Glacier is my favorite. I thought The Grand Tetons were incredible. Yosemite is incredible but def touristy. Yellowstone is probably appropriately rated and a good place for the family.
I thought Joshua Tree was a waste of time but I am more pro mountain and less desert.
While it was sorta legal (at the time) it was not ethical and led to a massive collapse of the #1 company at the time.
Makes you wonder if AI is in such a bubble. (It is).
I’ve sold SaaS for three different companies.
B2B accounting, Procurement SaaS, and Senior living SaaS (niche, I know).
My only rule:
1. Have a good product.
A friend of mine pitched me this idea of “onlyfans but for NIL” and I’ve been running with that idea.
It’s been an insanely tangled web but there’s some crazy stuff happening and I think it can be a big business.
I love music but I mainly Spotify - concerts are a once a quarter thing, right?
I did some research at a football game recently. If you’re bored / interested you can find it on YouTube under “charleswilliamss” or instagram under “gethalftime”
I think that’s also with the news in general right now.
1. ESPN app - mostly for the headlines across sports
2. Tigernet - clemson specific / mostly football. Like the message boards.
3. Instagram - great place to get lots of good news
4. Maybe a google search - “when is x game?”
5. YouTube for game recap / highlights / long form.
6. Occasionally 247.
7. FotMob for soccer
I’m doing some due diligence on startup ideas.How do you consume sports? Are you constantly on the ESPN app? Is it just Instagram and TikTok? Snapchat? X?Are you on message boards, checking Reddit, dm’ing fantasy players?Let me know how you do it today!
The danger I find in information is a) there’s too much and b) it’s already out of date.
Wisdom transcends time but is much harder to come by.
“I’m not a pessimist, I’m an optometrist” -Ricky
I’ve always wondered “what if I simply just read them and took a note / maybe linked them to a word or Google doc or something?”
I had a friend who did a similar activity with books. Read a book, took notes on the ‘highest learnings’ and saved each book he finished.
He went back and found an old book with all of his ‘wisdom’ and realized he had totally change since he wrote those things. He didn’t really care about them like he thought his future self might.
Knowledge / link hoarding is vanity.
Obvs lesser of the evils but the fear is that, at some point, the family or the fund, gets too far removed from the mission / founder (as is common with many companies) and ultimately chooses profits > environment.
Tough for finite things to try and understand much less comprehend such a simple and complex quandary.
What happens if there really is infinite no beginning and no end. Or what if there is an Alpha and Omega - such a beautiful thing to not understand.
I’ve almost forgotten how to send my coworkers email. It blows my mind how much we are so reliant on a few tools to carry out so much work.
My personal recommendations are to read “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by the late Clayton Christensen and “Ecclesiastes” (ESV for Native English speakers) by Koholet.
“The Innovator’s Dilemma” has had a major impact on me. Keep moving the ball forward and keep finding the biggest market despite what your current market thinks.
“Ecclesiastes” is a great reminder that we will all die and it is good to be apart in the present. To innovate. To make things better regardless if we will live to see the positive impact or not.
Both are honestly great books about life in general too.
All joking aside this is a pretty well-known phenomenon that folks like Hegel and Nietzsche have discussed. The Enlightenment has had its tentacles on formalized religion for over 300 years in the Western World.
Nietzsche’s mad man who runs about the town telling people that “God is Dead” is not meant to be taken as a positive or light statement. Nietzsche posited that many of the key elements of modern society would cease to have meaning. Why then, if man is not created in the image of God, should man treat fellow man in any which way? What justification does one have for not harming fellow man if his fellow man is but ape?
Books I loved with perspectives on this are “Enlightenment Now” by Steven Pinker and “The Rise of the Modern Self” by Carl Trueman.
“You gotta serve somebody.” -Bob Dylan
This is a massive opportunity for someone to do what iTunes did to music and what Spotify did after. It just might end up being Amazon...
“That’s a pair of them docks” - Bon Iver #paradox
To experience homelessness one must have first experienced a reason to now be homeless. In modern western society we have many failsafes that prevent people from becoming totally dislodged from a place of shelter. But more and more people are losing such shelter and are ending up on our streets. Why?
The answer is often rooted in the human condition. Solving that is almost impossible... but it’s worth trying.
We’ve gone about for too long meddling in the affairs of others. Putting boots on their grounds and haven’t the slightest bit of gall to make it official and firmly support it. These acts of ill will (however good intentioned they may have been- and most have not *see War in Vietnam) have been nothing but racketeering and have violated our own Constitution.
I agree. We must clarify and make it more explicit. We must also create a nuclear armistice. We can’t continue to go on kicking the little countries and idealogies of the world and not expect the Big Ones to at some point decide to kick back.
“ Don't you understand, what I'm trying to say? Can't you see the fears that I'm feeling today? If the button is pushed, there's no running away There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave”
From Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction”
Outside of brand / name recognition I don’t know any reasons why someone would pick Airbnb over VRBO or another service.
Is there some sort of data play that they are making? Why would I invest in Airbnb when I could buy into a REIT or some other real estate asset? Would love some ellucidation.