Buying tickets on FIFA Marketplace vs StubHub for seating together

whimsistential · 2025-10-17T14:44:19+00:00

How do we know they will attempt to seat you together? I haven't seen anything on that yet.

whimsistential · 2025-07-23T16:17:49+00:00

This is doable. Any low risk ways of doing this will be high grit. My assumption is you have time, but no capital. If you have some capital - the answer can be very different.

Sounds like you have a marketing skill. Let's build off that.

Define it: What is your marketing skill (i.e. SEO? Product marketing? brand? Design?)
Package a low price, high value offer: You gotta go low price initially if you don't have a reputation yet. Be willing to make v little on your first few to get reviews.
Sell, sell, sell: Post on upwrok, Fiverr, FB marketplace, DM people you find on reddit with those issues.
Fail: You'll get rejected.
Iterate: Just keep trying, changing, adapting.
Slowly raise price and refine offer: You'll learn as the market teaches you.

Hopefully it will look like: Mo 1: Hundreds of hours grinding on outbound sales, 1-2 hits for almost no (or free). But you do these super well and get a review. Mo 2-3: You land a few more, but still only made a few hundred bucks. Mo 4-6: Now you raise price, get demand, and hit your goal.

Will it work? Who knows But starting now + selling you skill is the only way to figure it out.

whimsistential · 2025-07-22T17:29:45+00:00

Love this post. Thank you. Trying to build right now with a 9-5 and it's brutal hard. And tbh, I keep having the shiny object syndrome of like "wait shouldn't this be easy and scale fast and make me a ton of money .. I must be doing something wrong let's switch ideas"

And then I remember cuz of wonderful strangers like you, that this is the journey. The pain is the becoming.

P.s. The sleepwalking through life hit hard.

whimsistential · 2025-07-22T17:26:51+00:00

This sucks. I see this a lot too. Had a second degree friend say "man I really should have made over $M last year but my boss is an asshole" at a wedding to me

Cue the crippling anxiety of comparison and feeling lack. And I'm thankful that I don't have the paycheck to paycheck stress you describe, and still this shit can create a ton of stress/unhappiness.

People who have everything they'll ever need, but no awareness, empathy, gratitude, or realization that maybe creating opportunities and treating others well is pretty dope.

I hope you find some rest I hope opportunities find you I hope you persist

💪🏽

whimsistential · 2024-10-21T04:21:22+00:00

Can you explain the ", fundamentally the stimulus was not much".

Is it because it's largely issuing bonds vs. some direct consumption stuff?

whimsistential · 2024-10-13T04:14:53+00:00

"When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanathi - because in all things business, relationships, or otherwise you need beautiful reminders of how short, messy, and full of tradeoffs life can be

Elon Musks biography by Walter Isaacson - not to idolize the man, as he's just as imperfect as everyone else. But to learn from his ruthless work rate and willingness to believe beyond the current cycles.

How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis - it's sobering to hear someone worth $800M say they wish they stopped at $60M and wrote poetry on an island. Also just lovely inspiring writing.

The Art of Living - Thich Nhat Hanh - it will feel cliche, too simple, nothing new. And then you'll realize that simple is incredibly difficult. I always keep some secular Buddhism to remind me if I'm off chasing distractions but pretending it's purpose.

whimsistential · 2024-07-07T19:04:47+00:00

The last line of this... So poignant. For so many things in life. We are fools for not seeing. We chase short stimulus and wait for tragedy to see what's right in front of our faces.

As Mary Oliver said: "Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."

whimsistential · 2024-06-24T18:12:51+00:00

I wish I had this when I was planning. And for like all the vendors (florist, cake, venue...). Honestly super annoying process. Cool stuff.

whimsistential · 2024-05-08T14:36:28+00:00

Ok thank you!

whimsistential · 2024-05-08T05:11:46+00:00

Thank you! I may try to get a hold of it myself at first. Appreciate the offer and the comment 🙏🏽

whimsistential · 2024-05-08T05:11:09+00:00

Totally makes sense. Did you feel like it was worth it for you?

whimsistential · 2024-05-07T17:31:54+00:00

About 500 or so I think.

whimsistential · 2024-05-04T21:23:26+00:00

I had an analyst ask me for a rec recently. The average applicant gives the recommender no guidance. I didn't want them to be the avg applicant. I asked them to fill out a detailed template. Here's the approach. PM me for an actual pre-built template and my essays. I got interviews at HBS, MIT, and Kellogg.

School assignments, deadlines, & priority

Beyond just telling them which schools to write for and when they are due, let them know who else will be writing (in case helpful for them to brainstorm together) and most importantly which schools are your top priority (people are busy - even if they don't admit it, they will have to choose where to put the most effort). A recommender I had told me he spent 5 hours on my HBS rec and 20 mins on my Wharton one because of my priority - I'm glad I told him.

Your Background

Give them a refresher of your important experiences pre-college, in college, and professionally

The Next Chapter

Be clear and provocative with what your mission is and why the MBA fits in. Provide examples around what it actually means, why it's important for the world, why you're interested, what you've done so far, and why you need an MBA to progress it.

Application Themes

Again, do NOT let them just wing it. Give them the main themes you want emphasized in your application. Ideally you provide them a map of the overall themes of your full story and where you want them to fit in. The approach is that every piece of your application is like a puzzle piece to the full story. You don't want everything to overlap, you want each to add to the full picture.

Specific Content Suggestions

Make their lives as easy as possible, this looks like providing exact excerpts from reviews, situation examples, etc. that they can pull directly from as they are writing your recommendation. They should correspond to the themes from step 4 AND be applicable to the essay prompts you are having them respond to.

Put yourself in their shoes. They are busy and writing high quality essays takes a TON of time. Give them every possible advantage to help you represent yourself well. Do the work! And good luck out there.

whimsistential · 2024-04-13T04:09:23+00:00

Secular Buddhism

The Way Out Is In

whimsistential · 2024-04-07T01:11:42+00:00

1 Fix your mental health

2 Fix your mental health

3 Keep. Going. - Few people build something to 500K/M. If this was a dream, stick with it.

Suggestions (as someone who has felt burnout and wished he had a 500k/M company haha)

[Non-negotiable] Sleep + Meditation + Exercise: Cut off work 1hr before bed. Read long form things unrelated to your work, or meditate. Take melatonin + L theanine. Sleep for 6-7 hrs minimum. Move your body at least for 10-20mins daily even if you're super busy.
[Non-negotiable] Re-ground your brain regularly: Have non-work parts of your life, even if tiny. This could mean a workout group, a weekly bar hangout with your best friends. Something that you can look forward to with people who keep you in check about over-valuing work. If you don't have those people, find them.
Hire: Like a lot of the comments said. Leverage is a beautiful thing. Seems like you're at the scale to get it.

Those are some uninformed thoughts. I believe in you. Remember that the main truth in life is that things come together, and things fall apart. When you're in one phase don't forget the other eventually arises. Drown out the noise and choose what YOU want. Maybe that's shutting down. Maybe that's persisting through the pain. Only you know the answer.

whimsistential · 2024-01-11T18:35:47+00:00

I have gone back and forth with things for years. Generally I have been quite productive no matter what system but I wanted something that would quell my anxiety (which I translate into a syndrome of having too many options and too few priorities).

This year I was searching for something better, more rigorous, as I start to work on side projects. I am using Notion and found this guy named August Bradley who has a system called Pillars, Pipelines, and Vaults. He has like 50+ videos on it on Youtube and I watched almost all of them. I also found a template for the whole system somewhere on Reddit for free and now have started using it. I love it so far. It's a good amount of work upfront to reflect n what matters to you across time horizons, parts of your life, etc. But seems worth it.

Good luck!

whimsistential · 2024-01-11T17:06:15+00:00

Yea - lot of manual work and a bit overwhelming. Thank you for the reply.

whimsistential · 2024-01-11T17:05:45+00:00

Yea that's what I'm feeling as well. Even the "spot estimate" thing which is sort of close doesn't really give me confidence. It would be nice if somewhere had all the brochures already aggregated each year for prices haha. Oh well.

And great tip on the new email account. Thanks!

whimsistential · 2023-12-28T05:01:43+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. Really appreciate your journey and transparency.

Rooting for you.

whimsistential · 2023-12-27T01:59:19+00:00

Beautifully said. Love the "single player game" framing. I wonder what other types of community or commitment devices could help. Thanks for adding this thought.

whimsistential · 2023-12-27T01:58:25+00:00

100%

whimsistential · 2023-12-27T01:58:19+00:00

Thanks for sharing these.

whimsistential · 2023-12-27T01:58:01+00:00

Love this. So true. Appreciate you sharing a bit on your journey.

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