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Does success remove your insecurity?

I used to believe it would.

It doesn't.

It just relocates it.

Before success, the fear is: "Will this even work?"

After success, the fear becomes: "Can I do it again?"

And after repeated success, it turns into: "What if I lose all of it?"

The mind simply upgrades its fears with every achievement.
It never runs out of new ones to hand you.

Which is why chasing success for emotional peace is a rigged game.

You think the calm is waiting on the other side of the next milestone.

It isn't.

You get there and the finish line quietly moves again.

The peace was never something success could give you.

It has to be built now.
Alongside the chase.
Not after it.

Which # hits the most and why???

Focus on YOU. Sure we have inflation, bullying, maybe a toxic person in our life, or a tough boss, but you can only change YOU. Focus on yourself, your joy, your happiness, and sharing that joy with the world. 💜💜

You didn't waste time. You lived life. We must eradicate this idea of “wasted time.” Of course there are examples of extreme laziness and non-accountability that lead to literal waste, but too many of you beat yourselves up and tarnish your feelings towards yourselves over life's missteps that are often lessons. You learned how to f*cking code, and you can adjust. Stop dwelling on the past and start moving forward

Kindness to yourself leads to kindness to others … we need to stop listening to those who want us to “hate”

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How to turn your mind into a source of income:

1) Start a personal brand (obviously)

2) Study content, social media, and attention like your life depends on it (most people fail here)

3) Turn a pain, passion, or process into a digital product

Now you have two levers - make your content better and make your product better.

As many of you know, Eden helped you with the content side.

But now it also helps you with the monetization side, in a way that no other platform can.

You can now turn your knowledge into your own AI product.

I.e. a course that you can talk to.

Start your store here: https://lnkd.in/gnPd_FUr

PSA: LinkedIn 'Job Search' just changed, and most job seekers haven't noticed yet. Here's what's new and how to use it 👇

1. Search now defaults to AI Search.

You no longer need keywords and Boolean strings (AND, OR, NOT).
You can now search by prompt, the same way you'd talk to any other AI tool.

Try something like:
→ "program manager jobs in Atlanta with less than 10 applicants"
→ "director of business development jobs in Austin at tech companies"
→ "front-end software engineering jobs that require more than 5 years of experience"

2. Your filters can go right in the prompt.

Location, days posted, number of applicants, experience level. Type them into the search instead of clicking through menus. That "less than 10 applicants" search is the one I'd try first. Getting in early still matters.

3. The Jobs tab has new and updated filters.

Easy Apply, In my network, and Experience level now sit at the top of your results, in addition to others. Premium users will also see an adjusted UI/UX.

4. Promoted jobs are ranked differently

The jobs that best match your profile now show up in a new promoted window. Hirers pay for those listings, and LinkedIn ranks them using your profile, skills, and activity. Translation: your profile is doing more of the work. If it's out of date, your results will be too.

5. Prefer the old way?

No worries, you can easily switch back -> from the Jobs page, click "Learn more" in the top right corner, then "Switch back to classic search."

Premium's search experience has been updated too, so it's worth a fresh look if you're a subscriber. I put all of this into a one-page cheat sheet below.

I recommend everyone try the new AI-powered job search before you form your opinions fully.

PS - Do you like the updates? Is AI-search better?

I can't remember the last time I talked about this

But…

I almost shut my business down at $5,000/mo.
Not because I wasn't making money.

But because running it was quietly killing me.
For years, I sold the way most people are taught to sell.

High-ticket offers.
Low-ticket products.
One-off launches.

Every sale felt great for a day, and then the number reset back to zero the next month, and I was hunting for the next sale all over again.

I wasn't building a business. I was running a treadmill.
The shift wasn't a better offer or a bigger launch.

It was moving from one-off sales to a seamless subscription, something people paid into every month without me having to re-sell them from scratch each time.

Enter: Circle and a recurring membership model to run my business.

That's the part that actually changes everything.
Recurring revenue doesn't just feel more stable, it lets you plan, build, and grow instead of white-knuckling every 30 days.

But subscriptions only work if the delivery is effortless. If access, billing, and community all live in one connected system instead of five tools bolted together, the model collapses under its own admin the same way one-off sales did.

That's exactly what Circle is built for: courses, memberships, community, and payments, all in one place, so the subscription runs itself instead of requiring you to run it by hand every month.

Creators like Ali Abdaal and Jay Shetty and Jessie Jean aren't rebuilding their revenue from zero every month either.

Here’s what’s crazy…

I’ve had $30,000 launches.

But if you were to ask me, would I rather have a $30,000 launch and then scramble for a few months or have consistent $10,000+ months with a community and recurring revenue model, you know I would choose the latter.

They're running theirs the same way, one connected system behind a recurring offer - all on Circle.

If you're still chasing one-off sales and calling it a business, this is the shift worth making.

Start building your subscription on Circle for FREE: https://lnkd.in/gRd5D4pD

#circlepartner

Nobody gets to approve how I spend my days.

That's the rule I built my whole business around.

I never want to ask another adult for permission to:

Take a vacation.
Go to a ballgame.
Spend time with my wife.
Read in the middle of the day.
Take a day off for any reason.

This very specific freedom has shaped nearly every business decision I've made for the last 7 years.

I could have built some big team of growth gurus, newsletter marketers, operations people, customer support, and a few layers of management.

Or chased more revenue, a monster valuation, more media coverage, and a more "impressive" company.

Instead, I kept the business small enough to manage with my wife.

No employees.
No office politics.
No unnecessary complexity.
No calendar filled with someone else's priorities.

That decision came with tradeoffs, of course.

The business probably could have grown a lot faster.

I would have likely sold more products, appeared on more podcasts and shows, or received more national recognition.

And those things can be incredibly valuable.

But they're not valuable enough for me to exchange control of my time for them.

If you're building something of your own, decide what freedom you actually want before you decide how big your business should become.

Otherwise, it's remarkably easy to create a successful business that gives you a lot less of the life you wanted.

This approach helped me build my little one-person business to $15M in profit and do it my way.

The small way.

I put the 7 most important things I learned into a free 30-page guide on building a profitable solo business without letting it take over your life.

Free to read here: https://buff.ly/lwqZSlG

Are these some of the most important people of our decade?

Probably a healthy time to debate how much power is becoming concentrated among a relatively small number of companies and individuals.

Because that table may end up influencing a lot more than technology.

The White House just hosted what it called the “Super Intelligence Luncheon,” bringing together leaders from Nvidia, xAI, Meta, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Amazon, AMD, Palantir and other major technology companies.

A surprisingly small group of people now has enormous influence over the AI models we use, the chips and cloud infrastructure powering them, the platforms billions of people communicate through, defense technology, and increasingly the direction governments take on all of it.

There is a reason governments are paying this much attention to technology.

The decisions made by these companies over the next decade could affect economies, jobs, national security, education, information and how billions of people live and work.

Follow me Endrit Restelica for more.

People assume the hardest part of making content for 10 years is coming up with ideas.

It isn't.

It's repetition.

It's convincing yourself that the thing you've already said a dozen times still needs to be said.

Saying the thing you said in 2021, to the person who just arrived in 2026.

It feels boring to you.
You've lived with this idea for years.

But the person hearing it today has never encountered it before.

The audience keeps refreshing.
But the truths don't.

Teachers have known this for centuries.

They don't stop teaching a lesson just because they've taught it a hundred times.

They teach it because, every single year, someone is hearing it for the very first time.

That's not repetition.
That's the job.

The world is abundant and your joy has nothing to do with me. I could not be happier for people that pass me in following count, pass me in financial status, pass me in listener count.

I could not be more happy for all of you. Why? Cuz my joy is my joy and your joy is your joy. There's unlimited happiness. There's unlimited love. There's unlimited joy. No one's taking out of you. You're taking out of you.

Kinga Szostko robi coś, czego nikt inny nie chce się podjąć. Codziennie nurkuje w szambie, które dla niepoznaki zwane jest mediami społecznościowymi.



Monitoruje socjale, szczególnie TikToka, szukając w nich wszystkiego, co może zaszkodzić dzieciom.

Lektura jej postów jest dla rodziców jak nagły upadek z orbity i wylądowanie twarzą na powierzchni obcej planety.

Ale nie na Marsie, po którym spacerował wesoły Matt Damon w filmie „Marsjanin”, tylko na planecie rodem z chorej wyobraźni zboczonego scenarzysty.

Najgorsze jednak jest to, że historie opisywane przez Kingę Szostko są jak najbardziej prawdziwe.

I co szczególnie bulwersujące, dotyczą dzieci.

Niektóre jej posty są tak drastyczne, że po ich lekturze człowiek ma ochotę wstać, zamknąć laptopa i wyjść z domu, żeby to rozchodzić.

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Patrząc od strony zasięgów, reakcji i innych oznak zainteresowania treściami, Kinga Szostko robi to znakomicie.

Dzięki jej pracy rodzice mogą wreszcie przejrzeć na oczy, wyjść ze swojej bańki i zajrzeć do świata, który (ich zdaniem) w ogóle nie istnieje.

Nawet jeden post z jej profilu może sprawić, że rodzic zainteresuje się tym, co klika jego dziecko, kiedy mówi, że „to jest mi potrzebne na jutro do szkoły”.

Dlatego znalezienie pomysłu na ulepszenie tego, co świetnie u Kingi działa, nie było proste.

Ale zacznijmy od początku.

(dalszy ciąg: w artykule)

I had a splendid time talking at Google's big event in Sweden last week. Google specialise in asking for VERY short talks. Which is fine with me provided they pay me VERY large amounts of money to deliver them. Short and sweet and uploadable with all the Fs professionally erased...

I am an eternal optimist.

People who know me well call me an irrational optimist.

I believe the future is always beautiful.
That tomorrow is always better than today.

Notice the word I chose.
Better.

The future will be bigger.
It will bring more gratification.
It will make you a more aware, more experienced person.
It will bring peace, and a sense of accomplishment.

But most of us describe the future with the wrong word.

Easier.

"Tomorrow will be easier than today."

And honestly, we were raised on it.

"Study now, so tomorrow is easier."
"Finish your degree, so you can lean on it and life gets easier."
"Work hard in your 20s and 30s, so your 40s are easier."

Here is the truth nobody told us.

Tomorrow is not going to be easier.
It will be better, at best.

And if that's the case, the question to ask yourself isn't whether you're excited about the future.
It's whether you are prepared for it.

Years ago, I let a very small percentage of negativity confuse the culture at VaynerMedia. I needed to make it more purple. And I'm seeing the same thing in communities I care about right now, including at VeeFriends.

When you deploy unlimited levels of empathy, compassion, sympathy, graciousness, higher than the standard society thinks about, and it's still not working, you have to suffocate it.

There's levels to the game. First, it's about giving graciousness to everyone. If you've been playing it a certain way, you've got to give them the bat signal. The warning sign. "Hey, the way I've been acting is about to change." And you give them time to adjust to that change. That's what I'm doing now.

Because enabling bad behavior coming from a good place is enablement. And it's very important. This is our scarlet letter. This is our vulnerability. I want leaders to hear this, because they've got people.

And people out here in marriages....A lot of you need to hear this. There's a lot of marriages out there where you love your spouse so much, and you're the enabler of his or her bad behavior, because you love them so much.

I'm telling you, there's a tipping point to that, friends. And then it bleeds out to your children if you have them. So it all starts with self-awareness and knowing when to implement kind candor, when to back off, and so on.

Don't worry about what you're gonna get in return for doing something kind or nice or special - giving without expectations is the game, karma always works out in the end, don't get caught up when someone doesn't come through for you, just keep putting karma deposits in the world

Elon Musk accidentally said the forbidden word in front of Trump: “AI.”

Artificial Intelligence has now been officially renamed “Super Intelligence” by the Trump administration for U.S. government use.

Trump even brought the rebrand up with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their recent meeting. China agreed to call a new U.S.-China dialogue the “Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue.”

Today’s meeting was literally called the “Super Intelligence Luncheon,” so the rebrand is clearly trying to stick.

Team AI or Team SI?

🚨 BREAKING: OpenAI just introduced Dots.
- 24/7 always-on AI agents that have their own computer, browser, apps, context, and memory.

You can give your Dot access to the tools you use, teach it how you work, and let it keep working even when you’re away. It can research, monitor things, prepare work, use your apps, and come back when it needs a decision or approval.

OpenAI also introduced ChatGPT Space, where you, other people, and your Dots can work together with shared projects, files, and context.

A Dot works much more like having someone working for you. You give it a computer, access to the tools it needs, context about what you’re doing, and tasks to take care of. Then it actually goes and does the work.

And with Space, you basically have an office where humans and AI workers can work together.

The shift from AI that helps you do the work to AI that can actually take on the work itself is going to change a lot.

Pretty cool! Use it wisely!

I spent 15 years trying to max out every area of my life.

Fitness as a teenager. Then books and ideas. Then seven failed businesses before one worked. Then a spiritual phase that changed how I saw all of it.

Each one felt like the answer while I was in it. The real answer was seeing how they connect.

Here's the simple version:

1. Score yourself 1 to 10 in mind, body, spirit, and work. Write down one real example for each score.

2. Find your lowest score. It's usually the one pulling the other three down.

3. Give that one area 90 days of focus.

4. Pick one daily action for it that's small enough to keep going past week two.

5. Score yourself again after 90 days. Expect a new problem to show up. Good. Solve that one next.

I turned this into Human 3.0. It has 21 lessons and an AI coach that asks for proof when you score yourself too high.

Map your life in 30 minutes:
https://lnkd.in/gjj6TXtR

It’s time the world accepts this shit! … be fucking happy and don’t give a fuck about judgement .. only you know you

For the first time in 3 years, I ran a sales call without Otter.ai today.

And I regretted it the second the Zoom window closed. 😅

Here's what happened:

A hot inbound lead came through on LinkedIn.

We messaged back and forth, they had an open calendar slot right then, and 10 minutes later we were on a live call talking through training packages.

Because of how fast the turnaround was, I completely forgot to connect Otter to the meeting.

So I did what we all used to do years ago.

I grabbed a notebook and furiously scribbled handwritten notes while trying to maintain eye contact and stay present.

The conversation went well, but the second we hung up, the reality hit.

Normally, my post-call routine is completely automated:

↳ Otter captures the entire transcript so I can stay 100% focused on active listening
↳ I use Otter's AI chat to generate a hyper-personalized follow-up email in seconds
↳ I review my talk-to-listen ratio and check how I handled specific objections
↳ All that conversation intelligence gets logged for the rest of the sales cycle

Without it today?

I was sitting at my desk staring at two pages of messy handwriting, trying to remember the exact phrasing the prospect used when describing their team's biggest challenge.

Writing that follow-up email took me nearly 30 minutes of manual piecing together instead of 2 minutes.

If you're still relying purely on manual notes on sales calls, you're making life ten times harder than it needs to be.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to deciphering my own handwriting so I can make sure I don't miss anything before sending this proposal.

Check Otter and you'll see how amazing it is https://lnkd.in/eDu5Fy_q

#OtterPartner

Here's how to do great marketing for any company in any industry.

I've recorded nearly 400 conversations with VPs CMOs and subject matter experts all around B2B marketing the last 4 years working on Exit Five.

That's something like 24,000 minutes spent talking with people who earn their living and have made careers in this industry.

Want to know the number one lesson I've learned?

This is not hyperbole.

The number one thing I have learned is that there is no playbook.


There is no recipe. Despite what you read online about how this person took this one company from $0 to $100M in revenue, or how Canva did this or Figma did that or Loom did this without a sales team or HubSpot had this thing with churn early on.

There is no playbook because (gulp) everything works. LinkedIn works. TikTok works. Direct mail works. Events work. Outbound works.

But also everything doesn't work - for the same company that thought Dreamforce was great and worth the $50k for a booth, another company said it was a huge waste of money.

For one company that said going up market and shifting to enterprise was the right move, another one didn't get the formula right and couldn't make it work.

There is so much nuance in marketing because you're relying on so many factors you don't control: the market, competition, budget, who you can hire (ex: everyone says "hire A players" but what if you can't? what if no one knows who you are, you don't have a big budget to pay top dollars for the former Salesforce exec. How can you compete with the talent Anthropic is paying for right now?) Each industry has a different core buyer and that changes what might "work" in marketing to them.

Some industries have different rules/laws/regulations/.

You get the point...

So the best thing you can do (based on my 400+ conversations is this):

Realize this is the job in marketing. And this is what makes it fun.

As Jay-Z said: put me anywhere on God's green earth, I could triple my worth.

Take that approach to marketing. Whatever the ingredients you're giving me - I will make it work. And I know that it will be different at each company and industry. But the game is finding some of the overlap, being able to pattern match. Understand people and how they make decisions. And being able to think outside of the box and not rely on a playbook.

Take each company, product, industry on it's own and figure out how to reach and influence people there.

That is how you can do good marketing for any company, in and industry.

The algo didn’t “get you” .. the algo exposed you

Less pointing fingers and more accountability

Don’t like your algo ????

You can change it

Search 20 positive words, click 100
Posts, like them, bookmark them, follow 12 accounts …

We are in control .. yet you’ve believed “the complaining minority” to believe you don’t

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️😍😍❤️❤️❤️😍❤️

Listen up...

Because this is super important

The math doesn't lie.

Look at the picture.

basic
simple
to the point
3rd grade level ish...

Is it easy?

Nah.

You know that.

I know that.

But when you zoom out and look at it like this.

It's achievable

And fuq... it's realistic.

Even for the most cynical of us who think, "not me, cuz."

Run the math.

You have to start there.

You need a roadmap.

Let the math be that.

Post your ideas
Ship your offers
Market yourself

And make your money

And if you need a kick in the azz to help you get started

Check out my free $100 million dollar case study

Kidding... it's $100k case study though.

(Seeing if you're paying attention)

Get it here: https://lnkd.in/geaiak9i https://lnkd.in/geaiak9i

The gym is a privacy risk for men.

It's a "look-at-me" culture filled with females with iphones rage baiting you in spandex.

Don't worry ladies I'll pick on the gym bros too.

You are also at risk of geting filmed in the background of some dude looksmaxxing obsessively trying to make up for all those years of bullying...

(sadly it's never enough muscle for the poor guy)

The gym was better pre-social media.

Nowadays it ain't worth it fellas...

I choose tennis, walking and pushups/situps/wall squats.

PS Racket sports are also better for longevity anyways 🎾

Claude just launched Sonnet 5.5

(1 week after launching Opus 5.5)

I can't keep up with all the launches, tbh.
But I want to use the right model for the job.
So I did a little research to find out what to use.

Here's a quick reference for tasks you likely do daily 👇

𝟭) 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝟱.𝟱 (𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁 + 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗽)
↳ Editing docs: fast, polished edits
↳ Spreadsheets: formulas, pivots, charts
↳ Debugging: quick fix-and-test loops
↳ Email triage: cheap enough for inbox volume

𝟮) 𝗢𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝟱.𝟱 (𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁)
↳ Writing posts: best judgment on voice
↳ Building apps: made for long coding sessions
↳ Visuals: sharpest layouts (built as code)

𝟯) 𝗙𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝟱.𝟭 (𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿)
↳ Deep research: hard reasoning, long solo runs
↳ Anything Opus can't crack

Why not just use the best model for everything?

Speed and cost.

Sonnet 5.5 costs 1/5 of Fable 5.1 per token.
And Anthropic says it runs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5.

Inefficiency adds up fast.

Here's a simple rule to use
↳ Could an intern do it? Sonnet 5.5
↳ Is it a senior person's job? Opus 5.5
↳ Would you hire an expert? Fable 5.1

Not sure? Start with Opus 5.5.
That's Anthropic's own advice.

Which model are you using most right now?

You don't need to make millions to live an awesome life.

In fact, most of the people who do are operating on razor-thin margins.

They pay a huge staff.
Mountains of software costs.
Investors expecting a massive return.

And the result is a business that has high revenue, low profit, and is incredibly complex to manage.

Modern solopreneurship is that alternative option.

- One person
- A few products
- A simple sales process
- One or two marketing channels

It's almost a guarantee that you won't be able to hit "big business" revenue numbers.

But if you're anything like me, profit will be what matters to you and your family.

And the upsides? My goodness.

No employees to manage.
A little bit of software.
Nobody to answer to.

The most refreshing business model available today.

If you want to build a business like this, here's my free guide for starting: https://buff.ly/lwqZSlG

Read it, apply it, and work toward profit fast.

I feel uncomfortable posting this.

This is me in 2022, the year I hit rock bottom.

I couldn't get a job, gained 20kg and felt so lost.

No one believes me when I talk about my journey and what my reality looked like just 4 years ago.

Until I show them this picture.

Today I want to remind everyone of this one thing.

No matter how far away you feel from your dreams...

They are always within reach.

You'll always feel a little bit lost right before you finally understand why everything happened FOR you.

I'm rooting for you, I love you, and keep going.

Thank you to everyone who was part of building this new reality with me, every 362,233 of you.

You've changed my life. I hope I get to do the same.

(Repost this for others ♻️)

Rule No. 1 in sales: don't take anything personally.

Every rep learns this eventually, usually after a rejection stings more than it should.

But most people only apply it to their own ego.

They forget it also applies to strategy: a "no" isn't data about you, it's data about timing, channel, or mood….nothing more.

Here's what that actually looks like in practice:

I reached out to a founder based on a real intent signal, lemlist flagged something that made it the right moment to message.

Timing wasn't the problem, and he still rejected it outright on the spot.

It wasn’t even a neutral silence, but an actual "not interested, don't contact me again" kind of no.

Instead of treating that as final, I moved the same lead into a multichannel sequence in lemlist, with the same context and a different channel, referencing what had actually happened between us instead of pretending it hadn't.

The conversation reopened within the hour.

Now listen, this isn't about being annoying. 
It's about being unbothered and yet persistent.

You shoot your shot everywhere it makes sense to, and you take whatever comes back, a yes or another no, without hard feelings either way.

Persistence isn't repeating yourself louder on a channel that already told you no. It's trying somewhere new, with the same respect for their time.

I’ll help you understand why this worked with some numbers:

→ Outreach built around a real signal instead of a generic send sees reply rates in the 5-18% range, versus 1-3% for cold, untargeted messages.

(this was for our first DM that got rejected)

→ Multichannel sequencing on top of that adds roughly 50% more replies than running any single channel alone, because a "no" on one channel is frequently just "wrong channel," not a real no.

(this is when it worked for us and earned an interested response)

Shout-out to how lemlist handled the actual sequencing and signal tracking, I wasn't the one deciding when to try again or where.

All I handled was the tone while lemlist handled the timing and the channel logic.

Something to remember for your next outreach:

Not every closed deal looks like a straight line from hello to yes. Some of them start with a flat no and a signal that was right even when the first reply wasn't.

What's the harshest rejection that turned into a client for you?

POV: AI made your fingers redundant.

Use your brain instead in 3 steps:

1. Go here → https://lnkd.in/e-iqJ7kf
2. Sign up and install Wispr Flow.
3. Open it and start dictating.

My link gets you 1 month of Wispr Flow Pro free.

#WisprFlowPartner

99.9% of people are waiting for the perfect time.

- The perfect niche.
- The perfect content strategy.
- The perfect time to start posting.
- The perfect moment to build their personal brand.

The 0.1% just start.

Because the perfect time doesnt exist.

You create it.

- Your first post might get 2 likes.
- Your first 10 posts might go unnoticed.
- Your first 100 followers might take months.

But on every step you learn something.

And one day, opportunities start finding you.

Dont wait until you're desperate for clients, a new job, or more opportunities.

If you're ready to take the first step, I've put together a FREE 5-Day LinkedIn crash-course.

It'll teach you how to get started successfully: https://lnkd.in/ewj8y35D

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P.S. What advice would you give a newbie?

I went to Scotland for ONE WEEK and LinkedIn grew a second feed??
Could you lot not keep an eye on it while I was gone???

September’s edition of "WTF Is Happening on LinkedIn?!" is out now.

This month, I’m digging into:

→ The “For You” and “Network” feed test and what it means for your reach

→ Why your old colleagues might soon be asked to verify that you actually worked with them

→ New ways to find potential clients with LinkedIn Premium

→ Why LinkedIn is rethinking its AI writing tool

→ The UK creator economy’s rather massive £2.8 BILLION contribution

→ A bloody brilliant video from Cat Goetze

→ Whether there’s actually a best day or time to post

Plus a little glimpse of my September in Scotland.
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STORYTIME: why 5 is my favorite number ♥️

When you come from a family and beginnings like mine, you can never forget where you came from…but no matter how much success I have, I will never overestimate my importance in the grand scheme of things.

For all those with big ambitions and big conviction, remember that humility is the trait to balance you out.

Throwback Story Time It all goes back to when I was 9 years old and had opened the door for an elderly woman at McDonald’s, my mother reacted as if I had won the Nobel Peace Prize. Not just that, she would overreact positively to everything that I was doing right and was a good human trait…and that encouraged me to be more like that person who felt appreciated for doing a good thing.

Yes, she held me accountable for things that didn’t matter, like grades but she also built huge self-esteem in me. That is the biggest reason I am who I am today to everybody is because of what she did for me!

Which is why I’m fascinated by meeting parents that come up with such great questions that end up helping so many of you.

Building self-esteem in the current age is just as important. The other day I was asked if the Internet is hurting the youth? My answer is no…because the world has gotten too good at making social media a proxy to pin all our blames and unhappiness on, we fail to address the real problem. But, what you CAN do is build them up in a way that they’re rewarded for good behavior and raise them in a way that they’re not overly reliant on their outer appearance…

When you put in the work that makes them stronger, watch what happens.

If you're working 14 hours a day doing something you hate .. you will 100% of the time burn out. But when you work hard because you like it more than anything else... then the only thing you're guaranteeing yourself is happiness. Because when you truly love it, you'll want to work for it.

Why would you ever not be happy for another person? Nobody's happiness, success comes at your expense.

I could not be more happy for all of you. Why? Cuz the world is abundant and your joy has nothing to do with me. My joy is my joy and your joy is your joy.

And friends, there's unlimited stuff. There's unlimited happiness. There's unlimited love. There's unlimited joy. There's unlimited materialistic things.

No one expected autonomous cars to get this good this fast.

Just look at some of the situations in this video. Tesla has spent two years testing FSD Supervised across Spain, covering 460,000 km, and the montage shows how surprisingly well the system can understand what is happening around it.

A lot of people still think autonomous driving is mostly about staying in the lane, braking, accelerating, and following traffic signs. But some of these clips require much more context.

The car knows when to wait even when it could technically move, reacts to what other drivers and pedestrians are doing, gives people space, handles awkward situations where someone needs to yield, and responds to the little signals humans use to communicate on the road.

Obviously, there is still a lot to improve, but the progress over the past few years has been amazing. It is starting to behave much closer to how an experienced driver would in messy everyday situations.

This could eventually make traffic much safer and smarter.

Do you think autonomous cars will ever develop the same “instincts and awareness” as a really good human driver?

Although judging by some people on the road, FSD might already be ahead.

Follow me Endrit Restelica for more.

How do you get employees to write content on LinkedIn?

What tool do you use?

How do you incentivize them?

You can use a tool to get people to share copy and schedule posts and track impressions.

You can incentivize them

(Dan Murphy had this idea the Exit Five team is running right now called The Clout Cup you may be seeing everyone on the team posting lately over the last 8 weeks).

But I know the secret formula. It comes down to this:

Do people like their jobs? Are they having fun at work, learning, growing, feeling like a part of the team, winning together, and proud of the company they are at?

If so, they are approximately 37x* more likely to share content on social media. Because they are genuine, proud supporters of that company. I saw this at Drift. Everyone asked how we got everyone to post. We didn't get them to do anything, they wanted to. So when we asked more people to do it, they did it. And had fun doing so.

I'm seeing this again now at Exit Five... people are proud of the work they are doing here and having fun being on this team, so it's not "cringey" to post and share stuff on LinkedIn.

Have a great product / company / culture.

Employees will share and spread the word on social media.

That's the best marketing you could do.

*37x is my stat, completely made up. But I am a feel player and I'm confident in this number. Not approved by Gartner, Forrester, or Sirius Decisions.

Most Sr-level candidates I coach aren’t taking full advantage of what their Recruiter knows. They ask questions like...

↳ “What’s the culture like?”
↳ “Tell me about the Hiring Manager?”

Meanwhile, top candidates are asking:

↳ “Describe the hiring manager’s interview style?”
↳ “What are common mistakes candidates make?”
↳ “What are the 3 most important qualifications?”

Sure, some recruiters are awesome and will provide all the info before you have to ask.

But in my experience, the majority don’t, and you'll need to be ready to advocate for yourself.

So here’s what that might look like↴

15 questions to get the most from your Recruiter:

1. How long have you recruited for this team, and what have you enjoyed about working with the Hiring Manager?

2. Can you walk me through the full interview process, including how many rounds, what formats to expect, and who I’ll be meeting with?

3. What can you tell me about the question-and-answer format that I should be prepared for? (structured, behavioral, scenario, etc.) What structured responses work (STAR, CARL, etc.)?

4. What have you noticed about candidates who’ve received offers from this team? Any recommendations you can pass on?

5. Is there anything I’m not allowed to bring into the interview – notepad, water, printouts, presentation decks, etc. Anything I should bring?

6. What is the HM looking for beyond the job description? Are there any must-haves or dealbreakers?

7. What kind of time frame is the hiring team trying to operate inside of? When do they want to make a decision by? How many candidates are being interviewed?

8. What qualifications from the job description do you consider the most important?

9. Is there anything in my resume or experience that might raise concerns I should be ready to address?

10. Tell me more about how the Hiring Manager talks and communicates. Casual, Detail Oriented, High-Energy?

11. Can you share any prep examples from strong candidates who performed well? What made them stand out with this specific hiring team?

12. If I ask tough questions to the HM about handling negative feedback from their employees, or even PR issues the company has had, how would those questions be received?

13. What recommendations do you have for what to wear to make the right first impression?

14. What recommendations do you have for setting up my virtual interview space (lighting, sound, locations, etc.)?

15. What can you tell me about why this position has become available?

Hope this list helps you create a better advantage.

Remember, the Recruiter is your advocate.
Partner with them.

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Your title is public.
The hard decisions are private.

In 1978, I entered and won the Miss Hawai'i Pageant.
I needed to finish school and help support my family.

The pageant was a way to do both.

It took years to understand what that choice asked of me.

Think of a decision that shaped your path.

Start with what you knew then, what was still uncertain, and who your choice affected.
Those details show the judgment a title can't capture.

They also stop you from grading your past self with information you didn't have yet.

You don't need to make it tidy.

Just explain the risk you saw, the choice you made, and what you understand now.

That account has a place wherever you make hard choices, including the next one you face.

Every Friday at 4pm, I sit alone for 60 minutes with a notebook and a pen.

Phone in another room. Laptop off.

It's the single most valuable hour on my calendar. Nothing else is close.

I call it my Weekly Board Meeting. Here's exactly what happens in it.

First 15 minutes. I answer 4 questions by hand:

1. What gave me energy this week?
2. What drained my energy this week?
3. What can I remove or redesign?
4. What decision have I been avoiding?

If you can't answer those honestly on a Friday afternoon, you're on autopilot. And the plane is heading somewhere you didn't choose.

Next 15 minutes. I make three moves. No more, no less.

One action that removes a future decision.
One delegation that actually sticks.
One simplification.

Last 30 minutes. I walk with no phone, no music, no podcast. Just walking.

When I skip it, the next week is worse. When I do it, the next week is calmer and sharper. That part isn't optional.

One thing you can steal this week: hunt your paper cuts.

Every drained-energy moment from question 2 is a paper cut.

The meeting nobody needs. The client who costs 3x the attention for 1x the money. The tool your team keeps complaining about.

Write down 5 of them this Friday. Fix 3 next week.

Do that for 12 weeks and the whole thing runs smooth. Not because you scaled. Because you subtracted.

The founders who look the calmest aren't the ones with the biggest teams. They're the ones who quietly fixed 3 paper cuts a week for a decade.

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I'm running this exact system, and the rest of my operating system, with a small group of founders at my mastermind in the Dolomites this October 9th to 13th.

If building a business that runs without you is the goal for the rest of 2026, come architect it with us: founderos.com/apply

Ta grafika powinna być w każdej szkole średniej w Polsce 🇵🇱🚀

#PolskiZłotyWiek

Jan Lis z Poland Tech Week wskazał 24 nazwiska absolwentów Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i Politechniki Warszawskiej, którzy budują dziś jedne z najcenniejszych firm technologicznych świata 🌍

Kilka z nich:

🔹 OpenAI.
Wojciech Zaremba jest współzałożycielem, Jakub Pachocki głównym naukowcem. Obaj z Wydziału Matematyki, Informatyki i Mechaniki UW.

🔹 Snowflake.
Marcin Żukowski, absolwent MIMUW, współtworzył platformę danych, której debiut giełdowy w 2020 roku był wtedy największym w historii branży software. Przychód w ostatnim roku finansowym: 4,68 mld dolarów.

🔹 Physical Intelligence.
Karol Hausman, mechatronika na PW. Firma buduje jeden model AI, który ma sterować dowolnym robotem. W listopadzie 2025 zebrała 600 mln dolarów przy wycenie 5,6 mld. Wśród inwestorów Jeff Bezos.

🔹 Booksy.
Stefan Batory, matematyka na PW. 260 mln rezerwacji rocznie w 25 krajach.

🔹 Docplanner, u nas ZnanyLekarz.
Mariusz Gralewski, informatyka na PW. Swoją pierwszą firmę, GoldenLine, zakładał jeszcze w akademiku.

🔹 Nomagic.
Kacper Nowicki i Marek Cygan. Roboty, które chwytają przedmioty widziane pierwszy raz w życiu.

Moja ulubiona historia z tej mapy:
W grudniu 2025 OpenAI ogłosiło przejęcie neptune.ai, narzędzia do monitorowania trenowania modeli AI, które wyrosło w Warszawie z deepsense.ai. Przejęcie publicznie komentował Jakub Pachocki. Po jednej stronie stołu naukowiec z UW, po drugiej startup z Warszawy.

Uczciwie trzeba dodać jedno. Większość tych osób robiła doktoraty i kariery za granicą: w Nowym Jorku, Pittsburghu, Amsterdamie, Kalifornii. Warszawa dała im fundament: matematykę, olimpiady, programowanie sportowe.

Strategiczny następny krok dla Polski to sprawić, żeby kolejne takie firmy miały siedzibę tutaj 🇵🇱

Czy Waszym zdaniem brakuje kogoś na tej liście❓
A może zróbmy wersję dla Krakowa, Wrocławia i Gdańska❓

Gallup studied 143 Inc. 500 CEOs.

The ones with high delegator skill brought in 33% more revenue. $8,000,000 vs $6,000,000.

Only one in four entrepreneurs has that skill. So three out of four founders are spending their week on work someone else could (and should) be doing.

I've coached 650+ CEOs and hear the same phrase from almost all of them. "It's faster if I just do it myself."

It is faster. ONCE. Then you do it again next week, and the week after. The company stops when you stop.

I did this to myself for years. The entire Founder & CEO Accelerator lived in my head and I sat on it. I'd always made every slide myself.

What finally got it built was giving my team ownership. Megan took the skeleton, three pillars and the main themes, and built it out. Stefan turned the outlines into slides. I did the final wordsmithing.

The idea I'd been sitting on for years got built in months.

One CEO in my accelerator said one phrase changed his company: "delegate outcomes, not tasks."

Ten weeks later his team had grown from 100 people to 125, and revenue from $5M to $6M. In a bad year for his industry.

Delegation runs on five levels:

Level 1. Do exactly what I say.
Level 2. Research it and report back.
Level 3. Decide, then tell me.
Level 4. Decide, no need to tell me.
Level 5. You own this completely.

Most CEOs live at 1 and 2 and call it delegating. It isn't. That's supervising.

Pick one recurring task and someone who can do it 80% as well as you. Decide which level they're ready for, then leave them alone.

What's the one thing more leaders should be delegating?

P.S. CEOs who want to scale, read this:

Our next Accelerator cohort starts October 7th. Only 8 days left to join a powerful network of CEOs so you can end the year strong.

Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/ePEXnJ6y

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Mastering AI doesn't have to cost a penny.

These are the best 12 free AI guides I could find:

Because let me tell you, you don't need to pay for information anymore.

YouTube is a goldmine for starters,
But official guides from the creators themselves are also great.

After all, in theory, who would know better than them?

So, here are 12 guides I'd consume if I were you:

1. Claude 101
Learn how to use Claude for everyday work tasks.
Link: https://lnkd.in/e3rQFcqv

2. Introduction To Claude Cowork
Learn to work alongside Claude on your real files and projects. 
Link: https://lnkd.in/gtN_9WEe

3. The Complete Guide To Building Claude Skills
Learn how to create Skills for specific tasks or workflows.
Link: https://lnkd.in/ggmAk7u8

4. Getting Started With Perplexity
Get started with Perplexity for AI-powered fast and trustworthy research.
Link: https://lnkd.in/grTZ_qgc

5. What Is AEO?
Learn what AEO is, how it differs from SEO, and why AI visitors convert at a higher rate.
Link: https://lnkd.in/eTWHSut3

6. The AEO Content Playbook
A step-by-step guide to creating content that LLMs actually cite.
Link: https://lnkd.in/gQnAy-Br

7. How To Get Your Business Mentioned In Claude
A full guide on 7 ways you can get mentioned inside Claude.
Link: https://lnkd.in/eDyAVJed

8. OpenAI Academy: ChatGPT Codex
Learn how to use Codex to write code, run tasks, and build automated workflows.
Link: https://lnkd.in/et-yDdS8

9. OpenAI Academy: ChatGPT Work
Learn how to get started with ChatGPT Work and use it for everyday work.
Link: https://lnkd.in/ewaUAafC

10. The Claude Content OS
The complete Claude system for founders who want to generate leads on LinkedIn.
Link: https://lnkd.in/gMJnUbs3

11. The Claude Profile Audit
Find out what is stopping your LinkedIn profile from converting visitors into sales.
Link: https://lnkd.in/g7xieG7y

12. The 7 Claude Lead Generation Prompts
The exact Claude prompts we use to generate leads from LinkedIn.
Link: https://lnkd.in/g63SjBtz

As of September 2026, I'd probably be investing time into ChatGPT.

They seem to be having a bit of a revival and Codex is a wild tool.

Not to say Claude is obsolete, but those are my thoughts !

Regardless, pick one, go all in and learn, then move onto the next.

You'll be surprised at how much more efficient you could become.

Let's keep learning,
Chris

10 SEO strategies I’d bet my life on today:

1. Build the best page on the internet for every high-intent pain point your product solves

2. Own every comparison and alternative search between you and your competitors

3. Win mentions on the third-party sites already influencing buyers + AI answers

4. Create proprietary data, research + benchmarks your competitors can’t easily copy

5. Build content around the exact language customers use in sales calls and customer support

6. Use LinkedIn to create demand for the same topics you want to own in search

7. Build useful free tools that attract search demand, links + potential customers

8. Refresh and expand proven pages instead of endlessly publishing new ones

9. Own the same topics across your site, LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube + industry publications

10. Optimise for share of search across Google + AI, not individual keyword rankings
What else?

I escaped the corporate rat race on August 1st, 2019.

My big goal?

Do whatever I want, whenever I want, with whomever I want, and very little of what I hate.

I think that's a reasonable life goal.
Most people don't.

It took about 7 years, but I finally arrived at that place.

7 years of daily content, weekly newsletters, product creation, consulting, community management, etc.

Tons of work.
But work I picked and chose carefully.

And as my little one-person business grew, I was able to be even more discerning.

That's the upside you get when you build something small and flexible.

Of course, there's plenty of downsides as well.

But what job doesn't have those?

My downsides just happen to come with a calendar that I have full control of.

That's a trade I'm willing to make.

If you want to build your own little one-person or two-person business, here's my 30-page guide for starting: https://buff.ly/lwqZSlG

Zwyczajnie mi się ulało.

Mi też się zdarzało zrobić nagrania z ludźmi
z którymi nigdy takie nagranie nie powinno powstać. Kiedyś o tym opowiem. Wnioski wyciągnięte.

Ban na pokemony. Nikogo nie zamierzam wyjaśniać, mamy już speców od tego, ale też nie zamierzam już udawać, że z każdym warto zrobić wywiad czy być na jednym zdjęciu.