NevBlog

Neville's Digital Surrogate Brain

Part Robot

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Shower Thought: The thing I interact with the absolute most in life is a machine.

I use a computer and a phone all day.

If an alien were to view this habit they would think we are just interacting with machines all day.

 

Toughen up bitch

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There’s A LOT of talk about mental health, and that’s great. But like any trend, it tends to swing too far at some point.

It’s starting to get common for people to take “mental health days” anytime they’re sad or don’t feel like doing something.

Well toughen up bitch.

Being sad sometimes is normal.
Being tired sometimes is normal.
Being anxious sometimes is normal.

These are not mental disorders. There are normal, everyday, human feelings.

If you just tell yourself whilst feeling sad, “this is a pretty normal human emotion. It’s usually temporary. It can almost always be solved by hanging out with loved ones, getting some exercise, or taking a walk outside.” You will then be able to bear this emotion like a big boy or girl.

A story in my mind that sticks out:
Someone once asked Arnold Schwarzenegger whilst he was going through a nasty divorce, and a cheating scandal, and other political stuff how he was holding up. And he replied, “Well it’s better than being in the coal mines in Austria.”

2,000 calls

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Saw a cool quote:

“You’re 2,000 cold calls away from being a millionaire.”

Everyone I know who started a big company generally did 50 to 100 to 1,000 calls with potential customers to really get the product down.

January 2024 Goals

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Here’s some rough goals for January 2024. Some might be delayed for later in 2024:

  • Agency test clients
  • SwipeFile Updates
  • 1,200 new members or 12 giant new members

NevBlog is kool

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NevBlog is fun to write on because there’s no audience interaction, which means I can post barely-thought-out-ideas and get away with it (whereas other social media like Twitter/X you’ll get checked really quick).

It’s been really helpful to have this is as a sounding board for ideas.

Things Working and Not Working

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Things that are working:

  • Newsletter to interact with audience. Stay top of mind.
  • Short Clips to stay top of mind, get new audience.
  • Long Form Podcasts to meet people, cut up into clips, have interesting conversations.
  • Community as a form of scaled training, work on tons of cool projects inside, deeper connection with audience.
  • Social Media to meet people IRL, distribute content, and interact with audience.
  • Great Posts & Stories that can be turned into social media content + videos + articles.
  • Using AI as an assistant to making content….sometimes.
  • Uniqueness in your content or brand. 

 

Things that are not working:

  • SEO focused articles that compete with generative AI.
  • Content for the sake of content.
  • Fully generated AI articles. If someone can get the same answer from ChatGPT you’ve added no value.