Time in bed doesn’t equal time asleep. Just because you’ve been in bed for 7 hours doesn’t mean you slept for 7 hours. It’s more likely that you slept 6. Based on my Oura Ring, my own difference is 30 to 60 minutes per night. This led me to the following rule: Allow a 1…
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What I Learned About Sales (or “How to 4x Revenue in One Year”)
Backstory When building my influencer marketing startup Trigami, our idea was simple: we build a self-service marketplace, customers will come on their own, and we will be in the middle, collecting our fees. Simple. The reality turned out different. Our customers wanted someone to guide them, do as little work as possible, and reap the…
Cutting Your Own Hair
Dear barbers, I’m sorry, I won’t come back anytime soon. A while ago, I started cutting my own hair. Then during lockdown, this new habit suddenly became even more useful. First, I purchased the Hatteker Hair Trimmer 3-in-1: An excellent hair and beard trimmer. It’s cordless, waterproof, and the rechargable batteries are replaceable. Then, I…
Takeaways From Warren Buffett’s 2020 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting
As every year, I enjoyed watching the Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting. (Here are my live-tweets.) Here is what I learned this year: Remember that cash has option value Berkshire currently holds $125 billion in cash. They have not spend any of it this year. First, Buffett seems to be quite cautious and conservative at this…
Unlocking the Subconscious Mind
While I believe I have only scrached the surface, here are some of the results I got by working with my subconscious mind for the past four months: I feel better and younger I look forward to the future, “the best is yet to come” I feel calmer and more relaxed I feel “one” with…
A Precious Human Life
I love to contemplate the following text by The Dalai Lama. In fact, it’s hanging on my wall, so I see it every day: “Every day, think as you wake up,today I am fortunate to have woken up,I am alive I have a precious human life,I am not going to waste it,I am going to…
Why I Deactivated Tracking in MailChimp
Since starting my newsletter in 2016, I have decided to use MailChimp. A great tool that I can fully recommend. (By the way, it’s free until you reach 2000 subscribers). Without thinking, I have used the default settings ever since: Tracking Opens Tracking Clicks It seems innocent enough. Who wouldn’t want to track these things?…
Principles of Effective Content Marketing
I have a love-hate relationship with content marketing. I’ve been doing search engine optimization (SEO) since 2002, blogging since 2006, tweeting since 2007. I also co-founded one of the first influencer marketing companies in Europe in 2006. But to be honest, while getting some pieces right, all this time I had trouble to grasp the…
Keeping a Long-Term Perspective
In January, I wrote about my hopes and expectations for the new decade: “Something big will hit us. If not this decade, then one of the next. It will come out of the blue. A new vector. A bio attack, a pandemic, cyber warfare, eruption of a huge volcano. Something we won’t be expecting. Something…
12 Takeaways From Charlie Munger At The 2020 Daily Journal Annual Meeting
Charlie Munger, business partner of Warren Buffett, recently spoke at the 2020 Daily Journal Annual Meeting. You can watch the full recording here. It turned out to be a great one, full of wisdom and juicy punches. A 96 year-old with a sharp mind and snappy tongue! Takeaways: #1: Take the high road, because it’s…