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In 1978, a man landed in America with a fake passport and one mission: spy for the Soviet Union.

For 10 years, he lived as an American.

Had a job.
Had a wife.
Had a daughter.

Nobody knew who he really was.
Not his neighbours.
Not his family.
Not even the FBI.

He sent secrets to the KGB. He lived a double life.

He became so good at being American that he started to forget he wasn't one.

Then one day, the KGB told him to come home.

And he had to make a choice that would change everything.

What he did next, and why he's still alive and walking free today, is a story that makes you question how intelligence agencies work.

In our recent episode of Figuring Out, I sat down with Jack Barsky, a former KGB spy who fooled two of the most powerful nations on earth.

We talked about:

– What America still gets wrong about Russia
– Why the US was considered the ultimate enemy
– How the world misunderstands Putin’s KGB mindset
– The Illegals Program: honey traps, Morse code, dead drops
– How the KGB recruited and psychologically reshaped people
– Why Putin and Trump are often described as political narcissists
– How easy it would be for Russia to eliminate someone on US soil

And what happens when you have to choose between the life you built and the people who made you.

Watch the full episode here: https://bit.ly/4r7IfiC

#rajshamani #figuringout

If you're building your own business, you're not gonna have a whole lot of help.

You certainly won't have a boss.

There's no board.
No investors with advice.
No one to blame if it doesn't work.

This is the stuff people skip over when they're romanticizing entrepreneurship.

Yeah, the freedom is amazing.

But have you ever sat awake at night and thought, "This is all my fault?"

It's pretty terrifying.

At least at your job, you can kind of hide out in your team.

You can blame everything but yourself.

It's the company, the culture, and the leadership's fault!

"I'd be crushing it if I were on my own..."

When you decide to go solo, that excuse evaporates.

So how do you handle that pressure?

You make the first 90 days stupid simple. Here's how:

Week 1-2: Pick a specific problem for a specific person.

Don't overthink it.
What do people already ask you for help with?

Week 3-4: Talk to 10 people (specific) who have that problem.

Ask what they've tried.
What's not working?
Listen more than you pitch.

Week 5-8: Build one (specific) offer based on what they told you.

Not what you think they need.
What they already told you they need.

Week 9-12: Sell it to one person.

After that? Sell it to another.
Next step? Do it again 5 times.
Then fix what's broken and sell it again.

That's literally it.

(Bookmark this post for the future)

The truth is that you don't need some monster business plan or years or procrastination dressed up as preparation.

You need a tight loop of listening, building, and selling.

The fear will never honestly go away.

But if you've got a great system to follow on the days you don't trust yourself, it's a helluva lot more manageable.

I just put the finishing touches on my 30-day system, if you want to reduce the time a bit.

It's called The Expert OS, and it's free to watch.

I'll walk you through the tough stuff: picking what to sell, building it, and getting someone to actually pay you for it.

You'll also get:

- My $12M plug n' play sales page template
- My 10-email launch sequence that sells on auto
- All of my AI prompts to speed up your processes

It's free.

Start now, and you'll have a micro-business in 30 days.

Get it all here: https://buff.ly/arpZ2Om

P.S. For the next 24 hours, I'm also giving away 100 free social media templates to market your new business. Grab 'em before they're gone.

We throw around the word G.O.A.T. a lot.

This version reframes everything.

God Over All Things.

When the math doesn’t math .. be a great leader.. and that starts with being fair .. don’t ask for things that aren’t achievable out of audacity.. that’s the start ❤️

Saying "No" can get your farther in your career than saying "Yes".

Say No to:
- Jobs that don't pay you what you're worth
- Bad bosses
- Staying late because everyone else does
- Work that doesn’t use your strengths
- Every request that comes your way

Saying Yes to these things can set you back years in your career. Know yourself, your strengths, what you want and say Yes to those things and no to everything else.

Już pod koniec marca rusza audiobook #The5.

I serio, nie mogliśmy wybrać lepszego głosu niż Wojtek Sokół. Namówienie go to była misja prawie jak zamknięcie rundy u topowego funduszu… ale było warto.

Efekt? Klimat, moc i autentyczność, która brzmi jak manifest przedsiębiorców naszego pokolenia.

🎧 Pre-order już wystartował - link w komentarzu.

Ps. Dla zamawiających wcześniej, jak zawsze, szykujemy coś naprawdę specjalnego.

You know you’re supposed to prioritize exercise. You understand the importance of nutrition and sleep…  But no one ever taught you why pleasure and sex actually matter. Until today.

Dr. Nicole McNichols, PhD, is the #1 sex professor in the country and a University of Washington professor who teaches the most popular class on campus - human sexuality.

According to the research Dr. McNichols shares, satisfying, connected sex isn’t indulgent or optional. When you prioritize pleasure, you don’t just improve your relationship - you support brain health, cardiovascular health, creativity, emotional resilience, and even longevity!

And in today’s episode, Dr. McNichols gives you the science, language, and permission most of us were never given - so you can stop treating sex like a luxury and start treating it like the powerful, life-supporting force that it is.

🎧 “How to Have Better Sex: Your Guide to Romance, Intimacy, & Love From the #1 Sex Professor” - listen now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts - search “The Mel Robbins Podcast Sex.” I’ll also link it in the comments.

New course: A2A: The Agent2Agent Protocol, built with Google and IBM, and taught by Holt S., Ivan 🥁 Nardini, and Sandi Besen.

Connecting agents built with different frameworks usually requires extensive custom integration. This short course teaches you A2A, the open protocol standardizing how agents discover each other and communicate. Since IBM’s ACP (Agent Communication Protocol) joined forces with A2A, A2A has emerged as the industry standard.

In this course, you'll build a healthcare multi-agent system where agents built with different frameworks, such as Google ADK (Agent Development Kit) and LangGraph, collaborate through A2A. You'll wrap each agent as an A2A server, build A2A clients to connect to them, and orchestrate them into sequential and hierarchical workflows.

Skills you'll gain:
- Expose agents from different frameworks as A2A servers to make them discoverable and interoperable
- Chain A2A agents sequentially using ADK, where one agent's output feeds into the next
- Connect A2A agents to external data sources using MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- Deploy A2A agents using Agent Stack, IBM's open-source infrastructure

Join and learn the protocol standardizing agent collaboration!
https://lnkd.in/gsTRYyrh