sorry I vanished
…but I’m back and want to hear everything. Hey… I know I should’ve told you I was vanishing for a short while, but honestly, I didn’t plan it. One day
Today, I’m going to read your mind.
Today, I’m going to read your mind.And your job is to not let me.Up for the challenge?If you just answered yes, the game has already begun — and you’re already
Dude, I think I’m broken
“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” – Charlie Munger
Armchair psychologists who can dish it but can’t take it
Nothing cracks me up more than watching someone try to psychoanalyse you out of your own position, then immediately fold like a cheap suit the moment you push back. You
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You’re a poly what?
I recently discovered I’m a polymath, and suddenly my entire life kinda makes a little more sense. Not the scattered, unfocused, “jack of all trades, master of none” bullshit I’ve
Beware the chick with dreadlocks
“I don’t know where we’re going, but I know exactly how to get there.” – Boyd Varty Random thought… You know how, when people use words like universe
Permission to be human this weekend
I’m taking the weekend off to binge Mayor of Kingstown and catch up on the books that have been giving me dirty looks from my bookshelf. No content creation. No
Ads are a brain parasite and you’re the host.
Strap in. Buckle your seatbelts. Duct tape your frontal lobe to the dashboard because we’re going on a RIDE through the screaming neon hellscape of advertising, and I promise you,
Big Bad Bully Club
This week has been pile on city, and I’m watching people I used to respect turn into schoolyard bullies with blue checkmarks and LinkedIn profiles. Everyone’s got a take. Everyone’s
What would Søren do?
I spent another day unpacking old notebooks out of boxes. Went through an old diary that had notes from the time I was balls deep in the studying of Søren
One thing you you shouldn’t forget
I can’t remember the saying but you’ve heard it before… Something something all work and no play makes you blah blah. It’s true. We’ve gotten to that point where we’re
My man Wendig
I wanted to write about this but my man Chuck Wendig put it out there before me. So grab a glass of water or whatever and have a quick read
Asimov’s rolling in his grave and we need a 4th law…
Isaac Asimov is spinning in his grave so fast you could power a small city with the kinetic energy… The man who gave us the Three Laws of Robotics, which
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You’re using the wrong voice (and it’s killing your writing)
A dead poet in Los Angeles figured this out 40 years ago… I need to tell you something and you’re probably not gonna like it. Your writing voice. The one
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Se7en deadly marketing lessons
As I’m closing out on a week long water fast. I thought I’d re-share something that tips the scales in your favour if you use it ethically. One of my
Death by a thousand Discord messages
So it’s not a secret that I’ve been unwinding myself from doing client work for the last few years. Frankly, I’ve just been so bored of people flip flopping into
The most important thing to commoditise
Which also sounds gross by design… But it’s the ability to actually think. While everyone else is outsourcing their brains to ChatGPT or the LLM of their choice, you’re going
the Pulp Fiction way of getting things done
Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield didn’t fuck around when they had a job to do. They showed up, handled business, and got results. There was no endless planning meetings or
You’re not even trying.
“If my answers frighten you, then you should cease asking scary questions.” – Pulp Fiction You think you’re trying, but you’re probably not. (how’s that for a harsh
Troll Me a River
Crazy thing is you’re building something. You’re creating content and growing your audience, hell. Like many of us. You’re trying to make a living from your ideas and work. But
What would Kobe do?
“Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry In 2011, my young company, EGTBasketball, was running a
An invitation for entrepreneurs
If you run a profitable business, and you want to scale to 7 or 8 figures this year, I have an invitation for you. Here’s the the backstory:
I shouldn’t have beat this NBA All Star
“The more you do things that are natural to you, the less competition you have.” – Naval Ravikant In late 2014, I made a power move. It was
Why does everything feel like wet cardboard?
And what can we do about it? I had to try really hard to not do the whole RE: RE: RE: No, Seriously, Why Does Everything Suck Now type of
I am grateful
That you show up every time and read my emails and reply and just interact. I’ve had so many great conversations and also views on the topics and ideas I
The Art of Whore
Here’s a little social media “game” for us folks who still require those platforms to feed into our own platforms… After all. Our audience/clients/customer numbers aren’t going to increase themselves
The great dumbification
The world is systematically dumbing itself down to feed the dopamine starved masses, and we’re all complicit in this intellectual race to the bottom of the barrel… Everything is getting
How to get behind 99% of people
“Who wrote the software running in your head? Are you sure you actually want it there?” – Elon Musk The voice in your head is right: You’re not
Size doesn’t matter
I had an interesting conversation with a fellow creator today, who sadly got sucked into the world of generative AI. They were lied to by some of our favourite marketing
Why you shouldn’t over socialise
Stop over socialising. Seriously. Every coffee meetup, networking event, and “quick catch up” is stealing time from your actual work. We get deluded into thinking that we’re building relationships. Although
Hemingway would’ve hit send
There’s this Hemingway quote that shows up on every basic bitch’s Instagram story next to a picture of a typewriter they’ve never touched and a whiskey glass they bought off
7 am in Mexico City
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” – Franz Kafka It’s 7 am in
Girl at the coffee shop
…had 47 browser tabs open like she was re-creating the matrix. Eyes half shut. Posture of someone who’d been clinically dead for twenty minutes and just decided to come back
Your favourite guru lied to you
And then funny thing is, you paid for it too. The lie is so fucking obvious that I’m embarrassed it took me this long to call it out. In the
I downloaded IG and instantly regretted it
“Fear weaponizes your imagination against you.” – Jed McKenna Last week, I downloaded Instagram for the first time in 8 years. Turns out IG is a key middle-of-funnel
No Skool like the old Skool
Got a few people reply who were hesitant about getting Telegram, cause they thought I was going to do what everyone and their dog is doing, which is build an
The Black Coffee Effect
You walk into a coffee shop. It’s one of those coffee shops. The kind where the barista has a tattoo of a French press on their forearm and the menu
The Escape Hatch Pt2
Got a few replies asking about what other things will be shared in that group. So I might as well drop the full menu. These are just a lot of
The Escape Hatch
It feels like an eternity since I sent the last email. Best friend didn’t die, which is obviously good and he also jokingly said that I’m supposed to die before
Where gringos go to disappear
“The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.” – Siddhartha Gautama
Yes, England. You know?
…fish, chips, cup ‘o tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fucking Poppins… ENGLAND! “I don’t like leaving my own country, Doug, and I especially don’t like leaving it for anything
The most terrifying achievement in human history
“Sometimes you find yourself in positions where falling would mean death. So you don’t fall.” – Alex Honnold Creativity, inspiration, and clarity are non-linear. They comes from places
Liar’s Poker
I’m heading back from London as I write and send this… Pick it up and read it over and over. It’s essentially about the wall street sociopaths who turned greed
The Century of the Self
If you’ve been questioning what’s going on in the world and wanting a deeper dive into western society and how we’ve all been tricked and lied to… This will arguably
Fickle Family Fuckery and Friends
One of my best friends nearly died a few days ago. We were hanging out, having a couple of beers and planning a little holiday together to see some family
Be the anti marketer
Don’t worry. No soap box rant today. Although I’ll probably be fast asleep after hitting a massive caffeine and stale cookies crash by the time you read this, so if
Roll the dice
Here’s one of my favourite poems from my favourite poets… Roll the dice by Charles Bukowski: if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if
Rage merchants
Every blue tick wanker on Twitter and Facebook has suddenly become a rage bait merchant. And trust me. You’ve seen them. The verified accounts posting the dumbest, most inflammatory takes
Do the things you hate
So this weekend I have to embark on a journey. The journey is deep. Not as wild as Shackleton’s famous advert for an Endurance expedition: “Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey
This is driving me nuts
“Leaps forward are often preceded by desperate, regressive leaps backward.” – Don Beck & Chris Cowan, Spiral Dynamics We’re two weeks into 2026, and I’ve spent most of the year