🚨🚨For the first time ever.... 🚨🚨 My Chinese standup....with English subtitles! 25th set. 8 minutes. Best stuff I've got so far. Submitted this today for a Shanghai standup competition in May, fingers crossed

First paid standup show tonight since being back in China. When I first started out it was all open mics. You have to earn your place. But every day during class, I worked on jokes with my teachers. 2-3 open mics each night gave me a fast feedback loop to get better. Within

Just finished the comedy tripleheader. Three standup shows on the same night in Kunming. Man it feels good to be back on stage. I tried a new joke, it worked 2/3 times. Will tweak it in class tomorrow and then it should be ready. Tonight was all open mics (with solid crowds,

Simply overjoyed to be back on stage in Kunming after four months away. The jokes were all still there despite speaking almost no Chinese since June. There’s no better feeling.

Haircut: $70 in NYC, $7 in Kunming, China. This is my guy Xiao Luo. His barber shop was the first place I went upon arriving back in Kunming yesterday. I’m here for a month to study Chinese and do standup (while building Act Two by night). As we talked, I asked him how my

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Great time hanging with @Camelliayang today in NYC!

In-person meetup with Dan Sleeman in Toronto as we build the future of our business. Act Two Cohort 1 is in the books. Up next: - Citizens of the Internet launch (always-on companion community) - B2B done-for-you cohort building service (one client signed; others in the works)

Read this piece from @Derek Thompson. Then read it again. This is why Act Two exists! 70 people from around the world just gathered for five weeks to work on creative projects, together. On Day 1, we talked about the importance of “Anchoring to the Internal” as the primary

META is an acronym I came up with this summer. The…. Mindsets Eliminations Tools Actions …needed to succeed to the Age of Abundance. Guidance to harness the power of Internet abundance while avoiding its pitfalls. Was originally going to be the central framework of Act

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Truth or comfort. You can have one, but not both.

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My introduction in the Act Two Circle community last month: Hey all, I’ve been beyond thrilled to watch Act Two come alive over the last few days. Dan and I have been talking about working together again for the past year, and Act Two has been in the works since February. The

I call it: “Dopaminergic drip of death” The modern devil.

The final live session of Act Two is in the books. What a feeling. Only my co-founder Dan Sleeman knows the full story of what it took to get here. Months of hard work, holding fast to our convictions despite being surrounded by uncertainty. Hundreds of hours of conversations.

Turpentine Talks: the latest Act Two Creative Lab. Inspired by a Picasso quote, it's a chance to talk shop with other people in your creative domain. Picasso famously said: “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together

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Remember "Humans of New York"? "Citizens of the Internet" is just like that. Stories of people using Internet serendipity to transform their lives in ways their old self couldn't even imagine (I've lived this firsthand, and published an essay yesterday about my transformation

The Internet is a MIRACLE, and everyone's forgotten about it. My mission is to re-enchant idea of The Internet. We all hate. it. so. much. Phone addiction, doom scrolling, division, distraction. But the Internet isn’t intrinsically bad. It’s neutral. We get to choose. The