2x water tech founder | pretend extrovert
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I thought bezos was playing a trick on me today - my new book is now beating @RyanHoliday's for top spot on Amazon in business & self-improvement.
don't even know what to say. the guy has been a huge inspiration for me over the years. I don't consider myself anywhere near his level.
while there's no chance it'll last... I'll take it!
Want to close million dollar deals? Become a Chief FU officer.
follow up. and bring value.
⛔️'just checking in'
✅'just ran across this industry report, thought it might be useful for your marketing team'
General Electric spent $100k+ to teach me how to sell.
All of the training can be boiled down to one lesson:
You can have anything you want if you help other people get what they want.
Doesn’t matter what you’re selling. If you actually give a damn about what the other person cares about and needs, and can help them achieve it, you will win.
A $55 billion water bill expires in three weeks
The largest federal investment in water in American history expires on September 30, 2026. Almost nobody outside of water geeks like me has noticed.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act put $50 billion into water over five years. State Revolving Funds, lead service line replacement, PFAS treatment, WIFIA loans.
It was supposed to be a down payment on a problem that's been deferred for forty years. American pipes are old and someone has to pay for it.
The reauthorization fight is live right now, with proposed EPA budget cuts hanging over the State Revolving Funds.
The leading indicator is already ugly. Water project awards in the first half of 2025 fell 53% year over year.
The utilities in decent shape treated federal money as a calendar. Projects on the state priority list two cycles ago, engineering done, environmental review path identified.
The ones that decided in March they wanted to move are bridging with revenue bonds and rate increases.
Whatever gets reauthorized, the gap lands on ratepayers in towns that were already struggling to fund a treatment plant.
Just saved ~300/yr. in squarespace subscription costs by going with a Claude-cloned, self-hosted site... Fable one-shotted it in about an hr... how is this real life?!
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(1/3) Indulge me with something beyond CFB:
I’ve spent the last year reading a bunch of the classic success books I used to roll my eyes at.
My guy @artank has been reading them for 19 years, and it turns out, he was right: a lot of them are actually pretty damn useful.
Adam Tank retweeted
this recap of my 1hr claude code session w Adam Tank (@artank) is just frikkin perfect
"I'll be damned if my jaw didn't hit the desk the first time I saw the output." -- @artank
After one hour, we'd built a custom tool that writes his newsletter in his voice
two months later, he's building...everything. a mushroom foraging site, a morel finder app, a linkedin visualizer, sales analyzer, and more
he wrote about it here and the whole thing is worth a read:
adamtank.com/new-blog/2026/2…
Ended the year with 87.7M people impacted by water & wastewater treatment designs run using our software.
I aimed too low.
Next stop… 500,000,000
🔭 What’s your most ambitious goal for 2022?
💧 Mine is enabling sustainable wastewater treatment for 50,000,000 people around the world.
Inspired by @PaulYacoubian
Why is listening not taught as skill?
Is there anyone doing it as a profession?
Feels like something that should be in super high demand, like Toastmasters but for learning how to listen.
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I am unreasonably excited about self-driving. It will be the first technology in many decades to visibly terraform outdoor physical spaces and way of life. Less parked cars. Less parking lots. Much greater safety for people in and out of cars. Less noise pollution. More space reclaimed for humans. Human brain cycles and attention capital freed up from “lane following” to other pursuits. Cheaper, faster, programmable delivery of physical items and goods. It won’t happen overnight but there will be the era before and the era after.
When the Wall Street Journal of water covers your company, focused on our multi-year contract with the single largest water utility on earth, it's a good day.
globalwaterintel.com/article…
Comments like these are the best part about authoring a book.
@ihemrochem feel free to DM me with a good address so I can send you a signed copy!
I have been extremely lucky in life. My whole life has been God aligning things to work in my favour. I did not deserve most of the good things I got early on, but I was listening to @artank's book on Luck and I realized that I had catalysts that I always embraced. Thankful.
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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.
“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!
“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”
