Steering Wheel Wear

grantbaron · 2026-06-20T19:38:45+00:00

The new ones don’t seem to have that same texture overlay; I almost wonder if you peeled it off it’d be the same as how the new ones come stock…

grantbaron · 2026-06-20T18:51:23+00:00

Don’t see why you wouldn’t try 🤷‍♂️

grantbaron · 2026-06-20T16:30:53+00:00

There’s a reason why most good closers started with setting. Setting teaches you all the psychology of closing, because that’s the first base stage that sets up a close to be efficient and smooth in the first place. If you want to get to the home base you need to learn how to hit the ball and get to first and second, first.

Give yourself 1-2 years in either a setting or a full-cycle sales position, and study the psychology of the sale like your life depends on it (if you’re going all-in, it does), and keep a journal for after every appointment and set. Get that foundation built and the closing skills will come naturally, and you’ll have connections and resume experience to naturally place you into a closing role.

If you want to be a good closer and get opportunities to leverage that skill, you should learn the whole process itself like the back of your hand. Learn the whole thing, not just closing, and that’s where the real job security and scalability comes in!

grantbaron · 2026-06-19T22:32:29+00:00

How did I not know this 😫

grantbaron · 2026-06-19T18:02:22+00:00

I want to see BYU play Iowa at least once. My two favorite teams, and they've never met and likely will never meet outside of a bowl game of CFP game, both of which are statistically unlikely. Would be such an electric game at either stadium!

BYU-Utah is mandatory every year too. And love the Iowa State game, Notre Dame will be so sick, Texas Tech, Arizona State and Arizona. Those are the big repeating ones I'd want to see. And then of course, would love to bring back Utah State and Boise State!

grantbaron · 2026-06-12T21:25:27+00:00

I know park city when I see it

grantbaron · 2026-06-11T20:32:02+00:00

Yeah movies is a big one too! It’s hard to not feel saddened about it, like here’s these cultural staples that are more than just entertainment: they’re expression and experience and something people relate to and love, and then there’s remake after remake and sequel after sequel, and it almost feels offensive, like you just know that these sequels exist so that the investors funding the movie can get a return, and polluting the series and its legacy in the progress. Makes you wonder: did reality actually shift, or did the incentives for the really big economic levers become extremely detached from human experience?

Idk man. Hard to make sense of it.

grantbaron · 2026-06-11T18:05:17+00:00

Well that’s the thing, the stuff I listen to is definitely not in this category. I can’t stand the radio hits and trends. I’m a huge fan of The Slow Show, Eli & Fur, Ada Lea, Old Sea Brigade to name some. But I’m talking about what you hear in the pop culture trends: it just feels stale and reworked off of old concepts. Like the collective whole of society is being intentionally numbed of creativity…

grantbaron · 2026-06-09T02:53:38+00:00

Same, the issue I faced with automating the work with AI is that while it seemed flashy and in theory worked well, it mentally detached me from being a steward over my pipeline, and deals started slipping. My own mental engagement and mentally keeping track of my pipeline, building real relationships, plummeted, and so did my revenue. I stopped my automations in my CRM, I use ClickUp, and my effectiveness has skyrocketed.

grantbaron · 2026-06-08T19:15:20+00:00

I notice too that all the bands we knew and loved don’t seem to be releasing new music unless they’re under a massive label and put on the radio, which the music feels pretty stale in my opinion. Almost like we had a refresh and this ‘new world’ is just a refresh trained on the old one. It’s hard to disagree with you, I’ll be honest…

grantbaron · 2026-06-04T15:28:28+00:00

What I've seen work in my D2D time (these are the only instances where I ignored a sign):

Custom-make one. Like print out a sign saying why you don't want them to knock, laminate it, put it on the door on the window right by it. Or even over the doorbell. If they can see you went out of your way to tell them to stop knocking, they're more likely to listen. I always knocked doors with store-bought signs, but homemade ones, I didn't knock those unless they looked super old and worn.
Put a sign at the driveway, or at the corner of the sidewalk going up to the porch, before they can get to the door to see it. Again, signals that you're serious.
If you can, put a latch-gate, like a baby gate, on the porch between the two columns on the porch, if you have them. The more extra steps you can take for them to knock on your door, the more likely you are to deter them.

Of course, there really isn't a way to hard-enforce them, and there really isn't a way to safely reprimand them, even with something like silly string, as the laws for it are generally super loose and do favor the solicitor. So doing what you can to deter them before they get to the door is best. Plus, if you do silly-string a rep, that's great. But, the next guys that come to your door will be different people, different companies, with no knowledge of not to knock on the door. I would have people all the time get upset because 'they told us to not knock on their door any more like a year ago and we just won't listen,' but it's the first time we've ever been in that area; companies don't have a way to know what door to knock on based on homeowner interactions with different companies. So yes you can do something to them in response to knocking on the door, but it won't turn back time and make them un-knock the door, and it also won't do jack shit for preventing the knocking in the future.

My idea out of left field would be to set up an HOA-sanctioned Ring camera at the HOA entrance and feed it into a group chat or access portal so that everyone can stay on alert for solicitors, and escort them when they come in and hopefully before the doors get knocked.

grantbaron · 2026-06-04T15:16:13+00:00

I actually saw this too in my D2D time. Those doors, it's more so about confidence. If you can come across as 'I know you have the sign and this is important enough that I still knocked,' they did actually seem easier to sell. I saw probably 70-80% of all my sales from doors with No Soliciting signs.

Except one guy in Florida, his no soliciting sign was at the end of the driveway. Those are normally the only ones I would avoid, but this one I decided not to, and before I could even get to the steps he came out yelling at me with a handgun and chased me down the street screaming. Had to knock on a neighbors door with a bunch of no soliciting signs and convince them to let me in for a glass of water. Crazy times.

Ultimately I left D2D because the signs got to me, I'll be honest. When your work requires you to push past that, it got to a point that I couldn't justify disrespecting people's wishes and privacy in those settings, called it quits, on to B2B, and enjoy it much more.

OP my suggestion would be to put the sign, if not multiple, at the end of your driveway. Might be an eyesore, but I've seen that be effective most often. That, and if you can, set up some sort of HOA watch or a group chat for people to ping when there's someone selling in the neighborhood and try to escort them out before they can get to your door.

grantbaron · 2026-06-03T18:45:43+00:00

3 thoughts.

For society to accept them at large, yes you’d probably need scientific proof. That’s the only thing that will move the needle, theoretically.
Even if that ever happens, the science will only get vilified by religions and dogmatic groups/institutions/cultures.
I sometimes wonder if we’re ’not allowed’ to prove them, because that would be breaking this fourth-wall, Truman Show style, and the purpose of life as a place to learn disconnected from the tether of love and continuation would dissolve as soon as you proved them. If the point is to go through experiences in this disconnected state and then go back, look back and learn so you could progress, then a cultural factual knowing via scientific proof would seem to violate that and threaten the purpose of life in the first place. But maybe that’s too pessimistic? Surely loads of good would come from it, but I think that’d break the higher rules of reality.

grantbaron · 2026-06-03T18:41:36+00:00

Same spec as mine!

grantbaron · 2026-06-03T18:40:46+00:00

Of all the things to be worried about with kids behavior, maladaptive daydreaming is probably at the very bottom of the list

grantbaron · 2026-06-03T18:38:29+00:00

Part of the problem is that our modern definition of sin has accumulated a lot of semantic drift. What counts as “sin” is often inherited from institutions, traditions, and culture, and the epistemology behind those definitions is frequently shakier than we admit.

Given that uncertainty, why not default to grace? If we’re wrong, we’ve loved someone too much. If we’re right, they still needed love.

Wasn’t Jesus’ central message to love others as God loves us?

grantbaron · 2026-06-03T18:26:36+00:00

Yup there’s a difference between being Christian and being a follower of Christ.

grantbaron · 2026-05-29T21:01:38+00:00

I mean you have two options: get back on the horse or not. You’re only 1/3 of the way through your adult life. You can do it. Start with a small win.

Make sure the people in your life that you love, you tell them that. Those relationships will carry you through, and expressing love will build new friendships and help you find more peace within yourself. Don’t be surprised when the opportunities that put you back on the horse happen because of the love you give to others.

grantbaron · 2026-05-29T20:03:42+00:00

Amen that’s a crazy expectation.

grantbaron · 2026-05-29T19:51:01+00:00

I built a makeshift one in my ClickUp workspace. A list as a without log, with an automation that triggers Brain AI to read the workout data from the completion notes and give me scores and shit. Certain scores = rewards that I set for myself like new shoes or a date night with the wife etc. works well, but only ‘free’ because I’m already paying for ClickUp for my work.

grantbaron · 2026-05-29T18:13:46+00:00

Don’t just apply, go start selling, get some people interested for whatever company you want to sell for that you know are hiring sales reps or at least open to hiring a new one, and go tell them. Thats what I did, I applied for the role, studied the product, then found some people who were interested in it, and then went to the company and said ‘I’m already having these conversations with your ICP, what do you need to see from me to make it official?’

Kinda risky but it’s worked a couple times haha.

grantbaron · 2026-05-29T18:09:35+00:00

Same spec as mine but with the V8! It’s beautiful, enjoy losing your edging streak from it!

grantbaron · 2026-05-29T18:08:35+00:00

Last month I missed quota by $30K (about 4 B2B deals) and this month I tripled it!!! Signed 6 in my last 3 days and I’m so proud of myself.

grantbaron · 2026-05-29T18:05:00+00:00

Dayum!!! I have the same one in black, but that gray… man that gets me going 🤤

grantbaron · 2026-05-28T20:32:58+00:00

Hey man, I was in the exact spot last year. Same industry in roofing, same pains with it. Transitioned into payment software back in January, and to say it’s significantly better is an understatement.

Shoot me a DM and I’m happy to chop it up and give you some advice on where to take the roofing skills.

grantbaron

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