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The Sunday Summary: Cooperation, media creation, and hot takes regarding TikTok
They don’t care about your hot take regarding TikTok
We are generators of the media
Cooperation wins, even if you lose every time
The Sunday Summary: Generosity, presentations, cold outreach, and the internet isn’t getting worse
The commodity versus the product
The internet isn’t getting worse either
If you purchase from cold outreach, you’re condoning their behavior
Generosity is not about lowering your price
Don’t ascribe attribution to Google when other investments drove the real value
The Sunday Summary: Wandering minds, email ownership, and predicting the future with every decision
Decisions force us to predict the future
Does your sign really need a phone number on it?
The Sunday Summary: Why they’re amazing, staying focused, and looping for understanding
It’s time to confirm your held time
Stay focused or stay available?
Three things that Bluesky is doing right
The Sunday Summary: Character, classrooms, and owning your data
The four ways Google is failing
Our future should grow as much as our past
The challenge of owning your data
The whole world is a classroom
Character is more than your personality
Writing doesn’t begin with a blank page
The Sunday Summary: Serendipity, great questions, and the use of AI in schools
Reading a book with blog posts in mind
The long climb of an obsession on quality
Swipe right on Android to see why Google is heading the wrong way
The Sunday Summary: High ranking blogs, crypto scams, and finding the nuance in the middle
Nuance is almost always correct
Pig butchering for cryptocurrency
Blogs are still among the highest-ranking pages
The Sunday Summary: New habits, bad recommendations, and billionaires who read a lot
Why do billionaires read so much?
When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do?
In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to?
What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession?
What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”?
In the last five years, what new habit has improved your life the most?
The Sunday Summary: Favorite books, favorite failures, and giant billboards
What is an unusual habit or absurd thing that you love?
What is one of the best or most worthwhile investment you’ve ever made?
If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would you say?
How has a failure set you up for later success?
What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life?
What is the book you’ve given most as a gift, and why?
The Sunday Summary: Defending opinions, Coca-Cola ingredients, and the Tribe of Mentors
The best from “Tribe of Mentors”
Interruptions with unbalanced scale
Social media isn’t the problem
Why doesn’t Coca-Cola advertise their ingredients?
You don’t need to defend your opinion
The Sunday Summary: 228,000 calories, monkeys vs pedestals, and the new acronyms in a world of AI
The new jargon that comes with AI
Those other people believe in superstitions
The Sunday Summary: Bargains, hindsight, confidence, and Chicken Little
Social media is the only place that kids can go
Everything you purchase is a bargain
You can’t hope for consumer reality
The Sunday Summary: Signed artwork, easy quitting, and learning vs memorizing
Learning is not memorizing information
How easily will they let you quit?
The compound interest of knowledge
Artwork is signed because it matters who created it
The Sunday Summary: Strategic luxury, telling people off, and accepting the “wrong” words
The words that you just have to accept
Tell them off tomorrow instead
Making good use of lock-in features
The Sunday Summary: Writing more, true knowledge, and tricks that we can’t avoid
Dance incoherently or just admit that you don’t know the answer
Their tricks can work even if you know about them
Chauffeur knowledge versus true knowledge
Make friends with the eminent dead
Do you want to write more? Do nothing.
The Sunday Summary: Reading goals, creativity, and the value of AI
Why are your analytics so complicated?
Who will reap the value of AI?
Creativity rarely comes from a bolt of lightning
You’re already paying for your new website
The Sunday Summary: 2023 -> 2024, effectiveness, and Charlie Munger
You probably don’t need that complex marketing funnel
Social media isn’t for content, it’s for distribution
Emulating the values of Charlie Munger