Tommy Sandwich 🥪

@StevenBartlett Hell yeah

life is so weird! Some years ago, in a Manchester bedroom, i started a podcast with a $100 microphone and called it The Diary Of A CEO... The idea was that i'd share some of the more personal things in my diary - that first episode got 40 subscribers on Apple. Most of them were my friends. Thankfully, two of my friends told me it wasn't as embarrassing as I thought it was, and told me to carry on. Today, about 6 years after bringing the show to YouTube, we hit 16,000,000 subscribers. This month we had 90 million± downloads/views (a new record for us), and added 600,000+ new subscribers to the show. no rational person looking at me sat in that bedroom at 3am, trying to figure out how to edit on garage band, using a sock as a pop-shield for the microphone, would have forecast any of this. i certainly did not. all of this has been so weird to me that it's mentally easier to just not think about it, and focus on the work... which is the decision we've always made and will continue to make In an industry dominated by American media giants, I'm really proud that a show founded in Britain by a team of now hundreds of Brits, many of them young people in their first job, can compete globally... And i'm reminded again what's possible with the right people, the right focus, a willingness to work very hard, (and some good fortune and timing). AND... i'm reminded again of the power of the creative industries in the UK. FLIGHTSTORY, our media company behind The Diary Of A CEO and a growing slate of other shows, just finished its 25,000 sqft campus in central London and is expanding in the US. We're hiring like crazy - so please get in touch if you're looking for a job! We're looking for everything from software engineers, creatives, C-suite level execs and more! To the audience who show up week after week, thank you so much for handing me one of the great, unexpected, privileges of my life! ok, back to work!

@made_in_cosmos I want all my stuff to disappear.

it's dawning on me that there's no way I can keep my house in a manageable state unless I regularly remove at least as much stuff as we all bring in

@ChefReactions Looks like part of an old shoe

@ATaylorFPGA In UK it feels like the government is a little man on your shoulder constantly yelling at you and charging you money. It’s suffocating. “Nope, can’t do that. Oh, that’s gonna cost you. Oooo sorry, you need a license for that.”

Had to go to Oxford recently to see a client. Managed to get not one but two congestion charge fines. At every turn petty little tyrants in government / local government just try to make your life harder.

@justinskycak I think a lot of folks are using AI in this way.

The most dangerous form of laziness is performative productivity. Notes, tabs, highlights, summaries, plans. A whole pile of activity arranged to avoid direct contact with the work.

@cremieuxrecueil @Robotbeat Sleep

Practically, the only rigorously proven things you can do for life extension right now are: - Don't be fat - Be fit - Control your blood sugar - Control your blood pressure - Have low cholesterol - Don't poison yourself Almost everything else is speculative and dubious.

@mkobach You’re living the dream!!

Every morning at 5:30am my 4-year-old jumps into my bed and is so excited to see me he can’t help but talk my ear off. Every morning my 2-year-old demands that I lay on the couch in front of him so he can use me as a pillow. My 4-year-old rushes to show me every rock, flower, or trinket he finds because he’s so excited by it and knows that I will be too. No matter how minor the “injury”, my 2-year-old will present me with the injuried body part and demand I “kiss it.” Which instantly heals it. Every time my 4-year-old asks to race, I let him win. He couldn’t be more proud that he’s faster than Dada. My 2-year-old can’t leave a room without demanding that “Dada come!” And I’m expected to follow him. When my 4-year-old is on my shoulders, my 2-year-old gets so jealous that I have to carry him too. I can’t do any project around the house without both boys demanding to help me. Sometimes it’s exhausting. But I’ll relax when they’re older.

@MichaelKudrna The people who check reviews and decide against visiting you because of the opinions of others are not your ideal customer anyway. Better to focus on the people that will love you.

Cubby Bear in Chicago. 4.1 stars, 1,400 reviews Nobody checks that rating before walking in.....nobody cares Cubs are playing the Cardinals? Place is packed. Floors sticky. Tables wrecked. Bathrooms... don't even ask And they have actual servers. Full staff Still packed. Every single time McDonald's averages 3 to 3.5 stars. You think anyone cares? Drive-thru's still wrapped around the building Reviews mattered once. When we were a higher trust society We're not that anymore Now we know. Negative reviews are written by perpetually unhappy people craving power 31 followers. No influence. No control over their actual lives Reviews are the last thing they have. The only moment their opinion matters to anyone So they cling to it. Convince themselves they're holding businesses accountable. That they're a voice They're not They're anonymous nobodies gripping the only leverage they'll ever have Cubby Bear doesn't care, McDonalds doesn't care. Still packed

Sales down 40% week over week due to the tube strike. Let’s just say it does not make me sympathetic to their cause. @TfL

When you’re young, you don’t believe you’ll get old. You understand conceptually that you will, but it doesn’t seem real. I feel the same thing now with my daughter. She’s one. I know she’ll become an adult, but I don’t actually believe it somehow. It doesn’t feel real.

Toniebox but for podcasts. Put your @tferriss figurine on top to listen to the newest pod. 😜

@MichaelKudrna So annoying. We just opened a few month ago and it’s been a interesting experience dealing with reviews. Most are positive so far, but I just hate having to play the game.

Got a 1-star review this weekend Customer said our dining room was dirty without saying that we had a line to the door (had to turn off online ordering just to keep up with the volume). Then proceeds to claim his food was given to another guest who "touched" it. Staff refused to remake. Called us bad business. Here's what actually happened Another guest briefly picked up his plate. Caught in seconds. Food never left the plate. Returned untouched. The conversation about remaking? Never actually happened. Completely fabricated. Same Sunday. Same rush. Same room. Another customer left internal feedback with a 5-star (we have QR codes on every table): "Dining area wasn't as clean as I'd prefer but I can forgive that because the staff was tied up behind the counter during a rush." Same conditions. Opposite conclusion. Because one customer had context and character. The 1-star guy? 5 of his 6 Google reviews are 1-stars Nobody has that many bad experiences. Some people just hunt for them. This is the review economy. Reasonable people leave internal feedback or say nothing. The liars and extortionists run straight to Google or Yelp. One fabricated review poisons the well because the average person simply doesn't review. I never review myself. The system doesn't reward honesty. It rewards exaggerated outrage.

@Jessecooksfood Why do you think that is? I haven’t live there for over ten years, so I’m curious.

It’s kinda sad that Seattle’s food scene (within the city limits at least) has gotten worse in my adult life. It was a better city to eat like 10-15 years ago.

@bryan_johnson That’s my problem with your whole system, I feel like it makes your fragile.

I'm in a bad mood right now because I didn't get to exercise this morning. I had a bunch of stuff done to my face yesterday and had to take the day off. I become an entirely different person without exercise. I don't like this guy much.

@justalexoki More kids!

so what do you guys do to give your life meaning

@ChefReactions Come to Tommys Sandwiches for a big American sub!!!

@kristophershinn @Seahawks @12s @seattletimes Hawks

Redemption

Everyone’s excited about AI agents. This is what fires me up these days! 🤤

@signulll I want this for my sandwich shop

i want a refrigerator with a camera agent inside that uses ai to keep track of what is there & how much, then orders it whenever you’re running low lol.

@buccocapital redzone for pods

I would pay a lot of money for some AI solution that clips the 10 most interesting minutes from the podcasts I follow and gives me an hour or two of the best content each week