Sean M Everett

Day 189:  10x Features

For part 2 of my conversation with Ben Stovold, who comes to us all the way from Gold Coast, Australia, we chat about the differences between building the Twitter #Music app and building an app for field engineers working in the field, using Quartz Composer to prototype iPhone app animations, Facebook Home, and the difference between UI design, polish design, and animation design.

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Day 187:  Book - Manufacturing & Shipping from Kenya
Nausheen — Glass bottles
25,000 bottles
575 grams per bottle empty
Costs 9000 GBP for 2 pallets
10 meter length, height is 10cm
Travels from Shanghai to Dover, England

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How much does a Book weigh? Maybe 600 to 700 grams (approx iPad)

Adam would be around $5,000 USD for 1 pallet because it’s coming a shorter distance (through Suez Canal)
Could probably fit 10,000 books
Just for shipping, maybe $1 to $2 per Book

Manufacturing would probably be $1 to $2 per Book, but at high volume

Thus, if we could get the books and paper manufactured and shipped to our doorstep for $5 USD, then we could charge $14.99 and make a high enough profit to keep the business going.


Day 188:  Artificial General Intelligence

Your brain is translating symbols on this screen right now into words that form coherent thoughts, transferring knowledge, emotion, and wisdom from my brain to yours.

Day 185:  Door Maker Concept Art
- looks like ross chirico
- needs to have that energy and “spark” in his eye, like santa
- the spark is both fire (male) and sensitivity (female)

- wild and unkempt look, like a fire and heart set aflame with passion for life
- wise and kind, a face battered by age and time

- strong with big worn hands from crafting, building, and inventing his entire life
- see him wearing a hat with a triangle on it, echoing the logo

It all depends on where you spend most of your time living.

For me, I spend all of my time living in my mind. So 16 years ago I chose to buy a house and every month I make a payment on it. It’s not a 30-year mortgage, more like 15. But at the end I’ll have something that not even a bad economy can take away from me.

Sure, the price tag was in the 6 figures, but the vast amount of experience, formal education, and self-taugh expertise gives me something a standard mortgage doesn’t.

Scale.

Today, I can use the 300 million pattern recognizers in my brain that have been sharpened to the finest points possible to look at a business and immediately know the angle. It allows me to see through the marketing, the product clutter, the news releases, find the one lever that drives the entire business, and figure out a more efficient way to pull it more often.

In layman’s terms, a mortgage of the mind makes sure my return on that investment doesn’t have a ceiling of 10 to 20%, but rather infinite.

The reason most people don’t see it that way is because the mind is intangible and a house is tangible. But don’t let that fool you. Your emotions and your thoughts are intangible, but I’m guessing you’d call them invaluable tools you’d never be willing to part with.

The next generation needs to ask itself:  “Do I want a quarter million dollar house or a quarter million dollar brain?”

The rest of your life will be determined by the answer to that one question.

Day 183:  LLC — Texas Versus Nevada Versus Wyoming

TEXAS

• State filing fee:  $300
  
• Time:  3 to 5 days (or 1 day with $25 expedite fee)
  
• Taxes:  ZERO if gross receipts are below $1 million per year
• • Note:  LLC’s use pass-through taxation so any income is split amongst owners and you pay personal tax. There is no personal tax for people living in texas

• Allows common asset protection strategy
• Hide your identity by having someone else HOLD your stock while you still control how they VOTE
• • You have a “lifetime proxy” over him/her

I spent the last few days driving from Texas to Iowa to see my grandmother, whom I haven’t seen in a few years.

Hanging out with her and her friends in the community cafeteria of her independent living apartment, I realized even at 90 years old everyone wants to be a celebrity.

People will make up other reasons of why they do what they do but in most cases, starting from our first interactions in pre-school we want everyone to like us, shower us with praise, and be impressed by us.

It never stops. From having the best toys to the best clothes to the best car to the best house and most powerful job to having the family that visits us most. From 1 to 100, every single one us wants to be Kim Kardashian or George Clooney.

Maybe we should aspire for something different. Something better. Maybe someone more like superman.

Choose to be a bumbling nerd so people underestimate you. Choose to treat people with kindness and respect so they can take advantage of you. Choose to make others celebrities so you can make them feel important.

Then save the world in relative anonymity, 1 person at a time.

Day 181:  Reversing Time Mechanic
How can you make the story of a water drop interesting? Reverse time.

Willpower is highest in the morning and decreases throughout the day.

Reverse time:

willpower increases, sledding down a story curve makes you pick up speed
End of story (i.e., beginning of day) is full of possibilities
Beginning of story (i.e., end of day) is about results.

“Your attitude at the beginning of the day determines what you’ve done at the end of the day”

Is clustering photos the “bumps” / climaxes / tension-based moments?

• Compensation
• Benefits
• Performance Management