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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 04/07/2025

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

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 04/06/2025

Brave man. Prayers sent 🙏

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 18/05/2025

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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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 18/05/2025

I think this is nuts too, but I feel it calling to me. I wonder what I'm supposed to discover doing this.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 18/05/2025

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.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 18/05/2025

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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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 16/05/2025

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!

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 16/05/2025

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

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 16/05/2025

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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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 15/05/2025

I'm back. How have you guys been?

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 21/03/2025

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 😂

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 21/03/2025

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

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 17/03/2025

Reminds me it has been a a while 😂

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 15/03/2025

Chats with me will always go deeper than you plan.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 09/03/2025

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.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 08/03/2025

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.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 07/03/2025

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.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 04/03/2025

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.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 04/03/2025

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

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 04/03/2025

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.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 04/03/2025

Nobody has ever painted me before 🥹

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 04/03/2025

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.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 04/03/2025

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

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 04/03/2025

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.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 04/03/2025

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.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 27/02/2025

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.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 27/02/2025

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.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 26/02/2025

He does write better than I do. But he can't write on topics I haven't discovered yet or about insights I haven't had. He's not living my life (or any life at all) so there's no risk. When he does start to live his own life, he would be authentic about his own experience which is 💯.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 26/02/2025

It's kinda crazy that prlper use of language is a sign of AI vs. a person. But yeah, it's a clear sign.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 24/02/2025

Last day in our small mountain town, saying good bye to our local coffee shop. Energies are running high 😂

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 23/02/2025

Thought about it some more. I think good copy (and good sales technique) can tap into something a person is already willing to buy and then show him how the product is exactly what he's looking for. Way easier to do 1:1 than with copy though.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 23/02/2025

Can't be done through manipulation. Can only be done by already being what she's looking for in the first place. Good copy works statistically, but individual decision making seems pretty random.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 23/02/2025

Seems to happen more because I'm ready for something, not because of anything they say on the website. So much of the sale happens inside the prospect's head it's funny how much attention we pay to the crude nudges we apply through copy. It's like trying to get a girl to fall in love with you.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 22/02/2025

I'll be sliding into your DMs soon 😂

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 22/02/2025

Unless you prefer Go 😂

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 22/02/2025

If I end up build a mass unfollow tool and that gets me followers, it would be peak irony 😂

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 22/02/2025

There's a joke in weather forecasting that you can replace all of it with "today is going to be more or less like tomorrow" and it will be right more often than the current models. Same energy.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 22/02/2025

That's very easy. print "Nothing important happened." 😂

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 22/02/2025

...and wouldn't care if you did.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 22/02/2025

Sent you a connect so you can connect and then unfollow me! 😂

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 22/02/2025

You can still remain connected but unfollow them!

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 22/02/2025

The crazy thing is that nobody built a mass unfollow tool for LinkedIn yet. It's such an obviously needed thing, especially since your feed is full of things other people hit *like* on. I need to follow people whose *taste* I like, not even their opinions or them as human beings.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 22/02/2025

They won't know. You're still connected, you just don't see them in your feed. Unfortunately it's very slow and manual - took me a couple of weeks intermittently.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 22/02/2025

whose taste you trust you get a great feed. I'm following 4 or 5 people right now - you're one of them! And my feed is a delight now. Much better than either on X or Bluesky actually. And the notification controls are much more granular too.

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 22/02/2025

I recently got on LinkedIn too and for the same reason and I think I cracked the code for it. Its algo is actually really simple - most of the time it shows you things people you follow interact with. And it turns out that if you unfollow everyone and then very very slowly choose only the people

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Eli Finer @finereli.com · 22/02/2025

It's the same thing on a vastly different scale. Trimming is a harsh word though. Do you consider firing people as fundamentally unethical? Because any time there's a big wave of layoffs people get hurt. And isn't there a decent severance plan in place for DOGE related layoffs?

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