I've been diving deeper into dropshipping and learning something new every day. One thing I've realized is that finding products isn't the hard part—building consistent systems for marketing and customer acquisition is. For those who are already getting results: - What's been the biggest game changer for you? - AI tools? - Better product research? - Paid ads? - Organic content? I'm always looking to learn from people who have real experience. If you're open to sharing your journey or exchanging ideas, feel free to comment or send me a DM.

This came off the back of a comment with @Mira Bradshaw and seeing her experience in real time. Thank you for the inspiration, Mira, and April version of Mira too. I forgot to mention that @Don Roy - Do you use loops? 🔁 post, further compounded to me writing this post too. Attached is a visual representation of Kolb's Learning Cycle beside the Competency Ladder you climb (and slide back down) as you learn ICM. This demonstrates @Jake Van Clief's ethos of learning by doing, and in turn gaining competency. As Thomas Edison said: "Vision without execution is hallucination." You cannot theorise your way up the ladder, you climb each rung by doing the loop. So if you're finding this hard, awkward, or you're getting stuck: that's normal. It's meant to feel uncomfortable. The more you go through the cycle, the more you progress up the ladder, one rung at a time. I did try to render it in the post but no joy, so attached as image. Here is a link to a graphical representation. Personally I prefer the attached image layout.

Hi everyone, I'm posting this because I'm curious to hear your perspective on harness engineering within the ICM method. If you have any experience or opinions, please share :)

I think it is best to assume we will all have an AI companion next to us - going forward - for the rest of our lives. For me, once I had that thought clearly and now typed it, the words provide some clarity on a few things. First, start working on what that companion looks like for you. There is great personal context in my phone, and any AI that is balanced the right way will be able to provide great insight and results. But more importantly, start working on what makes you unique as a person - both personally and professionally, and start putting into the right shape. Yes, that is one clear reason we are all here - keeping your work close to you, and not relying too much on the models to track you. Second, I am so curious about education. Testing had no notes as the results of pens, no calculators for decades after calculators appeared. So we will have years to watch education slowly adjust because no AI during tests is their obvious answer. But here is the hard point. If your test can be answered by an AI, you need to be teaching different things. There is more... but for me I just had a breakthrough that helped me focus on the important things going forward. Special thanks to my mom, who told me in the late 1970s, 'It is not like you are going to have a calculator with you every day for the rest of your life.' Fast forward decades later, and yes, I did have a calculator with me my whole life. Thank you HP 11C, and iPhone since 2006.

Anyone have an good recommendations for doing videos with the folder structure? Specifically, more like generative video of people/places/things? I've got Remotion and Manim going right now (well, they work just not integrated just yet). They handle more data visualization or text type stuff in videos. I was looking for some other options, if I wanted to a short video with someone walking down the street kind of thing. Stick with the usual suspects of Veo, Sora, Kling and/Runway? Anyone have any other suggestions for alternatives?