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You will never be ready.

You will never be perfect.

You will never know everything.

Start anyway.

The grave is full of people who were "almost ready".

F*ck ready.

Get going.

-DM

I’ve laid out these timeless and universal principles in my book, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order. You can also watch the full animated video at the link in the comments. #principleoftheday

I went on Wegovy a few years ago.

I lost 62 lbs.

61.5 of those pounds were gained during the pandemic.

We were doing a lot of watching Netflix and baking cakes.

Almost every night.

Thanks to our obsession with The Great British Baking Show.

I didn’t have any weird or worrisome side effects.

Except for shoving cantaloupe in my face like my life depended on it.

And a nauseating aversion to seafood. The smell of it. The taste of it. Even saying “seafood” gave my stomach a little tumble.

Anyway, last fall my husband and I were going on a cruise. I decided to go off the medication for a bit.

I knew I’d be trapped on a ship soaked in ocean air and shrimp cocktail and didn’t want to spend the trip nauseous.

So I did.

I planned on going back on it when we got home. I didn’t.

I realized how much I missed food.

Eating two or three pieces of pizza instead of half of one.
And cake. 🎂

One week stretched into a month. Then two.

One morning I went to put on a pair of jeans and couldn’t zip them up.

The party was over.

If I wanted to fit into any of my “skinny clothes,” I needed to get back on the shot.

That night, I took it.
The highest dose.
The one I’d been on for a year.

I braced myself for a little nausea.

Dear readers… there was nothing mild about it.

I woke up in the middle of the night with that watering-mouth feeling.

“Oh no,” I thought to myself. I better get a nausea pill.

That was a mistake.

So was the sip of water that followed.

What ensued was a seven-hour marathon of violent vomiting.

In my house.
On my back deck.
Where every attempt to catch my breath ended with me redecorating the deck.

To make a long story short, I cracked a rib, felt like I got hit by a truck, and didn’t have a morsel of food or even a sip of water for four days.

The only thing that saved me was an emergency telemedicine appointment and a prescription for Zofran.

When I finally called my doctor to ask for a lower dose and told him what happened, he said….

“You’ve always struck me as a smart and intelligent person.

But that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”

And honestly?

Fair.

Even smart people do dumb things.

Not because they’re reckless.

Not because they don’t know better.

But because familiarity makes us overconfident.

Because we assume we can jump right back in where we left off.

Turns out intelligence doesn’t make you immune to bad decisions.

It just makes the lesson more memorable.

#LifeLessons
#NoSeafoodForMe
#ResumeWriting

Not every reset needs noise.

Sometimes structure itself is the signal that it is time to begin again.

A micromanager is someone you pay to
watch your best people walk away.

I once worked for a leader who thought he was "supportive."

He called it alignment.

But it felt like suffocation.

The constant check-ins didn’t ensure quality.

They ensured I spent more time reporting on work than actually doing it.

If you don't trust the people you hired,
the problem isn't their performance.

It’s your leadership.

10 types of micromanagers:

1. The Endless Tweaker
↳ They spend hours perfecting work that's already good

2. The Status Stalker
↳ They "just check in" every hour because they can't manage their own anxiety

3. The Process Police
↳ They create rigid procedures for everything

4. The Task Reclaimer
↳ They take back delegated tasks because no one can do it as well as they can

5. The Calendar Hijacker
↳ They schedule unnecessary meetings to stay in the loop

6. The Fire Drill Fanatic
↳ They create fake urgency to make people work harder

7. The Solution Dictator
↳ They tell their teams exactly how to solve problems instead of letting them think

8. The Unsolicited Advisor
↳ They give constant 'helpful' advice no one asked for

9. The Detail Obsessor
↳ They waste hours on minor details that don't affect the outcome

10. The Gatekeeper
↳ Everything needs their approval

Trust and empower your team.

Then step back to let them do their best work.

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How many candidates do you need to see to find A-Players?

We hired 10 high-level people in 90 days:

50,000+ people viewed our jobs.
3,178 applied.
10 got hired.

That’s a 0.31% acceptance rate fyi.

For every 1 hire, we reviewed 323 applications.

Finding top talent is not glamorous. It’s mostly about saying no. Over and over.

What I have learned to find A Players:

1. Take it seriously. Everything is a who problem past your first $1million, and the average CEO has no idea how much time the best CEO's spend on hiring. 10x more time.

2. Hire for attitude first, not skills. Easier to teach skills than change attitude.

3. Play the long game. The best people are usually already employed by someone else so reach out and form relationships before you’re even looking.

4. For senior hires: it’s either a f*ck yes or a f*ck no - there’s no middle ground.

5. And a bonus one that Dave Ramsey taught me (also about senior hires): Always take them and their spouse out to dinner with yours. You’ll learn all you need to know.

Hiring is brutal. But when you get it right, it compounds faster than almost anything else you do.

Super pumped about the people we just brought on. They’re killers.

IS THAT REALLY A DOG ?
SAVING GUS

It’s impossible to watch Gus’s journey without feeling something deep shift inside.

The cruelty he endured as a puppy is hard to comprehend, yet what stands out even more is not the violence done to him, but the grace he chose afterward.

Broken in body, starved, and barely able to lift his swollen head, he still allowed a stranger to come close.

That quiet act of trust may be the bravest moment in the entire story.

The woman who rescued him didn’t just save a dog.

She stepped into the space where fear could have ruled and answered it with compassion.

A month in the hospital, months of healing, and slowly the battered shell revealed a soul that had never stopped loving.

Gus did not carry revenge. He carried forgiveness.

That is a lesson many humans spend a lifetime trying to learn.

When he began visiting schools and meeting children, his scars became a living testimony.

He stood in front of young eyes not as a victim, but as proof that kindness can outlive cruelty.

His temperament, his warmth, his willingness to greet every human with an open heart turned pain into purpose.

That transformation is what makes dogs so extraordinary.

They remind us what loyalty, resilience, and unconditional love look like when stripped of ego.

“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.” — Orhan Pamuk

Stories like Gus’s hold a mirror to us. They ask what we choose to become after hardship.

He chose love. And in doing so, he became larger than his suffering.

He became hope with a wagging tail.

Please share your thoughts and comments.

#RescueDogs #AnimalCompassion #UnconditionalLove #DogRescue #Hope

Video source: We Love Animals

I believe the Super Bowl ad is the single best media buy in the world, and I think it's grossly underpriced.

The Super Bowl is the best place to advertise because people actually want to watch the commercials. We don't watch the Olympics to see the commercials. We watch the World Cup, but we don't watch the commercials of the World Cup. And I think a lot of brands are wasting their money on those platforms.