomes. You can only control whether the pot odds favor you.
Once you're out of survival mode, stop thinking like a survivor. Think like someone with chips to play. You earned them. Use them.
Not recklessly (you still can't go broke!) but understand that being too conservative usually costs more than a losing bet.
Take the shot. Run the test. Spend the money. If it doesn't work, you'll learn something and move on. If it does... it might change your whole business.
You survived the hard part. Now go win.
GIF
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@BleacherReport @NFL The most Trevor Lawrence play of Trevor Lawrence plays
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TREVOR LAWRENCE FALLS DOWN AND GETS BACK UP TO TAKE IT IN FOR THE LEAD WITH 23 SECONDS LEFT!!!
THIS GAME IS NUTS 😱
(via @nfl)
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@PatMcAfeeShow I literally just said my my nigga throwing darts out this bitch
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(and I’m nuts for open-sourcing it)
The AI system behind @therecapai clones how a human writer would function, but each step is packaged into an agentic workstream.
The full automation handles:
- Daily scrapping hundreds of reddit threads, hackernews, twitter posts, Google news API to build a massive data lake of 'daily AI news'
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This was 5 MONTHS of iterating and fine-tuning prompts to get the output and content to an extremely high quality state (no AI slop)
and call me crazy, but I'm giving it away for free.
Just Retweet, follow me, and comment on this thread "NEWSLETTER"
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Also you can see the actual contents of the newsletter for yourself with the link below—proof of the quality that is possible with AI.
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