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We live in a renaissance, an industrial revolution, a golden age. Kudos @midjourney.

The anti-alcohol, anti-pleasure, live-off-grid rhetoric is anti-Western culture actually. We shouldn’t aspire to live like the Amish. We should aspire to enjoy the splendour of our civilisation: beautiful architecture, candlelit dinners, intellectual conversation, cocktails with beautiful friends under chandeliers. We didn’t build all this just to retreat back into huts and eat ground meat off wooden chopping boards

@Planhat was bootstrapped for more than half a decade. 100% focus on technology & delivering outcomes for early customers. No marketing. We barely had a website when I joined almost five years ago. Unlike many overfunded startups that start with $1M marketing spend before they even have their first customer, Planhat has focused on real value delivery, not the perception of it. The result is—just like our product—#StudioPlanhat has been crafted with intentionality, and we take a long-term view that allows us to benchmark the work we produce against some of the largest and most effective creative teams in the world, the likes of @Apple and @Airbnb—not dull competitors. Self-critically I'd say 99% of the time we miss the mark, but that's the mark we measure ourselves on. We build in-person in London and always have open seats for the curious and daring. If you're a Comms & PR Leader — or a scrappy Performance marketing guru — DM me to chat.

Normally I'm the guy behind the camera, or the guy with the camera behind the guy with the camera. This week, thanks to @Framer, #StudioPlanhat and I were in front of the camera, giving a rare insight into how we're setting a new standard for enterprise creative teams.

one of the most fascinating watches in a while

#PlanhatOpen continuing to deliver the goods. My conclusion: commercial leaders should get outside the conference room more often—and a certain kind of magic happens when they head to the Malibu hills. Goes without saying that the #StudioPlanhat crew is spoiled.

#PlanhatOpen begins.

There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes. @naval

Patterns I noticed in successful people in my life: - They have a psychopathic sense of urgency - They are "working" all the time. Even when it doesn't look like it - They are delusionally optimistic about their goals - They have a very small circle of friends - They are interested in ideas more than people - They write more than anyone else - They have the ability to make things happen even when it seems impossible

the more table space you have, the more creative you can be

#StudioPlanhat cooking ahead of #PlanhatOpen

Tu confonds deux choses, et c'est exactement le piège que la French Theory a tendu. Liberté, égalité, fraternité — égalité *de droits*, égalité *devant la loi*, égalité *de dignité*. C'est la promesse républicaine, et personne ici ne l'attaque. Le wokisme, ce n'est pas ça. C'est l'égalitarisme des résultats. Et l'égalitarisme des résultats, contrairement à l'égalité des droits, n'est pas un élargissement de la liberté — c'est sa négation. Quelques exemples concrets : — San Francisco supprime les classes de maths avancées au collège pour "réduire les inégalités". Résultat : les écarts entre élèves explosent, les familles aisées prennent des cours privés, les pauvres se font enterrer. L'égalitarisme a creusé l'inégalité. — Les politiques de discrimination positive à Harvard : étudiants admis avec des scores très en dessous de leurs camarades, taux d'échec dispropportionné, sentiment d'imposture, ressentiment généralisé. On a saboté ceux qu'on voulait aider. — L'aide humanitaire qui distribue du riz gratuit pendant 30 ans en Afrique : effondrement des filières agricoles locales, dépendance institutionnalisée. Donner un poisson, c'est empêcher d'apprendre à pêcher. Le wokisme ne détruit pas l'humanité dans le sens dramatique. Il fait pire : il dessert systématiquement ceux qu'il prétend protéger, et il génère du ressentiment des deux côtés — ceux qu'on infantilise et ceux qu'on culpabilise. La fraternité républicaine dit : tu es mon égal, donc je te traite en adulte capable. Le wokisme dit : tu es ma victime, donc je dois te protéger de toi-même. L'un élève. L'autre infantilise. Ce n'est pas la même chose, et confondre les deux est exactement le tour de passe-passe qu'on dénonce.

Reminiscing about our previous Planhat Open as we countdown one week until this year’s event in Malibu #PlanhatOpen

Shooting the @Planhat office like the Tuscan villa it is.

Hanging at @Planhat HQ—Pacific Palisades, CA

AI transformation is just a cooler way of saying data engineering, process mapping, change management and intelligent automation.

Living on the edge—shooting Triunfo canyon with critical battery.