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@ineedsheet I know this girl hahahaha

Fuck man I typically avoid this shit but I'm either getting rage baited or some AW are under mass psychosis

@dsonoiki Lots of people in NYC making “finance bro” money, so the appeal is more status-driven than money-driven no doubt

in NYC, finance bros make the most money and thus date the hottest girls so every time a woman in NYC says she hates finance bros or doesn’t date finance bros, you have to look at it like an extremely overweight man saying he hates supermodels & refuses to date supermodels it’s just a way to signal to others in your peer group that finance bros, the top of the NYC dating pyramid, pursue you

@financedystop I pay $6,000 and running your own business helps subsidize rent

Half the young people living in NYC are either nepo babies being subsidized by their parents or have some mysterious income source nobody can explain

@MurrayHillGuy1 I go to the Hudson Yards one everyday it’s amazing

Ranking Whole Foods in Manhattan from Best to Worst: 1. Hudson Yards 2. Tribeca 3. FiDi/Wall Street 4. Houston Street(Bowery/LES) 5. Madison Ave 6. Bryant Park 7. Columbus circle 8. Union square

2023: Corona ended 2026: Hantavirus

Yeaup

My boss's boss is like 42, never married, no kids. Earns $275-300K per year. Goes on a minimum of two international vacations a year w/ his girlfriend. 10+ days, all out. Eats the best food, stays in top notch accomodations. Excursions, tours, nicest beaches, etc. Great guy, I'm happy for him. But what I've realized is that without kids, you end up chasing a lifestyle that has to continually be topped in order for you to be satisfied and find happiness. What he and others like him don't understand is that when you have children, seeing THEM experience life's most basic things and watching their eyes light up at all the "firsts", brings greater pleasure and joy than any vacation or travel experience ever could. Seeing THEM try blueberries for the first time is greater than dining at the best 5 star restaurant in Europe. Seeing THEM learn how to walk is greater than walking the Great Wall of China or strolling along the most picturesque beach. Watching THEM giggle uncontrollably at "peek-a-boo" tops any A-list comedian act. Seeing THEIR excitement when building a fort out of cardboard boxes and making a door big enough for daddy is superior to staying at 5-star resorts. Flying kites with THEM far outweighs excursions like parasailing or helicopter rides. Seeing THEM perform a recital on stage for the first time is more rewarding than watching a Broadway show or top notch symphony orchestra. ----------------- When you have children, all of a sudden you realize that life's greatest joys are not in the pursuit of things or pleasure or travel, but rather in the LOVE and bond you share with your very own image bearers. Seeing the beauty and magnificence and wonder of life all over again for the first time through THEIR eyes and expressions gives you something the world simply cannot offer, nor even come close.

AKA “iPaaS Developer”

"If you really want to make money, found an agentic AI company. I mean, build an agent to do something. This is the agentic period in AI. Everyone's going to build agents. The agents are all going to compete." ~ Eric Schmidt, Ex Google CEO.

@rak_garg You must try Chola’s

Is it just me or are all of the upscale Indian places in NYC beyond mid. I’ve now been to Ambassador’s, Bungalow, Junoon, Musaafer, Gupshup. Each more disappointing than the last.

@IllimitableMan_ 📠

Men over 30 with hair, high libido, elite physique, a car, a house, zero debt, and consistent cashflow are rare species now.

Peak happiness in life as a man: - Good health - In the best shape of your life - Abundance of beautiful women - 5 close friends you can rely on - Stable, reliable, and stress-free income - Some degree of respect in your community That is peak life right there.

@IAmLilRico Portland

What city have you been to that felt like it had dark energy?🤔🌃

The more enterprises I talk to about AI agent transformation, the more it’s clear that there is going to be a new type of role in most enterprises going forward. The job is to be the agent deployer and manager in teams. Here’s the rough JD: This person will need to figure out what are the highest leverage set of workflows on a team are (either existing or new ones) where agents can actually drive significantly more value for the team and company. In general, it’s going to be in areas where if you threw compute (in the form of agents) at a task you could either execute it 100X faster or do it 100X more times than before. Examples would be processing orders of magnitude more leads to hand them off to reps with extra customer signal, automating a contracting review and intake process, streamlining a client onboarding process to reduce as many straps as possible, setting up knowledge bases than the whole company taps into, and so on. This person’s job is to figure out what the future state workflow needs to look like to drive this new form of automation, and how to connect up the various existing or new systems in such a way that this can be fulfilled. The gnarly part of the work is mapping structured and unstructured data flows, figuring out the ideal workflow, getting the agent the context it needs to do the work properly, figuring out where the human interfaces with the agent and at what steps, manages evals and reviews after any major model or data change, and runs and manages the agents on an ongoing basis tracking KPIs, and so on. The person must be good at mapping the process and understanding where the value could be unlocked and be relatively technical, and has full autonomy to connect up business systems and drive automation. This means they’re comfortable with skills, MCP, CLIs, and so on, and the company believes it’s safe for them to do so. But also great operationally and at business. It may be an existing person repositioned, or a totally net new person in the company. There will likely need to be one or more of these people on every team, so it’s not a centralized role per se. It may rile up into IT or an AI team, or live in the function and just have checkpoints with a central function. This would also be a fantastic job for next gen hires who are leaning into AI, and are technical, to be able to go into. And for anyone concerned about engineers in the future, this will be an obvious area for these skills as well.

I have a client who consults Makes $500K a year 3 months off a year to travel Finishes work no later than 12 PM every day Use to sell the same consulting for an employer Has an email list of 3000 subscribers Has mild social media presence Zero stress You can just spin up a simple offer and live on easy mode. There’s no need to make millions if you don’t want to. Don’t let Instagram fool you.

@Tim_Denning My anxiety is definitely up 😂

Anxiety drops by 90% when you’re making $100K a month.

After 10 years these all end up roughly the same place: Solo founder with $1M/yr in revenue VC-backed founder with a $50M exit Principal engineer at FAANG Managing Director at Goldman Sachs A landlord with 80 units A VC managing a $40M fund

@RyanAFournier Lmfao

Sam Altman has admitted he is on a waitlist for a procedure that would digitize his brain. The procedure would kill him. He considers this an acceptable trade for digital immortality. This is the person making decisions about the future of artificial intelligence for hundreds of millions of users. A man who views ending his own biological life as a reasonable step toward uploading his consciousness to the cloud. These are not the priorities of a stable leader.

THE CLEAREST PATH TO A $10M+ SOFTWARE EXIT in 2 YEARS (with AI and agents) building an agency right now is one of the most interesting business moves the productized agency had its moment in 2022. it collapsed because scaling humans is a nightmare. inconsistent output, people quitting, margins getting crushed. most of the founders (and creators) who tried it got burned and moved on but the thesis was right. the labor problem is just solved now with AI, claude code, openclaw etc. here's the actual playbook i'd run today: pick one painful deliverable for one specific buyer. like SEO content for e-commerce brands doing $1M+ but not "marketing." or like ad creatives for DTC brands spending $50k/month on meta. one thing. one customer. that's it then you build the AI workflow behind it. you're selling an outcome on a monthly retainer. $3-5k/month. 80%+ margins because your cost is compute and a few hours of QA "BuT tHaT'S nOt a BiG bUsInnesS" okay but you're still swinging for the fences because the agency IS the research and development for your agent SaaS every client is paying you to figure out what to automate. you're learning what breaks, what scales, what customers actually want. by month 4 you know exactly what to productize. you build the software on top of the workflow you've already proven works and already have customers paying for agency funds the agent SaaS. SaaS scales without the agency overhead. the clients become your first software customers now let's talk about what this actually looks like financially year 1: 10 clients at $4k/month. $480k revenue. 2 people. maybe $80k in costs including compute, tools, one part time VA. you're taking home $400k between two people while building the software in the background year 2: you launch the software. your 10 agency clients are the first to convert. they already trust you. they've seen the output. you charge $800/month for the software version. now you have recurring software revenue AND the agency still running year 3: agency is winding down or running on autopilot. software has 200 customers at $800/month. that's $1.9M ARR. 2-3 person team. 85% margins. you are now a very attractive acquisition target the exit math is interesting. SaaS at $1.9M ARR with strong retention trades at 5-8x revenue. that's a $10-15M exit for something two people built in 3 years starting with zero VC CAVEAT: Startups are hard. A lot needs to go right. But from a framework perspective, I think this probably the lowest risk, highest reward option for lots of of folks and most of the businesses cost $0 to start basically this is the most capital efficient path to a software exit that exists right now happy building

@WestsideLAGuy Yes lol

Bros, be honest. Is NYC actually more fun than LA for single men? Or is that just online hype?