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Cloud Wars: Inside the High-Stakes Battle for Trillion-Dollar Rain
Follow the money trail of the companies fighting to control the weather (and massive profits).
Connor Sell
March 03, 2024
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We dive deep into deal-making, leadership that scales, and the strategies that drive real profits and real growth. We break it down so anyone with a head for business can learn from the wins, the losses, and the under-the-radar moves.
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Today’s edition is a republish from an original in 2023.
Headlines from across aviation.
Meme Cleanser
Setting “Impossible” Goals actually makes them easier than 2x Goals.
Book Club
Ace Update
Headline Roundup 🐎🤠
#2 - We are undergoing the biggest change(s) to the way work happens, and the way we will work going forward. Employers need to adopt a new approach toward younger generations.
#3 - I hate to belabor the beating of a dead horse (AI) but the “experienced pilot shortage” will be solved with automation.. 🤖👨✈️👩✈️🛫
#4 - What if I told you that everything you know is a lie?
#5 - Here’s a follow-up to the above article. Peel back this onion if you’d like to burn an entire night alone at your desk, 100 tabs later..
Meme Cleanser
Book Club - 10x is Easier Than 2x
No relation to Grant Cardone… Just Reverse Engineering and Big Plans!
The 10x mindset represents a seismic shift from incremental growth to exponential achievement - literally. At first glance, aiming for a goal 10 times bigger than your current capability may seem daunting or unrealistic. But according to Dr. Benjamin Hardy, the opposite is true—10x goals are actually easier to achieve than modest 2x goals.
How can that be? The sheer audacity of 10x thinking forces clarity and focus. You can't possibly attain goals of that magnitude by continuing your current trajectory. Instead, you must fundamentally re-engineer your path, shedding distractions and optimizing every variable for maximum impact. In effect, the boldness of the goal acts as a filter—allowing only the most essential actions and eliminating ambiguity about what's important.
With a 10x goal, there is no room for waste or inefficiency. You need to identify the one or two key drivers that will get you there, and pour all your energy into mastering those skills. Furthermore, the vision of reaching such an ambitious destination keeps you motivated and pulls you forward through obstacles. The clarity of purpose leaves no doubt about which activities warrant your most valuable time and attention.
10x goals compel you to take a step back, reverse engineer success, and pursue only what will make the biggest difference. The scale of the challenge breeds extreme prioritization and focus. You schedule only revenue-driving activities. You say "no" to anything non-essential. You strip away distractions and optimize every minute. This laser-focused approach allows outsized growth in less time—proving that with the right mindset shift, 10x goals can be simpler to achieve than 2x goals.
This goes beyond the scope of growth mindset! This is a mindset replacement.
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Ace Update
Ace is a cloud seeding skeptic, to say the very least.. He comes from simpler times. Times where - they didn’t modify weather, and they all ate dinner together, and the food was nutritious. Yet here he is - strong & silent, unbothered!
“Things don't just happen. They are made to happen.”
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