Eli Finer

I haven't been around lately but took a quick look and that's much more engaging writing for sure!

Brave man.

Prayers sent 🙏

You don't need friends for this, just a popular Twitter account. But if you ever end up in a spot like this, I'll send you some money.

The bigger problem is having the courage and humility to ask.

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I think this is nuts too, but I feel it calling to me.

I wonder what I'm supposed to discover doing this.

But for some inexplicable reason we want to push further.

We're going to try one meal a day for a while, see how it feels. That means a 22 hour fast each day.

And to make it even more interesting, we're going to do a pushup challenge - 5000+ pushups in 30 days - up to 800+ a day.

Doing some crazy things health wise on this nomad journey -

We're 4 weeks into an intermittent fasting schedule, eating roughly form 12pm to 8pm (although I usually cheat with a late night snack).

We've done 3 full day Saturday fasts.

And this weekend we did two 24h fasts back to back.

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Salamis, the one closest to Athens. We're on the far side of it though so it's a tiny village with a beach and virtually no people this time of year. The way is warm enough for our Canadian skins for the most part though so we swim quite a bit!

Oh that's so cool! Where is the house? Country side somewhere?

I'm doing great! We started out nomad journey and after 3 months settled into a sort of routine on an island in Greece. Can't stay here much longer l, visa is only for 3 months so we'll be moving around again soon + first Israel and then Albania.

How about you?

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I'm back.

How have you guys been?

Yeah, let's book it!

decided to raise my prices more than 3x. I'm now charging a whopping $1000/hour and actually feel I'm worth that amount (transitioned first client from $300 for $600 per hour and that was a "discount") 🤯

I think we should keep talking 😂

It was a great chat man, and unlocked some really cool things for me too. I did the 101 exercise too and realized I was avoiding selling because I was fearing rejection, and once I broke through that and got back into selling mode, I had another breakthrough this morning where I

Reminds me it has been a a while 😂

Chats with me will always go deeper than you plan.

I think it might just be the event horizon. We just can't quite punch through what would happen with the next leap in capabilities (or perhaps just humans adjusting to existing ones) so we're stuck having the same optimism/pessimism debate with little progress.

Those books are 1% about reading them and 99% about doing what's in them which always feels counterintuitive and sometimes feels insane.

And yes, there is opposing advice in different books because different people need different things at different times.

To be fair, I think we've achieved and surpassed what we would have considered AGI back then.

In 2021 GPT could barely string a few coherent sentences together.

These days I ask for, and carefully consider, Claude's advice on my most important decisions.

It's such an incredible experience watching her paint my facez there's so much love in every stroke of the paintbrush.. I was watching captivated for the entire hour she did this.

My life is learning water colors. It's her first attempt. Made me look sadder than I feel 😂

Pricing is a bitch. Always get pulled towards to low and too high, because it's a trilateral decision between you perception of your own value, the specific audience you're targeting, and what they think it's worth. All aspects are malleable which makes it a crazy three body problem.

Nobody has ever painted me before 🥹

That's a great take. It's hard to generalize with B2B, which is why a lot of B2B companies combine a product with some kind of white globe service.

One a month, eh? That's quite a schedule. What have you learned so far?

This is the way. It's even better when instead of pitching you're having conversations to help you figure out what the MVP should even be in the first place.

That's the beauty of external motivation. However much I spent cultivating internal motivation, I still find external pressure extremely effective - provided it's real and actually aligned with what I want to be doing.

Absolutely!

Yep. We actually stumbled into that accidentally - we were in Guatemala for the summer and they were spending so much time on their devices that we thought we should start teaching them some things. Turns out we all enjoy homeschooling quite a bit.

Today is our first day of nomading! Starting with Greece and then we'll see. Doing it with 2 kids is different but still very cool.