Recommendation · MoneyActive listening is the number one thing B2B buyers want from sellers — and sellers are terrible at it. Ask a question, wait for the answer, then ask a follow-up active-listening question. When someone shares something ('it was busy'), follow up on their content: 'What made it so busy? Did you expect it to be so busy? Is there something about this time of year that makes it bananas?' Don't respond to a personal share by pivoting to your own agenda (e.g., 'Cool. What do you want for dinner?') — that's selfish focus, not active listening. Practice at home with kids, spouse, partner, neighbors, or parents if you're not good at it.
30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales · #619: Active Listening to Loosen up Your Discovery Calls and First Dates | Sam McKenna | 30MPC Hall of Fame
Recommendation · MoneyThe source recommends setting up an attribution model and UTM links to track how much each creator is earning, making it so creators can see what's going on with their earnings and performance, and showing creators the top-performing content from the brand so they can make better decisions.
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Also discussed by Eugene Teo on Garage Strength (unclassified source — not counted until classified). Not counted as independent sources.
Foundr · The NEW Creator Playbook that Took Me from $80K Debt to $250K/Day | Trybe
Method · MoneyThe speaker's team watches every submitted video start to finish and denies any video they don't genuinely think has all the parts of a great ad. Approved ads must have a hook, body, call to action, and unique value propositions, plus no echoing, good lighting, and good editing — if any of that is missing, the video is denied.
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Method, not a verified protocol.
Foundr · The NEW Creator Playbook that Took Me from $80K Debt to $250K/Day | Trybe
Method · BodyFor max effort jumps, do two jumps loaded with dumbbells, thinking through the counter movement of the drop quickly (hit, go, hit, go). Then place the dumbbells down and do stair jumps. Some athletes benefit from resting 15 to 20 seconds after the loaded jumps before the stair jumps, but don't rest more than 30 seconds or it can start to be laggy. Factor the arm swing lesson and technique from the box jump into the stair jumps. On stair jumps, grounding feels like floating, lighter than typical body weight — the host describes this as post activation potentiation, something you might see with eccentric hooks on a bench. Max effort jumps are where you start to notice your jumps climbing.
Method, not a verified protocol.
Garage Strength · I Trained 1000 Elite Athletes. This Is How You Jump Higher.
Method · BodyThe host recommends a four-day training split where every day develops a different piece of the explosive power puzzle: day one focuses on increasing max lower body strength; day two is speed strength work and may include upper body work; day three is 'athlete day' with a lot of jumps and plyometric work; day four is an impulse session focused on putting out a large amount of force in a short period of time, combining plyometrics with explosive strength work.
Method, not a verified protocol.
Garage Strength · I Trained 1000 Elite Athletes. This Is How You Jump Higher.
Recommendation · MoneyAt the end of the process, set up automated posting through an API-connected tool like Webber rather than posting manually. Tell ChatGPT to take a product's docs and set up API posting, since many consumer products have APIs. Example prompt: 'Here's a folder of all these posts. Post them one every Tuesday. Schedule it for all these different platforms. Figure out the best time for each platform. And write some captions that I approve ahead of time.' One cut-down can post every Tuesday for six weeks across five channels, with captions sent for approval first, and separate skills maintained for TikTok versus Instagram versus YouTube Shorts.
Presented as the speaker's own workflow and endorsement.
AI Engineer · The AI Content System Behind 200M Views — Sarah Chieng, Cerebras & Cova Lee, OpenAI
Recommendation · MoneyIt is very obvious when captions are AI-generated, so the speaker recommends studying your voice and brand, differentiating voices (personal vs. company) and formats (long-form interview, technical demo, short conversation), using a swipe file of bookmarked tweets as reference, and pasting the Wikipedia 'Signs of AI Writing' article into the tool with the instruction to do nothing mentioned in it.
Presented as the speaker's endorsed workflow.
AI Engineer · The AI Content System Behind 200M Views — Sarah Chieng, Cerebras & Cova Lee, OpenAI
Recommendation · MoneyRun a skill weekly with the script: 'Review my video creation process. Show me where I spend the most time and suggest repetitive tasks I could turn into tools or automate.' The rationale: busy people don't have time to look back and find inefficiencies, but building better systems lets you focus on the creative work that gives you joy.
Presented as the speaker's recommended practice.
AI Engineer · The AI Content System Behind 200M Views — Sarah Chieng, Cerebras & Cova Lee, OpenAI
Method · MoneyUse an AI agent to schedule your cut-down posts across platforms — for example, one cut-down every Tuesday for six weeks across five channels. Tell your posting agent to research the best posting time for each platform itself, have it write captions for your approval ahead of time, and instruct it to publish every Wednesday and send captions for approval first. You can post content through Webber by giving it a folder of posts and instructions to schedule them, and set up posting APIs by telling ChatGPT 'Take this docs and do it for me and set it up.'
Method, not a verified protocol.
AI Engineer · The AI Content System Behind 200M Views — Sarah Chieng, Cerebras & Cova Lee, OpenAI
Recommendation · MoneyDesigners need to write the layer of specs that tells us what the product is supposed to be, while technical folks cover implementation details, security, and data models.
NNgroup · Specs Are The New Source Code (feat. Thomas Watkins, NN/G Guest Instructor)
Recommendation · MoneyMax Kanat-Alexander recommends determining where software sits on the disposability scale using four factors: consequences, cost of replacement, dependencies, and cost of maintenance. If all four factors are low, it's disposable software; if all four are high, it's durable software. He advises erring on the side of software being durable, and erring on all four factors being higher than you expect them to be.
AI Engineer · Does Code Quality Still Matter? It Depends on This — Max Kanat-Alexander, Capital One
Recommendation · MoneyMorgan Suo recommends measuring what the finished job cost and how long it took, including retrieval, tool calls, and retries, rather than judging a model by raw speed alone.
AI Engineer · Is a Faster Model Actually Faster? Test the Whole Job — Morgan Suo, MiniMax
Method · MoneyBoot the three repositories (containing everything FleetKit needs, including FleetKit source) into a Claude Code session with a plugin, invoke it, and give it a mission. The agent adopts or creates a Slack channel for the mission where all war-room members and decision makers communicate, and can ping individual people based on the roster. Everything from the agent goes into a human-in-the-loop queue (e.g., GitHub issues) that humans can comment on and approve and other agents can add context to. Only when everything looks tight from an approval standpoint does the fleet manager dispatch builders to do the rest.
Method, not a verified protocol.
AI Engineer · One Day, $1,000 in Tokens: An AI War Room for Legacy Code — Ford Prior, GEICO
Recommendation · MoneyHave agents log their decisions and what they're doing in an opinionated, standardized way, all checked into Git — so there's a durable record of why decisions were made and the context around conversations. Don't rely on code alone as the memory of a codebase; you need docs to know why you made a decision. Keep all context in the repo, never in someone's head — this gives agents and tools superpowers by having all the context in one place, enabling more agent-driven work.
Latent.Space · AI for the Fortune 2000: How Tenex Builds an AI-Native SDLC — Alex Lieberman & CJ Hess
Recommendation · MoneyGaryVee recommends always posting every piece of content made for a sale or an ad organically first. If an organic post performs well in views compared to the norm, that is the content to start running paid media on. Many people waste money on social ads because the creative will not convert well; posting organically first mitigates that risk, since content cannot get views unless the creative is relevant, and getting good at this testing can save an extraordinary amount of money.
Also discussed by Alex Hormozi (unclassified source — not counted until classified). Not counted as independent sources.
GaryVee · Everything You Need to Know About Social Media in October 2026
Recommendation · MoneyThe speaker's number one recommendation: teach people how to fix the things you know how to fix at home by themselves, with little tweaks or ways to figure out what's wrong with them. He says this free value creates the karma and energy that leads to the sale, and that this is what built his career and many others he has watched.
GaryVee · Everything You Need to Know About Social Media in October 2026
Recommendation · MoneyGaryVee advises mixing up content types like a boxer: if every post is a right hook (a direct sales pitch), the audience gets used to it and can duck it. Without jab content or feint content — giving away information for free with the hope that it helps — to set up the right hooks, a person will lose. He adds there is nothing wrong with an occasional right hook, since it can knock out the opponent and create what you want; the goal is the mix of content.
GaryVee · Everything You Need to Know About Social Media in October 2026
Method · MoneyThe creator lays out a locally coherent method for a first live shopping event: schedule a garage sale, house sale, or estate sale as the first live shopping event; start gathering all the stuff in your house you're looking to sell in the week before the event; download Whatnot as part of setting up; use Claude or ChatGPT to learn how to sell on Whatnot, get ideas, and learn how to ship product; create a thumbnail with AI for the event; post the garage sale or estate sale on your Instagram; go through your phone contacts alphabetically and text 50 to 100 people a link to your Whatnot show asking them to RSVP and show up.
Method, not a verified protocol.
GaryVee · The Biggest Business Opportunity Nobody Is Talking About
Recommendation · MoneyA business should own its AI context assets so thoroughly that if a better solution than the current one existed, switching to it would take only a day. Businesses want both neutral intelligence and an app-layer solution they feel comfortable they could move away from — owning the context layer with someone who makes it available to them. Companies deploying FDEs to build software for you are actually trying to make it more difficult for you to switch to someone else at any point.
speaker's recommendation and characterization of FDE vendors; the one-day figure is illustrative (possible numeric error flag)
The a16z Show · What Happens When Al Agents Can Spend Your Money?
Recommendation · MoneyGaryVee recommends making content about your genuine personal interests, such as golf, so people get to know you and become more interested in buying from you when they later see your sales content.
GaryVee · What to Post When You Run a Small Business
