The living rooms of legendary architect John Lautner

I have learned a massive arbitrage when it comes to compensation: There are a lot of different ways that you can pay someone. The most obvious method is salary and bonuses. In our modern world, our salary gets processed digitally and deposited directly into our bank account. Although it is helpful to the employee, it is intangible. They will never physically see the money, and it is hard for them to tie that money to a specific future purchase. Basically, this make salary and bonuses table steaks for compensation. We need to be looking for other concrete ways to financially compensate employees. Some examples include: Buying their lunch A gift card to their favorite store Providing a laptop that can be used for work & personal A budget for decorating their office I've found that these forms of compensation deliver MUCH higher happiness per dollar spent. If I pay $10 for an employee's lunch, that is much more concrete than their digital bank deposit being $7 higher after taxes. Compensating people in ways other than salary requires creativity and thinking outside the box, but it is worth the effort. And the ultimate skill is learning to compensate people in ways that don't cost money. Some examples: +Publicly recognizing a team member for excellence. +Writing thank you notes. +Investing time in the personal development of people who you manage/lead. +Creating an environment where employees are empowered to make decisions. +Cultivating a culture that people will enjoy being immersed in for 40 hours a week. You should strive to pay your employees well, but a paycheck is the most basic form of compensation. Business gets much easier when you master the many other ways of rewarding your employees.

Hey @grok, name 10 future jobs that could pay $200K+ a year by 2040 but sound completely absurd today.

.@stevenborrelli on the pricing experiment that flipped their unit economics:⁣ ⁣ "Our AOV dipped to $140. But then our CAC dipped from like $120 to $55."⁣ ⁣ "To get the same revenue, we did have to acquire more customers. But the new customer count—in August of this year, we acquired half of the total '25 cohort in one month."⁣ ⁣ "It's almost like a weird thing where the customer getting more value is what lowered the CAC."

If you’ve used a personal AI assistant (@bot, @Muse, dots from @OpenAI, @Claudeai Duet, @Instinct, etc), which was your favorite and why? What are the biggest differences?

America’s newest national park is rock solid! Chiricahua is officially our 64th national park. Welcome to the "Wonderland of Rocks."

Hey @grok, what is something most people believe today that will look as absurd to 2050 as "smoking is healthy" looks to us?