The Telegram Message That Looked Too Good to Be True It started innocently enough.A friendly message popped up on Telegram from someone named Richard Shapiro, claiming to be a professional trader with an AI-powered bot that could “automatically generate daily profits.” He sounded credible. His profile photo looked professional, his tone polite, and his pitch—well, [...]
You’re going to lose sleep. You’ll doubt if it will work. Your to-do list will breed like rabbits and still not get done. You’ll wonder if you made the right call and have no clean way to know—sometimes for years. According to Alex Hormozi, that’s not a bug. That’s the path. And if you can [...]
Six months ago, I lost $4,000 in a crypto scam through a Telegram channel that promised “guaranteed returns.”It wasn’t just a financial loss — it was a trust fracture. I remember that sickening feeling: one moment of blind optimism, a few clicks too fast, and the money vanished. No customer support, no recourse, just digital [...]
In 2001, I left the corporate world of banking to work for myself.First as a profit improvement consultant, then as someone turning around struggling businesses — and eventually, like many of you reading this, I wanted freedom. By 2009, I’d tried a few ventures (including a bookkeeping franchise) but none truly fit. So, I did [...]
Storytelling isn’t just for novelists or screenwriters. For solopreneurs, coaches, consultants, and creators, storytelling is business. It’s how you persuade, how you connect, and how you build trust in an era where attention spans are shrinking by the day. The eBook Successful Storytelling by Carl lays out ten powerful lessons for writers. In this blog, [...]
Alan Watts, Solitude, and Building a Business That Doesn’t Betray Your Soul Introduction: When Waking Up Changes Who Stays If you feel like a chosen man—not in a boastful sense but in the bracing, lonely way that comes from seeing through illusions—welcome. You’ve noticed the masks, the scripted small talk, the mutual reassurance loops. You’ve [...]
You’ve always felt it—a pull, a whisper, a knowing deeper than logic. Intuition. It isn’t magic. It isn’t unreliable when wielded well. For the intuitive person in business, intuition is one of your greatest assets. Learning to follow it transforms everything: decisions, content, identity, relationships, success. Alan Watts gives us a metaphor: treat yourself like [...]
Introduction: The Solitary Path of Truth In a world seduced by illusion and performance, the honest man—or in this case, the honest solopreneur—carries a burden that appears heavier than most. Alan Watts reminds us that while honesty often incurs social and material costs, it offers a kind of inner lightness no lie can replicate. For [...]
Lessons for Creators from Alan Watts on Power, Adversity, and the Mirror of Business In the world of online business, appearances are polished. Social feeds curated. Personal brands staged. But real character? That can’t be faked. Alan Watts, in one of his most piercing lectures, reminds us that character is not revealed in comfort or [...]
I was listening to Alan Watts and I got to thinking about whether the relief of suffering could be approached through creating a system or framework. Being a solopreneur inevitably involves suffering and so it is important that we can deal with suffering in order not to block our ability to progress or be productive. [...]
