A page dedicated to the best ideas, people and hacks I have come across on the internet!
Wealth Creation
- “It is unwise to spend half of your health to get wealth and then spend half your wealth to get health.”
- “Desire is a contract we make with ourselves to be unhappy until we get what we want.”
- “There is a tax on everything. Pay it gladly and move on.”
- “Never forget… It takes very little to live a fulfilled life.”
Wisdom Practice
There are a lot of great quotes out there. If we can keep these aphorisms and quotes at the ready, I think we will be more equipped to live a good life.
- If Abraham Lincoln recommends it, I think it is safe to say we should read all of Aesop’s Fables
- Anger – By Seneca (here is the full PDF
- I’m not sure if this belongs here or if it’s a cool internet find but here is what has been recovered of Poor Richards Almanack
MISC.
- “Check the score at 30.”
- “Always smiled, but was he happy inside.”
Tough Questions To Answer.
- What is the hardest thing you’ve been through in your life?
- What has been the most rewarding / blissful moment of your life?
- Are you happy with where your life is right now? Why?
- What are 3 things you are grateful for today? not in life, just today.
- Imagine the best life you could live and the worst life you could live, 0-100. Where are you on that scale and where do you think you will end up?
- What is one thing you believe to be true that most people won’t agree with you on?
- Name a thing you have done that you consider to be extremely innovative.
- Name the ways that you are in your own way. When do you self sabotage?
- Where in your life have you settled?
- What is your vision for your life right now?
- What is something that you have found comes easy to you and not others? And what is something that comes easy to others but not you?
- What is something you are blissfully unaware of in your life?
- What skill or trait do you have that you consider to be your superpower?
- Where do you invest your money? Where do you invest your time?
- Conficious said ” you have two lives, and the second one begins when you realize you only have one.” Has your second life started yet? What was the moment you realized?
- What is something you are afraid to tell somebody because you think it will hurt their feelings?
- What is something your family did that you didn’t know was weird until somebody pointed it out to you. Or, what is a cool tradition your family always did?
- What does success in 5 years look like to you?
- What have you been thinking about lately?
- What are the 3 things I do well that I need to keep doing?
- What are the 3 things that I need to improve on most?
- Is there anything I can do to help inspire others in the company to be their best?
- Is there anything that I’ve done that bothers you and you didn’t tell me because it might hurt my feelings?
The Best From The Internet
I have found some really cool resources and I will lay them out for you here. Cool websites, helpful pages. You get the idea.
Cool Websites
- There’s an AI for that (this is kind of a resource but it is also just an epic site to have.)
Best Research Resources - Check your Air quality wherever you are with this site.
- Little Big details: Pretty sure this site is dead due to it not being updated and its a tumblr website but its still pretty cool as a concept. It’s all about the moments between the moments…the little things that companies do to go the extra mile.
- the Founder of a education platform called Maven has her own website and she writes some great articles. Lots to learn from here.
- I found this great reddit post by someone that wrote out a bunch mental models and questions to help frame life’s ups and downs. It’s a lot but its super interesting.
- what does your start up do? #satire
- Hacker News: I mean come on…this is a classic.
- Open Secrets: This is an epic website that tracks money in politics. Where its coming from, to where it’s going. Who’s in whose pocket.
- Breaking news in science-land daily. It can inform investment decisions and just keep you on the cutting edge of science and tech research.
- News-archives that you can use for research on public sentiment in different times, the origins of companies or people throughout history. I love this site.
- When you’re bored and want to learn some useless knowledge, play Wiki-roulette!
Epic Internet Resources
- Fin Viz is a great free spot to do basic stock analysis and get company specific news.
- Then keep track of those stocks with Trading View because it will be easy to check all on one platform that’s freeeeee
- There are some really interesting brands that are silently printing money using Facebook ads. And it is all open source! Using facebook ad library is an absolute cheat code. Find ads that perform, figure out why they perform and adapt it to your cause!
- If you are writing articles and need to find a niche, or key words, or questions that people are actually searching use this site.
- Trying to understand competitors or search traffic for different sites? Use similar web because it is directionally correct. There is a paid version but some of it is free.
- doing company research on companies in the UK? companies house is the goat of private company financial info.
- Domain registry database for when you want to make a website
Top Copywriting and Marketing Finds
- News letters that I’ve learned a lot from include: The Keywords (latest news for the big companies and some trends), the average joe (market news), Marketing examined was pretty good as well
- Here are some writing specific resources
- The Boron Letters – One of the greatest sales letter marketers to ever do it, spills the beans to his son in a series of letters that are available for free.
- one of my favorite swipefiles – it’s constantly being updated and it has so many different tabs to learn from. It is just running some banner ads to make money, other than that it doesn’t have anything to sell.
- Where to do keyword searches – Answer the public is great… and there is a solid free version
- Did you know the Banana Republic Catalog was Iconic and trendsetting in the 80’s… well now you do!
- Here is the entire archive of their copy and catalog that made them so successful!
- Website design matters for conversion! This is the best UX swipe-file I’ve come across (free version and paid version).
- AI copywriting resources
- uber suggest finds keyword gaps between us and competitors (his own plug)
- buzz sumo comparative keyword analysis against competitor websites
- spyfu for spying on keywords of competitors
- A href’s general keyword tool
Business Knowledge
Did you see Mr. Beasts leaked internal memo?
Why being number one matters…At least on google!
