A therapist asked me if I could shift my mindset from ‘achievement’ as the goal to ‘effort’ as the goal, and I can’t stop thinking about that. I’m aware that I look like a complete psychopath from the outside. I trained myself to work 80-90 hours a week after realizing everything in business takes so much more effort than anyone ever accounts for. In fact, it is so common that people underestimate how much work or how long something will take that someone named a law for it. Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law." Nobody realizes they are underestimating everything, and everyone is doing it constantly. It’s a wonder that humans can be as competent as we are and still be completely naive to our own patterns of behavior. Unfortunately, there are real consequences for being naive, at least at this time in history. Throughout human existence, entrepreneurship has been a few people sprinting to make progress while the rest of the world stands still or bursts into chaos. From an entrepreneurial stand point, we’ve been running a marathon, to eventually cross the finish line into an age of abundance. Every entrepreneur is trying to create their own little ecosystem of abundance, and on a long enough timeline those little ecosystems will pop up more and more, getting more resilient with each market change. This cycle will repeat until we have created so much value that we can automate goods and services. Once goods and services are automated (which is what an economy is built on) we will have achieved abundance for the first time. That comes with its own set of problems, which I’ll gladly take over our current issues, but until then, we’ve got to innovate our way out of this broken world. WE UNDERESTIMATE EFFORT Every entrepreneur that tried to make it will tell you that it’s so much harder than they could have ever imagined. Small business owners, which are the majority of business owners, are typically operating with very limited resources. The fact that anyone can make a company run at all is amazing, considering the enormous effort and resources that takes. It’s the most surprising lesson of entrepreneurship—realizing that the entire population is underestimating the amount of work it takes to make society function, let alone improve.

You know you are working on the right thing when @Jake Van Clief comments this on you video! The showcases series shows my latest build and what I will be demoing to the Lyceum. It is a full CRM and Project Management System (PMS) build using my Automation Factory and that lives 100% in Microsoft's eco system. You can try the full build here: https://ashy-flower-0f920ed0f.4.azurestaticapps.net/?guide=on It is a demo that mimics what the real build does. See the full showcase playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbHpE15i41yc&si=Juq3iGImNspaDHQs

So, I few days ago I realized that the CEOs of Nvidia and AMD are possibly cousins. I mean the CEOs of the the two (arguably) chip and graphics card manufacturers are cousins. Interesting. So I asked ChatGPT to confirm. I asked what Thanksgiving looks like in that family. The response I got was not what I expected. See attached screenshot. I was laughing so hard.

📣 Update (10/22/26): Comp 15 Rules Added Current Challenge: Competition 15 The Challenge 💪 - Rebuild a past comp entry. Yours or someone else's. Then prove that its better. Rules & submissions 🗒️ -https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-15-the-rebuild Good luck everyone! --- What this thread is: I’ve seen a number of people either not know competitions are going on or know how to find them so here is a quick single source thread where you can get to them all. I’ll keep this updated as new challenges are released. See the current challenge as well as all past challenges below! Format for community challenges: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/how-competitions-work-from-now-on?p=84912d60 Weekly leaderboard competition: Alongside the biweekly challenges, there is a weekly leaderboard challenge where the member at the top of the 7 day rolling leaderboard wins a free upgrade to their membership. This winner is announced on Mondays typically. --- Past Challenges Competition 1 The Challenge 💪 - Build a brand voice document for a pet grooming business Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/first-ever-weekly-competition-is-live?p=90f50bf9 Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-1-winner-ian-barriopedro?p=0501b57e Competition 2 The Challenge 💪 - Build an artifact of a financial advisor client intake system Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-2-the-artifact-sprint?p=15145a68 Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-2-winner-virgilio-robinson

Instead of me doing the demo, I will let my other me talks🙂👌