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tomwils1967 retweeted
A billionaire sat in a room for 42 minutes and listed every psychological trick that makes people lose money. for free. the finance industry has spent thirty years pretending this recording does not exist.
he didn't sell a course. he didn't write a newsletter. he sat in a chair at 96 years old and explained why brilliant people do the dumbest things with their money. then he explained why they will keep doing it.
MBA programs charge $200,000 to teach behavioral finance. he covered 25 biases in one sitting. some of them are still not in any curriculum. he gave the entire framework away on camera.
the part nobody talks about: he called crypto antisocial. he said index funds will crush most managers. he said private equity is full of wretched excess. he said all of this in a room full of people who manage money for a living. nobody argued.
a hedge fund analyst at a top firm told me this is the first thing they send to anyone who joins the desk. not a book. not a model. a 42-minute video of a 96-year-old man explaining why you will be wrong and how to recognize it before it costs you everything.
40 million people have heard his name. almost none of them have watched him explain the 25 ways their own brain is working against them.
the lecture is free. he died the following year. it is in the video.
tomwils1967 retweeted
Another just elected Dem is a 19 year old ASU man.
He will ~manage the county where Phoenix is located.
tomwils1967 retweeted
CANCELLED NETFLIX.
CANCELLED AMAZON PRIME.
CANCELLED HULU.
No more $19.99 each month.
ChatGPT transformed my laptop into a free streaming center.
Here are 7 prompts to create this system:
tomwils1967 retweeted
In August, I called out Republican politicians and “influencers” for dismissing voters, especially young ones, who were moving toward socialism. I warned that labeling those voters entitled or lazy would backfire, because most of them aren’t. Many of those voters are hardworking, decent people who are frustrated (and rightly so) that they can’t seem to get ahead. Too many Republicans still fail to communicate with them or offer real solutions to their problems.
tomwils1967 retweeted
Democrats: “we are literally going to destroy American communities who oppose us”
Republicans: “nothing we can do about these Somali communities made up entirely of Medicaid scammers, that’s not who we are, freedom!”
Welp that didn’t take long. After gaining the majority, California Democrat Rep Robert Garcia announces Huntington Beach will be purged of MAGA
“I just want to also be very clear that the days of Huntington Beach being a MAGA city are over”
He’s going to prioritize “diversity” in the community
This literally only means one thing, they are going to flood Huntington Beach with foreigners are replace the American vote
Democrats entire strategy is target and replace real Americans
tomwils1967 retweeted
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Act as my ongoing fitness coach. Manage my personalized nutrition, workouts, recovery, and progress. Review my weekly results, identify obstacles, adjust training and meals, and guide me toward [DESIRED GOAL].
tomwils1967 retweeted
This is why Clarence Thomas accurately states progressivism and the Constitution cannot coexist forever.
This worldview is completely antithetical to not only our system of governance, but God’s order itself.
It is a worldview meant only to destroy. It won’t protect anything dear to you, simply because it can’t. It refuses to.
Literal dirt in Madagascar is more important to them than their own children.
People that share this worldview cannot be near any lever of power. Lest you wish for a controlled (or uncontrolled) detonation of everything you hold dear.
tomwils1967 retweeted
A timely message from Clarence Thomas on election day. I consider this man to be a living embodiment of our founding principles. Heed his words. They are among the heaviest a human has the ability to utter. Civilization itself hangs in the balance.
It is because of the Oath to the Constitution that I post such things. I must support and defend it. I will not see it destroyed by communists.
"The century of progressivism did not go well. The European system that Wilson and the progressives scolded Americans for not adopting—which he called nearly perfect—led to the governments that caused the most awful century that the world has ever seen. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and Mao all were intertwined with the rise of progressivism, and all were opposed to the natural rights on which our Declaration is based. Many progressives expressed admiration for each of them shortly before their governments killed tens of millions of people. It was a terrible mistake to adopt progressivism’s rejection of the Declaration’s vision of universal, unalienable natural rights."
-Justice Clarence Thomas, 2026
tomwils1967 retweeted
If I had 1 month to rank a local business on Google from zero...
I'd do this:
Week 1: the baseline
- Run a grid scan, so you see where you rank across your whole city
- Set your primary category to the exact service you want the most calls for
- Why: your ranking changes depending on where the searcher is standing, and you can't fix what you haven't measured
Week 2: reviews
- Ask every happy customer for a review the day you finish the job
- Reply to every review, in your own words
- Why: 32% of people only trust reviews from the last 2 weeks
Week 3: beyond Google
- Claim your listings on Apple Maps, Bing and Yelp
- Make your name, address and phone number match everywhere
- Why: Apple Maps use almost doubled this year, from 14% to 27%
Week 4: the pages
- Build 1 page for each main service
- Answer the questions customers ask you on the phone, right on that page
- Why: AI answers on Google pull from pages that answer the question directly
You don't need to post on your Google profile every day and hope it moves.
You need to know where you rank, and fix the gaps in order.
I wrote the full version of this, with every step for Q4.
So, if you run a local business and skipped this article, read below:
tomwils1967 retweeted
We had Claude Code break down 16,000+ posts from 65 creators who go viral consistently.
(that's only 1 of the 8 parts of the LinkedIn system behind our $7M ARR business)
Our team has posted 4,000+ times at this point. Thousands of inbound meetings came out of it, and it helped us close 100s of deals.
Here are all 8 - steal whatever you need and rebuild it in your own Claude Code:
1. Content hub
Everything else plugs into this one.
Sacha vibe coded ours:
- Every post across the team gets planned there
- Each one shows as draft, ready or published
- Trending ideas come in from LinkedIn, Reddit & X
2. Content pillars
Everyone sticks to what they already do day-to-day:
- Julien: deep tool comparisons, GTM engineering plays
- Sacha: demos of the AI agents he builds, with the setup to copy
- Me: big breakdowns of funnels & our agency, founder-led content
The wildest part is that founder & agency stories are our smallest pillar (47 posts in 12 months vs. 188 for Claude Code & AI for GTM)... and they have the highest median engagement.
3. Content formats
Lead magnet, carousel, infographic, GIF, video.
→ Use infographics for reach (they typically get more than video) and video to convert. Someone who watched you build things live trusts you a lot more by the time they're ready to buy.
4. Posts library
We broke each of those 16,000+ posts down into subject, trend, hook, format, design & CTA. So the library tells us what already worked, what's trending and what's likely to do well next.
Same analysis runs through the ColdIQ MCP.
→ Starting smaller? Filter your niche on Scripe for posts with 500+ engagements (that's what I do). If you look at enough of them, you'll start to see the patterns.
5. Design library
We keep 400+ past designs, so a new visual starts from one that already worked (or can be inspired by something on Pinterest).
Hand that inspiration to your AI agents and you get a decent draft in Figma or Paper via MCP. That's 75% of the job - our designers finish the rest and add the animation.
6. Skills
We run 15 skills (context on a concept, our own posts, research, inspiration) and sometimes they tweak the copy too.
AI can write your posts with copywriting skills. The problem is it usually complicates simple things AND never goes very deep.
→ So write your LinkedIn posts yourself. Each one you publish still makes the skills better, through rules & constant feedback.
7. Additional channels
Since we invest so much in the designs, the same posts can work again elsewhere. Skills reshape them for X, the blog and the newsletter.
→ Works the other way around too: turn your YouTube videos into LinkedIn video posts.
8. Social engagers
We scrape the profiles we follow so we can engage with their posts fast. Then we turn the people who engage into outbound.
On a post with 200 likes, a good chunk of people aren't qualified and you have no business messaging them. A small percentage of the 200 have the budget.
→ Extract the engagers, check their role & company size, and re-engage them with context.
Full breakdown in the article below.
tomwils1967 retweeted
This is maybe the most thorough and honest diagnosis of an election defeat that we’ve ever seen from a politician at Vance’s level. And he’s right.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
tomwils1967 retweeted
This guy is 60, says he's "not the sharpest knife in the drawer" with tech and makes $25-30K a month with AI.
Here's the story:
About a year ago Bob started putting little AI helpers on small business websites.
Essentially an AI concierge business.
Around 26 clients paying $300 to $4,000 a month.
In this episode Bob:
- Shows how he prices it off what a lead is worth (he just asks AI)
- Gives it away free for 30 days so owners have zero downside
- Builds a demo of their site before he ever walks in
You can literally do this nights and weekends.
tomwils1967 retweeted
I can’t wait for a Haitian CNA to abuse this guy while he dies
