Everyone's mad about Polymarket and Kalshi. @TaylorHoliday: nobody's talking about kids' toys, which are entirely gambling now. Eggs you crack. Squishes with scarcity. And in Asia, "scoop shops": $10 for a scoop of charms rolled like dice. "Six year olds cracking eggs hoping to hit a one of one."

Hot take: I'd rather take a $100k job than have a $50k business.

Corporate MLB needs to engage with the facts and the reality. Why would a kid these days want to get involved in baseball and make it any part of their life, let alone their entire life? When they clearly lie about the numbers, it reduces trust. When the corporate office is not trustworthy, that affects the game itself at the lower levels.

The faster you move as a founder to “I’m a sales engineer” the more money you will make and the happier you will be.

Distribution is the only moat left. Also, the state of distribution right now … - Spamming outbound until you get blacklisted - Community marketing across Reddit and other sites until you get banned - SEO clicks disappearing into the AI void - Results from getting listed in AI engines are untrackable. - Get ignored across social media because everyone wants to gorge on memes made by AI - Creators keep raising their prices because brands are desperate for growth. Distribution is a moat if you have some unfair advantage: network effects, an existing customer base, or a one-of-one founder. Without that, you’re just in the trenches like everyone else

2027 will be the year of the personal agent. It has finally found PMF with Instinct, Muse & Grokbot. This will cause a tsunami of customer enquiries — it’s now essentially free for a customer to send hundreds of emails, texts and phonecalls to make a single purchase. Businesses will need AI customer service tools to save themselves from drowning.

It’s criminal only 30k will get this. 🎁 Cherene Aubert: Black Friday playbook from Q4 → Q1 2027 📅 MacCoy Merkley: Complete holiday calendar (week by week) 🤑 Derek Lauermann: Where + how to spend your next ad dollar These people work for $100M+ brands. And you get it for free. Please repost and say something nice; it will help more people get this amazing newsletter we work hard on every week. If you do, I will send you a hat. It’s an Operators hat.

Miami is in the early innings of a generational transformation. A new 35 acre Carnegie Mellon campus with 3,500+ students focused on AI, robotics, computer science and engineering will accelerate it. Miami will become one of the most important technology and innovation hubs in the world.

One of the best arguments I’ve seen for prioritizing creative volume. Creative volume and quality don't need to be at odds. Rather, volume is the mechanism by which quality emerges. Excerpt from Chapter 11 of Atomic Habits “On the first day of class, Jerry Uelsmann, a professor at the University of Florida, divided his film photography students into two groups. Everyone on the left side of the classroom, he explained, would be in the “quantity” group. They would be graded solely on the amount of work they produced. On the final day of class, he would tally the number of photos submitted by each student. One hundred photos would rate an A, ninety photos a B, eighty photos a C, and so on. Meanwhile, everyone on the right side of the room would be in the “quality” group. They would be graded only on the excellence of their work. They would only need to produce one photo during the semester, but to get an A, it had to be a nearly perfect image. At the end of the term, he was surprised to find that all the best photos were produced by the quantity group. During the semester, these students were busy taking photos, experimenting with composition and lighting, testing out various methods in the darkroom, and learning from their mistakes. In the process of creating hundreds of photos, they honed their skills. Meanwhile, the quality group sat around speculating about perfection. In the end, they had little to show for their efforts other than unverified theories and one mediocre photo.”

please stop sending me your ai-generated decks. they smell like total lack of thought