Michael Girdley @girdley
Trying to do business beautifully. Tweets about holding co's, business, life and leading. CEO of an 11-business holding company. Fireworks, software, +9 more. girdley.com San Antonio, TX Joined January 2010-
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I run across people whose greatest weakness is their inability to "eat shit." An inability to take a deep breath before responding to personal affronts/insults/hurt. This causes them to make bad decisions due to emotion. They're just wired poorly, I think. -- So, a question…
Free startup idea: 1) Clone Slack’s UI identically as an app 2) Price it reasonably for the “community” use case Everyone I know running a semi-public/private community is dying for it. (Discord is not the answer. This is business, not Minecraft.)
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48K! Time to reintroduce myself to the new folks: - I'm all about making it easier for people to buy and sell small businesses. I teach stuff here about it and build companies to do so as well. - Family man, married 17 years to an awesome wife with 4 wonderful kids. I work from…
@girdley Thank you! Great advice.
I run across people whose greatest weakness is their inability to "eat shit." An inability to take a deep breath before responding to personal affronts/insults/hurt. This causes them to make bad decisions due to emotion. They're just wired poorly, I think. -- So, a question…
@girdley We also talk about it. My son and I, while playing ping pong the other day, talked about the part of the game that is a head game. We talk about meta cognition and self awareness and box breathing and self management.
@girdley Make an IRC client that looks exactly like slack
@girdley Have you seen @circleapp ? Works better for the true community use case vs Slack
Free startup idea: 1) Clone Slack’s UI identically as an app 2) Price it reasonably for the “community” use case Everyone I know running a semi-public/private community is dying for it. (Discord is not the answer. This is business, not Minecraft.)
Ok, sure. Let us operate in your country without the CCP controlling oversight. Stop removing CEOs from their companies and disappearing them. Start being honest with your people. End slavery and then let’s talk.
China and the United States should be partners rather than rivals, said Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday during his meeting with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Thanks to 5 letter word games, I was today years old when I learned strum and thrum are both words and thrum isn't just a typo / misspelling.
Most people don’t realize how difficult it can be for family after the loss of a loved one. As a funeral home owner I see it all the time. This Green Box Exercise is perfect & so important!
What happens in the days after you die? It will be horrible for your loved ones. I learned about something you can do to make that easier for them: The Green Box Exercise.
What happens in the days after you die? It will be horrible for your loved ones. I learned about something you can do to make that easier for them: The Green Box Exercise.
@girdley Great advice! Worth the effort for those who are left behind.
My eldest turns 13 tomorrow and I’ve not quite yet come to grips with it.
Coming to the cruel realization that my baby girl will not be a baby girl forever and that her little shoes will one day just be a memory and her little hands and little feet and little face will be all grown up 😭😭😭 im not okay!!
Couple months ago, we hired a new Ops Manager to help our growth and elevate our Director of Ops to COO. Need him to elevate himself to be a COO and not in the much daily for us to succeed. One thing that we somewhat knew that needed to change was enforcement of the rules and…