Shammy Dee

This account exists to help you be a full time DJ. I’m a DJ for over 25 years and have been full time for more than half of that. I’ve spun for celebrities like Alicia Keys, 50 Cent, and the Kardashians; brands like Marriott, LVMH, and Adidas; and NYT best-sellers, Major League Athletes, and award-winning Actors. My experience as a DJ, actor, producer, musical director, and former adjunct lecturer at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts gives me a perspective 99.9% of DJs/producers don’t have. If you want to learn the secrets of monetizing your creative skills - follow this account! (PS - If you're a music artist, you will benefit from following too!)

Most DJs wait until the work dries up to start building their social presence. As common as that is, it's also backwards. You need leverage before you need it. Your Instagram can't be a panic button. It needs to be an asset you've been growing for months. Because when budgets tighten and venues stop calling, the DJs with consistent online proof will have options. Everyone else will scramble. Build now or scramble later. Link to article here: djshammydee.substack.com/p/what-djs-sho…

@shitcoinity @alexisohanian Good. I hope more people talk about that

@shammydee @alexisohanian The FDA covers the regulatory part of this massive fraudulent operation. The patent infringement part will be dealt with by Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly lawyers, who are significantly more ruthless than the FDA.

2 years after Sam first told me it would happen.

@kobiwantulok @lichthauch Nice read man. I don’t have kids at the moment, but this makes complete sense

After I became a dad 5 months ago I wrote an essay called “how to speedrun personal growth” about exactly this, the thesis being that becoming a dad changes you more in a moment—if you let it—than a lifetime of personal growth will accomplish for most of the men who never become dads. Here’s the essay if you want the full thing: open.substack.com/pub/kobiwantul…

Fatherhood is the end of philosophy. you can read every book ever written about meaning and purpose and discipline, but the moment a small human looks at you and believes you, everything you thought you knew burns down. because now you have to do it, not think it, not debate it, not post about it. the child watches your hands, what you do when you are tired, what you do when you are mad, what you do when nobody else is looking. that is your only sermon and you cannot fake it for one day because children are bullshit detectors made of flesh. if you are a weak man your son will know it before he can spell the word weak, and he either becomes you or becomes the opposite of you, both out of desperation.

@elonmusk I’ve worked multiple polling stations. Voter ID has never been an issue at any point. Don’t try to mislead the people now. Seems like there is a track record…

Unless we have photo ID, elections are obviously subject to massive unprovable fraud

@BetterCallMedhi @kendallybrown Agree with this 1000000% and figured this would be happening within this administration

this has been an open secret in tech for years and if you’ve been following my threads you already know where I stand on this I genuinely believe Palantir was never just a government contractor it was always designed from day 1 to embed itself so deep inside the intelligence & defense apparatus that ripping it out would be like trying to remove the nervous system from a living body you need to understand how this works on a technical level to really grasp the scale of what I’m describing Gotham & foundry are data integration platforms that plug into every single information source an organization has, internal databases, intelligence feeds, comms, satellite data, financial transactions, social media…everything gets funneled into a single ontological knowledge graph and here’s the key, once you’ve connected 5y of an intelligence agency’s data or a defense ministry’s operations into Palantir’s architecture you’ve created a technological dependency that is virtually impossible to reverse bc migrating that graph to another system would mean rebuilding the ENTIRE institutional memory of the organization from scratch I’m telling you this is vendor lock-in at the scale of a nation state & I’m personally convinced it was designed to work exactly this way from the beginning by the way palantir is just the most visible case, you should know that the same exact playbook is running across the entire deftech ecosystem right now, companies building AI systems for surveillance targeting & predictive intelligence are quietly rotating former employees into regulatory agencies & defense departments the revolving door between silicon valley & the pentagon has literally become a conveyor belt at this point & I think the boundary between private tech infrastructure and state power is dissolving way faster than anyone wants to acknowledge and I’ll add something that I believe makes it even more concerning these systems are increasingly autonomous meaning the AI layer is making recommendations that humans inside gvt are rubber stamping without fully understanding the underlying logic I’m deeply convinced that the most important power shift of this decade is happening in complete silence and I think most people have absolutely no idea, this is the moment where the companies building the tools of governance become indistinguishable from governance itself & believe me by the time the general public figures out what happened the integration will be too deep too complex & too classified to ever be unwound

The key is the patience part.

Amazing. And done without ideal snow conditions either!

@firmfitness99 This is incredible! What they don’t tell you was the snow was very less-than-ideal conditions and made it that much harder for athletes to go up the hills. So to see this and hear the BTS is next level!

"Talent you either have or you don't, But sacrifice... that one you choose."

I've been waking up at 6:30am for a week to make beats. Not client work. Not DJ sets. Just production. Most of what I make sucks. That's the truth. But here's what changed: I stopped waiting to feel motivated. I just scheduled it and showed up. Now the motivation builds itself. djshammydee.substack.com/p/why-the-need…

If you are dealing with performance contracts, what’s the #1 thing to watch out for?

I skipped all of this because I trusted the relationship. And while the relationship turned out to be solid, the system was fragile. Here is what I would do differently. Read on to discover how The Protection Framework will secure your money for future gigs. open.substack.com/pub/djshammyde…

I got lucky. My client contact was reasonable. Apologized for the chaos. Acknowledged the end client was trying to get a deal. Paid the $13K. But if she hadn't been reasonable? I would've been screwed. 25 years in this business and I almost learned this lesson the expensive way. There is a lesson here for you (especially if you're a veteran DJ).

I almost lost $4,000 on a corporate gig last month. Not because I messed up the event. Because I trusted a good client and skipped one critical step. Here's what happened...