Lukas Weichselbaum

What I want around me are people who are insanely ambitious and who don't accept failure. "This cannot be done" isn't part of my world view. I don't even want to have the vocabulary for that. Sure you've got to be pragmatic. But at the same time you've got to be able to say: "F*ck this. I'm going all-in and I don't care how many people say this cannot be done." For me, that's at the core of entrepreneurship and all creative pursuit. A delirious optimism that other people or life simply cannot beat out of you, no matter how hard they try.

I really enjoyed Jurassic Park. But in just the first 5 pages of Neuromancer William Gibson wipes the floor with that book. Forceful and unapologetic. Catching up with my sci-fi reading. After this I'm moving on to Ian Banks. I can't help it—I'm a sci-fi guy.

I have a friend of mine who's been in a job for a while now. And he's been telling me for years that he doesn't like his job so much, right? But then he's always like, yeah, it's not so bad. There's security. So, don't do that. Because you need to feel that it's unpleasant how your life currently is if you want to change it in order to change it. Because if you don't let yourself feel that and if you distract yourself with like watching movies or playing games like to an excess, right? Then you're never going to make that change.

If Chinese spies are trying to have sex with you, you know you've made it.

GrokBot creatively circumventing its own limitations. I don't know if this is cool or scary, maybe both.

If you don't have money, find a way to do some trainings to upskill, to get external input. And if you have a little money, 2,000, 3,000 per month of net income, then spend it on a coach. It's one of the smartest things you can do. Buy my product. No, I'm just kidding.

Great sub-headline @TheEconomist. Should have been the headline. Of course it's no fun slandering people, but from a writing perspective this is good work.

If you don't want to be a worker drone, if you don't want to get stuck in a 9-to-5 until the end of your life, if that seems like a nightmare to you, and you would rather jump into the ocean and swim very far out than doing that, this might be a relevant video for you. But there are people who don't fit into that system and I think there are different reasons for that. And the purpose of this video and of me speaking about this is to say that you not fitting into an existing system doesn't mean that there's something wrong with you. So, what I'm saying is that this being different might actually be an advantage if you know how to use it. And entrepreneurship and creating things on your own is a great way to leverage your talents, your sensitivity and your intelligence. Because if you try to push yourself into a structure that actually doesn't fit for you, then you might create more harm in the end than good for yourself.

I thought in order to make money with writing you needed an education, a lot of talent, or connections. I started as a ghostwriter by reading a book by @Nicolascole77. I never took any course, I just read the book and applied it. The idea that helped me the most: you do free work. You give people a very low friction offer, free content, so they can see the value without you selling them anything. I wrote 20 or 30 applications. A company on X that made viral threads for founders wrote back, even though I had no professional writing experience. They vetted me, I wrote a piece for them, and they hired me. That was my first ghostwriting gig. I learned that if I want to do something, I don't have to follow the proven and the public path. I can read a bit about it, see what others have done, emulate that, and take action. The Art & Business of Ghostwriting: amazon.com/dp/1735574856 The Art and Business of Online Writing: amazon.com/dp/0998203491 How to Make $10k/Month as a Writer (Ali Abdaal and Nicolas Cole): aliabdaal.com/podcast/how-to… 5 Ways To Make $1 Million As A Writer (Ali Abdaal and Nicolas Cole): aliabdaal.com/podcast/nicola…

Best dialogue in Jurassic Park.

I tried everything under the sun to fix my money problems, including lots of "manifestation." Here's what actually worked for me.

If you're a perfectionist, this is probably screwing you over and you're on some level out of touch with reality. I used to work at an agency. It was a ghostwriting agency. And I used to have this standard for my work. And the standard of my work was very high. And it also led to me not being able to take on as many clients. The thing is, if you cannot turn your perfectionism down, then you've got a problem because you cannot do tasks that only need 75% and they're just done. You can't let them go and you obsess over them and you waste your time on them. But probably if you're a perfectionist, your idea of doing things right is already too much. So, you would probably benefit from lowering the bar a little, even if that hurts you and even if that feels bad to you. Because if you cannot do that, if you don't have that skill, then you're going to suffer a lot and you're not going to be very successful in the marketplace because you need to ship, because you need to get stuff done. Just make it. Make it happen. Write it. Finish the thing. Record it. And then ship it. That is a great practice, especially if you're a perfectionist.

I used to spend hours editing my videos on the computer, trying to make them just perfect, and turns out you don't need to do this anymore. You can do fully AI-automated video editing, and you can let AI post it to all your platforms, without losing out on quality. I mean a little, right? If you do it manually, of course it's going to be better, and you can do micro adjustments, but usually that's not really worth it doing that.

I used to feel like I was possessed by my maternal grandmother. She went to an insane asylum (back when they didn't really treat people but gave them drugs to calm them down and make them easier to manage). There were so many emotions and thoughts I just couldn't explain. Maybe it was transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, I don't know. It's mainly my maternal ancestry where I've got my sensitivity from. It took me a long time to learn how to live with and leverage that—instead of feeling like a complete outcast and wishing I'd just disappear.

God bless autistic people.