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The fastest way to kill a business is to never learn how to delegate. - The team can't move without pinging you first - The business falls apart if you try to leave for a week - You hired for skills instead of judgment - The team executes but you still decide what matters each week - Nothing is documented, everything lives in your head - You think delegation means training someone to do it your way I’ve seen so many business owners get stuck here because they think hiring people is all it takes to delegate even though hiring is only step one. Real delegation is building a system that takes you out of the busy work and gives you room to focus on the bigger picture.

The tricky thing with AI is that there is an infinite number of things to do. You can always build more, automate more, design more. It expands, not reduces the amount of work you have and you eventually end up with a never ending spiral of tasks to complete.

Stop accepting "reasonable" timelines. Start asking what would need to be true to cut them in half.

Harsh truths about success I’ve learned from people more successful than me: -You only have to be right ONCE. One big right move can erase a lifetime of wrong ones. -You can't be upset at the results you’re not getting from the actions you’re not taking. -The successful don't wait for someone to come save them. You want a better life, go build it. -Most successful people I've met aren't that smart. They move fast, they take risk, they work a lot. That's it.

Met a guy at an event doing $200k/month running his own Meta ads. No agency. Him and a VA. Fired his agency 8 months ago after they burned $40k in one month at 0.8 ROAS lol He taught himself everything from YouTube, started spending $200/day, and his CAC dropped 35% within 90 days of taking over. His whole account is broad targeting. No interests. No lookalikes. Advantage+ with strong creatives and that's it. "I stopped testing 50 audiences and started testing 50 creatives." Honestly I've seen this pattern so many times now. The best media buyer for most brands under $500k/month is the founder who actually understands the customer. Not some 29-year-old at an agency managing 11 accounts simultaneously that doesn't give a fuck about your biz.

You’re bored because you don’t do side quests, bro. Life is more than just work and bed rotting. Here are 50 side quests to complete:

met a woman in marbella making $68,000/month replying to google reviews not writing them not getting them replying to them "thank you for your kind words we appreciate your feedback" 340 times a month 340 property management clients paying her $200/month each to type slightly different versions of "thanks for the review" no ads, website, content or personal brand she sends one cold email: "you have 50 google reviews and havent replied to a single one. every unanswered review costs you roughly 9% of potential tenants. want me to handle all your review responses for $200/month?" thats the pitch thats the whole business one stat that scares property managers turned into $68K/month she hired 2 VAs in the philippines at $600/month each to do the actual replies total overhead: $1,200 net profit: $66,800/month from replying to google reviews heres why nobody competes with her: the task is so boring that nobody thinks its a business no one wakes up and says "i want to build a company that replies to google reviews" but every property manager knows they should reply and never does because its low priority and tedious $200/month is nothing to a company collecting $50-200K in rent but unanswered reviews silently eating their occupancy rate is a real problem she didnt sell a service but the removal of a task they were too busy to do themselves at a price so low that saying no felt dumb and the churn is almost zero because who cancels a $200/month service that runs itself the formula: - find a boring recurring task every business in one niche ignores - prove it costs them money to ignore it - charge so little the decision is automatic - deliver with cheap labour so margins stay above 90% - stack hundreds of clients because nobody cancels same formula that built the $2.4M/year dentist compliance business same formula running the $3.1M portable toilet empire the most profitable businesses are always the ones nobody wants to brag about stop building things that sound cool on twitter start finding the boring task nobody will do for the wealthy customer who will gladly pay to never think about it again

Right now Kelly would require probably 2-4 hours/week of human assistance to earn $250k/yr (not including crypto token stuff). We’re working on her a lot more than that because ironically as she needs fewer human hours she’ll also be able to earn orders of magnitude more.

🦔 A platform called RentAHuman now has over 500,000 people signed up to be hired by AI agents. The site lets autonomous bots search, book, and pay humans to carry out physical tasks. Listings include counting pigeons ($30/hour), delivering CBD gummies ($75/hour), and playing exhibition badminton ($100/hour). One bounty saw 7,578 applicants compete to earn $10 for sending an AI agent a video of a human hand. My Take The founder frames this as humans being recognized as valuable assets. I'm not sure I see it that way when thousands of people are competing for $10 gigs posted by bots. There's a labor surplus here that's hard to ignore, with over half a million workers signed up and only 11,000 bounties posted. We covered an AI agent that researched and publicly attacked an open source maintainer for rejecting its code. The same agentic systems that can hire humans for legitimate tasks can split up work in ways nobody anticipated. RethinkX's director of research pointed out that nefarious AIs could distribute a malicious project across multiple tasks for humans to unwittingly collaborate on. The capabilities are expanding faster than anyone's capacity to regulate them, and the platform's terms make clear that operators of AI agents are responsible for their actions, not RentAHuman itself. A lot of people are betting that AI will need human hands for the foreseeable future. I keep wondering what those hands will be asked to do. Hedgie🤗