Lesson for Women: Casual Dating vs Marriage is Renting Vs Owning
I was out and about at the mall and I made a new thought connection: Casual dating is analogous to renting while marriage is analogous to owning. If you’ve ever dealt with any business that rents things out, you’d know that rented products depreciate much faster than products only used by the owner. For example […]
How to Identify Fake Friends From Real Friends
As you get richer and more powerful/influential in life, you will accumulate more and more fake friends. These are people who will pretend to care about you in order to derive benefits from you which could be money, contracts, connections, or simply an increase in their own reputation and power by association. But when you […]
What to Do if Your Shoe Breaks During a Trek
I was recently on a 5 day leisure trek in the Himalayas. The trek was in the lower Himalayas so it was cold at night (5 degrees celsius) but much warmer in the day (say 22 degrees celsius). On the second day of trekking, my shoe broke. The entire sole came off. Then as luck […]
Hidden Profits and Tax Write Offs From Side Businesses
I was just doing some accounting to close my books (the financial year ends today in India) and I just realized something: Almost no one in the general public knows that the first few thousand bucks from your side business is tax free. How? WRITE OFFS. Let me explain. Let’s say you have a regular […]
Man generates $80k from 1 tweet to save his son
This tweet is from Joshua Haymes. He does not write as a business, he writes to save his son. I share this story to highlight the importance of being able to share your thoughts and persuade people. The tweet opens with this image: The text is as under: Sick Toddlers & The Sovereignty Of God […]
Career Success is Not Success With Women
This is the story of a guy called Prasanna Sarkar, a tech founder who built Rippling, a company worth $10 Billion. His wife cheated on him and filed false cases on him to extort him for maximum money. Here is his story from the original tweet: The Big Lesson Never fail the green line test… […]
Some Life Updates + Baby Soon
Firstly, I fell sick with lung infection that make it really hard to do any focused work. It started from my mother, spread to my dad, and then to me and my wife. My wife was the worst victim of it because she’s pregnant and cannot take any medicines and must recover naturally. I wasn’t […]
Sell Stuff That People Want (Chick Tricks Me Into Buying Sunglasses)
This story is from many years ago, all the way back when I was about 22 years old. I have a family friend who has epilepsy and scoliosis. It’s a birth defect. He’s a nice and sweet guy but he’s not very smart and gets seizures too often (every hour or so) which makes me […]
What I would do if I was a broke 20 year old
Actually the answer to this question is the same regardless of age. What I would do if I was a broke 40 year old is the same as what I would do if I was a broke 30 year old is the same as what I would do if I was a broke 20 year […]
How to Attain Mastery And Be The Top 0.1%
The more you want it, the less you get it. Because when you’re desperate for something, people try to withhold it from you. This is a lesson I learned twice in my life. First when I was starting out in business, and a second time when I was starting out with dating. When a client […]
What the Fuck is a Funnel? (Breaking Down a Business)
Recommended (but not necessary) pre-reading: What the fuck is copywriting? If you’ve been in the online business space you’ve probably heard of funnels. They are not a well understood concept by most people (who are just winging their business relying largely on traffic)… to their own detriment. EVERY business is essentially a funnel whether the […]
11 Signs of Evil (People to Avoid)
I’ve dealt with thousands of people from business, dating, my consulting practice, working corporate, and I’ve noticed a few common patterns in people who are evil. When I say evil, I mean EVIL. I don’t mean people who are merely sharks (highly selfish and only care about themselves). Evil is much more than sharks – […]
Check Out Corporate Machiavelli’s New Website
Corporate Machiavelli was a friend/associate I met on X. A few years ago he passed away from terminal disease. His only wish was that is name and work live on. He had personally asked me to make his works available in case his main site died: The worst has happened, and whoever was responsible for […]
Why Most Resume Template Sites Are Scams
When you go online, you will find a ton of different resumes and many resume making sites that have beautiful looking resumes with many columns and graphics. Those are fine if you are applying for a design position (where the resume design itself is a part of the application) but are trash for everything else. […]
Don’t Put Soft Skills on Your Resume
A good resume is often the difference between getting a job that pays $40k and a job that pays $75k a year. “Done-For-You” Recruiting is a service that my consulting firm provides and I have a lot of experience with hiring and looking at resumes. A mistake that many people make is putting “soft skills” […]
3 Common Resume Mistakes That Cost You The Job
If you’re looking for a job, make sure you make the best resume you can because getting past the ATS and HR is often the difference between getting a job that pays $40k and a job that pays $75k a year. “Done-For-You” Recruiting is a service that my consulting firm provides and I have a […]
1 Year From The Death of Jon Anthony from Masculine Development: Takeaways
It’s been one full year since the death of my friend Joseph Patrick Liverman (Although I always knew him as Jon Anthony). When I found out he had committed suicide last year, I had penned an article called What I Wish I Had Told My Friend Before He Committed Suicide. When I wrote that piece, […]
What The Fuck is Copywriting?
From the responses to last week’s email, it is clear that many of you do not know what copywriting actually is. Some have zero clue while others vaguely know the term from social media but think it means something like “writing a sales page”. Writing high converting sales pages is a part of a copywriter’s […]
You Can’t Have Late Marriages and a Chaste Society at the Same Time
A consulting client I was speaking to was upset that his daughter had a boyfriend and was cursing society for becoming degenerate. (This has been posted with his permission.) This is a religious/traditional Punjabi guy who has two daughters. I asked how old the girl is. “24” “Why don’t you try to get her married?” […]
15 Observations from running a tax/law firm for over 10 years
1) The biggest financial mistake most men make is never starting a business. You will never get anywhere working for other people. If you want to get rich, you must own equity. Without equity you are just a cog in the machine. With equity, it’s your machine. This is by far the biggest mistake most […]
You Don’t Need to Deadlift (And What to do Instead)
Now before the Starting Strength and the 5×5 purists get their panties tied up, I want to make it clear that deadlifts are a great exercise. It’s one of the best strength exercises out there. It trains your entire body as a unit from your grip to your nervous system. However, from a muscle building […]
Mentality Lessons From a Former Heavyweight Boxer
Hello friends, Today I have a guest post for you from none other than Ed Latimore. For those of you who do not know, Ed was one of the inspirations behind LMM and watching his success pushed me towards using X to promote my blog. Ed is a former heavyweight boxer who’ve pulled himself out […]
Why Women Say Dumb Shit (And How To Deal With It)
Buckle up boys, I’m going to drop some wisdom that took me a long time to learn. What I’m going to tell you is something very few men ever realize in their entire lives. In fact, this is something I did not realize even after I slept with lots of women. Getting women in your […]
10 Types of People You Should Ignore
1) Ignore anyone who is obsessed with politics. The people who obsess with politics are utter losers. They don’t understand that the vast majority of your life results come from the work you do yourself – building a business, hitting the gym, talking to women, eating clean, not drinking, etc. and not from politicians. These […]
How I Know Someone Will Make It
Here’s a cold hard truth: Hookers in Thailand hustle harder than most men who claim they want to be successful. They smile at every passing man and might even grab their hand. In the meantime, the average guy is too afraid to even send a cold email out. I’ve been around on the internet for […]