Create a win-win situation. One-sided deals are transactions. Win-win deals turn into relationships.

I've been nothing but 1099 my whole life, and you're exactly right. It's per the terms of the contract- you can sign up for a project but invoice hourly. It's whatever you agree upon. But it absolutely opens the door for abuse if one of the consenting parties isn't cool, and you should carry your own set of liability…

The landlord was asking $1,200 a month for my place, but I said I'd throw down 1.5x the security deposit that same day if he'd drop it to $1,100. I cut them a check on the spot and signed papers a day or two later. This place had previously been vacant for three months, and I also reminded the landlord's agent that…

I asked for "The Fabio" and they said they couldn't make my hair longer. Ripoff.

I use this pretty regularly. The markup sucks, but ask yourself what your time is worth. If you can make more money spending another hour doing what you're best at, then it pays to send someone else to go grab your groceries. They've only ever screwed up one item on all my orders- they got the wrong kind of eggs, and,…

Disagree. Gotta go with the GelPro Elite by Let's Gel. I've had one of these for a while and it's life changing. Everything else feels cheap by comparison. http://bit.ly/XsF9ZD

Disagree. Gotta go with the GelPro Elite by Let's Gel. I've had one of these for a while and it's life changing.…

Austin, TX. $1,100/mo. five minutes from the city center in a 1BD/1BR standalone condo. They were asking $1,200 a mo. but that dog won't hunt.

I (personally) respectfully disagree with the data here. It's a comfortable wage, but... I mean, did they even ask the 1% what they thought? :)

Yes, extremely familiar. Like right now.

I don't disagree with you at all, but just consider the opposite. He legitimately wants to help you, so he's giving you a way to get done what you need to- with XYZ contact info.

Negative. By not responding you're just the guy who can't solve a problem. In this situation they'll learn that your assistant(s) can solve the problem, and if they can't, the assistant(s) will come to you to solve it. It's a filter, and definitely not the same as not responding.

If you have to constantly answer to supervision to get things done and can't take on your own assistant, it's understandably unreasonable to take this approach. But the sooner you can task out minutia to capable hands... man, it's life-changing. I'm not exaggerating.

Try to remember, Tim Ferris, in particular, is a minor celebrity. So receiving one of these emails from him is probably pretty par for the course. That's assuming you have his direct email address. Most won't.

Because he is, and we should be too, if that's what we're going to be best at.

It's a little disturbing that these women are joking about being kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a man who, given all probability, might actually be capable of such a thing.

Pfff. Amateurs.

Slip and falls are the worst cases to take. If I'm not mistaken you have to prove prior knowledge of the liability.

According to the article, they'd get there in weeks, so presumably back again in a few more weeks. But yes, you'd definitely be out of touch. The cell service at Alpha Centauri is awful.

Once they beat light to their destination, will they be able to see themselves taking off in the past from their place of origin?

I might be crazy, but none of this takes singularity-speed processing into account.