🦾 Just keep buying
Totally not investment advice
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Fellow Human,
Start talking to a camera.
Even if you never post. Just do it.
There’s a psychology to it. It makes you more self-aware. Better at thinking. Better at knowing yourself.
“Know thyself,” Socrates said.
Even if you never post, you’ll cringe at the ums, the ahs, the slow train of thought.
And though painful to watch, it will make you a better
You’ll come out of this a better speaker. To clients. To kids. To anyone in front of you in real life.
Start doing it. It’s personal development.
-Colin
🧑🏼💻 The 5-Min Build — The Cringe Compiler 🛠️
Use Claude to compile your spoken filler words into a tighter version in 60 seconds.
Record 60 seconds on your phone about today’s rant, lesson, or win.
Get the transcript (Otter, ChatGPT voice, Apple Voice Memos).
Paste into Claude with the prompt below.
Save both versions side by side. Re-record the tighter one.
Stack 30 of these, and you have a personal style guide.
The payoff: you become 30% sharper on camera and in real conversations within a month. No public posting required.
⚡ The Prompt — "The Cringe Compiler"
Below is a transcript of me talking to camera for ~60 seconds. Mark every filler word in bold. Suggest a 30% tighter version that keeps my voice and rhythm. End with one sentence on what I tend to over-explain. Be brutal.🎯 Skill — The Daily Cringe Rep
Skill of the week: the daily cringe rep. Record 60 seconds of you talking on your phone. Watch it back the same day. Note every um, every “like,” every throwaway phrase. Do another take immediately. Save both. Stack 30 of these and you’ll think faster, speak cleaner, and stop flinching on a podcast.
📈 Money
Sometimes, the best thing you can do is do nothing.
Wu wei - action through inaction.
Do nothing.
Be very slow to do anything when it comes to finances. Everything else should be on autopilot.
They’ve studied this, actually.
They've shown that most of the sales at a group of hedge funds underperformed a random sale of anything else in their portfolio at the time of the sale.
Hold 50 stocks.
Sell 1.
That one that was sold has shown to underperform by 100-200% any other random stock in the other 49 not sold at the time.
Insanity.
But that’s human nature.
It’s also why I’m a fan of just buying and holding forever. Just keep buying.
📰 Links
Anthropic just released a new model class. They call it 'Mythos.' Guardrails baked in.
The Social Network is getting a sequel. Trailer just dropped.
19 things to know about Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's most underrated exec
SpaceX just revealed its first orbital data center. Musk says it's simpler than Starlink.
The Israeli sea drone that fished an Apache crew out of the water
A German robotics startup just raised $1.4 billion for humanoids
OpenAI is prepping a new model and an IPO. Inside the year.
Founders Fund's Mafia just released episode 2
ASML walked back its layoffs after union pushback
An anti-Nvidia data center startup just raised at $1.55 billion
The WSJ's economist roundtable on where AI takes work next
Marc Lore's robots make 500 burrito bowls an hour. A human can make 45.
The Paramount-Warner Bros deal just cleared Australia
Eric Seufert unpacks Apple's Foundational Models update
Alamo Drafthouse just dedicated a San Francisco theater to Christopher Nolan
Warner Music just bought an AI attribution startup
A dog walker and a dentist are at legal war over who owns the beach
📊 Stats (stats source)
Cable subscriptions just dropped to 40.9 million, down 9.7% year over year. The bundled-TV era is officially the underclass. Source: Sportico
China is now building nuclear reactors in 5-7 years. The global average is 9. Execution speed is the new oil. Source: MIT Tech Review
Napster is still attracting fraud. A North Carolina man just got charged for trying to fake-buy it for $3 billion. Some corpses never die. Source: Billboard
🔥 Useful $HIT CORNER 🔥
🗓️ On this day in 1939 → The Baseball Hall of Fame officially opened in Cooperstown, NY. The town became “the home of baseball” because of a myth. Build your own myth.
🦾 How to be dangerous → Show up to the meeting 10 minutes early, alone. Look around. Notice everything. You’ll know more about the room than anyone else by the time it starts.
🌞 Health → Walk barefoot on grass for 10 minutes before checking your phone. Cheaper than therapy.
🍳 Cooking → Never cover the pan while you sear. Steam is the enemy of crust. Always.
💬 Quote → “The single most important thing you can do for your career is to learn how to talk to people.” —Charlie Munger
🤖 AI reality check → Voice mode on ChatGPT is the most underused feature you have. Use it as your daily journaling tool. Way fewer barriers than typing.
📺 Vid
🤖 Tools Corner (Tools I use)
🛍️ Shopify: I run my brands on Shopify for a reason: it works, it scales, and it keeps the whole business easier to manage.
🎥 Opus Clips: My team uses to get instant clips from my YouTube videos. Stop letting good content die after one post.
✍🏻 Claude: I started out with GPT first. Then Claude flew past them with Notion, Sheets, and Cowork.
♠️ GPT: I use it for image gen and simple tasks. I do prefer the interface to Claude. I just wish it had Sheets and Notion integrations. Come on.
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👋 I’m Colin. Father, founder, and Investor. X, IG → Drop feedback here
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