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@mikepat711 What a great freaking post man. Cheering you on from afar! Need more of this! Cheers!

In 2015, I marched for Bernie and donated to his campaign. In 2019, after years of being a miserable democratic socialist who blamed everyone else for my sadness, I decided that I couldn’t stand being a miserable fuck anymore, and needed to start taking risks and aggressively started doing stuff to change my life. I started working multiple jobs. I had 3 I was juggling at one point. I funded my life with one of them, and with the additional jobs, I invested all of my dollars in Palantir. It was honestly fun. Yeah, I worked 70 hours a week usually and sometimes would go 60 days without a day off, but it was exhilarating. I was making changes and doing things. It was way better than being miserable and angry and making my entire identity about politics and my disdain for “the rich.” Those were hopeless times and I was glad to be doing something for myself. I was able to grow a portfolio of 4,000 Palantir shares at an 8 dollar cost basis between 2021-2023. 32,000 dollars from hardcore grinding. Between 2023-2025, that 32 grand grew to over 400 grand. In May 2024 I started rotating some of the profits into TSLA, along with purchasing with new income. I’ve learned so much about capitalism since 2019, how wealth is created, and the difference between makers and takers. I’ve been inspired by so many amazing builders and entrepreneurs on this platform. I’ve even interacted with many of them. Totally surreal. Today, I cheered in my car as it drove me home when I heard that Elon’s pay package was approved. I voted my 750 shares on it with a huge grin on my face. If Elon gets paid 1 trillion dollars, I will be a multimillionaire. After all I’ve been through and after everything I’ve done for myself over the last 10 years, I look at this post by Bernie and know I would’ve cheered it on in 2015, but today, I see it for what it actually is. Manipulative, depressing rhetoric intended to depress a base of voters and make them feel hopelessly dependent on him and his colleagues. None of them build anything or create value or give working class people like me the opportunity to peg my labor against their genius. They did nothing but make me miserable. I hope even one person can read this get pumped to start doing shit. There are ups and downs, but it’s yours. Nobody can take your grind away from you. Kick ass and build over years of time and watch what happens along the way. Don’t listen to sad miserable people like Bernie.

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Agree with your point on Unions - very dangerous territory we're entering. But, I think rather than picking other countries, you will see companies choose states that tend to not organize over states that are historically unionized (moving to south). Automation is playing a huge role here too. I've been in manufacturing for 15 years (packaging), and our plants operate with 50% less people than they used to. Some industries will for sure choose to go overseas or to LATAM. But for most, the logistics and need to do things on a regional level here in the US, this will be impossible.

Prediction: US manufacturing will be cut in half over the next 10 years. Unions and labor costs will continue to crush us relative to other countries. It’ll also be greatly reduced in China. It will 10x in Mexico and other LATAM countries.

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We just finished up a crazy weekend, running the kids around from sport to sport. 2 things we prioritize: 1. We pack food for the day: fruit and healthy snacks so we're not picking up fast food on the go. 2. Family dinner: even if it is early or late, we all eat together.

A quick story and then some thoughts on how to stay on fire when you have young kids. Coming out of Covid, we asked our employees to come back to the office 2-3 days a week. We offered up a great amount of flexibility and discussed this at length with our teams. I felt (and still do) that there is a high level of importance to be together, in person, for collaborative, team building and decision-making reasons. As we implemented this new schedule, almost everyone was on board. We had some push back from a few, which was expected. But the one that still sticks with me was a project manager that told us we were taking time away from his 19 month old. Put aside the initial response of ‘what the hell are you doing all day then?’. It got me thinking about how having kids pulls so many men back down into mediocrity. They don’t know how to balance their aspirations and dreams while being the present father figure that their kids need. I am all for family time, but we also must provide and have drive, passions and a vision for our future. That requires some sacrifice. That requires perspective. There are some activities or tasks that you just have to do (and you may not like them) that lead you to success. Here are a few thoughts on how to stay on fire as a man, leader and Dad when you have young kids: 1. Work your ass off - show your kids that life is tough. And that they’re going to have to work hard to get what they want. If you have the mindset of the guy above, enjoy being mediocre and living an average life. 2. Compartmentalize - don’t bring your issues home. Do what you need to do either before you leave your home office or on your drive home. Your kids don’t want that. They don’t want you thinking about an issue or the bad day you had. They want to play. They want to build legos. They want you fully present. And you need to be. 3. Sacrifice - as a highly driven and motivated Dad, you’re not going to be able to do everything and be at everything. That is not a bad thing. 4. Communicate with your spouse - make sure you’re on the same page. This isn’t a one time talk, but constant and consistent communication. She needs to understand your goals, vision and purpose. You need to understand hers. And you both need to understand what you want for your family. Design it out together, implement and adjust where needed. 5. Schedule time with each of your kids - we try to go on a date with each of ours once a month. They get to pick and we build this into the calendar. 6. Enjoy the car rides - I used to make calls if I was driving the kids around. I was being productive. But I was missing out on great time where my kids weren’t distracted by anything. They’re literally strapped in and can’t go anywhere. Now, we talk, laugh and sing. Happy Monday 👊

A few years ago, I had one of the hardest days of my professional career. At this point, I am running a $400m division inside of a large manufacturing company. We have about 750 employees at over 10 locations across the country. We are the growth focused, innovation arm of the company. So we are taking some calculated bets, trying new things and getting into new markets and channels. This worked a lot of the time. But we also had our fair share of failures. This story is about one of those failures. I had a vision that we could put a small team together to attack a part of the market that we felt was underserved and way behind the industry from a technology and creative standpoint. We thought the upside was huge and the growth potential was there. So, we hired the team and integrated them into our business. We clearly defined their focuses and their goals. I also communicated to the organization what this new team would be doing, what they would be focused on and why we were doing this. On paper, we assembled a REALLY good team. Was it the A team? I think I thought it was at the time. Looking back, probably not close. We for sure had some A players in the team, but we didn’t have the right leader and there wasn’t any ‘glue’. It was just a collection of a bunch of people that quite honestly, didn’t have time to gel. But you get so enamored with your idea. We were coming off a run of really good success where we hit on idea after idea. And that clouded my perspective. You think that everything is going to work. It was pretty clear that where we were going was doomed to fail. It was the wrong way to challenge the market. The major players dug in and didn’t allow us to penetrate. And the team did not have a ‘do whatever it takes’ attitude. Many of them were closer to retirement than anyone cared to admit and just didn’t have the run left in them. After almost 2 years of trying to make this work (and a couple of pivots), I finally came to the decision that it was time to shut it down. We found roles for a few people, but I made the call to lay everyone else off. I remember that Friday like it was yesterday. Meeting with everyone individually and telling them the news. It rips you apart. I knew it was the right decision. 100%. But I still cried that day. I questioned my abilities as a leader. I questioned my character and my values. I got not great feedback from those that were departing. But I had to keep perspective. And my perspective back then was we have a huge business. 750 people and their families that we have responsibility for. But this new venture was sucking focus and resources away from our core business and hemorrhaging money. Being a leader is hard. It is not glamorous (mostly). No one (or at least not many people) talk about the shitty days. The days you have to make life changing decisions; decisions that impact other people in a way that you hate. To be in a position of leadership, means that this comes with the territory. And you need to be prepared for that. At a minimum, understand that you will be in what feels like an impossible position. It is not for everyone. And if you don’t have a strong foundation (support system, mentors, value system, etc), it will eat you alive. Looking back, this was the right call. But I still check on LinkedIn those that left to make sure they landed somewhere on their feet. I enjoy leading. I enjoy running a business. I love solving all the challenges that come with it. But to have that, you have to do the shitty things. The things most people will never do. Your vision, purpose and values must never waiver. Be strong. It gets better. 👊

On 'The Tough Days': You would think that everyone else’s lives are perfect. Because that is all we see nowadays. The perfect family. The beach vacation. The beautiful new house. The perfect shot. No one posts or even talks about the bad days. The days when your kids are having a meltdown at every turn. When the customer isn’t happy. When you’re fighting with your spouse. Where things just don’t seem to go right. Life is tough. Life is a grind. And there is nothing that we can do to avoid that. Things don’t and shouldn’t come easy. We live in one of the most mentally and emotionally demanding times in history. Sure things used to be WAY harder. Things that are a given now (water, electricity, etc), weren’t. And it wasn’t that long ago. We don’t have to hunt to feed our families. We don’t have to build a fire to stay warm. We don’t have to make our own clothes. But we do have to deal with the stresses of modern life. We do have to acknowledge that life is difficult. That doing anything special here is going to take blood, sweat, tears and more. We’re going to fight. We’re going to cry and laugh. We are going to have significant failures. And if you don’t have any of those, are you really living? Are you really putting yourself out there? Are you taking chances? Are you growing? Are you allowing those around you to grow? The mentally tough will rise to the top. Hard work now, is the ultimate differentiator. FOCUS is the new currency. The ability to limit and minimize distractions to fully perform the task at hand will be the new superpower. Having the strength to say no to noise and addictions and dopamine hits. To the non-value add things in your life. The things that we all waste time on. The endless scrolling. The mindless watching. The envy that hits us as we see the perfect family on the steps of the perfect house. FOCUS is the new currency. Happy Tuesday ✌️

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