Entrepreneurship

Join me for a tour of the Limitless lair in Sofia, Bulgaria...

It's not the most impressive home office/content creator studio, but I have been relentlessly productive here: two books (180,000 words) written in the past year, along with dozens of articles, podcasts, and videos - written, scripted, recorded, and produced. When I became a father, my working hours decreased while my income increased; of course, that has everything to do with psychological-motivational switches that get thrown when you become a parent, BUT the 17 tools and Biohacker trappings that we'll tour here certainly helped...

Getting what we want in life at crucial junctures requires applying ink to paper, and when we are not in physical proximity to the other signatories of our endeavors, it can be damned inconvenient.

For the longest time, remedying this situation was a frustrating combination of fax machines, downloading PDFs, killing trees by buying reams of printer paper, and the dreaded refilling of the printer toner. Below are several free and freeish digital tools that will liberate your valuable time permanently from this unpleasant experience.

With the summer season upon us, my podcast assistant par excellence and I elucidate and illuminate in this Q&A. From questions about entrepreneurship, passive income, and the most dire of mighty morality dilemmas dividing a young Moroccan man to delving into Dark Triad brain training and curing COVID-vaccine-caused cancer (yes, I said it!) And my erudite assistant shares a few thoughts on my recently released science fiction/cyberpunk thriller novel about seduction, biohacking, and philosophy.

Update: This one is worth reading; as the information ecosystem shifts every year, I find new tools and hacks for learning and retaining more of what I learn while reducing distraction. For example, I've become very intolerant of annoying, time-wasting midroll ads; I've got some hacks for blocking them in this updated article.

I'm an information-aholic.

You hear a lot of lifehackers talking about practicing a low-information diet. Indeed, we live in an age of infinite information, yet we have very finite time and attention. A lot of lifehackers decry constant information consumption as a distracting practice. Bruce Lee had something insightful to say about this...

Without a doubt, one of my most significant assets as a professional and a business person is my letters of reference and testimonials for my services; they do a better job of selling me than I do.

Seriously, I challenge you to tell me you don't want to hire me after taking a quick gander at my third-party credibility here on Limitless Mindset, for my marketing firm and my recommendations on LinkedIn (Update: I had to create a new LinkedIn profile after they banned me for a very silly reason - want to leave me a recommendation?)

4 Stories of Psychopathy, Ego, and Ambition

The word insane is drastically overused for everything from mild moodiness and irritability to emotional changes. That's not what this article is about; these are four stories of times I did business with people who were deeply unwell psychologically.

Sometimes, I ask myself whether it's a degree of insanity within myself that has attracted these people and circumstances or whether it's just a matter of dumb luck that I've been quite intimately ensconced in business four separate times with people varying from unstable addicts to genuinely demented. I'm leaning more toward the former than the latter.

In addition to being entertaining, I hope that these stories can educate you on how to identify the tale-tale signs of insanity in the charming, persuasive people you are considering doing business with.

Negotiation is one of the finest communication skills to hone.

Even if you aren't in sales or business, you can benefit almost every day from sharpening your negotiating abilities. Over the years, I've saved myself and my businesses thousands (somewhere in the 5-figure range) of dollars in fees from my services companies. Here, I break down the mindset, communication style, influence methods, issue-leveraging techniques, and lines to use.

Yes, bad mental health days happen even for Biohackers, I had one last week. And I'll tell you how I turned it around in about 45 minutes.

I had been stressed about more than a few things. To name a few...

• Business has not been great lately.
• I hadn't slept great the night before (it happens, even to sleep hackers sometimes).
• There are some exciting but intimidating pivots I'm in the midst of making with Limitless Mindset (which involves a lot of work and learning some new things).
• And the looming threat of nuclear war (in the part of the world where my little family lives!)

Then my wife made a perfectly understandable, concerned comment while rushing out the door to attend to matters in Sofia, which set me off.

Business-to-business sales (B2B) is a difficult nut to crack, especially if you're used to dealing with decision-makers for smaller or local companies only.

Why does it seem like every startup is antsy to gobble up your helpful services, but the large C-level corporate heads couldn't care less about you? Do not be discouraged, my friend. Industry professionals who have "been there, done that" have a few suggestions to help you and your business break into this lucrative market.

$350 Billion (with a capital B) was the inflation-adjusted personal net worth of John D. Rockefeller.

He was history's wealthiest man, by a long shot, if you consider the wealthiest individuals of our lifetime...

• Elon Musk - $432 billion
• Jeff Bezos - $239 billion
• Mark Zuckerberg - $207 billion
• Vladimir Putin - Up to $200 billion
• Bill Gates - $159 billion
• Warren Buffet - $142 billion
• Carlos Helu Slim - $100 billion

These individuals are mere paupers in comparison. John D's titanic wealth was matched only by his altruism. So much of his wealth was given away to organizations that have made a sustainable positive impact on the world that it would not be unreasonable to say that virtually every person alive today benefits in one way or another from his altruism. Was John D. a lifehacker? Absolutely.