Rob Liddiard

How to cut the welfare budget? Number one. Ban foreigners from claiming benefits. Number two? If you can work, you must work. If a healthy individual has repeatedly refused a job, then they should be put to work. Don't give them benefits, give them work. If they want their cash? They can litter pick. Clean up graffiti. Anything. Run council programmes to organise it. Get people working for their benefit money rather than sitting around all day doing sod all. It's fair to give people a reasonable amount of time to find a job they want to do. But if after months, they keep turning down work? Then no, that's not on. A life on benefits for a healthy individual must NEVER be an option. If they want to live on taxpayer money, then I say they can work for it.

Britain is one the most heavily surveilled countries in the world whilst simultaneously not able to identify thousands of vehicles illegally dumping waste next to one of the Oxfordshires busiest roads over a 5 year period. That heady mixture of bureaucratic overreach and bureaucratic incompetence.

The counter argument to this is most doctors aren't very good business people. Selling allows you to focus on being a doctor and letting someone else take care of running the business. You obviously do lose some control....

This highlights one of the common misconceptions people often have about strategy: Strategy and execution are two sides of the same coin. You cannot have a good strategy without outlining specific, actionable, coherent set of actions required for execution/implementation.

Concerned parents are out protesting against illegal migration, whilst their taxes are paying to accommodate illegal migrants in hotels. The thanks? To be laughed at and filmed by illegal migrants in the Barbican hotel. So disrespectful and infuriating.

I can speak in front of an audience of a thousand people or in a TV studio on a broad range of topics without any preparation and without a twinge of fear, but yesterday I had my first real experience with stage fright. I found myself on a tennis court in a live streamed professional tournament with a few hundred in the crowd. Throughout the match, my wrist, arm and body literally froze with the expected negative outcomes. I had difficulty breathing, and it was not a fitness issue. It got a bit better as the match progressed, but I was not able to overcome it. I regularly play with mid-20-year-old D1 college players and recently retired pros on a familiar court with no audience with none of the same symptoms. It was a very humbling experience that gives one even more respect for the pros who play for a living in front of the cameras and the crowds. We forget that they also need to manage the challenges of their carefully examined personal lives, their break ups, their emotions, financial stresses, and their mental health, family, and other challenges. Tennis is one of the few sports where the athlete is out there alone in front of the klieg lights for hours operating with incredible intensity with barely a bathroom break. And they might have been awakened in the middle of the previous night for a drug test while staying far from home. For all but the top players, they also struggle financially as they manage their small businesses working to recruit and retain talent, manage expenses, balance their budgets, and pay their taxes on time. Whatever respect we already have for these incredible athletes, it is not enough. They deserve more of our applause and appreciation.

Some final Masters thoughts. 1. Five is so many. Adam Scott, JT and Scottie combined. It's so, so many. Only 14 players since WW2 have won five or more. Tying Brooks and Seve with the best golf of your life, and now, improbably, Palmer is back in play.

Culturally, buying a small business is now squarely in the same category as flipping houses, multi-level marketing, and crypto. Portrayed as a secret shortcut that will make you rich because you're smart enough to know it. If you're serious about buying a small business, you need to ask yourself why is there an opportunity to make millions with little money or experience? What does that mean I am actually getting paid for? And why is buying a small business kind of like buying an 18th century cargo ship? (1/x)

Unpopular Prediction: AI is going to massively *increase* demand for doctors, lawyers and teachers. I believe there is a tremendously high amount of *unmet* demand for human-in-the-loop heavy services. With highly intelligent AI capable of now providing the first layer of things like: - Legal advice - Medical diagnosis - Interactive 1-1 teaching We will see the demand for the 2nd layer of human-provided deep dives skyrocket. - AI can help you diagnose a medical condition but you will want to chat live with a doctor about it and potentially do some of intervention/procedure. - AI can teach you a bunch of concepts but you might still want to interact a teacher didactically. This will be a weird side-effect of AGI (at least in the 5-10 year horizon).