I have a friend named Will. Will and I were both in Dan Ferrari's coaching group at the same time back in the late 19th century. I talked to Will earlier this week to catch up. For the past couple years, he's been doing all the email marketing for Polymarket, one of the two big prediction markets. First he was doing a cool weekly email, which I even read, because it's interesting. Then they got him to start doing a daily email as well. It's a lot of writing and a lot of work. Will is looking for help, for somebody to handle either the daily email, or segments of the weekly newsletter, or some combination of both. I offered to put the word out to people in my audience in order to: 1. Help Will 2. Look cool to people in my audience There's a conflict between those two goals. Will's first question was, "Will I get inundated with replies." I told him that chances are yes. And I offered to act as an intermediary, to vet people before I pass them on to him. If you are interested in writing for Polymarket: 1. Write me an email at [email protected] 2. Tell me you specialize in writing Morning-Brew style newsletters 3. Include highly relevant samples to back up your claim in 2 above If you don't have relevant samples, you have two options. Option one is to not apply for this job. If you don't send me highly relevant samples, I will not forward your stuff to Will, and I will not listen to you when you explain to me why I should hear you out. Option two is to create highly relevant samples on the spot, maybe even a sample Polymarket email or two (their stuff is all online and you can find it and model it). NB: If I have to parse, read into, or interpret your message your samples to figure out how they could be relevant to this job... I will just skip you and go to the next person. The whole point here is to figure out if you are the kind of person I should hand off to Will. A part of that is your writing experience and skill. Another part of that is your ability to make his job easier, rather than harder, and right now I'm the proxy for that.

In another thread, @Susan Moore writes: === I've taken courses that I didn't finish. But the amount of studying I did do, combined with related unfinished courses, and my own work and life experiences has all added up to this cumulative knowledge and insight I simply would not have without my messy inclinations and unfinished courses. === In that thread, I had an example of a course I didn't finish or implement when I got it, but which still gave me an idea that ended up being useful to me years later. This got me wondering, have you had experiences like that? I mean, have you ever found... A valuable idea or tactic or strategy that you got from a course that you never never finished? Or an idea or tactic or strategy that you got from a course, which you didn't use at the time, but which you used and profited from years later? Or a a tangential idea that somebody dropped in a course or training, which you ended up using, even though it was almost irrelevant to the main thing being taught?

I recently rewatched an old movie called Seconds. Uncomfortable, but also very interesting. I won't give away the plot here, in case you ever want to go see it yourself. I'll just share a quote I wrote down, because it was relevant to what we all do: "You know son, when I began this business, I was a young man with an idea. I wasn't aiming to make a lot of money. Helping others, help them to find a little happiness. Oh heck, not just the rich. You see, I got tremendous comfort in the thought that in my small way I was waging a battle against human misery. And I was, too! Except we do have a high percentage of failures. I guess that's to be expected, but it hurts me." If you are in the information selling business... I reckon you got into it at least in part to wage a battle against human misery, in your own small way. I also reckon that you have a high percentage of failures. Regardless of how good your information is. Regardless of how accessible you try to make it. Regardless of how hard you try to motivate people. People just don't get the results that you know are possible, or any results at all. Does this hurt you? Do you just shrug it off and say, "That's to be expected"? I'm curious about your experiences, what you think about this, and what if anything you do about it. Let me know. And if you like I can share what my experiences are and what I think and do.

For the past few months, I've been subscribed for free to a Substack called Dead Language Society. They finally got me. Last week I upgraded to paid. It's the only newsletter subscription I pay for. Dead Language Society is about English, as in the language. The history and the structure of English. I find myself reading each post from beginning to end finding myself enlightened. A few recent examples: - The ancient logic of “snuck” ("sneaked" is what the English say, so where did Americans get "snuck"?) - No, Shakespeare didn’t invent those words ("assassination," "eyeball," "obscene," ...) - How far back in time can you understand English? (a story told in progressively older variants of English to show you where the language becomes unrecognizable to modern speakers) With a paid subscription you get all the articles... and there's a book club. Where you read middle- and old-English texts. In the original. I'm looking forward to joining. It takes a special kind of perversion, leaning towards masochism, to take pleasure in this stuff. But if you swing this way, I got 5 free 1-month subscriptions to give out when I signed up for paid. If you genuinely want one, comment below, and I'll get you one. While supplies last.

In another thread, @Katie James writes: "The unbroken rule in every group I'm in but this one is 'Don't talk about money' Which sort of sucks because earning money is a necessary part of life." Even in this group, we don't talk money all that much. Let's change that. I don't even know where to start. But in the interest of getting money talk off the ground, I'll take a stab at a first money topic, one that's not too intimate but that can still be enlightening (we can build up to intimate). So here's my question for you. Answer it based on your gut feeling, not logic: ====>>>> How much money is there in the world? In other words: Is money a finite quantity, like real estate or diamonds, so that if you get some, somebody else has to be denied? Or is money effectively infinite, where we can all have as much as we are comfortable with, like air or sunlight or ideas? Let's talk money. If you're game, write in the comments below how much money you think there is in the world, because getting clear on this can help you make more money. And like Katie says above, that's a necessary part of life.