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@vlok_andre I hope you answered with Tannie

/ The start of the rurals. How do I know? A woman 15 years older than I am just called me "oom" 😉

THE ROADTRIP THREAD I've combined a few consulting mandates into a three day roadtrip through Northern and Eastern Cape. This will be a thread of pics of the journey 🧵

@vlok_andre Drive safely and enjoy!

@MaxduPreez @Jon_M_Berger He was found to have defrauded his company and was ‘sidelined’ to the ‘colonies’!

Fact: Jan van Riebeek was a bit of a skelm, he hated it at the Cape and left after just a few years leaving no family behind. 'Founder' or 'volkstigter' se gat

A safe space helps people move past the surface argument and speak honestly about underlying needs

@Nicolascole77 While I’m not Jane Austen, I’ve published two books and I’ve always used M-dashes.

Anyone who says, “Using M-dashes means it was written by AI” is really just announcing to the world they don’t read. M-dashes have been used by writers from Dostoyevsky to Hemingway to Jane Austen to Toni Morrison for decades. Go pick up a book.

@atroll12345 @ksadjadpour Complaining? He wasn’t complaining, he very clearly sets out Irans position.

Easy to complain but can you kindly provide solutions and ideas for @POTUS? Solutions that consider USA’s constraints such as no ground troops, and a short war that ends in a few weeks from now. That’s how you can be helpful to people of Iran. Complaining and making Trump look bad is not helpful. Do not let your personal politics get in the way we all know you voted Kamala or independent anyways. Your kinds vote did not help but now that our vote has gotten us to this point do the people of Iran a favor, step outside of your liberal ego and provide solutions.

1 The defining deliberations of this war aren't between the US and Iran, but Trump and himself. He’s vacillated between walking away and promising to bomb Iran to the Stone Age. Iran has been consistent: Its ideology is resistance, its strategy is chaos, its endgame is survival.

@ItsKieranDrew A young Argentinian rugby team was touring SA last month. I took a photo of this basket one of the young men was carrying

One of my favourite parts about Argentina: They are OBSESSED with this drink called Mate. I thought us english were committed to our tea. But these guys will literally carry a thermoflask and a pimp cup so they can sip on this all day. I even had to carry one up a mountain because my girlfriend “wanted a matetito” at the top. I love Argentinians.

@vlok_andre Happy Easter Andre!

Early Easter morning Mass. Good morning ❤️

@TheCopyTitan A gold and platinum mine with over R35000 employees

What's the biggest client you've worked with?

@elonmusk Stop it Elon, stop your utterly irresponsible and rubbish nonsense

South Africa has extremely racist laws

@Manu_Sisti ROI

Repeat after me. Claude + Amazon KDP is going to create more high-net-worth individuals in 2026 than SaaS ever did. I’ve QUIETLY made $65,000 last month doing it. - Without showing my face - Without revealing my name - Without any employees to manage. And it's compounding every month. All you need: • Claude • Ideogram AI • 1 hour every day. I broke down the entire business model in a 5+ hour training. If you want it, with all my Claude promtps and workflows. Like this post Comment “ROI” I’ll DM you the full system for free.

@lulzin_ @naledimashishi Small anyana win!! Congrats and wishing you well

@KennyTorrella @voxdotcom We managed a grievance at a company, which provided free lunches to the staff, for only providing meat 3x a week.

A few months ago, nutrition and fitness influencer Jacob Smith talked up the benefits of tofu and... some guys totally lost it. How did meat become a measure of manhood for a lot of men, and what can be done to separate meat from masculinity?

@paolo_scales “48”

just put together the 48 laws of linkedin lead gen… a GTM BIBLE with EVERY principle that added $950k+ to our clients’ MRR for 24h, i’m sending it to EVERYONE who likes + comments “48” (must be following + RT for priority access)

Conflict worsens when leaders fear emotion. Calm containment brings it back on track.

@Manu_Sisti Thank you!

@marleenring Just realized my DMs are capped today. You can get the training here:publishingos.io/workshop?htraf…

Amazon KDP is the most beginner friendly AI business on Earth. I make $50K/month doing it. And tomorrow, we’re hosting a live masterclass breaking down the entire system. (1,342 people joined last time.) Inside: • How to find profitable niche • Outlining + Writing with Claude in 1-hour • Cover designs that get sales • KDP ads to scale past $10K Plus I'll share the exact AI prompts to automate the process. Easily worth a $997 course. For next 24 hours, you can register your spot for FREE. But here's the catch: Only join if you're ready to take action. Not just consume. Not just "learn." Actually implement. If you're in, like + comment "Deal" I'll send you the webinar link directly. (Follow me first so I can DM you the access)

@JonathanPieNews It’s rage bait

40 years old and still talks like an 11 year old edgelord playing Roblox.

@TakoTreba Dashboard

I'm coming back from maternity leave soon. First thing I did? Built myself a content dashboard for LinkedIn. Using Claude. Every post I've written. Pulled apart. — Impressions — Hook patterns — Keywords that drove reach — What to double down on Most people guess what works. I wanted to know. If you want to build one for yourself, comment "dashboard" and I'll DM you how.

@Manu_Sisti SYSTEM

Half the people who see my posts hate me for preaching creating books with AI. The other half is making $3,000 to $10,000 per month following my advice. ( Btw, if you want the exact system I teach them: AI prompts, niche research, the full workflow... follow me, like this post, and comment "SYSTEM." I'll DM it to you free. You need to do all 3. ) Here's the thing most people get wrong about AI publishing: It's not writing business It's publishing business. Those are two completely different things. A writer starts with something to say. A publisher starts with something people are already paying to read. One begins with expression. The other begins with data. Think about how a traditional publishing press operates. Random House doesn't sit down and ask: "What do we feel like writing today?" They look at what their market wants. • They commission it. • They produce it. • They distribute it. The book is the product. The market is the business. That's the model I run on Amazon. Amazon tells me exactly what 310 million buyers are searching for right now. "Strength training after 50." "Budgeting for people who hate budgeting." "How to manage anxiety without medication." These aren't topics I choose because I'm passionate about them. They're problems people are already typing into a search bar with a credit card nearby. My job is not to write, but to identify that demand and fill it. > AI handles the production. > Claude writes chapters with a consistent voice and structure. > ChatGPT maps the outline. > Ideogram designs a cover that gets picked over every competing book on the page. What used to take a publishing team six months now takes one person three to four weeks. But AI did't change the business logic. You still need to find the right market first. You still need to understand what the buyer actually wants. You still need to position the book correctly so Amazon's algorithm shows it to the right person. AI made the production faster. It didn't make bad market decisions profitable. That's the part most people miss. They use AI to write faster about the wrong topics. Then wonder why nothing sells. The ones making $3,000 to $10,000 a month understood something different: The book is just the product. The market is the business. Find a market with real buying intent. Build the product that fits it. Distribute it through the largest product search engine on earth. Let Amazon's algorithm put it in front of buyers who are already looking. Collect royalties across 17 markets every month. That's publishing. Not writing. If you want the full system: how to find markets with real demand, the AI workflow to build the book, and the ad structure to scale it: Follow me, like this post, and comment "SYSTEM." All 3. Or no DM.