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🤔 Thought Starters
I wrote about why the 2020s will be Peak Meat in the U.S.
Between the 1970s and 2000s, US per-capita meat consumption increased from 120 lbs/year to 140. But the rapid rise of plant-based alternatives makes it likely that this decade is the top.
^nice follow-up to last week’s post about alternative meatz
asked a lawyer friend to break down what parts of his work could never be commoditized / performed by algorithms. top 3: negotiation, industry relationships, navigating personalities and persuasion.
theme: psychology/interpersonal, non-rationality-bound work.
👩💻 Founder and Investor Corner
I've been in the self-published ebook business for 16 days now, and just crossed $40K in sales.
I can't pretend I'm an expert in this profession, but here's everything I did so far.
A thread.👇3
Junior jobs are:
* publicly advertised
* comparatively abundant
* narrow, structured
* often “technical” in nature
Senior jobs are:
* not publicly advertised
* rare
* broad, unstructured
* often effectively “sales” jobs
Transitioning from junior to senior is often HARD.
This appears to be Casper's business:
Buy mattress at $400.
Sell at $1,000.
Refund/return 20% of them.
--> Keep $400, on avg.
... then spend $290 of that on ads/marketing.
... and $270 on admin (finance, HR, IT).
--> Lose $160.
Repeat.
What are we currently missing but is going to seem obvious in retrospect about the implications/significance of negative interest rates?
😹 Funnies
my secret to twitter success? reading Atomic Habits once, tattooing a Paul Graham essay on my abs, combining a light dose of acid with a killer productivity app, and my flawless better half whom I held hands with while we ran a 2:35 marathon
Where to invest:
$1- Scratch-off ticket
$10- Cocktail
$100- Good meal
$1,000- Weed Stocks
$10,000- Bitcoin
$100,000- Banana on wall
$1,000,000- 60/40
$10,000,000- Hedge funds
$100,000,000- NYC Penthouse
$1,000,000,000- Sports team
$10,000,000,000- Election
$100,000,000,000- Mars
Plant-based diet. No alcohol. Sleep metrics. Intermittent fasting. Meditation. Oat milk. Work on climate tech, crypto, no code, or productivity apps. Turmeric. Jam on a side hustle. Start a new fund. Broadcast virtues.
Welcome to San Francisco in 2020.
@semil Plant-based diet. Fasting. Meditation. Turmeric.
Turns out San Fransisco in 2020 is basically India from 1720 😆
🔧 Outsource My Life
Buy or build?
Spend time or outsource?
A friend this weekend shared that he outsources:
washing his clothes
cleaning his house
filling his car with gas
fixing things at home
cleaning his hot tub
…and he’s never been happier.
What are your go-to things to outsource at home? At work?
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