Ohhhh bummed I missed this!

Joining Legends was hands down the best decision I made last year. I don’t know how you’ve managed to collect so many amazing humans l, and continue to offer the coolest experiences, helpful content, and opportunities to connect - but it’s incredible!

It’s little walks like this that keep me in love with life and believing a little enchantments and wonder is the cure to what ails us.

Self-employed creatives. You're the reason why:
✨ Small businesses look credible
🎨 Big brands feel human
📖 Stories get told beautifully
💡 Ideas become actual things
🌍 The world looks so much better

You did that. Without a pension, a salary, or a single sick day. 👀

Holy shit - when you put it like that, actually pretty terrifying

It's that thoughtful, considered take, instead of the hot one.

Nearly everyone is working with incomplete maps (models), which are only useful in certain (not all) contexts.

And even the map itself is, by nature, incomplete.

We need more loosely held opinions, based on a breadth of models and references.

we don't develop the multidisciplinary mindset that we need to **actually see a problem** And because we don't have the right models to understand the situation, we overuse the models we DO have, applying them even where they don't belong."

that's been repeating in my head.

"Most of us study something specific and don't get exposure to the big ideas of other disciplines;

Collecting and experimenting with ideas is one of my favourite hobbies.

Spending time sitting in the "I wonder what might happen if," space always brings an extra bright spot into my days.

Lately, reading about mental models has been end-capping my days, and there's a section

There is no such thing as a moral billionaire.

There should be no billionaires.

Maybe it's time to shit our focus to real shit. Real people. Real relationships. Real, hard-but-meaningful work.

Stop the spray and pray.

Benefits not features - was supposed to be "why does this feature matter" - not some outlandish claim on what you/your software/fancy spreadsheet can do.

On a long enough timeline, we've been turning everything into clickbait.

Lead with value - was supposed to mean, be generous, *give* something before demanding something....but it turned into, spam them with a shitty ebook that you didn't put some real effort (just time) into making.

We've morphed a lot of phrases into strange little metaphors in the last decade.

.... really connect with the people we are selling to. B2B or B2C, the humanity on both sides is what really matter. And the impact on that humanity.

Sales and marketing have always been about relationship building. Even if we forgot about them while chasing metrics and bumps.

At least, not in the long term. It might have taken different forms, had creative labels - but fundamentally, this is what it's always been.

Perhaps in this uncanny-valley era, slop-summer vibe, we might give ourselves a pinch more permission to connect

“The companies that will stand out are the ones that show their craft and true understanding of the customer.”

In context, this quote concerns what happens in our AI-soaked present and future. However, I can't seem to find the angle from which it hasn't been true all along.

Growth lives in the little things.
Celebrating them, I mean.

The moment you send the email you were dreading.
The day you drink enough water.
The 2% better week.
The 6/10 complete pomodoros on your biggest goal (where last week it was zero)

Celebrate those. Build momentum, not just milestones.

We are abandoning being *told* what the authority is - and rediscovering for ourselves. We have evolved for some things like ritual, community/communion - and it’s lacking in our lives.

But we don’t need some old dude to tell us how to be kind and respect things outside ourselves.

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All their stuff is 10/1

Wait, no actually? I’ve seen the 30% decreases….but zero??

Happy Friday! Don't forget to celebrate the little things. The micro-wins. The glimmers.

If you don't feel like you have any - ask some folks around you for theirs. Odds are, you'll realize you also have some.

Oh - and don't take anything too seriously this weekend.

Oh fuck, indeed.

Gorgeous depth!

The best signal that things might actually be ok. Their songs mean everything to me too.

4/ It would take approximately 4,529,096 years for the average person in the U.S. earning $40,847 annually to earn $185 billion—the amount Elon Musk has lost in 2025.

4.5 Million years.

We aren't angry enough about what's going on in the global economy.

3/
Here's the median gross wage, only normalized to USD

United States
$40,847

Canada
$26,905

United Kingdom
$46,590

Luxembourg
$66,162

2/
Here are the estimates, after normalizing to USD, taxes, and cost of living.

• United Kingdom: Approximately 25,648 years
• Luxembourg: Approximately 25,676 years
• United States: Approximately 34,934 years
• Canada: Approximately 45,204 years

1/ If you make $100,000/year, do you know how many years it would take you to make 1 Billion dollars?

10,000. Doable? Not until we're f'in immortal.

What if you made the median wage in the US, Canada, UK, or Luxumberg (highest median wage OECD country)?