Undisruptable

Sure you're making no money under massive stress but also those early years of your business are great.

Don't forget to enjoy it.

Beware of advice from tool guys. Too much focus on the tools leads to disrespect of other, softer skills that you need to beat your competitors.

This week: why AI art is trash, an explanation for Facebook's diabolical emojis, and why a good business plan is art.

The links you need:

The crypto-bro who got Chat-GPT to set up a business and how that's going

Tom Goodwin's newsletter

Kelly Slater surfs a coffee table

Stephen Seagal guitar solo

This week, fascinating client research on why people win and lose sales in the B2B world. The reason every salesperson gives as an excuse? That one doesn't even make the top 10.

Warning: includes the worst tender horror story I've ever heard. If I'd done this, I would have just moved to a hut in the forest for the rest of my life. Welcome to the Fuck-Up Hall Of Fame.

This week, one of the most awful conversations I've ever had to have with a business partner.

And the conversations you should have with your dad, seeing as it's Fathers Day on Sunday, at least where I live.

People are going to ask you for discounts as a matter of course.

You don't have to say yes.

Want to know how to remember things more easily? To step above the daily grind of to-do lists and find out what's really important to you?

It's proven to work by neurological researchers, and the tech is yours for about $4.

Link from show - Do the big thing: the problem with Atomic Habits

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6YM9xFwKh2JqrlzSBX6g3x?si=467fae817ea643c2

How not to execute a rebrand.

Musk has done some genius work in his time, but his Twitter work is that of a man with nobody telling him what he needs to hear.

I don't usually do true crime podcasts but at last my own industry has an epic crime story.

We go inside the Human Group's extraction of $18M from a major bank to spend on all kinds of luxury stuff. Courtesy of friends James and Bradley who had an inside view of the whole caper.

Ask yourself: would the organisation I work in be any worse off financially if your job evaporated? It's a risky place to be.

We get asked to work for free all the time, so this week some thoughts on dealing with that.

It’s amazing how many salaried people will straight-up ask suppliers to work for their company for free. Would they do their job for free? Do they report to a CEO who works for free?