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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

Taglines vs Headlines

Ask for advice, not feedback

We are generators of the media

Cooperation wins, even if you lose every time

Sit quietly in a room alone

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

Present or be present?

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

Maximize your interactions

Does your sign really need a phone number on it?

Really owning your email

Don’t steal the revelation

Your mind never wanders

The Sunday Summary: Why they’re amazing, staying focused, and looping for understanding

It’s time to confirm your held time

Looping for understanding

Stay focused or stay available?

Three things that Bluesky is doing right

Discover why they’re amazing

Gmail turns 20

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

That’s a great question

Schools need to understand AI

Swipe right on Android to see why Google is heading the wrong way

The Serendipity Vehicle

The Sunday Summary: High ranking blogs, crypto scams, and finding the nuance in the middle

20 years of blogging

Nuance is almost always correct

Pig butchering for cryptocurrency

Processes over routines

Blogs are still among the highest-ranking pages

Just do it

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

Why We Sleep

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

Social media isn’t free

Those other people believe in superstitions

Is it a monkey or a pedestal?

Fundamental attribution

228,000 calories per day

The Sunday Summary: Bargains, hindsight, confidence, and Chicken Little

The prophet’s dilemma

Social media is the only place that kids can go

Confidence with openness

Hindsight is always superior

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?

One size fits one

The compound interest of knowledge

I need to repeat myself

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

Name it for the other person

Tell them off tomorrow instead

Strategic Luxury

Say something

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

Be a better ancestor

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

But I’m not good at that

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

What’s a good reading goal?

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

Efficiency vs Effectiveness

We seem like slowed-down whale songs

A quick look at 2023