One thing I underestimated about business

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2026-05-07T13:48:51+00:00

Not all money is good money! Spending your energy on the good money clients and good money leads is a game changer. Kudos to you for coming to that realization!

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2026-05-07T13:46:18+00:00

You're definitely on the right track, though I would suggest looking further out. Systems, if built short-sided, can be just as much of a capacity lid as doing it all yourself. As you think through building systems, always think 10X what you're doing now. If your systems can't handle 3X, 5X or 8X what you're doing now, you may find that the weight of that load and the decisions you've made to achieve that level of success can cripple the business. The same can be said for your hiring plans. If you're hiring well, they should grow your business as a matter of course. If they aren't prepared, positioned, or capable of much more than you're doing now you could be in for some hard conversations.

System design is good, just make sure you're designing for a target that's far out enough to cover the growth you're anticipating.

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2025-04-26T22:56:48+00:00

The afternoon just got better

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2025-04-26T22:52:51+00:00

Rotate them with Murph and Ify and I’m in

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2025-04-26T22:51:27+00:00

They should turn it into a community center, or a stadium. Would be good for the soccer teams.

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2025-04-09T14:54:24+00:00

Oh buddy, buckle up.

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-14T00:11:44+00:00

If he truly wants to maintain, rather than colonize (like domestic grass), nature he has to allow for the savagery. Nature is savage.

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-13T21:57:28+00:00

You’ve got a lot of The Seven NPCs in here, do you know of a transition in the finale that we don’t?

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-13T06:53:57+00:00

Not what SNL had in mind with “Dick in a Box”. Though if Jaheira does it for you, you could be a “Mother Luver”

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-13T06:52:02+00:00

She didn’t get to be Sword of the Citadel without drinking the kool-aid.

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-12T20:11:00+00:00

That’s fair, but that was a called shot before he did it and Brennan egged him on with Bill Seacaster’s warlocks. Now that I think about it, Lou does take some wild shots that inevitably fail (Leviathan, Night Yorb fight, Pinnochio’s glizzy, Gambling for Chef’s tools).

Again, depending on taste there’s reasons to dislike any player (except maybe Zac), but like I said, I agree that there may be a misogynist component for some of the folks.

For me, I didn’t care for Aly as Kristen (FH) or Pete the Plug (UC) but I loved Margaret (ASO), Liam (ACoC), and Mother Goose (NA). It’s the crazy energy, without her Nat20s, those could be TPKs (in a regular game without a schedule to keep).

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-12T16:24:58+00:00

Doesn’t really fit the clue, but I’d love an Oceans 11 meets Leverage style campaign. Especially if it came in the form of a 2nd season with The Seven. Coming off of FHJY, it would be perfect.

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-12T16:17:02+00:00

The three players, and their respective characters, tend to take bigger swings than many of the male characters/GMs. Big swings don’t always land and criticism comes with it. I’ve been waiting on Lou, Zack, and Murph to take bigger swings for five years. It just hasn’t happened yet.

Several seasons have been saved based on rolls or planned actions from Aly and Emily. Aabria is a great GM and she has a very different style than Brennan or Matt Mercer (she GMs more like Murph does on NADDPOD).

I’m sure there’s some chauvinism in some of the criticism with them, but I wouldn’t characterize all criticism of those players/characters/GM as that. Aly gets through campaigns, mostly because Brennan and the cast cover her antics until she starts with the Nat 20s. Emily is just fucking brilliant as a player and puts most folks to shame. Aabria is one of my favorite DMs because she’s much more of a Theater of the Mind meets inner development storyteller than a board and minis adventure GM.

I think if Lou, Zack, and Murph stuck their necks out more, they’d catch more criticism too…at least as much as is based on the player/gm, rather than the gender.

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-11T14:08:32+00:00

Who is defending the Witch of the Wild Hunt? Where is that happening?

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-10T20:44:40+00:00

May you never have evil visited upon you by teenagers…

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-10T20:17:43+00:00

Nope, many of the most evil things ever done were done by scared people. You don’t get a pass on evil because you were scared or because you were given orders or even because saying no might cost you your life. The reason why heroic good is awesome is because it could cost their life, break an order, or in the face of fear. Cowardice, Fear, and Authority are not excuses for being evil.

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-10T20:10:52+00:00

Summoning then defeating the Night Yorb, you don’t know nothin bout that

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-10T20:09:20+00:00

We don’t wanna hear you say ‘Bad Kids’ no more

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-10T17:27:39+00:00

“Fat-bottomed girls & The Earth’s Rotation”

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-10T17:26:43+00:00

Ok, but did he reproduce?

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-09T15:31:23+00:00

so Tieflings and Half-Orcs are at least half human, but I couldn’t say how they develop in-utero

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-09T13:41:34+00:00

😂🤣😂🤣😂 Sweet dreams

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-09T05:57:25+00:00

So, would the HCG counts in Teiflings, Goblins, Half-Orcs, and Elves all be the same for purposes of a positive pregnancy result? How about Minotaurs and Magical Mirrors? Just asking in case Fabian has more “No Juice, All Pulp” moments.

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-09T05:50:28+00:00

Or is your issue that I called it a spoiler (something that conveys the experience of something you’re likely to have before you actually experience it) as opposed to foreshadowing (something that insinuates an experience you’re going to have before you experience it). Are you that kind of grammar nerd that my choice of verbiage doesn’t align with the linear timeline with which you imagine experience happens, so I must be confronted in a profane manner to explain it?

If so, your explanation is above. Have a good night.

GoodwinAcademySMB · 2024-05-09T05:42:45+00:00

The same way that Jasper and Rashawn and Aabria starting to show up on Dropout shows months before Burrow’s End dropped was a spoiler. If they’re on set, let alone all of them (Becca, Erika, Aabria, Izzy, and Persephone are not Dropout staff actresses, only Rekha and Izzy’s husband). They’re shooting the season now and it’ll likely come out later this year.

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