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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

For those who have been laid off, here are my words of wisdom:

💡 It’s not your fault.

💡 You are so much more than your job title.

💡 There is absolutely no reason to feel ashamed.

💡 So many of us have been there, me included, twice.

💡 Give yourself space to process, then let that strength rise.

💡 No one can take away your skills, experience, work ethic, or character.

💡 Try not to spiral into “why.” These are business decisions. No one is immune.

💡 When one door closes, another opens, and the next one may be better aligned than you ever expected.

💡 This moment does not define you. You've got this. 🩵

➡️ I have created a comprehensive Job Search Guide to help in your search. DM me and I will send your way.

🍀 Please share to motivate job seekers.

Why do some designers win stakeholder buy-ins easily?

They use this storytelling framework.

I've pitched stakeholders countless times.
At the beginning, it was very hard for me.

Rejection after rejection.

Always covered with head nods and delicate words,
but my designs never easily got greenlit for development.
Getting buy-in was always an uphill battle.
To the point I started doubting my design skills.

On top of that, I constantly saw other designers
win stakeholder buy-ins with ease.

Back then, I didn't know a thing about storytelling
and methods to talk with stakeholders.

Now, after a decade, I have my own framework.
I use it all the time with great success.

I've wanted to turn this framework
into a shareable deck for a while now.

But building decks always felt clunky,
until I found Pitch.

I easily recreated my style guide.
The UX feels like it was made by designers for designers.
And the AI features actually speed things up.
So I finally made the deck.

Ah, by the way, you can get your hands on it.

Just like this post, and comment "STORY".

I'll send you the link.

✌️

#storytelling #Pitch #PitchPartner #DeckDesign

Just took off for San Francisco and I can’t believe what I’m seeing.

This dude next to me on the plane, coding like mad man!

Full "Airplane Mode", meaning no internet, no Al-support, no Stack Overflow, no documentation. Just churning out code from memory, carefully reading and reflecting on error messages, fixing them, and moving on 🤯🤯🤯

AI is so cooked!!!

#ai #devs

You’re using AI daily.
But don’t know the important terms.
Here are 50 AI terms decoded for humans.

Ever heard of AGI?
What’s a Agents?
What's Generative AI?

This post will make you fluent in AI without sounding like a robot.

1. AI (Artificial Intelligence)
The science of making computers or machines perform tasks that usually require human intelligence, like learning, solving problems, or understanding language.

2. AI Agent
A program or robot that can sense its environment, make decisions, and act to achieve a goal, often with some independence.

3. AI Automation
Using AI to do repetitive tasks automatically, without human help, like sorting emails or managing schedules.

4. Generative AI
AI that can create new content, such as writing text, making images, or composing music, by learning from examples.

5. AI Image Generation
A process where AI creates new images either from scratch or from text descriptions or from reference images.

If you want to know more AI terms,
Check the infographic below 👇

Do you learn something new in AI every day?
Comment below 👇

Learn AI for free: https://lnkd.in/dQdb94E8

♻️ Share this post to help your network learn important AI terms

The NBA star roasted for dry legs is now fronting CeraVe. Elite turnaround.

After years of people laughing at Kevin Durant’s dry legs, he found a way to laugh with them.

If you don’t know the context, this has been rumbling on for a while.

Back in 2021, when Durant was at the Brooklyn Nets, a close-up photo captured the now infamous patch of skin between the top of his socks and the bottom of his compression tights.

His legs looked dry. The image travelled. The internet did what it does.

Durant’s NBA peers made jokes. Fans piled on. Durant fired back, as he’s known to do.

Even better that he is known for not ignoring the trolls. His pettiness level is high.

Recognising that body skin is neglected despite being up to two times drier than facial skin, CeraVe is partnering with the basketball icon to highlight the importance of total-body hydration through its fan favourite CeraVe Moisturizing Cream.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆:

→ Durant takes to social to read and respond to the viral mean tweets about his dry skin.

→ Paparazzi-style photos appear of him in the gym holding CeraVe Moisturising Cream, sparking online chatter about his sudden commitment to skincare.

→ Dermatologists and skin influencers join the conversation, using the moment to explain the science behind skin barrier health and proper hydration.

→ CeraVe officially names Durant the “Face of Legs”.

→ The campaign culminates with visibly moisturised legs as the punchline and the proof point.

THIS is how a brand steps into a story that culture has already written and steers it in its favour.

Salute, CeraVe 🫡

The richest people in the world don't just build companies...they buy them.

Here’s how you can too (without their millions):

Three reasons why buying beats building a business from scratch:

- 45% of new businesses fail within 5 years
- Most entrepreneurs make only $67k/year
- First 3-4 years are unprofitable

Compare that to when you buy...

You inherit customers, systems, and profits from day one.

"But Codie, I genuinely can’t afford one."

That’s what I thought too when I started.

There are 3 ways to buy any business (without needing millions):

1. Experience
2. Sweat equity
3. Money

You only need ONE of these three to pull off a deal.

1. Experience

This is perfect for people who know the industry inside and out.

Maybe you've been a plumber for 20 years and want to buy a plumbing company.

Sellers value genuine knowledge over $$ because they know you won't destroy what they built.

2. Sweat Equity

If you’re thinking about working in the business and growing it, this is for you.

Many retiring owners care more about their legacy than maximizing the sale price.

They want someone who'll take care of their employees and customers, not just squeeze the biz for cash.

3. Money

This doesn't have to mean YOUR money.

I've bought plenty of businesses with 0-15% down using other people's money. You can:

- Use SBA loans (government-backed with low rates)
- Get investors to fund the deal
- Or structure seller financing

Seller financing often works as a win-win too.

Banks tend to lowball business valuations and charge high interest rates.

But when sellers finance you directly, they get a premium price AND earn interest on the loan.

They make MORE money by cutting out the bank.

Just make sure you show what’s in it for them:

- Higher purchase price (ex. 15%+ premium)
- Tax advantages (spread over time vs lump sum)
- Faster close (30 days vs 120 days)

A win-win.

So what businesses should you target?

A few strategies I use:

1. SOWS method:

- Stale: Revenue hasn't grown in 3+ years
- Old: Been around 5+ years
- Weak: Competitors are terrible
- Simple: You can explain it to an 8-year-old

2. The Venmo Method

Look at your personal P&L:

- Who do you pay every month?
- Who are your competitors?
- What vendors do you use?

These are the businesses you should buy.

Instead of paying to get your problem solved, why don’t you get paid to solve it for other people?

Right now, boomers own $5-10 trillion worth of businesses.

And when these owners retire…

It’s either we buy these businesses, or BlackRock does.

I’d rather see more of us own our local than have PE swallow everything up.

If you want to learn how to buy a biz, you should come to my masterclass today.

It's completely free & solely focused on teaching you how to buy a biz for a little as $0.

Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/e86jsivr

A year ago, I left my 25+ years tech consulting career.

To build something of my own.

My friends couldn't understand why I'd leave stability.

Others questioned if it was "too late" to start over.

A few called it a midlife crisis.

But then I found my new people.

Entrepreneurs who'd walked away from golden handcuffs.

Creators building empires from their expertise.

Leaders who measured success differently.

Their ambition didn't make me feel behind.

It showed me what was possible.

When you change your path, you need people who've already taken the leap.

5 ways to upgrade your circle:

1. Audit your conversations - are you talking about problems or possibilities?

2. Join spaces where your future self would hang out, not where you currently are.

3. Share your bold goals openly - ambitious people are drawn to other dreamers.

4. Ask "What are you building?" instead of "How's work?"

5. Give yourself permission to outgrow relationships that hold you to your old life.

Your old circle will keep you comfortable.

Your new circle will keep you growing.

Evolve your circle.
Choose growth.

♻️ Repost to remind someone to find their circle
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What’s the most valuable skill in the AI era?

⛔ It’s not coding.
⛔ It’s not prompt tricks.
⛔ It’s not “keeping up with the latest model.”

💪 It’s judgment.

Every time a new AI capability drops, the debate centers on how powerful it is. That's the wrong question.

We should be asking how powerful *we* are.

Imagine this:

You can get an instant answer to any question.
You can generate output for any request.
You can simulate, draft, analyze, and model at the speed of thought.

Now ask yourself:

Are you good at deciding what to ask?

AI is removing nearly every technical bottleneck. The one that remains — and may become more painful — is our ability to think clearly about messy, ambiguous, high-stakes problems.

When the tool is no longer the constraint, the spotlight shifts to the decision-maker:

🔹 Do you understand the problem deeply enough to frame it well?
🔹 Can you anticipate failure modes?
🔹 Can you tell the difference between a technically correct answer and a strategically useless one?
🔹 Are your assumptions sound?

For decades, difficulty acted as a filter. You had to understand a problem to solve it. Now you can generate solutions without earning that understanding.
The filter is dissolving. That changes the game.

Full piece (and this week’s AI news roundup) here: https://lnkd.in/gwFhfSU7

Curious to hear how you’re investing in your judgment skills.

Study this ad — because it achieves something most brands NEVER do:

It makes people literally WANT to hear the brand's tagline.

This was State Farm's 2024 Super Bowl ad. In it, Arnold Schwarzenegger keeps mispronouncing the brand's tagline — "Like a good neighbaaa, State Farm is there."

It happens repeatedly. It's funny every time. The entire ad is just a repetition of a marketing slogan.

Of course, advertising is full of repetition — because it helps people remember things.

But most of that is unrewarded repetition. Brands are afraid you'll forget, so they try drilling ideas into consumers' heads.

State Farm did it differently: It made its core message so enjoyable, people wanted to hear it on repeat.

When you create a joyful experience, people will follow you anywhere — even into your own marketing copy.

Remember: Make your marketing rewarding. And suddenly, people will want to hear it again.

👉 Small improvements, huge results! My newsletter helps you succeed faster and more confidently jasonfeifer.com/newsletter

I met my younger self for coffee today.

She got there 10 minutes early. So did I.

She had just started her first job out of college at LinkedIn.
I tell her the next 7 years we work there will change her life,
but not in the way she expects.

She’s so afraid of failure. Of letting her family down.
I tell her she will eventually land her dream role at Google.
But she’ll leave after 4 years because she was always meant to be an entrepreneur.

She worries about paying back her student loans.
I show her our $0 in debt and tell her that her hard work will be worth it.

She hasn’t really traveled anywhere.
She thinks success is a corner office and a fancy title.

I tell her those things are nice. But the real luxuries in life are time, health, and priceless memories with the people you love. I flip through photos of last summer, sailing through Italy with the man we love.

She tells me about her imposter syndrome.

I smiled and slid my phone across the table.
Her eyes widened as she scrolled:

→ She sees our LinkedIn profile, now with 470,000 followers
→ She reads the DMs we get, saying something we wrote changed their life
→ She can’t believe the 1,000 incredible members we coached in Archimedes
→ But it was the major book deal with a dream publisher that stopped her in her tracks.

The best advice I could give my younger self?
Your timeline is your own. The path isn't going to be linear.

The corporate job that feels like safety? You'll outgrow it.
The "sensible" track everyone expects you to take? You'll forge your own.
The voice telling you you're "too young"? You'll prove it wrong.

Every rejection that stings, every project that fails, every moment you feel like quitting—they're not setbacks. They're plot points in a story that's about to get really good.

And that scary leap you're considering?
Everything you want is just on the other side of it.

Your future self is waiting. ☕
Make them proud.

P.S. What’s one thing you would tell your younger self if you met for coffee today? Drop it in the comments—I'll read every single one. 👇

New here? I'm Jade Bonacolta, founder of The Quiet Rich. I post short, practical methods at 8:30am EST for a quiet mind and a rich life. Follow to join 1 million who read them across platforms.

When you need a message to resonate, start with the right questions.

Who is the audience in this moment?
What are they thinking about on a normal day?
What do they care about when they wake up, go to work, talk to their friends, and go home?

Impactful storytelling begins there. Not with the biggest idea, but with the most relevant one.

This is exactly how Adam Met of AJR gets fans to take action at his concerts. He meets people where they already are and connects the message to their everyday lives in that city, in that moment.

Ask yourself 👇
🌆 Where are they, literally and emotionally?
🕒 What parts of daily life does this touch?
🏡 How does it show up at home, at work, or in routines?
👥 What shared experiences already connect us?
💬 How would I explain this to a neighbor?

When a message fits into real life, it resonates.
When it feels local and human, people move. 📍✨

🎧 Find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts: “When Pop Fandom Becomes a Force for Good with AJR’s Adam Met”

Most businesses have no idea how to get cited by AI.

Yet 50% of consumers are using AI-powered search.

(According to McKinsey).

AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) is a necessary addition to your overall SEO approach.

However, there aren't a lot of similarities between the two.

Which is why you need to learn AEO as a separate discipline with clear components.

It has a logical progression from understanding to implementation.

Because so many businesses are still unsure of what it really means...

I've broken it down into one clear flowchart.

Here's how to read it properly:

🔻 Start with understanding what AEO actually is.

This includes prompts, mentions, citations, and AI visibility.
I have content on my page that breaks down what AEO is in further detail.

🔻 Then, understand why it matters.

It is a conversational layer that sits on top of traditional search discovery with zero-click answers and voice search.

🔻 As a result, you need to build your technical foundation across three areas:

1. Site structure: Schema markup, structured data, entity relationships
2. Crawlability: XML sitemaps, robots.txt, internal linking, page speed
3. AI readiness: Content chunking, passage ranking, clear hierarchies

🔻 Then, optimise your content for AI citations:

- Authority signals: E-E-A-T principles, author bios, citations, credentials
- Answer format: Direct answers, question targeting, natural language 
- Topic coverage: Comprehensive depth, related subtopics, user intent

🔻 Apply these principles across proven formats:

- How-to guides
- Step-by-step tutorials
- Comparison posts
- "What is" explainers

...and more, which you can find in the infographic below.

This should give you a clear picture of how distinct AEO is from SEO.

Which is largely about optimising for blue links, "People Also Ask" results, and featured snippets.

This is the same framework we use at Searchable to get businesses cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.

We built it by reverse-engineering what LLMs actually cite.

And then creating a system around it that gives you the analytics, actions, and agentic workflows to drive growth.

All you need to do is apply the same system to your business to get cited.

Freeing headspace for you to actually work on your business.

If that sounds appealing to you, start your 14-day free trial now: 
https://lnkd.in/epgXyFmi

What's your current knowledge of AEO? Advanced, beginner or somewhere in between? 
Let me know in the comments.

♻️ Repost to help your network get cited by AI.
And follow Chris Donnelly for more.

Stop calling burnout “a busy season.”

It’s a warning sign.

Burnout doesn’t start with exhaustion.
It starts with small compromises that feel normal.

One more late night.
One more “I’ll rest later.”
One more skipped meal.

Most people notice burnout too late
because they track productivity, not patterns.

But burnout shows up in behavior first.

Here are 8 stages of burnout you can no longer ignore:

1/ Excessive Drive
Pushing yourself too hard, constantly striving for perfection.

2/ Ignoring Self-Care
Skipping meals, exercise, hobbies, and sleep becomes a regular thing.

3/ Denial of Problems
Ignoring signs of stress and convincing yourself everything is fine.

4/ Withdrawal
Distancing yourself from friends, family, and colleagues.

5/ Behavioral Changes
Increased irritability, impatience, and quickness to anger.

6/ Depersonalization
Feeling disconnected from your own emotions and body.

7/ Apathy
Constantly feeling empty and lacking purpose.

8/ Depression
Persistent sadness, hopelessness, and feeling overwhelmed by all areas of life.

If you recognize yourself in stages 1–3,
take it seriously.

Because early burnout often looks like “high performance.”

But it’s actually the moment your body starts billing you for your ambition.

What can help:

→ Put the basics back on the calendar (sleep, food, movement).
→ Reduce the load before your energy is gone.
→ Talk to someone you trust.

Don’t wait until stage 8 to start caring about yourself.

Which stage have you noticed most in yourself lately?
__

♻️ Repost to help someone spot burnout earlier.

☝️ For more valuable content, follow me Victoria Repa | BetterMe CEO & Founder

I dealt with negative self-talk for years.

And trust me, it's no fun going through life as your own worst critic.

That’s why I love this GPS reframe.

You don’t need to turn a mistake into a story about yourself.
Just treat it like a missed turn.

Recalculate.
And keep going.

———

P.S. I share 5 ideas like this in my newsletter every Monday: www.percentbetter.com

Wczoraj był Międzynarodowy Dzień Kobiet i Dziewcząt w nauce i ta ja to już przerabiałam na Linkedinie w zeszłym roku, kiedy to ja to napisałam, a połowa osób już trzaskała komentarze: „a co z międzynarodowym dniem mężczyzn w nauce?!?!?!?!”, a ja wtedy odpowiadałam: „NO TAKOWE ŚWIĘTO TO TRWA OD 2500 LAT” i potem się trochę śmiałam z własnego żartu, a trochę nie, bo to nie jest śmieszne.

No to skoro to już mamy za sobą, to zapraszam do intelektualnej podróży innego typu - do jednego smutnego badania o pewności siebie naszych córek, a także do jednej brawurowej akcji marketingowej, która postanowiła trochę świat naprawić.

Źródła:
📖 Bian, L., Leslie, S. J., & Cimpian, A. (2017). „Gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge early and influence children’s interests.” Science, 355(6323), 389-391.

📖 Stabilo "Highlight the remarkable" (2018). Agencja DDB Group Germany.

Imagine being 100% free to take your kids to school on a Wednesday morning.

You're not in a rush.
No need to be on Slack by 9 a.m.
Not checking your phone in the parking lot.

You just walk them in, drive home, make some coffee, and start your day.

The majority of people can't do that.

They're dropping their kids off with one eye on the clock and one on their inbox.

And they miss all that little stuff in the morning because someone else demands their time.

There's a better way to build your life and business.

It's really, really hard.
It takes a ton of prep.
It requires incredible curiosity.
You have to be willing to fail often.

It's building your own thing.

And the truth is, you probably have something people would pay you for.

A skill.
Some knowledge.
You know you do.

You've probably thought about it in the shower, on your commute, or at night when you can't get to sleep.

But by tomorrow morning, you'll convince yourself it was all BS and head into work deflated.

Maybe it's time to recapture your Wednesdays?

If you're ready to start building something with your mornings instead of giving them away, I built a free 30-day challenge called The Expert OS.

45 minutes a day.
Before work.
After work.
Doesn't matter.

I'll personally walk you through picking an offer, building it, and getting paid.

You'll get everything you need to succeed:

- My framework for knowing what people will pay for.

- My plug and play $12M sales page you can steal.

- My 10-email sequence that sells while you're making coffee.

- My AI prompts for the mornings you've got 30 minutes (and no energy).

It's free.

You can literally start this morning.

And 30 days from now, you'll have something that makes money whether you're at your desk or not.

Start Day 1: https://buff.ly/arpZ2Om

Success is better when it's shared.

18 ways successful people help others succeed:

1. Encouragement
2. Sharing resources
3. Showing kindness
4. Supporting growth
5. Offering mentorship
6. Making introductions
7. Listening with empathy
8. Giving business referrals
9. Passing along job openings
10. Sharing their own mistakes
11. Helping navigate challenges
12. Connecting them with experts
13. Helping prepare for interviews
14. Writing LinkedIn endorsements
15. Challenging them to be their best
16. Sharing useful books and resources
17. Giving honest, constructive feedback
18. Saying their name in rooms of opportunity

Life isn't a competition. Success isn't a solo journey.

Helping others doesn't diminish your success.

If anything, it amplifies it.

There's a ripple effect when you support others.

Your network grows.
Your perspective widens.
You learn from those you help.

As Winston Churchill wisely said:
"We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give."

P.S. What would you add to the list?

♻️ Repost if this resonates with you. Thanks!

You might think AI is making you more productive.
But is it, really?

New research from an 8-month study found something counterintuitive: AI didn't reduce work. It intensified it.

Here's what happened when employees were adopting AI:

𝟭. 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻
They worked faster, took on broader tasks, and extended work into more hours.
→ PMs and designers started writing code
→ Researchers took on engineering work
→ Engineers spent more time reviewing and correcting AI-generated code.

𝟮. 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀
"Quick last prompts" before stepping away became the norm.
Because prompting feels like chatting, not working.
This meant fewer real pauses. Downtime stopped restoring people.

𝟯. 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴
AI enables parallel threads, multiple agents, multiple drafts, revived backlog.
It feels like momentum. But it's actually constant context-switching.

It's also important to call out nobody asked the employees to do more work.
AI just made "doing more" feel possible.

This is the hidden cost of AI productivity gains: What looks like a win today can quietly become a workload creep and cognitive strain tomorrow.

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼:
→ Use AI to augment your thinking, not replace it
→ Protect your pauses. They're not laziness. They're how your brain consolidates what you've learned
→ Prioritize human connections

The real promise of AI isn't that you can do more. It's that you can do better.

💭 I'm curious: Have you seen AI reduce work, or quietly expand it?

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🔗 Source: Harvard Business Review. Link and more info in comments.

You're not selfish for choosing yourself.

You're not wrong for letting go of:

- People
- Jobs
- Habits

That no longer serve you.

The truth?

Some people only stand by you when it suits them.

The moment you start:

→ Saying “no”
→ Setting boundaries
→ Chasing goals they don’t understand

They’ll call it betrayal.

Let them.

That’s not your weight to carry.

Growth often means mess.

It means discomfort.
It means being misunderstood.

But it also means honouring who you really are.

Do you agree?

♻️ More people need to see this, share it with your network!

And follow Rob Dance for more LinkedIn content like this!

When Box decided to publicly document their entire AI-first journey — including the failures, the pivots, and the hard-won lessons — it caught my attention.

Box opened the door and showed how 2,800 employees across sales, support, engineering, and customer success actually changed the way they work.

Across six detailed articles published between December 2025 and February 2026, they walk through the full journey — from defining principles and governance to delivering measurable business impact.

That level of transparency is rare. And in my experience, it is exactly how leaders learn.

That’s why I decided to break it down and build this article for you.

Because the uncomfortable truth remains: only around 5% of AI pilots ever scale.

Also, I want to hear from you — which insight from their journey resonates most with you: the focus on principles, the ruthless prioritization, the workflow redesign, or the emergence of the AI manager role?

#BoxAmbassador #AITransformation #EnterpriseAI #DigitalTransformation #AgenticAI #FutureOfWork

How to (finally) make slides in Claude:

Step 1: Download your ugly slides from PowerPoint.
Step 2: Go to claude .ai
Step 3: Click "Connectors" (bottom left)
Step 4: Search "Gamma." Click Connect.
Step 5: Upload the ugly slides to claude.
Step 6: Paste this prompt in claude:

"Turn these into beautiful, minimalist slides using my brandkit in Gamma"

Step 7: Click "+", switch on 'Gamma' connector. 
Step 8: Send the prompt. Wait ~2 minutes.
Step 9: To edit heavily, click on gamma external link.

✦ Claude searches your brandkit in Gamma.
✦ Grabs supporting graphics from the web.
✦ Rebuilds the whole slide in your style.

How to make your slides look even better:

☑ Don't use Gamma's default templates.
☑ Go to Gamma .app. Create your own style.
☑ Save your fonts, colors, & logo placement.
☑ Now add to your Claude prompt: 
"Use my pre-saved style in Gamma."

This is how you turn ugly slides into branded slides.

♻️ Repost this if you learned something.

Hier im Rheinland, wo ich groß geworden bin, wird heute Karneval gefeiert! 🥳🎭
Ich hab mich für euch in drei verschiedene Kostüme geworfen und dachte mir: Warum nicht die Community entscheiden lassen? 😉
Welches Kostüm soll’s werden?
👉 1, 2 oder 3?
Schreibt mir eure Lieblingsnummer in die Kommentare.
Extrapunkte gibt’s, wenn ihr sogar erratet, als was ich gehe! 😎
Ich wünsche allen Jecken eine richtig tolle Festsession! Alaaf! 👻

2 things need to happen in every LinkedIn post:

1. It needs to be applicable
2. It needs to invite conversation

A lot of people here share great tips, but they don't invite engagement to continue the conversation.

Inversely, a lot of people write posts only for engagements' sake, while the advice is lackluster.

Do both = you'll always do well on LinkedIn.

I've fixed this issue for 1000s already. Trust me when I tell you: Applicability is the real writing "secret".

Now go... apply this advice. 😊

Cheers! - Coach J

P.S. Do you always have a "next step" in your posts? Be honest in your comment. Oh, and happy weekend! 👋

We ranked popular business books and got 494k views.

After reading over 200+ business books and building businesses... Timothy and I had VERY honest takes.

Drop your list of books below so we can rank those next!

PS: Think and Grow Rich will ALWAYS be a staple for me!

The world is full of talkers who complain and envy doers.

You wanna win … you have to f*cking grind … you have to “rough it” … now what?

Roll up on that business idea and give it a shot, make it happen. Being 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and having regrets that you didn't swing the bat? That's the worst of them all.

Our at-bat is in front of us. Take a swing!

TOP #1 cringe sentence ruining your cold calls:

(90% of BDRs still use it) 💔

“𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦”

Why it sucks:
If you bring value, time stops being the issue.

Better:
"𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘶𝘵…
𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵"

Your prospect’s time is scarce.
Your team’s time is too.

Your only lever is more answers per minute.

Prospeo.io is the mobile database we use to achieve that.

Every mobile number is triple-checked.

We get 1 response every 4 calls.

What's your best opener?

Haha 😂

“Endure long hours and accept low pay in the name of “exposure” and “learning”.”
If it gets too hard?
“At least you have a job - be grateful.”

But gratitude shouldn’t cost you your health or dignity.

A good job can be demanding, but it won’t make you feel small.
It will challenge you without breaking you.

Respect, growth, and fair pay aren’t luxuries.
They’re the bare minimum.

I recently got engaged, and thankfully she said yes!

So I asked James Sexton back for the third time to help me understand how to give this the best chance of working.

For those of you who don’t know, James J Sexton is one of the world’s leading divorce lawyers.

He’s been practising law for over 20 years, and he’s sat across from people whose relationships are ending.

And what he’s seen is that most couples don’t fall apart because of one big moment. It’s often slow and unnoticed, and by the time couples realise it they’re already distant.

So many of you comment on how much you love seeing James on the show because he speaks plainly about love. Not in theory or optimism, but from the reality of what actually happens when love starts to slip.

James brought me through why modern love is under pressure and why love without effort won’t survive.

So I wanted to know:

- Should everyone get a prenup?
- How do you fight without destroying the relationship?
- What makes someone cheat, even if they still love their partner?
- Can independence and intimacy co-exist?
- What’s the single biggest mistake couples make after the honeymoon phase ends?

I didn’t come into this conversation looking for warning signs, I came looking for tools.

And what James shared left me thinking deeply about the kind of partner I want to be.

Because at the end of the day, it all comes back to love. We talk a lot about independence, but that mindset doesn’t always serve us in relationships.

I’ve spent years building my own world - and like James said, sometimes that means you end up in a castle with a moat.

It made me think about how easy it is to chase achievement, but miss the thing we all really want.

And most people only realise that once it’s at risk of slipping away.

If you’re in love or want to understand why it went wrong, this is the episode for you.

I don't have an exit.
I didn't get £15 million in funding.
I haven't built a team with a headcount of over 100 people.

I am still a successful entrepreneur.
And so the f*ck are you.

Because if you quit your job.
Started a company.
Employed yourself.
And are making a living from it - you ARE a successful entrepreneur.

90% of businesses fail in the first two year - including ones that got millions in funding.

So, if you’ve fallen into the trap of comparing yourself to people who’ve raised £20 million and are spending half of that on their social media presence…

STOP.

You are killing it.

If you’re running a profitable business and actually making a living from it, you’re a heck of a lot more successful than most of them.

💜

If we haven’t met, hi hello - my name’s Amelia. I built the UK's leading personal branding agency (as a mum of 2!) + now I teach founders and their teams how to build a personal brand that generates leads and sales (not just “engagement”). Most people post for attention. My lot post for income. Follow me for personal branding tips + the reality of what it's like to build in public 🤓

I’ve built a $4million business off the back of my personal brand - and helped clients turn social media into their most profitable channel.

I host a weekly free live show. You’ll walk away with:
💜 the stuff that makes people trust you fast
💜 Marketing trends, new platform features + viral posts
💜 social-first ways of communicating your expertise.

Join us for the next one: https://lnkd.in/gMqpvwpR

Czy wiedzieliście o tym, że blog kulinarny (BLOG) AniaGotuje ma:

📍 prawie 7,5 MILIONA unikalnych użytkowników
📍 24% POKRYCIA Polskiego internetu
📍 i średnia dlugość sesji to 10 minut

Przecież to sa wyniki ogólnopolskich portali jak Filmweb, Gazeta pl czy TVN24.
(Wyniki z najnowszego mediapanelu ze stycznia 2026)

To jest BLOG KULINARNY.
Miazga!

Czy AniaGotuje - istnieje?
Czy to jest projekt medialny? 😉

„Du hast Depressionen? Sieht man dir gar nicht an!“

Ein Satz, der wie ein Kompliment klingt, jedoch jeglichen Mut raubt offen darüber zu sprechen.

Denn noch immer ist unser Bild von psychischen Erkrankungen oft einsam-eindimensional.

Wer depressiv ist, kommt nicht aus dem Bett und verliert sich in Lethargie. 
Wer Angst hat, traut sich nichts zu und ist schüchtern.
Wer eine Persönlichkeitsstörung hat ist exzentrisch und schwer vorhersehbar.

Dieses Denken vertieft nicht nur die Stigma-Schubladen, sondern zeichnet ein Bild, dass uns viele Menschen übersehen lässt.

Vor allem, diejenigen unter uns, bei denen vermeintlich alles „super“ läuft, egal ob im Job oder zu Hause.

So verstecken sich psychische Erkrankungen im Job z.B. hinter:

🚩 Der Fleißigen: Jede Mail wird in 2 Min. beantwortet. Sie liefert 150 % und übernimmt jedes Projekt. In Wahrheit ist es die einzige Strategie, um die Angst, den Erwartungen nicht zu entsprechen, zu stoppen.

🚩 Dem „Fels in der Brandung“: Er hört jedem zu, löst jedes Problem. Er braucht scheinbar nie Hilfe – weil er gelernt hat, dass seine Bedürfnisse keinen Raum haben.

🚩 Dem Analytiker: Er flüchtet sich in Daten und Fakten, intellektualisiert Gefühle, um sie nicht spüren zu müssen.

🚩 Der Satirikerin : „Humor ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht“ – Sie überspielt Sorgen mit Sarkasmus bis es nicht mehr geht.

🚩 Die Selbstoptimiererin: Yoga, Meal-Prep, 5-Uhr-Club. Es ist der verzweifelte Versuch, über den Körper eine Kontrolle zurückzugewinnen.

Aspekte, die wir als Zeichen von Gesundheit interpretieren.
Mit der Konsequenz, dass wir leider oft nicht weiter nachfragen.

Doch was im Außen so leichtfüßig aussieht, kostet im Innen unglaublich Kraft.

Was wir sehen, sind intelligente Kompensationsstrategien für Ängste, Selbstzweifel und Kontrollverlust.

➡️ Psychische Erkrankungen sind unsichtbar und damit einsam.

Wie können wir unterstützen?

1️⃣ Auf Signale achten

Oft zeigen sich körperliche Symptome wie Müdigkeit oder Spannungsschmerzen. Stimmungsschwankungen, Negativität oder Selbstzweifel. Auch können wir es in plötzlich untypischen Verhaltensweisen beobachten wie z.B ein vermehrtes Bedürfnis nach Rückversicherung oder vermehrten Überstunden.

2️⃣ Einladen authentisch zu sein

Scham ist der größte Blocker, um Hilfe zu suchen. Sprecht über eigene Gefühle und Sorgen. Denn Verletzlichkeit ist die beste Einladung für Verletzlichkeit.

Traut euch zu fragen:
Was beschäftigt Dich gerade?
Brauchst du etwas?

You never know, what someone is carrying. 
Be kind.

Do you think people believe the world understands their struggles?

Share your thoughts in the comments!

#rajshamani #figuringout

I stopped typing LinkedIn posts (it took too long).

Duplicate my exact workflow:

Step 1: Go to wispr .ai. Download for free.
Step 2: Pick your activation key (I use Shift).
Step 3: Open your notes. Hold the Shift key.
Step 4: Talk for 60 secs about your topic. No filter.
Step 5: Wispr writes everything. Correct it once if it spells something wrong (it remembers forever).
Step 6: Go to Claude .ai. Copy & paste this prompt:

"Turn my raw draft into a LinkedIn post [DRAFT]. Rules:
→ Short and actionable sentences.
→ Start with a strong opinion or pain point.
→ No emojis. No jargon. No fluff.
→ Never use: AI words like delve, tapestry, leverage.
→ Never use 'not only... but also.'
→ Be confrontational. Take a stance.
→ End on a high note, not a call to action."

Step 7: Edit hard. AI gives you 70%, your taste gives another 30%. Cut any sentence that sounds like AI.
Step 8: Post on LinkedIn.

Total time: under 10 minutes.

I type at 40 words per minute. I talk at 143.

Typing makes you sound like everyone else.
Your voice doesn't.

I've written 200+ posts this way.

Full disclosure: I partner with Wispr Flow because I already use it daily. I don't promote what I don't use.

“Everyone has a plan until I punch them in the face.”
— Mike Tyson

Africa has plans too.

Vision documents.
Growth strategies.
Beautiful PowerPoint decks.

But Africa’s real test isn’t planning.
It’s impact.

Because reality doesn’t care about intent.
It cares about execution.

Commodity shocks.
Broken infrastructure.
Capital that arrives late—or leaves early.
Policies that sound good but don’t survive the street.

That’s Africa getting punched in the face.

And here’s the truth most won’t say:

Africa doesn’t need more plans.
Africa needs structures that can take a hit and keep moving.

Resilient systems.
Local value addition.
Builders who stay when things get hard.
Capital with patience.
Leadership that understands the ground, not just the graph.

Growth here won’t come from avoiding punches.
It will come from learning how to stand after them.

That’s how real economies are built.
Not in theory.
In contact.

— Phillip J. Mostert

Follow for grounded frameworks on building legacy through venture

♾️

5 years ago $45k wk to wk
6 mths of daily anxiety disorder
Sleeping in my childhood bedroom at 27.

Night 3 of 3 hours sleep.

Sleep paralysis again. Heart pounding.

I remember staring at the ceiling thinking:

“How did I fail life already?”

Up until that moment I blamed

School. Society. The system.

Everyone but me.
Then something snapped.

“F*ck this. I’m in charge.”

That was the first day I took responsibility.

Now years later

I still get anxiety, doubt myself and feel behind.

But there's 1 thing no one can take from me.

I’m the author of my life

And authors don’t blame the pen.

Stop building stuff nobody asked for.

It's literally the biggest waste of time.

People spend hours tweaking layouts, rewriting copy, and adding more modules because their business doesn't feel "complete" yet.

Meanwhile, the average Joe or Jane never shows it to a single person.

Because if you show it and nobody wants it...then what?

All those hours and effort and belief just disappear.

*Poof* Gone.

So most people keep polishing and tweaking and wasting time.

"Preparation."

Meanwhile, someone with 20 years less experience and a worse idea shipped their janky product and already has a paying customer.

Because they asked one person, "Would this help you?" before they spent their time building it.

That conversation takes 15 minutes.
You've been avoiding it for months.

You don't need to build more.
You need to find out if anyone cares!

I built a free 30-day challenge called The Expert OS that starts exactly there.

Not with building.

With finding out if your idea is WORTH building.

I'll walk you through:

- My idea pressure-tester
- My $12M templated sales page
- My 10-step selling email sequence
- My AI prompts for speed and efficiency

It's 100% free.

Start today.

And 30 days from now, you won't be guessing anymore, because someone will have paid you.

Join us: https://buff.ly/arpZ2Om

Prayer is not about having all the answers. It’s about staying connected while you wait for them.

3 things that will calm your overthinking:

1. We are all hardwired to think more about the bad than good.

Some time back, we all were cave men and women.
And at that point, the only thing that mattered was survival.
So, our brains were focused on alerting us of danger.

Today, the dangers have changed.
But the brain’s wiring didn't.

Now it's "What will people think?" or "What if I fail publicly?"

When you find your mind spiraling, remind yourself that this is old survival programming doing its job.
It does not necessarily equal to danger!

2. Our mind focuses on possibilities. Not probabilities.
Our brain's job is to focus on the possibility.

Is it possible that you will get hit by a bus today - YES!
Is it possible that you will be fired - YES!

Just the possibility of an event is enough to trigger overthinking.

What we need to add to stop the overthinking is probability.

Each time we step out, there is a possibility of getting hit by a bus. 
But we still step out fearlessly.

Because we have told our brain that the probability of that is low.

And how do we know that the probability is low?
Because we have witnessed that ourselves.

When you are convinced that the probability of a bad thing is low, your mind will automatically be convinced.

3. Everything will not work out. 
And is not meant to work out.

Life is not a perfect picture that needs to get clicked in one go. 
Life is a jigsaw puzzle of that same perfect image. 
You have to fit the pieces one by one.

You won't get it right the first time. 
But you will get it right eventually.

Set yourself free!

Image via Justin Welsh

Here's my conversation with Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent that has taken the Internet by storm, with now over 180,000 stars on GitHub.

This was a truly mind-blowing, inspiring, and fun conversation!

https://lnkd.in/dh6NsVrf