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Don Miller

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Don Miller
Don Miller@miller_don·
@georgehayworth @SaveYourSons Men need to stop blaming “society” , I’m so tired of men in particular not taking responsibility for their decisions / indecision . Time to Man up and stop worrying what other people think
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George Hayworth 🇺🇸@georgehayworth·
MEN Here is a simple test to ensure you are strengthening your marriage. If you send the wrong signals, she won't be attracted to you. If she's not attracted to you she's not having sex with you.
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Don Miller
Don Miller@miller_don·
@brettperl Can’t wait to dive into this, I’ve been looking for this solution for the past 3 months . Any other recommendations surrounding the delivery? Of course I’d like to automate vs individual sends. A Big thank you !
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Brett@brettperl·
I get asked a lot how I sort through our pipeline. One little hack I use: I start with the decks that use docsend. Why? If I’m a founder, I want to know who is looking at my deck at all times. It shows a level of care and diligence.
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Thomas Morales
Thomas Morales@imThomasMorales·
Finding a good virtual assistant is a life hack. But it can be a gigantic pain. I turned the 4-step process I use to find, hire, and manage VAs into a doc: - where to look - tools to use - Qs to ask - job post Comment "va" and I'll DM it to you. (Follow so I can DM)
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Ray Dalio@RayDalio·
As Carl Jung put it, "Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health." Yet most people instinctually avoid pain. This is true whether we are talking about building the body (e.g., weight lifting) or the mind (e.g., frustration, mental struggle, embarrassment, shame)--and especially true when people confront the harsh reality of their own imperfections. #principleoftheday
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Don Miller
Don Miller@miller_don·
@caitoz No excuse, need to continue innovating and expanding into high quality related kitchen accessories
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Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz·
I just read a disturbing paragraph in a New Yorker article about the Instant Pot, a popular electronic pressure cooker whose parent company recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy: “So what doomed the Instant Pot? How could something that was so beloved sputter? Is the arc of kitchen goods long but bends toward obsolescence? Business schools may someday make a case study of one of Instant Pot’s vulnerabilities, namely, that it was simply too well made. Once you slapped down your ninety dollars for the Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1, you were set for life: it didn’t break, it didn’t wear out, and the company hasn’t introduced major innovations that make you want to level up. As a customer, you were one-and-done, which might make you a happy customer, but is hell on profit-and-growth performance metrics.” Just think about that for a second. Under our current systems for profit generation, which is the primary driver of human behavior on this planet, making a quality product that lasts a long time instead of quickly going obsolete or turning into landfill will actually drive you into bankruptcy. An article in The Atlantic about the bankruptcy filing similarly illustrated this point last month: “From the point of view of the consumer, this makes the Instant Pot a dream product: It does what it says, and it doesn’t cost you much or any additional money after that first purchase. It doesn’t appear to have any planned obsolescence built into it, which would prompt you to replace it at a regular clip. But from the point of view of owners and investors trying to maximize value, that makes the Instant Pot a problem. A company can’t just tootle along in perpetuity, debuting new products according to the actual pace of its good ideas, and otherwise manufacturing and selling a few versions of a durable, beloved device and its accessories, updated every few years with new features. A company needs to grow.” This just says such dysmal things about why our planet is facing the existential crises it’s now facing. Corporations will die if they don’t continually grow, and they can’t grow without things like inbuilt planned obsolescence or continued additional purchases, which in a sane society would just be regarded as shoddy craftsmanship. Our entire civilization is driven by the pursuit of profit, and to keep turning large profits your corporation needs to continually grow, and your corporation can’t continually grow unless you’re manufacturing a crappy product that needs to be continually replaced or supplemented, and you can’t manufacture those replacements and supplementations without harvesting them from the flesh of a dying world. As writer Robert Moor recently observed on Twitter, “The fact that Instant Pot is already being framed as a corporate cautionary tale — the company that went bankrupt because they made a product so durable and versatile that its customers had little need to buy another one — instead of as a critique of capitalism is deeply, deeply depressing.” It’s really heartbreaking to think about all the ways human potential is being starved and constricted by these ridiculous limitations we’ve placed on the way we operate as a collective. Resources being allocated based on how well they can turn a profit stymies technological innovation, because the most profitable model will always lose out to less profitable ones that are more beneficial to people and our environment. Someone could invent a free energy machine that lasts forever and costs next to nothing, and even though it would save the world you can be certain it would never see the light of day under our current systems, because it couldn’t yield huge and continuous profits and it would destroy many current means of profit generation. Science should be the most collaborative endeavor in the world; every scientist on earth should be collaborating and communicating. Instead, because of our competition-based models, it’s the exact opposite: scientific exploration is divided up into innovators competing against other innovators, corporations competing against other corporations, nations competing against other nations. If we could see how much we are losing to these competition-based models, how much innovation is going unrealized, how much human thriving is being sacrificed, how we’re losing almost all of our brainpower potential to these models, we’d fall to our knees and scream with rage. If science had been a fully collaborative worldwide hive mind endeavor instead of divided and turned against itself for profit and military power, our civilization would be unimaginably more advanced than it is. This is doubtless. We gave up paradise to make a few bastards rich. Our competition-based, profit-motivated systems limit scientific innovation, and they also greatly limit the scope of solutions we can avail ourselves of. There’s a whole vast spectrum of potential solutions to the troubles we face as a species, and we’re limiting ourselves to a very small, very inferior fraction of it. By limiting solutions to ones that are profitable, we’re omitting any which involve using less, consuming less, leaving resources in the ground, and leaving nature the hell alone. We’re also shrinking the incentive to cure sicknesses and eliminate problems rather than offer expensive, ongoing treatments and services for them. Or even a project as fundamental to our survival as getting all the pollution out of our oceans. The profit motive offers no solution to this problem because there’s no way to make a surplus of money from doing so, and in fact it would be very costly. So the pollution stays in our seas, year after year. People have come up with plenty of solutions for removing pollution from the sea, but they never get rolled out at the necessary scale because there’s no way to make it profitable. And people would come up with far more solutions if they knew those solutions could be implemented. How many times have you had an awesome idea and gotten all excited about it, only to do the math and figure out that it’s unfeasible because wouldn’t be profitable? This is a very common experience, and it’s happening to ideas for potential solutions to our problems every day. The profit motive system assumes the ecocidal premise of infinite growth on a finite world. Without that, the entire system collapses. So there are no solutions which involve not growing, manufacturing less, consuming less, not artificially driving up demand with advertising, etc. It’s hard to appreciate the significance of this artificial limitation when you’re inside it and lived your whole life under its rules. It’s like if we were only allowed to make things out of wood; if our whole civilization banned the entire spectrum of non-woodcraft innovation. Sure such a civilization would get very good at making wooden things, and would probably have some woodcrafting innovations that our civilization doesn’t have. But it would also be greatly developmentally stunted. That’s how badly we’re handicapping ourselves with the profit motive model from the pursuit of viable solutions. And some solutions would be really great right now. This planet just had its warmest week in recorded history, and Antarctic sea ice is now failing to form in what for the southern hemisphere is the dead of winter. Even if you still want to pretend global warming isn’t real, this planet’s biosphere is giving us plenty of other signs of looming collapse, including plummeting insect populations, a loss of two-thirds of Earth’s wildlife over the last 50 years, ecosystems dying off, forests disappearing, soil becoming rapidly less fertile, mass extinctions, and oceans gasping for oxygen and becoming lifeless deserts while continents of plastic form in their waters. So our need for immediate solutions to our environmental crisis is not seriously debatable. But we’re not getting solutions, we’re getting a world ruled by corporations whose leaders are required to place growth above all other other concerns, even concerns about whether the future will contain an ecosystem which corporations can exist in or a human species for them to sell goods and services to. Corporations function as giant, world-eating sociopaths, because our current models let their leaders and lawyers wash their hands of all the consequences of the damage their monsters inflict in the name of growth and the duty to maximize shareholder profits. People worry about the world getting destroyed by machines driven by a heartless artificial intelligence, but we might end up destroying it with a kind of artificial mind we invented long before microchips: the corporation. So much of humanity’s dysfunction can be explained by the fact that corporations (A) pretty much run the world and (B) are required to act like sociopaths by placing profit above all other concerns. As long as human behavior remains driven by profit, ecocide will continue, because ecocide is profitable. As long as human behavior remains driven by profit, wars will continue, because war is profitable. As long as human behavior remains driven by profit, exploitation will continue, because exploitation is profitable. As long as human behavior remains driven by profit, corruption will continue, because corruption is profitable. There is no “good” model in which human behavior can remain driven by profit without these destructive behaviors continuing, because so many kinds of destructive behavior will always necessarily be profitable. No proponents of any iteration of capitalism have ever been able to provide any satisfactory answers to this. The call then is to move from competition-based, profit-driven systems to systems which are based on collaboration toward the common good of all. We’re a long way off from that, but a long way can be cleared in a short time under the right conditions. Our species is at adapt-or-die time, and the adaptation that must be made is clear.
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Chief Nerd
Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd·
JUST IN – Robert F. Kennedy Jr Receives a Standing Ovation at the 2023 Bitcoin Conference Leaving Announcers Stunned "We just heard one of the most amazing talks I've ever heard about Bitcoin at an event in my entire life, and I've been doing this for many years." @RobertKennedyJr @TheBitcoinConf
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Warren English
Warren English@TheWarEnglish·
I've created the ultimate guide for permanent fat loss. I usually only give this info to my clients... But for 24 hours, I'm giving it away for FREE. Like + Comment "💪" and I'll send it to you. *Must be following
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Nick Adams
Nick Adams@NickAdamsinUSA·
I drink my coffee black. I eat my steaks rare and seafood raw. I lift weights. I eat my chicken wings hot. I take my shots without chasers. I like my beer domestic. I sit with my legs spread wide open. I read my Bible nightly. I am an alpha male and no I won't apologize for it.
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Patrick Ireland
Patrick Ireland@Patrickire·
Buyers should hold back $2,500 for 7 days on EVERY Closing. This would eliminate most Sellers from removing Chattels and Fixtures included (TV brackets) and also encourage Sellers to leave fobs and garage door openers. You with me? @nasmadotali @joemac80 @agenthinsch #RealEstate
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Don Miller@miller_don·
Home prices increased by 20.4% across Canada year over year. While the central bank has already raised interest rates to combat rising prices, economists predict it will continue to raise the benchmark interest rate multiple times before the end of the year. #realestate #canada
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Canadians are one of two groups in the entire CDG Paris airport this morning mandated to wear masks when boarding and flying on planes, like ours now. The second group is from China…
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