Saw this tweet the other day: You’re 1 “fuck it” away from your dream life. — Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) September 14, 2022 What people don’t realize about this: If you say “fuck it” and fail – you’re also (likely) only 1 soft landing away right back to where you were. Quit your job and your […]
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How to Handle Broke Bois
If there’s one mantra I’ve always lived by in the business world (and you should too), it’s this: Make it a normal thing to fire clients and customers who are cheap. The energy they take is time that you can never get back. Better yet… Filter them hard, and don’t even let these people in […]
11 Key Mistakes People Make When Hiring
Good, reliable talent is very difficult to find when growing and scaling a business. After running my agency for nearly 2 years, here is a value-packed email on the 11 mistakes I’ve seen people make time and time again when it comes to hiring: 1. Not Respecting Candidates Everybody is complaining that good talent is […]
The Devil On My Shoulder
“I look into your eyes and I see so much pain,” the girl sitting across from me said. I had just finished telling her the condensed version of why I left America behind. “Why is there so much pain in your eyes? I can tell it’s real but I do not understand why.” She pressed on. […]
How Moving to Kyiv Made Me $51,531 In 2 Hours
In 2018, I moved from Prague, Czech Republic, where I’d been hanging out for a year or so, and moved, more or less permanently, to Kyiv, Ukraine. In a nutshell, the (now) Mrs. Trouble and I moved back to her country for a variety of reasons. Visa issues were becoming problematic in the Czech Republic, […]
Dirty Little (Business) Secrets
This is how people tell you it works: 1. Wake up, go for a walk 2. Have idea 3. Execute idea 4. Get paid for this idea 5. Move to a small beach town and work by the ocean every day, sipping coffee in trendy shops in the morning and exotic cocktails at night. That’s […]