ok I'm not on TikTok... does the original say what happened???

I'm so glad you listened to the episode! I love the fact that scale isn't always the goal!

First book draft sent to my publisher for review... it's getting real!!!

hiiiiiiii I'm so glad we get to be connected here. I need to figure out how to make a Deeper Business Membership Bluesky starter pack now that the platform has picked up!

This reminds me of the days that the gurus would tell you to set up a bunch of other emails and buy your products from those other emails so you'd have "receipts."

Great piece, as per usual. And thank you for sending out your newsletters on a platform where I can share the URL. I shared this week's post on "making your own recommendation network" in my community.

Why does Google think that if I didn’t want Gemini in my workspace that I’ll want MORE Gemini in NotebookLM Plus??

I think you can make LinkedIn Lists in the platform.

LOVED this piece. Excited to be connected to what’s next through your work.

I was late to instagram for business, so I put up a static grid a year ago, removed the app from my phone, and peaced. I probably won’t delete my accounts, but I’ll certainly never go back to posting or spending any time there. (The neighborhood HOA Facebook group being an exception.)

Ezra Klein’s podcast today gave me a new phrase: we’re in an attention oligopoly. Where the currency of power isn’t money, it’s attention.

Makes me even more concerned with where and how I spend my attention these days.

I loved that piece. I see the need for the digital water cooler, I just wonder if personally people might be pulling back from phones and social media more generally. I can tell my attention is more fractured when I spend time on any social media app, even like a Substack.

Maybe! But also are the people that used to be frequently on old Twitter going to be on any app as frequently? Or will they long to have reclaimed their attention from any of these platforms?

I asked support to enable the ability to turn Gemini Workspace off. It took a few minutes in chat, but way less than the hours it seemed to take people yesterday - I asked via the admin help portal. They told me "it's permanent" like that wasn't a selling point. And it has worked!

I do not want Google to even offer to summarize my emails. I turned off Gemini in the admin console…. anyone find a valid working suggestion to make it go away in mail and docs???

Oooooof. Oh since you’re here, what platform is your main Lex Roman website on - is it Ghost?

The showdown you did with Bev?

Are you sending out the recording of your newsletter workshop from today?

I’ve just blocked them.

The bots have now come for BlueSky….

Blocked more fake accounts today than in the past two months.

Too many of my audience has ignored platform decline - they continue to want to grow their customer base on the ensh*ttified platforms. I’m excited to share this with them!

I don’t set annual goals, not really. I have my arc for the year, and know the 2-3 big levers that change my life and/or business. And then set specific projects for the next quarter.

Like this quarter, I’m rebranding my business and finishing my book draft! All in service of leverage.

Mine is leverage. What can I create or do so that the things I do in my life and business stacks together for momentum. I’m after long-term resilience, which means as a soloist I need to be focused on less, better, and compounding effort.

I’m really enjoying the Ladder app if you need a routine and motivation.

Ranjit's laptop: The day we hit 'reply all' A missing Firm laptop took on mythic status after an inadvertent email glitch.

The McKinsey recap post - and the deck: www.mckinsey.com/alumni/news-...

I was at McKinsey when something similar happened. Anyone else remember Ranjit’s laptop?

Of course, within a day, some analyst put together a deck about the wasted money by analyzing the response rate and response time. It was glorious.

I’m not taking client calls but handling the admin and cleanup that never quite gets done when I have clients. Plus next years financial forecast.

Thanks!!