Notes from the [TSoL] salons

Subject: Notes from the [TSoL] salons

Weekly Links & Notes from
Tom's School of Life

Each Tuesday (or Wednesday morning), in this email we will recap the week that was in the TSoL accountability groups the best we can. We'll have a list of the links mentioned and some of the notes taken within the weekly accountability groups.

Brian D. O'Leary dot com In association with The Tom Woods School of Life

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you have already taken me up on my offer to get on this email list.

It is probably worth repeating some of what I set out to accomplish in the first one of these newsletters.

First newsletter in case you didn't get it …

If you don't read this email, you'll end up … serving my kids fries at a drive through on our way to a skiing trip.

https://app.getresponse.com/view.html?x=a62b&m=B2dmLu&u=ylCeU&z=Ez2VSg&o=pp_1

My proposition for these emails is that I will collate as many of the links and most of the notes I take from all of my weekly calls into one email.

Length will vary, based on content, and my availability to write about all the content.

Furthermore, if you're looking for work, consider this a free job board. Same thing if you're hiring. Got a business that people need to find out about? Just let me know.

If you have affiliate links, I will post them.

(This warning goes to everyone, though: please DO NOT use Amazon affiliate links within email. If you choose to use Amazon affiliate links in emails, it is quite likely that your account will get torpedoed … I already experienced that one. You're welcome. For any Amazon links here, I typically use the link shortener built in to Amazon.com, not a known affiliate link.)

Keep in mind that this newsletter is not meant to replace the Chat or Forum or Tom's regular [TSoL] emails, but should serve as a more timely reference that can connect more people within Tom's School with each other.

If members are referenced in these pages, it is my intention to do it either by name or by their rocket chat handle or both.

I plan to send these letters out sometime between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning with the occasional "bonus" email.

Links and categories are in no particular order this week. I tried categorizing them the best I could. If anyone has suggestions on how to do it better, I will listen. I may not implement.

You'll probably see a lot of experimentation in form going forward. This is not the way I like to do email. I like plain text and no pictures.

I shall consider this project my "comfort challenge" for the week.

Contact me on rocket @BrianOLeary or reply to this email for more.

This week's featured business

Last week, Hunter Hastings (@HunterHastings) officially launched The Value Creators online course. The ideas and framework for the course were nurtured within the School Of Life accountability groups.

We're also happy to report that the course comes with the endorsement of the boss, @TomWoods himself (see below).

The core message of The Value Creators course is that:

for businesses of all sizes, value creation is the key to success.

The Value Creators course identifies 11 principles of value creation that stem from the study of Austrian Economics.

Instructors include some of the top professors already teaching in "mainstream" business schools—including Mark Packard, Per Bylund, Gordon Miller, and David Rapp.

The 11 principles covered are:

How to think about Value
Understanding Customers
Entrepreneurship as the function of value creation
Empathy as the #1 business tool
How to think about Innovation
Design as a process of working backwards from customer needs
Marketing as behavior
The subjective interpretation of Accounting and Finance to enable entrepreneurship
Organization design for value creation
Error correction as knowledge building
Business as a flow

Find The Value Creators online course here:

https://thevaluecreators.mykajabi.com/value-creators

Use coupon code SCHOOLOFLIFE at checkout for a 50% discount on the advertised price.

This week's links

Member news/plugs

• @HunterHastings latest article The Revival of Customer Capitalism https://chiefexecutive.net/the-revival-of-customer-capitalism/

• @NealPower Watch History app https://github.com/powxpow/watch-history/releases

• @AndyKeusal son's makes custom guitar picks https://www.etsy.com/shop/PlectrumHQ?ref=shop_sugg_market

• Gandolfo's New York Deli ( @TeriCapshaw 's restaurant in Meridian, Idaho) https://www.facebook.com/gandolfosmeridian/

• Using Poetry to Connect with Your Kids ( @jean ) https://selfeducatingfamily.com/poetry-sampler-landing-page-summer-excerpt/

• The UnReliableMind Newsletter ( @DerekFranklin) https://theunreliablemind.substack.com/

• I have used "shibboleth" in a song! 🏆( @BernieJackson )

https://www.twadpocklereport.com/p/cultural-supremacy-the-song

• Brian's (not me) proofreading/editing website: https://positiverate.us/ (need Rocket handle…)

Books

• Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military by Matthew Lohmeier https://a.co/d/fRvOd3Y

• The Tools https://www.thetoolsbook.com/

• Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You by Phil Stutz https://a.co/d/5aZ7lq2

• The Art of Bouncing Back: Find Your Flow to Thrive at Work and in Life ― Any Time You're Off Your Game by Darleen "Coach Dar" Santore https://a.co/d/hqoRWOm

• Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork https://a.co/d/1V5TVq6

• The Heart of A Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty, and What That Means for Human Flourishing by Magatte Wade https://a.co/d/crvo7hV

• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim https://a.co/d/3pxmgvp

• Manias, Panics, and Crashes (Seventh Edition): A History of Financial Crises by Robert Z. Aliber https://a.co/d/6aUfYlX

• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père https://a.co/d/aVXJy8P

• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu https://a.co/d/fZbvYM2

• The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman https://a.co/d/gLpsj91

• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(novel)

• Lisa wrote a book! Get it here, and please leave a review if you do: Amplify Your Impact: Generative AI for Volunteering and Activism: Unlock New Levels of Efficiency and Reach in Non-Profit and Political Campaigns https://a.co/d/8zlk5kz

Television and the movies

• A Rugrats Passover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rugrats_Passover

• The Princess Bride (1987) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/

• R.O.U.S. https://princessbride.fandom.com/wiki/R.O.U.S. Are they Muppets? https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/The_Princess_Bride

• 3 Body Problem (2024) https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821

Podcasts & YouTube

• The Tom Woods Show, ep 2486 Jay Abraham https://tomwoods.com/ep-2486-jay-abraham-worlds-smartest-capitalist/

• Lynette Zang on Rebel Capitalist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wWYV23uz38 Lynette Zang talks about building her community garden in her half acre lot in Phoenix. She put 4 ponds in the yard

• The Kneesovertoesguy https://www.youtube.com/c/thekneesovertoesguy

• Kevin Dolan on Matt Walsh https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-dastardly-right-wing-plot-to-have-babies-and-save-humanity-from-extinction

• The Panda Man Official https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC48xzZXeZjkaRYN17-UMmfw

• Kingston Trio - Man who never returned (M.T.A.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh994JcEfkI

• Y Combinator https://www.youtube.com/@ycombinator

• XtremepowerUS Concrete Vibrator 4.5 ft, 35mm Poker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Puk4RorDo

• Episode 1- What was the origin of the SARS-COV-2 VIRUS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwZYUzCWxIQ

Very much related to YouTube

• @NealPower Watch History app https://github.com/powxpow/watch-history/releases

• Google Takeout https://takeout.google.com/

Ideas for Content Creation (and check out the #ContentCreation call on Rocket.Chat)

• How writers, podcasters, and creators are building real communities on Substack https://on.substack.com/p/building-communities-on-substack-chat

• Only Office https://www.onlyoffice.com/

• metricool "The digital Swiss Army Knife for social media managers" https://metricool.com/

• Stuff that MattR's Newsletter https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/stuff-184/

• Ghost (newsletter publication) similar to Substack and Beehiv https://ghost.org/

• metricool "The digital Swiss Army Knife for social media managers" https://metricool.com/

• Ray Edwards email newsletter (particularly for copywriters, but it is a great newsletter to read in general) https://www.rayedwards.com/

• Iron Age Media Marketing https://nickpecone.com/iron-age-media-marketing-services/

Personal Improvement, bizdev, miscellany, etc.

• Peak Learning, Paul G. Stoltz https://www.peaklearning.com/dr-paul-g-stoltz/

• Ben Franklin effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect

• Spoke and wheel https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/the-great-reset-part-2-the-spoke-and-wheel-model/

• Followupthen "Meet the world's simplest email reminder and personal followup assistant." https://www.followupthen.com/?a=0819d975f0 (h/t @DaveRael )

• Notion Write,plan,organize,play Turn ideas into action with Notion’s AI-powered workspace. https://www.notion.so/

• PowerCore https://powercore.net/

• Yith https://wordpress.org/plugins/yith-woocommerce-subscription/

• How to Identify your 12 Hidden Skills https://joshspector.com/hidden-skills/

• Rocketbook https://getrocketbook.com/

• Generating Worlds With Wave Function Collapse https://www.procjam.com/tutorials/wfc/

• Freedom https://freedom.to/

• website template https://ballet-atelier.com/library-template/

• zitadel https://zitadel.com/

• SSD Nodes https://www.ssdnodes.com/manage/register.php

• Colorado Springs rental market https://www.rent.com/colorado/colorado-springs-houses/11594-wildwood-ridge-dr-4-lv1260813888

• Place to print gifts for clients: https://www.printful.com/

• Dean's "before": https://www.dimarcowarshaw.com/

• Dean's "after": https://j96.7a5.myftpupload.com/

• Nick's family business website he built: https://fourpillarspeds.com/

• uphold https://uphold.com/en-us

Sports

• Baltimore Orioles https://www.mlb.com/orioles

• 2016 Chicago Cubs season https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Chicago_Cubs_season

Quotes

• Try Things At Least Twice Just the second attempt at anything hard will be much easier. Not a little bit, but by A LOT. It is true of almost everything. — Bond Halbert https://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/Boron/BoronLetterCh1.htm

• "I live inside my head, and write literally everything of note down, file it in a folder on my desktop where appropriate, determining if it will be an email, content for a book, content for Email Players, content for a audio or video... or maybe used for something else entirely or totally lost in the abyss, never to be used and totally forgotten, ignored and passed over for younger, hotter ideas as the original idea hit the wall. …." — Ben Settle https://twitter.com/elBenb0/status/1787542041993650441

Some Rocket.Chat channels with group calls

#Tech

#ContentCreation

#AI

#TimeManagement (when and if @BernieJackson can whip people into a good enough frenzy)

More?

Some of my (Brian O'Leary) resources

• Free e-book : https://runatthunder.com/

• Jim Camp Resource Page https://briandoleary.com/jimcamp/

• Get a .COM for just $5.98! Namecheap https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1781996&u=3004203&m=46483&urllink=&afftrack=

• Get Response "Email marketing and beyond. An affordable, easy platform to send emails, grow your list, and automate communication." https://www.getresponse.com?ab=rJeNJ3ckrm