Traipse / Stanislaw Grunstein
Greetings, ladies and gentlemen (the term is to be applied coarsely).
Welcome to Serendipity.
If you are reading this for the first time, the loose premise of these musings can be found in the provenance email from September 2023, which, if you don't have time to read, can be summarized as a futile attempt to keep up with my three friends and legions of weak ties.
In short, it's a newsletter that explores nothing of meaning or purpose and should be considered exquisite-level slop no AI could ever produce.
It brings me immense joy to hear all of my friends across Europe endlessly complaining about the heat. Their aversion to adequate levels of ice in drinks, prehistoric understanding and adoption of air conditioning, and befuddlement at the purpose of ceiling fans is compounding their suffering.
For the previous six months they have envied my blue skies, palm trees, and my perma-tan, but now their time in the sun is upon them, all they can do is say things like, "You know, it's really hot here too now," offer profound insights such as, "It's really hard to sleep with nothing but a cracked window when it's this hot," and then my personal favorite: "How do you live like this?"
We colonists may be embarrassing ourselves during the World Cup, but we're thriving in extreme weather conditions - we eat that shit for breakfast.
My final piece of advice for the whiny Europeans is perhaps my most profound.
Stop whining.
No one cares that you are sweating a bit more than usual, that it's uncomfortable when your head hits the pillow, or that tea doesn't taste quite the same.
Get a fan, some añejo tequila, and enjoy all those government-funded luxuries like education, healthcare, transportation, and employment protection.
Moving on.
This month's serendipitous moment came about when John Dinkel, business development extraordinaire, and Rachel Grunbaum, LinkedIn mogul, teamed up to deliver a joint masterclass combining their services.
Now, if you combine business development and LinkedIn, what do you get?
No, the answer isn't a plethora of AI-generated cold DMs. It was a lesson in how to be an actual human in a sea of data-center nonsense output.
Love to see it.
Moving on, on.
This month I would like to introduce you to a true recalcitrant. (I know it's a big word. If you are European and already lethargic from reading in the heat, come back to it in the autumn.)
Please meet the hyperpolyglot Stanislaw Grunstein. (I am using big words now just to piss you off.)
Stanislaw Grunstein
Stanislaw Grunstein is a leader amongst men. He has traversed the world and has over 100 magnets on his fridge to prove it.
Starting in Russia, he headed west, with tours or extended stays in Germany, England, and America, before finally calling Israel home.
Despite an IMDb profile, Mr. Hollywood found his true calling as an organizational psychologist who is thankfully making people better leaders. His study and understanding of humankind the world over has enabled him to teach managers and leaders how to lead international teams more effectively.
He understands that humankind works much more efficiently when humans are kind.
Like all white-collar professions, Stan has about three months left before all vocations are eliminated by the robots, but until then...
Stan the Man runs this company:
He shares devilishly handsome photos and his wisdom here:
If you didn't believe me about the movies, go here:
If you lead teams, build companies that need leaders to function, or are an executive looking to appear smart to the other VPs who have imposter syndrome, talk to Stan. His leadership cohort training is coming up and is so amazing it has a Net Promoter Score of 11.
Once again, thank you for reading all the way to the bottom of the newsletter. You didn't quite read it as fast as Claude, but keep practicing.
I know how valuable and precious time is - a true gift you can only give and never get back - and I delight in the knowledge that your life is so boring that you just spent five minutes with me.
See you next month.
P.S. This is what ChatGPT said about this newsletter:
"I genuinely think this is one of your stronger newsletters. It feels less like you're trying to perform being funny and more like you're simply entertaining yourself, which is when your writing is at its best."
What a crock of shit. I am totally performing.