139 entries under "talk"

The roads to dating advice for men….

For those who are confused: Flirting is a smile. Flirting is holding a door. Flirting is letting her have the last doughnut in the break room box. Flirting is a corny and clean dad joke. Flirting is telling her that coming to work and seeing her smile makes your day better. Flirting is NOT remarking on her bosom or derrière. Flirting is not telling her to “loosen up”. Flirting is ABSOLUTELY NOT what online “pickup pros” tell you it is. It is NOT insulting her between compliments. It is not a battle, it is not a war you must win against her. Flirting is a request for attention, and if she is receptive, she will give you that attention. But whatever you do, if she is not interested, accept it gracefully, and with charm; and the confidence that she is just not in that place in her life to want a relationship, and she is being kind enough to not lead you on. It takes courage for some women to turn men away, because some men become hostile when rejected. She is behaving courageously, keep that in mind. Her friends are watching, and THEY may be interested in you, as long as you do not become an antagonistic jerk when turned down. That is a huge red flag to women that they cannot trust you not to become potentially violent if they disagree with you. Not boyfriend material, for sure. A calm, confident man will find what he is looking for, and can rest assured that he IS worth having a relationship with, to the receptive girl at the right time in her life. And she is worth your time spent seeking for her.

Episode 81, Metamuse podcast — Muse

[The only distinction Sublime makes between free and paid users is showing the ‘UNLICENSED’ toolbar text, which you may not even notice in daily usage but might make you look no so serious about your tools.] [First priority is text entry, so that people feel they can type as fast as they want. Second priority is extensibility so that community can create optimizations for specific domains.] [Everything inside Obsidian is a plugin. You can even turn off backlinks and the file menu bar to have a barebones editor and customize from there.]

#043 – Confronting Your Fears and Taking a Leap with Pieter Levels of Nomad List

[Netflix can use their scale to charge $10 per month, but as a small business you need to charge more than that. Corner store doesn’t compete with megacorps, but instead offers something different.] [Aggregate information and research in one place and present it in a useful way, then build a community of people interested in that info to present other products they might like.]

#246 – Doing Content Right with Steph Smith of Trends.co

[Podcasts like are best friends, newsletters like acquaintances, blogs like random people you meet at conferences. You may never even know pay attention to who’s writing an article.]

[Smaller numbers but quality relationships with everyone learning and growing together]

[Podcasts are top of funnel and a big ask for people to listen for an hour. Strategically talk about the topic in other channels, and plug the podcast when it bites.]

[You wouldn’t hang out with a friend for an hour a week if they had no sense of humour and were purely informational, the experience needs to be fun.]

How can you read when you’re still a beginner?

[Whether you need X, Y, Z, A, B, I’ve got something for you.]

[I’ve spent years writing these courses.]

[Whether you’re a beginner, or intermediate and want to improve…]

[It’s all free via email and at different levels.]

[Sign up and I’ll get them to you right away.]

5 Tips for Making YouTube Thumbnails that Don’t Suck!

[Think about click-worthy instead of clickbait.]

[Find the most exciting bit and turn it into a thumbnail.]

EXACTLY HOW TO GET 10,000 YOUTUBE SUBSCRIBERS FAST

[If you already have something that performs or converts well, promote it multiple times instead of always pushing new things.]

How to Grow a YouTube Channel | 10 Small Youtuber Problems - YouTube

[The strategies established creators use are not the ones that got them where they are. Play to your strengths instead of comparing approaches.]

[If you enjoy making videos and feel like it’s making a difference in your life, it doesn’t matter how many subscribers you have. Worrying about numbers is called “going to work”.]

15 Tips for STARTING a Successful YouTube Channel in 2023

[Having Ideas which reflect that you understand your audience.]

Let’s talk about what they’re going after next….

[Don’t throw your hands up just because it’s not a permanent solution: we’re in for a long fight.]

Let’s talk about why countries don’t follow the manual….

[It’s not the side who can dish out the most that wins, but the side who can take the most.]

Creating Community Wherever You Go with Digital Nomad Alex Salinsky

[A couple of people are having dinner at this place (which isn’t true the first few times, but later on it is), would you like to join us?]

[Give people something to say yes to; they may even be relieved if they were looking to have plans for the evening.]

The 2nd Winter Moon Cycle: Thoughts on Covid-19, Vaccination, VAERS, and Related Topics

[What kills people from COVID is the overreaction of their immune system to a pathogen.]

[A ‘strong’ immune system is bad language.]

Let’s talk about improv and talking to liberals and centrists….

[Five rules of improv: 1) yes, and…; 2) no open ended questions; 3) make them look good; 4) no need to be funny; 5) tell a story and keep it going.]

[Centrist lack a theoretical framework, keep it focused on right and wrong.]

The roads to funding your community network projects….

[Make goals that are quantifiable, and achievable: big enough to matter and small enough to win. You want to overshoot your goal every single time. Set it up so that you win every single time.]

[In pre-advertising: announce what you’re going to do and how people can get involved.]

[Naming your benefactors might create a burden of association when you are perceived as divisive. Maybe don’t tell them or mention them until its done.]

[Remind people of the cause but don’t focus on the negative aspect so that people walk away feeling positive. If they feel bad, they won’t return.]

[Don’t guess what they need: ask them.]

[Delivering on the goal means not failing: if you’re short, cover out of pocket.]

[Document the delivery so that the people involved can see it after and feel good about making it happen.]

Making people feel they’re participation made the difference isn’t just for humility, it’s to help them feel their impact.

Let’s talk about baseless claims about a guy named Ray….

[If someone encourages a crime but doesn’t engage and that warrants arrest, then it would be ground to charge the politicians who did the same.]

The Problem With NFTs

[The popular usage of NFTs is a mechanism to convince people to buy more crypto, thus providing liquidity for early entrants.]

[The average user on spam NFT Discords is middle-class with disposable income and uncertain about their financial future.]

[Flexing by way of buying a Times Square ad is to signal credibility to validate buyers sense of having made the right decision.]

[Sell the token first and leave ’token holders’ to decide what happens with the capital, if they overcome collective inertia—there is no product.]

[Putting all the data in one place, even if it’s in a space you ‘control’, is centralizing (specifically as a point of failure.]

[Broadcasting your unique identifier across the internet feeds into a surveillance ecosystem.]

[When the technical cost of making a modern website became to high for most amateurs, they moved from templates to services and then platforms.]

[DAOs settle for only expressing procedural group operations through code because it’s too complicated to design and account for all contingencies and their contingencies.]

[Crypto evangelist want to relegate all consequences to machines via blockchains and DAOs to abdicate humans of any responsibility for bad outcomes.]

Why Do We Scroll?

[Picking my phone, looking at the lock screen, and putting it down again is enough for me to take a break.]

[Apps that check in by asking ‘are you still watching?’]

[Technology provides a sense of bubble-ness, a place to go. Like a parent that’s always there for you.]

[Acknowledge the different parts of you that might be in conflict with each other.]

Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience

[Describe interesting things you’ve done in your life to build credibility: share what you learned or what someone like you would want to know.]

[You can document things that have already happened. Some of it might resonate with others.]

[An indicator of credibility is that people will want to ask you questions to learn more about your experience.]

[It wasn’t the book, but documenting how I published it that gave me credibility in self-publishing.]

[Success is not followers but people wanting to hear what you have to say.]

[They either need to be getting something from you or getting to know you as a person.]

[Giving means they stop on your tweet and don’t regret it. Asking means anything that benefits you directly, like clicking links.]

[Use your pinned tweet to gain credibility.]

[Inspiration can be something interesting that happened today, things that took a lot of effort to figure out, answers you gave in your conversations that could be relevant to your audience.]

[Find the intersection of interesting to you, interesting to your audience, and having credibility to say it.]

[Don’t tag people hoping they’ll notice you.]

[Build your credibility, promote it everywhere, and look for opportunities to build more credibility.]

[Give and ask with a seven to one ratio.]