Michael Girdley
@girdley
Starting businesses is my business. Current Passion Project: explaining why 500+ great companies failed (100 videos so far).
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I'm at the point now where I assume every reply from a stranger on X is AI-written.
Perhaps the fix for social media is that AI will make it totally unusable.
No one is coming to save you.*
*Except me. I'll give you a hug and tell you it's all ok.
Two types of people in this world. Those that can finish thoughts and those that
I had a postal carrier come to the door the other day while smoking a lit cigar. He had a registered letter to be signed for.
He was at the wrong house.
Riding in an uber and they are blaring the radio and aggressively changing lanes
I don’t know whether to be annoyed or impressed
Most people go through life being ok with stuff just being average. It sucks.
So you want to buy a Demolition business... listen to this.
I spent 21 year in this business until regulation forced me out. I gave my best years to demolition, I loved it, BUT I built ZERO VALUE.
In this episode you will hear about a 40 year old business that the hosts dont think will sell at 3x, most like likely will close down. It has $1mm in SDE after 40 years the seller has no value. It actually says his real estate is worth more than his business.
Young entrepreneurs... buy or build a business with value, its the same amount of work.
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The best part of doing YouTube is that my boys give me pointers on my videos.
And, they're always spot on.
Many of the teens I know are violently anti-AI. Bad for society and the planet, they say.
Given what phones have done to their generation, I think they have a point.
Every time I talk publicly about the alcohol industry, I get replies like this one.
What's mind-blowing is that the wine/spirits/beer industry has done nothing to counteract the idea that any alcohol at all is "poison."
Teens believe it -- and that THC is good for you.
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I'm going to get killed for this but I think this is a good idea.
After digging into the data about depression, sleep deprivation and external locus of control in kids who are active on socials early, I'm sold.
Social media as late as possible in life.
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Has anyone found a Loom alternative they love?
It's so buggy now that Atlassian is behind it.
I'm sick of recording 5 minute videos that it loses.
