The One Thing That Makes You a More Disciplined Entrepreneur

and it isn't a habit tracker

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Lori-Lee Elliott
November 24, 2025

But First…Cool, if Real

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Becoming Dauntless

On low-motivation days, what gets me to finish a proposal or get a social post up isn't discipline. It's bitterness, spite, and black coffee.

The truth that keeps me going: there are people dumber than me making $100M a year. The reality that keeps me posting: every Instagram post gets forwarded to a group chat where people call me cringe. Good. I want to live rent-free in their heads.

I'm not saying spite should be your big "Why" because that's probably unhealthy. But in micro moments when you're choosing between TikTok and 20 minutes of productive work, remembering that Hannah from high school called your idea dumb can nudge you toward growth.

Spite beats discipline in the short term. Small doses of bitterness outmuscle dedication. You can’t be "love and light" all the time and win.

Tech News to Make You Smarter

  • Humanity is One Step Closer to Bionic XR (AR Insider). Dubai-based startup Xpanceo (no guesses on how to pronounce that) is taking a run at augmented reality contact lenses. They aren’t the first. Most recently, Mojo Vision raised $160M to make eye displays a reality. They ended up pivoting to other micro display types, but Xpanceo has more than double the funding of Mojo and 50 Ph.Ds on staff. My read of this: Xpanceo’s tech sounds more like an eye implant that will debut as a removable contact lens and evolve into something more permanent from there.

  • Meta Ray-Bans Display Launched. Here’s the breakdown: At $799, you get a monocular heads-up display (not augmented reality) in a pair of Ray-Bans Wayfarers. The device is a walled garden, for now. You’re limited to Meta apps and a few Meta-approved third parties, like Amazon Music. The navigation also only works in the US. The neural band you use for clicking and scrolling got generally positive reviews, but it needs to be on tight to work, which gets uncomfortable after a few hours. It supports real-time captions and live translation (slower than captions) for English, French, Italian, and Spanish. They come with Meta AI integrated, which is not perfect but more useful now that it can show you things. Go for black over sand as the onboard electronics are less visible on the black version.

  • Entertainment news that is actually tech news. Larry Ellison, the co-founder and CTO of Oracle - aka the company that stores all of the data used by the various AI companies - was reported to be partnering with the Saudi Public Investment Fund to buy Warner Bros Discovery. Ellison and his brother already own Paramount, and Larry was the leader in the consortium that sought to buy TikTok. Why would a founder who deals in data want a bunch of entertainment properties? No official word from Ellison or Paramount, but highly targeted social media algorithms and AI-generated media come to mind.

  • Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) 3 Launched. With this model, called SAM3, you can detect specific objects in a video stream. This looks like a competitor to Ultralytic’s YOLO model, which we covered previously. When combined with smartglasses, you can see why Meta is invested in this kind of tech - it makes the user experience so much more seamless when an AI can detect what you’re looking at without having to tell it. The most Black Mirror use case I’ve seen so far: using SAM3 to detect faces and then blur them out.

Saved on Socials

The posts, memes, job postings, and videos that caught my attention this week:

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What we listened to this week

Overheard on Slack

Enter the chat. What our devs are talking about…

  • “You know the outage is bad when it takes out Down Detector.”

  • “Because once you save a project, you get to reward yourself with a beverage.”

📸 This is a prototype, but it is a real app by Greg Madison, developed on Unity.