You Can Just Do Things...

Newsletter · Mar 30, 2025

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An entrepreneur's recipe for sweet success

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What’s up Reader!

Happy Sunday!

BIG NEWS ALERT!!

Monday March 31st (tomorrow) at 11am PST, I was able to get Sahil Bloom on a zoom call. Sahil is the author of one of my all time favorite books, The Five Types Of Wealth. He is one of the kindest, most genuine dudes I know with a WEALTH of knowledge about building the life of your dreams, on your own terms that he POURED into his book.

I'd love for you to join if you're available. Here's the link if you want to hop on and talk to Sahil yourself. It'll be open forum.

Zoom Link

Ok, now let’s dive right in. We’re not messing around today!

Topics I’ll cover

You have to do things to do things
Poster Kid
Becoming the ultimate connector
Mystery Link
The AI Juice

FIRST, I’m going to drop some business and app ideas I’ve been thinking about right here to get your wheels turning. If you like them and want to work on them with me, let me know. I’m always down to add more balls in the air 😉

App - “CalBlok” —> A visually appealing calendar app where you only see one day at a time and can manually move your events around like blocks. It keeps you focused on the moment and the day you’re in and attempts to reduce the stress of thinking too far ahead
App - “QuoteLog” —> An app that allows you to take a picture of underlined quotes in books, scans them in, logs them and allows you to search for them and have AI conversations using the imputed topics from the quotes.
Biz - “UWrite” —> I’m currently curating a book from the content of YouTube transcripts and thousands of tweets. I’m going to structure it, print it and gift it as a gift. But this got me thinking that a service like this would be REALLY cool for people too busy to actually write a book, but want to. 🤔

Now let’s dig in—

Bite #1
You have to do things to do things

I know that’s totally redundant, but follow me on this… there’s an end state that you want, a level of success that you’re shooting for, a life that you want to live, a dream you have… the ONLY way to get to that destination is through what Tori’s doing right now.

The time that you’re in RIGHT NOW RIGHT NOW is the time that you need to be in, in order to get to where you want to be.

I’m not trying to be philosophical, I’m trying to paint a “punch in the face, that’s so obvious” picture of how things work.

I know you want the end result, I do too! But in order for you to get there, you have to BE HERE. In the stage you’re in right now. So instead of being frustrated about the fact that you’re not there YET, enjoy the fact that you’re exactly where you need to be.

So then what’s next? You just keep doing things.

Are they the right things? Maybe. Maybe not. But you don’t know until you try. The specific thing isn’t as important as just doing something. Set your sights on the destination and pull the trigger. DO THINGS.

I made a video here going more in depth:

Bite #2
Poster Kid

This is amazing! I love entrepreneurs in the wild, especially when they’re kids.

Learning these concepts as early as possible will change your life forever.

So here’s the story of poster kid—

My buddy, Mark
Has a 9 year old nephew who made a drawing for Marks local newsletter.

Mark made a ton of copies and had them posted all over town. He then put the offer out there for anyone else to buy a poster from “Poster Kid”. And people did (myself included)

And THEN more people started buying them. So he made this into a legit little business for his nephew.

A landing page and everything.

POSTER KID

You submit your design and poster kid makes it happen. Custom or dealers choice. Either way, this is amazing!

What this shows is literally how easy it is to start a business. Yes, the fact that it’s a kid and he’s nine and the drawings are funny all help… but so what? Lean into what makes you, YOU.

Bite #3
Becoming the ultimate connector

Speaking of leaning into being YOU, it’s SO important for you to hold on to that.

We are now in a time where it’s easier than it’s ever been to obtain information, create things, build businesses and execute on ideas… all this is great, BUT it can make us lazy. It’s easy to just let AI take care of it without much prompting. I've said it before and I’ll say it again— lame prompts yield lame results.

INSTEAD, this is truly your opportunity right now, with all this amazing tech at your fingertips to completely unleash the creative beast that you are and break through any and every barrier that used to be holding you back.

Lean into what makes you unique.

Be the genuine, authentic, imperfect, outlandish, amazing version of you.

Embrace it.

NEXT STEP—
Become a master promoter. There’s tons of prompt databases all over the interwebs, which are super cool (promptbase.com), but the real experience is just going to come with iteration.

That’s why the first thing I said was to embrace what makes you unique. No one can take that away from you. From here you just need to USE THESE TOOLS.

Hack:
When you want a task performed or to work through something that you’re trying to build, be as descriptive as possible. Use voice-to-text and talk to your AI module of choice and go on a long rant until you feel like you’ve said it all. Then based on the response, iterate.

Bite #4
Mystery-preneur

CLICK it and see where it takes you in the world of wild business ideas

Bite #5
The AI Juice

AI getting better than humans at coding. Forever.

AI TIP OF THE WEEK:
Record your calls (with permission of course)--
If you want to remember and sift through the awesome info you go over on a business call with a partner OR maybe you just want to make low budget podcasts… just use the iPhone feature to record your phone call. THEN take the transcript and drop it into chat GPT, use voice to text to tell AI all you want from it and let it go to work. Boom!

Final note—

For the peeps that made it all the way through; Since you read all of this, I’m assuming you also like reading other things... like books!

I’m about half way through this book and I’m really enjoying it! Very practical and tangible ways to use simple experimentation to achieve things you never thought possible.

So far, chapter 10 (how to unlock your social flow) has been my favorite. All about the power of building a community and how to do it organically around WHAT MAKES YOU, YOU... there's a theme here ;)

Enjoy your doughnut Sunday, I know I will!

Until next time...

Stay in the fight,

My best tweet this week:

@kevinasrx

Not a lot of people here know this, but I went to art school from 6th grade through 12th grade and majored in film.

This was a time when movies were filmed in miniDV & VHS. We had to convert it to digital just to edit

I learned on adobe premier and then graduated to Final Cut

12:12 PM • Mar 27, 2025 ↗

My favorite tweet this week:

@marshal

This is the wild story of how I made $1,036,175 during the COVID lockdowns by rapidly creating a new physical product in 7 days.

In April 2020, during the lockdowns I created 2 things that changed my life:

I launched Shepherd (eventually renamed Somewhere[dot]com). 4 years

8:38 AM • Mar 25, 2025 ↗