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Harry Truman used to say he wished he could have a one-handed economist, because his economic advisers were always saying "on the one hand" and "on the other hand."
What I'm sure Truman was missing was the general idea that there are no solutions, only tradeoffs. So you can do A if you want, but remember that undesirable outcome B will also occur. Politicians, by contrast, want to be told: yes, master, go ahead and do A and the result will be only the outcome you prefer!
Well, that's not really my point, which is: today you might wish for a one-handed Woods, because for a change I'm arguing both sides of an important issue.
It's fashionable to make fun of virtual this and virtual that, and "online communities," and so on. These things, critics say, devalue real human relationships and instead prioritize sitting in front of a screen, alone.
Yet during the Covid madness this was the best we had. Your "real human relationships" were with people whose brains had been broken by Anthony Fauci and who wanted to report you for going out to buy a sandwich.
If you hadn't had online communities to communicate with, you would have wondered if you were all alone in your opinions, and you wouldn't have had anyone with whom you could discuss how to navigate Planet Nutcase.
I had an online group in those days that exploded in membership for this exact reason: the crazies were all concentrated, and the sensible people were spread out and hard to identify. The community kept them from losing their minds. Some of the connections people made there blossomed into real-life friendships.
And really, there's nothing wrong with connecting with people around the country and the world with whom you share common interests. The universal revulsion against "screens" is in my opinion a kind of snobbery.
Now for on the other hand: you see young tourists walking through a beautiful part of an old city and they can barely even pause to appreciate it, because their eyes are glued to their phones.
We have so much Zoom, and so much talking to AI platforms, and AI writing emails to us, and scrolling through other people's lives on social media, and the idea that AI can and will replace human beings, etc., that there's a weird veneer of unreality to life nowadays.
AI can aggregate some good ideas for you in your professional capacity, but it has not had 30 years of flesh-and-blood experience in an industry, and therefore does not have the insights that can come only from that.
I just returned from something that no AI can ever replace, and which reminded me that in-person events featuring actual human beings are at a higher premium than ever before.
My Elite Mastermind, which meets three times a year, just finished its meeting in Philadelphia. You already know about the results our current members have been having: one saw a 300 percent revenue increase, another went from a $150,000 loss in 2025 to a $50,000 gain in just January 2026 alone after his first meeting, etc.
But the value of the group is greater than just that, even though results like those are pretty darn good. As one member put it, this is the only room in my life in which I can speak with complete candor. It's an enormous relief not to have to have your guards up. You can ask the unaskable.
Because frankly, there are some things you need feedback on that you don't want to discuss with your managing partner. Do you really want to say, for example, "I'm actually not sure I want to be in the X business anymore"?
It's a small group on purpose: everyone can get plenty of individual attention, real friendships form, and we can keep track of everyone's progress from meeting to meeting.
We also have a great time together, with great food (our closing meal was at a restaurant where the servers are trained opera singers and perform every 20 minutes or so), excursions, and camaraderie, not to mention the occasional partnership: one idea at this most recent meeting is shaping up to form an 8-figure partnership between two of our members.
We were shorthanded by three at this meeting -- and my wife, who also attends, was caring for the baby during the escape rooms, so really four -- but we had more escape room success than I've ever had before:
And I thought I was a late-night guy, but I couldn't keep up with the night owls of the group:
Politics may be a necessary evil for self-defense purposes, but to say it's going to disappoint us is an understatement.
No matter what the SOBs do to us, we should put our heads together -- in person -- so we can build and prosper.
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