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Head of Subscription Growth @wyzecam | Former Nuclear Scientist for US Dept of Energy | Ex-Photographer for @apple , @united , and @hyatt

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My wife found this bottle of Dawn dish soap sitting in my parent's shower. Apparently, my dad uses it to wash his entire body because: "If it's good enough for baby ducks, it's good enough for me." Absolute legend.
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Suuuuper hot take: the normalization of therapy is becoming a bad thing for society. I’m seeing more and more people: 1) use the fact they are in therapy as a “get out of jail free card” for awful behavior 2) believe everything their therapist says as Gospel Truth, with no…
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The first person who can figure out how to build a 1) daycare 2) remote co-working space 3) coffee shop into a single building with a subscription... will become a billionaire in 2024.
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Hot take: NO ONE actually wants AI to: 1) Book their vacations 2) Order a random pizza 3) Have access to their bank account Why are we creating tech no one wants?
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HOT TAKE: buying things is significantly less exciting than it used to be. Maybe it’s just me, but I think most companies: 1) have stopped making innovative, useful products 2) focused on building subscriptions 3) believe trapping customers is better than building anything…
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Some days, I don’t have motivation to go the gym. Then I watched Reacher with my wife, and saw her face during this scene. Motivation problem solved.
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Last month marks 3 years sober. It’s hard to express how close I came to destroying every good thing in my life because of my alcoholism. I was a hair’s breadth from losing my marriage, 3 kids, my career… everything. I hate talking about this. I feel so much shame and…
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I’ve owned a Tesla Model 3 for years. I bought a new gas vehicle because it is: 1) a roomy 7-seater 2) doesn’t lose range in the cold 3) costs less than $50k Many American families are doing the same.
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@BlackLabelAdvsr @AmazonStudios @HistoryBoutique The excuses are the nails that build the house of failure.
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HOT TAKE: overprotective parents are creating an extremely risk-averse generation of kids. Almost NONE of my kids’ friends: 1) have asked someone out on a date 2) started a lemonade stand 3) want to get a driver’s license I’m really worried about what this means for the…
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@AmandaMGoetz Yes. Yes. Yes. All of this.
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@MKBHD The internet will become a less useful tool in 2024 as more content will become AI generated and we will be hard-pressed to distinguish true reality/news from AI generated content.
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@AaronErickson Have you used Expedia?
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@thecorbinwarner @emilykmay This sounds a truly awful idea.
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@iupdate This has got NOTHING on the Like Green iPhone 5c…. Ugliest damn phone on earth.
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Gave my 10 year old my GameBoy Advance SP with Donkey Kong and he cannot stop playing it. Says it’s the best game ever. This came out in 2003.
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@PopCrave Would pay epic amounts of money to see Travis Kelce tackle this dude.
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Sunrise from the Blue Ridge Mountains ☀️
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@kristakdoyle Exactly. I’ve seen many places be good at 2 of these requirements, never all 3. Daycare also HAS to be top notch. Not sending my kids anywhere sketchy.
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@MattWalshBlog It is WILD to me that a no-name dude like me posting a HOT TAKE tweet led to @MattWalshBlog and @jordanbpeterson agreeing to do a podcast together on therapy. Tell me X isn’t the greatest place on earth.
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@MKBHD People will stop using the internet. The usefulness of the internet will drop dramatically as it becomes increasingly more difficult to tell what is true and what is AI generated.
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@MKBHD Played so many hours there waiting to get home. Usually absolutely packed 🤣 shocked so few people are at them in this photo.
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In the Spring of 2020, I lost my job. We had a newborn, family of 4, a new house we just moved into and I was scared out of my mind. A week later I landed a gig making $15/hr as a lab tech in a completely overwhelmed COVID-19 testing lab, working 15 hour shifts to keep up.…
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@MattWalshBlog I picked strawberries at age 12. Earned $20 and felt like a king! Such a good experience for kids to see that hard work reaps big benefits.
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VIRAL POST UPDATE: I’ve had a call with founder @brittwriley , who has: 1) already built this in 3 locations 2) is profitable 3) expanding to new cities I have committed to do what I can to bring this to my city, Asheville NC. If you’re interested in seeing this in your…
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The first person who can figure out how to build a 1) daycare 2) remote co-working space 3) coffee shop into a single building with a subscription... will become a billionaire in 2024.
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Good morning from the North Carolina mountains ❤️
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My wife and I worked 100 hours from a McDonalds PlayPlace in 2023. Ask me anything.
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@DudespostingWs 🤣 my dad would think it's hilarious this is going viral
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Every single Uber I’ve been in recently has a driver: A) Texting and driving B) Watching a video and driving C) FaceTiming a friend and driving Never just… driving. How did this become so normalized?!!
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@MKBHD New video idea: Comments of the year awards.
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@iupdate Idk, white iPhone X was my favorite.
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Uncomfortable Truth: we have lost the art of repairing broken things Growing up, my parents used to: 1) replace the soles of my shoes 2) sew together the holes in my shirts 3) patch rips in my stuffed animals No one I know does this anymore.
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@onbeeper I’m an Apple customer. I want Android users to have iMessage and I want the choice to use iMessage if I leave the ecosystem. Any company should be able to know how to make customers happy without a walled garden. Tesla does this well.
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Still feels like I’m dreaming when I see my photos on @united seat back screens. Wild.
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@RewiredRadical It’s not just electronics either. I feel this way about buying furniture off Wayfair. It used to be exciting to receive something like that, now you get in the mail and it’s just junk.
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I tip at least 50% every time I go out to a restaurant to eat. The staff are STOKED to see me and my wife on a date night!
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@michaelpreneur That’s a great take.
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It’s a beautiful morning in the North Carolina mountains 🏔️
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I’ll never forget the day she got the diagnosis. 1) If you ever have the privilege of meeting my wife, you’d never know she has had 1/3 of her tongue removed. 2) I’ll never forgive the elites in Davos, currently getting coughed on for props… for shutting down every in-person…
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It took me 3 YEARS to get diagnosed with cancer. I lost a third of my tongue. Every doctor said: 1. Go home. It’s a COVID symptom. 2. Go home. You don’t look sick. 3. Go home. You are being dramatic. I saw four doctors. I took steroids. I changed my diet. I had my teeth…
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@mbrandolph Whoa. “It turns out that there’s nothing like having the option to get out that reinforces your desire to stay in.” That is the truest thing I’ve heard in a long time @mbrandolph
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@jen98a clearly that marketing plan worked!
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@nintendobenzo 🤣🤣🤣 ZERO people have ever walked into a Pizza Hut and just said “Just give me what’s most popular here.”
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@Wealthandhappi Interesting take. I don’t necessarily disagree either, personally I’m just starting to see more bad behavior crop up that gets excused by therapy.
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@scurtis2007 Agreed. Would be a daycare. Not a preschool.
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They don’t call it the Blue Ridge for nothin’ 🏔️
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@MKBHD Me looking for $3500 in my bank account.
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@HowThingsWork_ Looking at this made me brush my teeth again.
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@tyler_bancroft Yes. No doubt about that at all. Masters of design.
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Kicking cancer’s ass since 2021.
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The higher up in the company you are… the MORE you should be talking to customers, not less. I’ll die on this hill.
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Good morning to all the dads who wake up early to play trains ❤️
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@AaronErickson What app do you think this device is using to book a flight for you? Because that's what it does.
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@trishaepan @Chase “Ship it! Ship it!”
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@chrisboettcher9 Consistency. The most unsexy, underrated aspect of health is the ability to do healthy things with glaringly, annoying consistency.
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Good morning to those who dream ☀️
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@heyalexfriedman Damn. I am so so sorry. No one should have to go through this, stories like this are literally why our company, @wyzecam , exists. Security should be affordable for everyone, no one should feel like it’s out of reach ❤️.
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@MKBHD I guess what I mean here is that we currently take for granted that we think every post/photo/story on the internet was generated by a human. That won’t be the case for much longer and will probably cause more distrust than trust in the internet as a useful info tool.
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I’m 29 years old. If you told me 10 years ago my life would look like this, there’s no way I would have believed you. I’m the luckiest person on earth.
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@MKBHD The iPhone’s new “Action Button” isn’t useful at all due to its awful placement/lack of quick reachability.
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@tibo_maker I’m wondering if I’m just being an old man.
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Christmas Tree Hunting in #Asheville NC
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@KMNDR_ They’ve turned a corner recently.
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@archangelofai I agree deeply with this.
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@ChristosVK This is a great take.
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It’s #fall in Asheville NC 🍁
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Dear @UPS , #ThanksForDelivering . From all of us at home and Winston.
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Highway 1, Iceland.
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@sweatystartup Worked for the Dept of Energy for years as a nuclear scientist. The biggest issue is actually cost as the government has a stranglehold on keeping most private companies out of the business of nuclear energy with regulation.
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@yogabbathegreat I understand this take, but this isn't what this device does.
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@stclairashley Still cannot get over this jacket Vivek has. Epic AF. Dude looks like he could hop in any plane in Top Gun and mow down some bad guys.
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Merry Christmas Eve 🎄
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@I_Am_GKennedy Exactly. All these AI assistants have forgotten why the iPhone is so popular. We are VISUAL people.
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No one else even comes close.
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Merry Christmas 🎄
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@MKBHD It’s cause my kids love Frozen 2, Marques. Honestly.
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@theashelina No it doesn’t.
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Someone asked me what my growth plan was for Wyze subscriptions. So here it is: 1. Ask customers what they want. 2. Build it. 3. Tell them we built it. 4. Repeat.
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@jhoustonchs Useful shit right there.
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@michaelpreneur "Free is good." - Dad
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@JoeDesiderio Now we are talking REAL margin 💪🏼
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Happy New Year’s Eve 🛫
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@LoganFlagg Don’t get me started on movies. The content coming out has ZERO story. It’s truly awful. We’ve never had so MUCH bad content.
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Good morning from my back porch ❤️
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@SelfMadeMastery People forget that Elon invented PayPal.
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From Iceland, forever ago.
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Life breaks us. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger ❤️
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@SawyerMerritt Shocked Tesla doesn’t have a HUD tbh.
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@dennieredwards The car just looks obese.
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@scottbuscemi MY MAN. Tell me more about this. Truly might be the only thing I am excited about right now.
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Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.
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@stclairashley @dbongino Apparently I make more ad revenue than Dan.
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@stclairashley Where can I find Vivek’s jacket? That is the best jacket I’ve ever seen.
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Dear 𝕏, please settle this debate between my wife and I: Should you brush your teeth… 1) First thing in the morning. 2) After you drink morning coffee Pick your number and explain why.
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@ChrisMorganCT Yes. This is useful. The issue that none of the LLM AI Assistant devices today seem to understand is that humans are very visual people. We want to see what's going on, review options, dig deeper and scroll imagery. These devices do not do that and therefore are not…
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