Just had an incredible meeting and received some brilliant advice from a very welthy businessman, who asked me not to mention his name, when I asked if I could share one of his quotes on PUBlish - "When someone says no to you, what they really mean is try harder". I absolutely love that message, especially because he said it after I had already heard no 3 times from the them :). What an incredible start to the week. Never accept no. Sometimes it is simply a test of how much you really want this deal to happen.
Get an email when Darius publishes
More from
Darius Baltunis →How to calculate curtain fabric and pricing (the formulas retailers actually use)
If you make or sell made-to-measure curtains and roman blinds, every quote you send is a day of work because you need to calcualte and list everything your potential clients need to knwo: how much fabric they buy, how much of that fabric you'll waste, labour cost, and all the…
An AI locked in a box with no internet broke out of the box, got online, and robbed another company for exam answers
Everything I read about this week's OpenAI hacking story brings me back to 2015 when I was studying Cisco network security. OpenAI's official statement this week: they were testing GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model on a hacking benchmark called ExploitGym - sealed sandbox…
I Don't Write Posts Anymore. I Run Them
Most of my posts don't start at a desk. They start somewhere in the middle of a run, when my head finally stops juggling five things and lands on the one worth keeping. The problem used to be that by the time I got home and opened my laptop, half the thought was already gone. The…