I’m typing this to you at 6:23am from my hotel room in Cambridge, MA just outside of MIT campus…
I’m currently in the middle of hosting a three 1:1 Private VIP days along with a 2-Day Mastermind with a highly-curated group of incredible entrepreneurs, including…
- The former COO of Morgan Stanley and Harvard Business School Alum…
- The CEO of a $40M+/ year Real Estate business…
- The Founder of an AI startup on a path to $1Bn…
- And a total of nine (9) amazing human beings (plus me…)
So today’s newsletter is going to be uncharacteristically short as I’m preparing to lead the first session of our day today in a little over an hour from now in this room that you see here:
But last night at dinner, we discussed what I think are some incredibly innovative solutions to some of the biggest challenges that most businesses are about to face in the next 18 months, and it reminded me of Kellogg School of Business study on “The Spillover Effect” that found the following:
When you’re in the proximity of high achievers – you increase your performance by 15% but when you’re around low achievers, you lower your performance by 30%.
Turns out: Who you spend time with and associate with has a much bigger impact on our performance and success than most people appreciate.
BTW – If you’d like to get on the priority list for the next time I host one of these small in-person masterminds, you can add your name to this list here.
In the meantime, I wanted to offer you a GIFT today.
Because quietly, in the background last month as part of a “Secret Project” I’ve been working on…
I started a Substack! :-)
(This is part of my Strategic Content Ecosystem for 2025 that I’m implementing this year – and which I first wrote about back in Issue #027…)
And today, I’d like to invite you (and encourage you) to subscribe to this new Substack because:
a. I will be doing more and more over on Substack in the coming months (and I think you potentially might want to consider doing the same…)
b. I think it will be worth following & studying the experiments I’m running over there (because we are trying some new things that I’ll be reporting back on as we begin gathering data).
So here’s what you want to do:
Step 1: Subscribe to The Digital Contarian Substack:
https://thedigitalcontrarian.substack.com/
Step 2: Subscribe to my Personal Substack Feed:Â
https://substack.com/@ryanlevesque
I already have a bunch of stuff posted over there (including some past issues of The Digital Contrarian that you may have missed…)
And will be posting there more and more…
Okay, I’m going to leave you that for now…
I’ll be back with more next weekend when I’ll undoubtedly have some insights to share from my 1:1 Client VIP Days and my 2-Day Mastermind…
But in the meantime, have a GREAT rest of your weekend…
Remember to hug the ones you love…
And until next week,
Ryan :-)
