Chris Cloud ☁️

This Otis elevator at the Biltmore house in NC was built 125 years ago in 1895. It still runs on the original motor, and Otis still maintains it. Talk about building a lasting business.

@themgmtconsult It’s a big shift and I’ve found most founder/entrepreneurs don’t make the leap

Spent my last 20 years in consulting. Made Partner in my 30s. Led teams of 100+ people. Run 9-figure client portfolios. Lived and worked in 4 continents. Hired ~200 employees in multiple geos. The hardest lesson I had to learn, at a real crossroads in my career, is a cliché everyone agrees with, but almost nobody truly understands: "What got me here won't get me there." Early on, progress rewards competence: you grind, you solve, you deliver. YOU become the person. Then you climb... and, basically without warning, the entire game changes. At senior levels, being a brilliant problem-solver is no longer enough. In fact, it *can* become a liability. The work that used to be all about answers, now starts being about implementing common sense at bigger scale. The work now becomes about making ambiguous, high-stakes decisions with incomplete and/or conflicting information, and about building people who can succeed *without* you sitting next to them. I'm telling you: if you still need to be in the weeds, you are already behind! Real leadership (I know... the infamous L word...) requires something deeply uncomfortable for most human beings in corporate: You gotta make yourself redundant. Most people resist this. I did too. When a team member brings you a problem, your instinct is to fix it in 30 seconds. Don't. Sit on your hands. Ask a question and walk away. If you keep fixing things, your team stays weak and you stay overworked. Think back to a moment when you felt indispensable on a project or to a team: chances are that feeling (which you likely thought was a strength) was your ceiling. If a deck is 80% as good as you would make it, leave it alone. If you spend your Sunday night polishing someone else's slides, what are you really?! A proofreader?! You have to let people fail small so the organization doesn't fail big. The shift from "doer" to "enabler" forces you to unlearn habits that once had made you successful; it can be ego-bruising and perhaps boring, but it is the only way to scale. That shedding is the price of playing the long game - the only one worth playing. All the best.

@thedankoe Love this until the end when you conclude that being your own brand is the best path forward. Building something where you can utilize and integrate your interests and self can be multiple things including building an organization much larger than yourself.

@covertress Hey @grok Who did this remix of Radiohead Everything?

In 1983, physicist Brandon Carter pointed out a strange blind spot: we can’t observe universe-ending catastrophes, because if they’d happened, we wouldn’t be here to notice. He called it the anthropic shadow. David Deutsch pushed the idea further: when we ask “why does the universe exist?”, the universe is, in a sense, interrogating itself. Remove observers from the equations, one Oxford physicist noted, and the universe never quite happens—it lingers as probability. So maybe consciousness isn’t something in the universe. Maybe it’s how the universe experiences itself. ☆

@30problemz JOY

Describe Steph Curry in one word

@kar_nels @moseskagan Yeah it’s not a miserable job - opens up lots of opportunities to advance as well

@chrisdcloud @moseskagan That seems like a really good entry level salary for a job that doesn't require a degree. Is it a miserable job for other reasons that you have to pay well, Because:

Of ~5 interviews we had set up yesterday for our entry-level, no-experience-required property management position paying $50k / yr, 4 no-showed. You'll forgive me if I'm skeptical the blame for lots of young people not being in education or work rests w "capitalism".

@jmdenouden @moseskagan Come on over to property management- big opportunities

@chrisdcloud @moseskagan This makes me want to reconsider my career as a teacher in SC.

@Super70sSports This guy Steph and Tiger woods coming from behind to win on a Sunday.

Who is the greatest athlete you’ve seen play in person in their prime? I’ll start:

@jchal Greenville, SC should be #1

Five metros that will explode in the next decade: 1. Savannah, GA 2. Wilmington, NC 3. Chattanooga, TN 4. Myrtle Beach, SC 5. Pensacola, FL What did I miss?

@patrickc 20 months is ridiculously fast.

I was walking to the office in New York this morning and noticed an arrestingly beautiful high-rise above me. Turns out it was the Woolworth building, which I'm a bit embarrassed to say I'd never noticed or heard of before. It was the tallest building in the world for 16 years (until 1929). Construction took 20 months. The architect was apparently inspired by European cathedrals; one clergyman called it "the cathedral of commerce". It contained its own power plant. It's adorned with the full Gothic package: gargoyles, spandrels, mullions, pilasters, corbels. It contained the world's fastest elevators when it opened. The world is a museum of passion projects.

It’s important to know this fact before you get married. There are two kinds of people who get married: 1. Those who come from skiing families 2. Those who come from families that never ski And 1 always married 2.

@TheWarriorsTalk 50 wins

Gimme your win/loss predictions for the season 🤔

@SullyBusiness Not that uncommon from what I’ve seen…

Never heard numbers this insane in the VA world. Guy is working with a managed company where you pay $2,500/month for a VA. The VA gets paid $700/month. He wants to work with them direct instead. Apparently the contract he signed says that if he wants to "buy out" the employee he has to pay the firm $100,000. What in the world are they smoking??

@NUCLRGOLF Read Every Shot Must Have a Purpose and learn how to enjoy every shot no matter the outcome. Anger stops you from learning.

@Fit_For_Golf @CallawayGolf @bridgestonegolf @4golfonline @kerrodgraygolf @ryanmouquegolf 100% mate. Doing that and also putting it out there for general input.

@chrisdcloud @CallawayGolf @bridgestonegolf @4golfonline @kerrodgraygolf @ryanmouquegolf Hey Chris, I mean this with solely good intentions. Get a swing analysis from one of the coaches you tagged in the post. Let them ask you the questions they need to and break down what you should work on. If you’re willing to put in the time to practice, get expert help👍

@ryanmouquegolf Great post thank you.

Do you want to hole more putts & reduce your 3 putts? Let me show you how I helped this student of mine gain +4 shots in his putting the day after giving him a lesson Can you spot anything wrong in these strokes? 🧵👇

@ryanmouquegolf If you can’t post the video what’s the point?

This is one of my students David. This is his "before" swing 👀 You won't believe what the “AFTER" swing looks like! (read post to find out) This was his journey & what we worked on 👊 🧵👇

@DisgracedProp Here for the comments lol

Worst places in America: 1) Denver 2) Oakland 3) Western Illinois 4) Gary, Indiana 5) Santa Barbara 6) Kansas (sorry) 7) Alabama 8) Nebraska 9) Atlanta 10) Cleveland

@StephMuse_ Love this guy.

One of the best role players in Warriors history

Be honest, do you think AI might replace your current job and tasks within the next 10 years?