Mark Brooks
@markbrooks
Director of Wealth Management & Financial Advisor @ Convergence Financial. I think & write about management & strategy. See pinned tweet for a list of threads.
1/ Compilation of threads on management, operations, culture, and strategy. Would love your ideas for future topics! 100 ideas on managing people:
1/ My first @threadapalooza. I've been managing people for 18+ yrs and tweeting about it for 10. Here's 100 tweets on what I've learned and try to implement in my work @PermanentEquity :
Brunch and airport bars are the same thing: excuses to drink in the morning
What opinion about food will have you like this?
Also, that bruise is from falling down the stairs.
The Federal Reserve was honored to welcome the President yesterday for a visit to our historic headquarters. We appreciated the opportunity to share progress on the renovation with him and with Senators Tim Scott and Thom Tillis. We are grateful for the President’s encouragement…
Career advice: Do not pass information on to a manager that includes next steps you could have taken before passing along the information. Tackle those steps first.
Something I'm coming around to: The concept of "enough" also applies to control. The happiest people are not the ones striving to gain more of it, but the people who need less of it.
Some doodles on wealth. Summary: 1) We feel we've achieved wealth when what we have is greater than or equal to what we think we need 2) Both of these things are movable 3) One is easier to move than the other 4) No matter how rich, very few people achieve true wealth
"Sci-fi’s essential purpose is warning. Fantasy’s essential purpose is reminding." - @Andrewnsnyder
Excellence thrives in private hands. The incessant growth demands of a public/venture/PE market are long-term incompatible with "do one thing and do it well." They force dilution of function and brand.
Slack is becoming so ran thru. MS Teams is a non-starter. Discord is gamer slop. I just want channels, threads, and DMs. Like nothing else. Why does every product tend towards slop like this?
Uber XX
New: Uber is piloting a new offering in the US (LA, SF, Detroit) that will match female riders and drivers, expanding access to a safety feature it already offers in some intl markets. There will be a new "Women Drivers" ride type on top of UberX, XL etc bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2 years ago today, Twitter became X.
2 years ago today, Twitter became X.
Everyone: Boomers holding homes they bought forever ago for no money are responsible for the lack of housing inventory! Someone solve this! President: I am considering eliminating cap gains tax on home sales. Everyone: Not like that.
Soul is the ultimate Turing test for AI. If you have any emotional depth as a person, AI will possess an uncanny valley of soullessness for the foreseeable future. Why? Because we cannot recreate what we can't even accurately describe.
.@micsolana nailed it. You can feel the soullessness of a lot of ai products. Not evil, just empty. (although i think xAI companions are evil, and plenty of applications of AI (if not AI applications) are incredible). Luckily, there are a lot of uncommonly clear discussions of…
The answer to "why won't x do y" is because the perceived costs do not outweigh the perceived benefits. It's that's simple. If you want x to do y, you have to change the math.
Going forward when people complain “why won’t developers build x” I’ll be quoting this tweet and giving them the respective number of the reforms needed to do so.
A strong indicator of someone's vote is how much they value their agency. If they don't believe they have agency or if they have not realized value from their agency, they are much more likely to give it away. In their view, the system is what matters anyway.
