I poured my 10 years of teaching experience into a skill. It's called /teach, and it can teach you anything. Here's how it taught me to solve a Rubik's cube:

🚀 The only career advice you need: The actor Glen Powell auditioned to play Rooster in Top Gun: Maverick. When the role was given to Miles Teller, Powell was devastated. He was offered a smaller role, but declined. Tom Cruise summoned Powell to his house and asked him: “What kind of career do you want?” Powell responded: “I want to be like you—an iconic movie star. You always choose great roles.” Cruise shook his head. “You’re wrong. I choose great movies, then I make the role great.” Powell got the message. He accepted the role of Hangman—and nailed it. Now Powell says: “It changed the trajectory of my career.” When young people ask me for career advice, I tell them something similar: 🚀 Attach yourself to a rocketship. Join companies that are growing quickly. Work with people who are going places. Be part of something great. Play your role—no matter how minor—exceptionally well. The rest will take care of itself. P.S. I don't write engagement bait, so I need your help to spread the word. If you enjoyed this post, would you like, comment, and repost?

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How Daughters see their Dads at Every age: - THREAD 🧵

5 years of @Wander today. 🎉 We wouldn't be here without you — so we're sending one of you on a free trip to one of our 5 original Wander locations. To enter: reshare this post and tag the person you want to go on an adventure with in the replies.

The Midwest's best startup room is back. April 23, St. Paul and exactly what the Midwest startup scene should look like. Casey Allen is doing it again. April 23, CHS Field, St. Paul. All SaaS. All founders. No fluff. Use code ** ILT** for 25% off. hubs.ly/Q04cGJPQ0

You don’t want me to pass the ball, you want me to shoot it! 🤣

Repping the @Timberwolves with Max in LA tonight. Naz Reid towel in hand behind the Clippers bench/end.

Terrific write up and particularly like this advice: “The specific tools don't matter as much as the muscle of learning new ones quickly. AI is going to keep changing, and fast. The models that exist today will be obsolete in a year. The workflows people build now will need to be rebuilt. The people who come out of this well won't be the ones who mastered one tool. They'll be the ones who got comfortable with the pace of change itself. Make a habit of experimenting. Try new things even when the current thing is working. Get comfortable being a beginner repeatedly. That adaptability is the closest thing to a durable advantage that exists right now.”

Barely a day goes by where I don't talk to Brent Beshore. I'm hard pressed to think of anybody else who combines a sharp eye for business with such a deep heart. Once a year, he compiles his top learnings in one place. Some lessons from this year's piece: - There is no good life without intentionally choosing less. - Dark things grow in darkness. That’s true in business. It’s true in marriages. It’s true in the soul. - Performance and efficiency work well if you’re made of steel and silicon. But us humans need rest and grace. - G.K. Chesterton got it right: “The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground." - Most of what goes wrong in a company is not novel; it’s just novel to you. - Relationships are the invisible infrastructure of every business. - Big wins in investing usually come from not interrupting a good thing. - A lot of CEO work is invisible. It’s pressure management. It’s absorbing emotion without spreading it. It’s knowing what you think without saying all of it. It’s carrying the weight of uncertain outcomes while still asking the team to move forward decisively. - A CEO has to become comfortable being the person who disappoints people in the short term so the company doesn’t disappoint everyone in the long term. - The CEO is the Chief "No" Officer: very yes is a no to something else. Every strategy is a pile of exclusions. Every commitment is a trade off. The organization will always ask for more: more initiatives, more products, more meetings, more hires, more exceptions, more complexity. Increasing complexity is the default setting of life, and companies are not exempt from natural order. - Lies, even polite, respectable ones, create complexity. Truth, on the other hand, is always low-maintenance. It just sits there while a lie is a careening machine you have to keep from crashing. It needs fuel. It needs updates. It needs version control. You have to remember what you said last time so you can repeat it with the same confidence next time. You have to keep track of what you didn’t say. You have to manage who knows what. And if you’re really committed, you start building an entire ecosystem around the lie so it feels normal. That’s when you’re no longer telling a lie, but living one. The whole thing is worth reading in full.

Founders: Your pricing strategy should match your narrative. If you're selling efficiency gains, price against labor costs. If you're selling revenue lift, price against deal value. If you're selling risk reduction, price against loss prevention.

Great quote from the new episode:

Merry Christmas from my family to yours! 🌟 The angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For today in the city of David a savior has been born for you who is Messiah and Lord.”

THE MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES ARE 18-10. (🎥 via @RyanMSwanson)

A free hat!!! I am giving away this fitted FlexFit Hat. It’s a high crown with a stretch fit between 7 1/4 & 7 5/8. High quality fabric with a Vintage Cypress Point Patch stitched on. To qualify - “Like” “Follow” “Share” Will randomly pick one of you on Friday!

Only one word for this @JonKrawczynski piece on the one and only @Grady:

I posted the same exact video to Reels twice. One did 11k views and the other did 13M. Only difference is the written caption. Tell people what to do. A strong CTA on your caption is wildly overlooked. Virality is a game of margins, pay attention to every part of your video!

24 years ago Welles Crowther gave his life for others on 9/11. This is probably the best story @espn has ever done. As the memory of 9/11 fades, it’s important to remember what true bravery looks like in the face of evil. Watch this: