Neville's Digital Surrogate Brain
I love local-business marketing, and I saw this in a neighborhood while driving in Houston:
It’s a simple A-Frame (much like my Shoe Hospital Experiment sign) this window cleaner puts out in front of a house they were cleaning.
A great way of drumming up business is letting people in the neighborhood know you’re helping out one of their neighbors.
If you’re a service provider like this, spend the $150 to get a nice A-Frame made and stick it in front of your service sites!
Hey check it out I got one of those 100k subscriber YouTube plaques!!
I put out 2 long-form videos or interviews per month, and one short form video everyday.
If that sounds up your alley then give me a subscribe!
A cool pattern I’ve found with regards to reading:
10 pages of a fiction book at night helps me go to sleep.
10 pages of a business book in morning helps me wake up and have my brain thinking about work.
I’ve noticed I read too much fiction in the morning, it’s exciting but then I don’t really wanna do work. So this hack is pretty neat!
The current business book I’m reading is this: Read Write Own
The current fiction book I’m reading is: The Three Body Problem.
Apparently the Three Body Problem just came out as a movie or TV trailer….AND I’M PURPOSELY NOT WATCHING THE TRAILER SO I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN!
Here’s two quotes I really love:
This is a quote about having a goal you’re working towards:
“When things are hardest, a clear goal is the most important thing. To have a fountain of energy to draw from. Establishing a worthwhile goal is the hardest part. It gives you a place to go and a reason to get up.” – Earl Nightingale
This one is about building confidence, and that it comes from having a bunch of smaller experiences of success:
“Confidence is built upon an experience of success.”
This is the exact letter that made Gary Halbert a millionaire in 1971.
It was one page, sealed in an envelope, selling them a “Coat of Arms” picture and report based on their last name, and it peaked at making 20,000 sales per day (and these were physical mail orders) 😮
This particular letter was sent to every “Macdonald” in the phone book across the United States:
For $2.00 (in 1971) this is what was sent back to you:
1.) A coat of arms picture of your family last name, you could then frame it if you liked. Like this (without the frame, it was just sent to you on paper):
2.) A small report explaining the coat of arms: (h/t to @eston_esau for taking this pic of this in his grandpa’s house)!
I was thinking of buying a Tesla Model S, and wanted to try it out for a multi-city, mulit-destination trip, so I rented one with the specs I wanted off Turo (I would’ve preferred a black one but couldn’t find that with my specs).
Almost all my friends have variations of Teslas, and the only one I really love the look of is the Model S:
The only reasons I’d want to switch cars is: FULL AUTO DRIVING.
That’s it.
That’s the killer feature to me.
Pro’s:
Con’s:
Hope for the future:
I frequently go back and forth between Austin and Houston for family stuff, and I think of the countless hours of driving I’ve done that could’ve been used for something more productive or fun.
I wish I could do work, or read, or listen to podcasts AND take notes while driving….currently you can just passively consume information in a car and not much more.
My goal is that I can drowsily hop in the car, fall asleep, and safely wake up in a different city. This seems roughly 5 years away.
Getting off caffeine these last few weeks has resulted in me sleeping earlier, and therefore waking up earlier.
I’ve always preferred being a night owl, but lately I’m waking up at 6am and just starting my day.