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Here's a framework to think about the choices that will define your life...and how to make those choices correctly.

@Jb2Investments I highly recommend letterstream.com

Another stack of owner lead letters going out for my PM business.

@dianne_alter @paper In 6 months, this post is ilrelevant.

I've been playing around with this new design-to-code tool called @paper for the last few weeks. I wasn't expecting the gap with Figma to be this big. I gave both tools the 2 exact same prompt, identical starting point: redesign a 404 error page. Figma gave me three options that were basically the same. It ignored half the prompt. Paper gave me three distinct designs with better copy and a split view layout that I really liked. The output is real HTML, CSS, and Tailwind. So I took Paper's winning design, connected Claude Code through the MCP, and built it directly into the codebase. It asked me questions about button logic and existing routes. It pulled from the current design system. The final result was almost 1:1 with what Paper designed. I even took it one step further and tested pulling a Storybook component library into both tools. Figma scattered variants across separate pages with no structure. Paper organized every size, color, and state in one file, exactly how you'd expect a component library to look. Shoutout to our amazing designer @ftosses for inspiring me to try paper :) I tested a full comparison video this week :)

Stephen Spencer turns his toddler’s stories into bangers!

@DallasAptGP 😳

~$12.4M (at least that’s what press and lawsuits say) Texas syndicator raised capital for one deal, then redirected it as nonrefundable earnest money on a separate ~1,600 unit portfolio in Houston. Never closed. Deposit was forfeited. Lawsuits followed.

Building.

@rohde88 It's the best it's been for years.

Deal flow has slowed down. You hear it from brokers, you hear it from clients. If you’re still waiting for the same old emails, you’re losing. I’m using layoff trackers to find motivated industrial sellers. A closure notice today is a vacancy (or a sale) tomorrow. That’s the edge.

@ThinkAppraiser Industrial in a tiertary market you've never heard of.

Gun to your head name the best type of real estate to own

@RepLuna We've been witnessing it for 30+ years.....it doesn't matter anymore.

The American people are witnessing a full blown breakdown in the Senate. We have a piece of overwhelmingly popular legislation that still can’t get passed thru. This entire ordeal has exposed the failures of our system to truly represent the voters. It’s all so corrupt.

@molzer @QuintonLucasKC I don't know anything about plentiful communication, but I want to live in a city where "Molzer-type" projects are the absolute rule, and not the exception as it relates to policy.

@QuintonLucasKC 100000% agree with that. Just adjust the messaging then!

@molzer Heard. Your type of projects are, candidly, the exception sweet spots written into policy. Data centers are not. I see your points. Likely plentiful communication is essential, but that’s the routine.

@TJHannam10 Same in business.

"What's the biggest difference between the athletes who WIN vs the ones that don't?" Answer: They have a WINNING story running in their head, all the time - Too good not to share, sending to all my hitters (repeatedly)

Good morning #NYC !

@PowercatEng @Philip_Sarnecki This 👆🏻

@Philip_Sarnecki Mr Sarnecki, my repeat post: 105 counties plated in the 1800s; 105 tax systems; 105 county commissions; 105 election systems; 105 IT systems, etc. Merge counties and gain efficiencies from duplication elimination. Start with Johnson and Wyandotte. Godspeed.

The state of Kansas has added $10 billion to the total budget in the last 7 years with no population growth - up over 65%. This is absolutely crazy! While our taxes go up, career politicians in Topeka are spending our hard earned tax dollars on things we don’t want or need. Once I’m Governor, I will bring in an outside auditor to go through every dollar in the state budget to find waste, fraud, and abuse in the state government. I’ll make the audit public so the people know where their money is being spent. It’s time for accountability and a governor who is going to fight for hard working Kansans across our state. LETS WIN IN KANSAS!

The final verse in the Gospel of John is truly impressive. “Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.” (John 21:25)

For those looking to make their own homemade “secret sauces.”

The moment when you are overqualified for your profession

@molzer Barney Allis is coming along...

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@rossiadam Good interview, there is more to learn in the failures than successes.

Too many people on X edit their highlight reel to only show the winning shots. I don’t do that. I have had some epic fails, and this was my most costly. The reason was simple: hubris. When you have a big win and get a big head, that is when you are likely to get wrecked.

@PerrySolem The music and the sun setting 🥲

"That said, ‘What would you do if capital were free?’ is a dangerous question to ask an entrepreneur." - Ben Horowitz describing opulent self-storage facility projects capitalized in Nashville in recent years

Life for a girl dad can feel this fast sometimes🤍