Lazy Leverage

Jon Matzner and Peter Lohmann

Talking about using leverage in life and business.

  1. -4 дн. ·  Видео

    I Spent $1,300 on Grok Bot in 2 Days (And I'd Do It Again) | Lazy Leverage #126

    We mention a lot of books on this show and never write them down. Fixed that. 61 books, 39 essays, 88 episodes, free: https://lazy-leverage.saganpassport.com/ Jon put a $300 a month Grok Bot subscription on his card and blew through it in three days. The next time he looked he was at $1,300. He had four agents checking four email inboxes every fifteen minutes with a heavy model, feeding it the entire email history each time, which is work a webhook does for free. Grok Bot spins up its own virtual Linux machine for every agent, so when a tool has no API the agent just clicks around like a person would. That is what the money bought: proof the workflow runs at all. Cleaning it up comes after. Peter comes at the same problem from the other side, three weeks into running Hermes on a VPS wired to his WhatsApp, and opens with the least likely argument on an AI podcast, which is that if you run a real offline business you should be slow to adopt and skepticism is a feature. In this one: Matzner's Hierarchy of Leverage and the corollary Jon landed on this month, that the bottom rung has its own hierarchy inside it (powerful model with computer use, then cheaper model, then API call, then deterministic code), why the engineers building a direct mail tool used a free open source model to sort interior photos from exterior ones before anything expensive touched the job, why a human labeled test set is the whole ballgame, and why Jon would rather read your sent email than ask you what you do all day.   Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:55 - Welcome to Lazy Leverage 01:38 - What Grok Bot Is, and What OpenClaw Was 04:32 - Be Slow to Adopt 06:31 - Brought to You by Sagan Passport 07:27 - A Virtual Linux Machine for Every Agent 11:53 - Stalin, the Chief of Staff Agent 16:12 - Pointing It at Your Own Models to Cut the Bill 24:12 - Weak Replacement vs Reinvention 31:49 - Everything Is Not an Agent 34:58 - The Hierarchy of Leverage Is Fractal 38:30 - How the $1,300 Actually Happened 41:27 - Cascading Models on a Postcard 46:31 - The Human Labeled Test Set 50:54 - Primary Sources Over Job Descriptions 54:42 - Books We're Reading   References Mentioned in This Episode -   Books: Carreyrou, J. (2018). Bad blood: Secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup. Knopf. Grann, D. (2023). The wager: A tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder. Doubleday. O'Brian, P. (1969). Master and commander. Lippincott. Forester, C. S. (1937). The happy return. Michael Joseph. (First of the Horatio Hornblower series, published in the US as Beat to Quarters.)   Quotes Referenced: Bill Gates, on automation: "The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." Elon Musk, on the same trap: "The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist."   People & Frameworks Cited: Matzner's Hierarchy of Leverage, and the corollary that the technology rung runs fractally inside itself Zaki, Sagan's President of AI, on training agents to check a live model ranking site before choosing a model Plato's allegory of the cave, on job descriptions as shapes on the wall Desire paths and emergent order, and emergent role design The Tiger tank and Sherman tank maintenance ratio Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos OpenRouter's acquisition by Stripe Peter's Twitter DM funnel, 75 a day parsed into Beehiiv for about $25 every three or four weeks   Tools Mentioned in the Episode: Grok, Grok Bot, Grok Heavy, Grok Flash, OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude, Claude Code, Cowork, Fable, Opus, Sonnet, Codex, ChatGPT, GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.6 Sol, OpenRouter, AgentMail, AppFolio, Zillow, Slack, WhatsApp, Todoist, Google Calendar, 1Password, LastPass, Beehiiv, HubSpot, Notion, ClickUp, Zapier   Related Reading: Jon on what the money actually bought, and the hierarchy inside the hierarchy: https://lazyleverage.beehiiv.com/p/i-spent-1200-in-two-days-on-grokbot   Follow Jon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmatzner/ | https://x.com/MatznerJon | https://jonmatzner.com/ Follow Peter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pslohmann/ | https://x.com/pslohmann | https://www.peterlohmann.com/   🌎 Brought to you by Sagan Passport: https://saganpassport.com Schedule a free consulting session: https://www.saganpassport.com/free-consultation   👷 Join Crane, Peter's community for property management operators: https://www.joincrane.co/   Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LazyLeverageofficial

    I Spent $1,300 on Grok Bot in 2 Days (And I'd Do It Again) | Lazy Leverage #126

  2. 8 сент. ·  Видео

    My Team Should Feel Threatened | Lazy Leverage #125

    We mention a lot of books on this show and never write them down. Fixed that. 61 books, 39 essays, 88 episodes, free: http://lazy-leverage.saganpassport.com/ A recruiter at Sagan used to run a Boolean search that took four days to surface candidates. Jon built an internal help desk that does it in one pass, and then told the team his expectations went up with it. Nobody there gets to keep grading resumes. Michael Valenzano co-founded Perennial Management Group, the operating engine behind seven portfolio companies, and runs the whole thing with three developers. He and Jon are neighbors in Encinitas, and they landed on the same answer independently: centralize it. In this one: why Sagan's AI lives behind an internal help desk, the twelve Green Berets who took Afghanistan with air power, and why Jon would rather start an accounting firm from zero than buy one.   Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 01:20 - Welcome to Lazy Leverage 01:49 - The Sagan AI Event, and the Case for Centralizing 06:03 - Seven Companies, One Operating Engine 12:25 - Primary Source Data, and the Twelve Green Berets 18:00 - Why Most Companies Never Get There 21:04 - Greenfield Beats Acquisition 26:01 - What to Centralize and What to Leave Alone 32:27 - How the Help Desk Actually Works 35:02 - They Should Feel Threatened 39:26 - He Hired a GM Who Lives Overseas 43:38 - The Leverage Ladder 50:06 - Redefining How We Make Money   References Mentioned in This Episode -   Books: Stanton, D. (2009). Horse soldiers: The extraordinary story of a band of US soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan. Scribner.   People & Frameworks Cited: Perennial Management Group, and its seven portfolio companies Harold Geneen, who built ITT into a conglomerate as CEO, on centralizing accounting and leaving the GMs alone Zaki, Sagan's President of AI, on SaaS starting with scale and non-tech starting with profitability The Sagan AI event in San Diego onlinejobs.ph   Tools Mentioned in the Episode: Claude Code, Codex, Fable, Cloudflare Workers, Airtable, Make, Replit, Lovable, Supabase, Postgres, Front, Linear, JotForm, Monday.com, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Slack, OpenRouter   Related Reading: Jon on using AI everywhere and restricting who gets to build with it: https://lazyleverage.beehiiv.com/p/i-was-the-hypocrite-in-my-own-ai-policy   Follow Jon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmatzner/ | https://x.com/MatznerJon | https://jonmatzner.com/ Follow Michael Valenzano: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-valenzano/ | https://www.perennialmgt.com/   🌎 Brought to you by Sagan Passport: https://saganpassport.com Schedule a free consulting session: https://www.saganpassport.com/free-consultation   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LazyLeverageofficial Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/763FBQuzXqTqJ3mb837WbW

    My Team Should Feel Threatened | Lazy Leverage #125

  3. 1 сент. ·  Видео

    McDonald's Says No to Tic Tacs. You Say Yes to Everything. | Lazy Leverage #124

    McDonald's could sell Tic Tacs. People have asked. They could put Monster in a cooler on the counter. They said no to all of it, because the thing has to stay simple, replicable and predictable. Your business says yes. In this one: the 65 door account Peter turned down over four furnished units, why the operator who once drove Uber to pay the bills still can't say no, and the order Peter runs every exception through: values, policy, process, tech.   Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:33 - Welcome to Lazy Leverage 02:57 - The 65 Door Account Peter Turned Down 06:37 - Brought to You by Sagan Passport 07:30 - The McDonald's Model 11:47 - Why Exceptions Keep Companies Small 14:47 - Clients Versus Customers 18:35 - Chief Context Officer, and Adult Rules 24:05 - Values, Policy, and What to Escalate 29:40 - Buying a Business Is Closing Exceptions 32:58 - Tighten Up a Couple Clicks   References Mentioned in This Episode -   Books: Warrillow, J. (2011). Built to sell: Creating a business that can thrive without you. Portfolio. Blanchard, K., & Johnson, S. (1982). The one minute manager. William Morrow.   People & Frameworks Cited: John Warrillow, Built to Sell, on the difference between clients and customers Marco Pierre White, on the customer not always being right Commander's Intent, and CCIR, Commander's Critical Information Requirements The McDonald's model versus the local generalist Customer intimacy versus operational excellence and product innovation EOS, rocks, and the vivid vision My First Million, and the gentleman's agreement Crane Breaks   Tools Mentioned in the Episode: Notion, Slack, Zapier, AppFolio, Zillow   Follow Jon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmatzner/ | https://x.com/MatznerJon | https://jonmatzner.com/ Follow Peter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pslohmann/ | https://x.com/pslohmann | https://www.peterlohmann.com/   🌎 Brought to you by Sagan Passport: https://saganpassport.com Schedule a free consulting session: https://www.saganpassport.com/free-consultation   👷 Join Crane, Peter's community for property management operators. Next application window is September 25: https://www.joincrane.co/   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LazyLeverageofficial Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/763FBQuzXqTqJ3mb837WbW Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lazy-leverage/id1777098486

  4. 25 авг. ·  Видео

    He Had Never Touched Plumbing. Now He's at $6M. | Lazy Leverage #123

    JD Beck bought a plumbing company in June 2022 doing about a million dollars a year. He had never touched plumbing. He'd spent his career in trades management, most recently in elevators. This year Mountain Valley will do just under six million. In this one: the $1,700 hire that turns a five-day permit into a one-day permit, why he can name every technician's average ticket but not where his last call came from, and par pricing, which pays techs half of every dollar above the floor.   Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:41 - Welcome to Lazy Leverage 01:26 - The Buy, and What He Runs Now 05:46 - Why Local Hiring Stopped Working 11:21 - The Permit Coordinator Who Cut Five Days to One 13:20 - Specialization, and Judging on Outputs 15:47 - Optimize Throughput, Not Utilization 19:30 - Maximize EBITDA, Then See 21:37 - The $5 Million Marketing Wall 26:49 - Pick One Channel and Get Good at It 29:48 - Global Talent as a Marketing Advantage 35:36 - Par Pricing, and What Gross Margin Tells You 41:01 - Running OpenClaw on a Plumbing Company 43:12 - Remote Management Is AI Enablement 48:05 - Citizen Soldier   References Mentioned in This Episode -   Books: Gerber, M. E. (1995). The E-Myth revisited: Why most small businesses don't work and what to do about it. HarperBusiness. Goldratt, E. M. (1984). The goal: A process of ongoing improvement. North River Press. Roff-Marsh, J. (2015). The machine: A radical approach to the design of the sales function. Greenleaf Book Group Press.   People & Frameworks Cited: Justin Roff-Marsh, Sales Process Engineering, on optimizing throughput over utilization Eliyahu Goldratt, and Theory of Constraints Michael E. Gerber, and the E-Myth Alex Hormozi, on picking one channel and getting great at it Isaac Zimmerman, on hiring for the smallest possible jobs Rich Jordan John Wilson Yossi Wachtel, Monkey Wrench Plumbing, Heating, Air & Electric, and "reverse hospitality" Jameson, the West Coast deck guy, on local content Par pricing, borrowed from solar sales   Tools Mentioned in the Episode: ServiceTitan, Slack, OpenClaw, Upwork, Google PPC, QuickBooks Online, Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses   Follow Jon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmatzner/ | https://x.com/MatznerJon | https://jonmatzner.com/ Follow JD Beck: https://x.com/dirtyhandsops | https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndavidbeck/ | https://www.mtnvalleyplumbing.com/   🌎 Brought to you by Sagan Passport: https://saganpassport.com Schedule a free consulting session: https://www.saganpassport.com/free-consultation   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LazyLeverageofficial Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/763FBQuzXqTqJ3mb837WbW Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lazy-leverage/id1777098486

    He Had Never Touched Plumbing. Now He's at $6M. | Lazy Leverage #123

  5. 18 авг. ·  Видео

    Giving Everybody Claude Won't Make You Money | Lazy Leverage #122

    Electrifying the factory didn't make anyone money. Owners pulled the steam engine out, dropped an electric motor in, and changed nothing else about how the floor was laid out. A Stanford economist wrote the paper on it in 1989, and Jon thinks it's the most useful thing you can read about AI right now. In this one: why global talent made it to phase two while AI is still stuck at phase zero, what a leasing manager actually does with the two hours AI saves her, and the Fortune 500 that got quoted $80,000 for a single agent.   Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 01:29 - Welcome to Lazy Leverage 02:05 - Electrifying the Factory Floor 05:48 - Phase One: Global Talent as Lazy Replacement 08:27 - Phase Two: Hiring What You Couldn't Afford 13:17 - AI Is Doing the Same Thing Again 15:24 - Phase Zero: Where AI Actually Is 19:43 - Why Nobody Wants to Redesign the Factory 24:51 - Fantasizing About an AI Native Property Manager 28:34 - The Rolls-Royce Lesson on Domain Knowledge 30:53 - It's 1998 and a Pullback Is Coming 35:56 - The Fortune 500 That Got Quoted $80,000 40:49 - Revenue Growing Agents, and Raising the Bar   References Mentioned in This Episode -   Papers: David, P. A. (1989). Computer and dynamo: The modern productivity paradox in a not-too-distant mirror. Center for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University.   Books: Taleb, N. N. (2012). Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder. Random House. Goldratt, E. M. (1984). The goal: A process of ongoing improvement. North River Press.   People & Frameworks Cited: Paul David, Stanford economist, on the productivity paradox Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and the Lindy effect Eliyahu Goldratt, and Theory of Constraints Derek Turner Rolls-Royce, and the aftermarket service gap on its gas turbines Pets.com RL Property Management, Peter's company   Tools Mentioned in the Episode: Claude Code, Claude Cowork, ServiceTitan, AppFolio, LeadSimple, Airtable, DocuSign, Google Workspace, Notion, Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses   Related Reading: Jon's newsletter on this exact idea: https://lazyleverage.beehiiv.com/p/you-won-t-make-any-more-money The 1989 paper: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/268373/   Follow Jon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmatzner/| https://x.com/MatznerJon| https://jonmatzner.com/ Follow Peter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pslohmann/| https://x.com/pslohmann| https://www.peterlohmann.com/   🌎 Brought to you by Sagan Passport: https://saganpassport.com Schedule a free consulting session: https://www.saganpassport.com/free-consultation   👷 Join Crane, Peter's community for property management operators. Next application window is September 25: https://www.joincrane.co/   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LazyLeverageofficial Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/763FBQuzXqTqJ3mb837WbW

  6. 11 авг. ·  Видео

    The HR Mistakes That Can Actually Get You Sued | Lazy Leverage #121

    Jessica Doyle's CEO and CFO were hand-building the company's reports in Excel. The formulas kept breaking, which meant the owners of the business were the ones fixing them. So Centennial went looking for a teammate who worked opposite hours, and the fix would be waiting before anyone logged on. In this one: what it takes to run people operations across three companies at once, why HR's love of process makes global hiring feel like breaking a rule, and what changes when a talent leader stops being reactive and starts planning ahead.   Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 01:05 - Welcome to Lazy Leverage 01:15 - Three Companies, One HR Team 04:14 - What Managers Misunderstand About People 07:50 - The CEO and CFO Were Building the Reports 11:33 - The Prep Cook Model, and Why It Blooms 13:50 - Building Marketing, Then Building HR 17:32 - HR and the Habit of Saying No 21:24 - Start New Concepts or Buy Old Ones 23:42 - Where Are Your Employee Records 26:32 - Advice for HR Leaders Going Global 29:46 - Visit Your Team, It's a Business Expense   References Mentioned in This Episode -   Quotes Referenced: Jessica Doyle on management: "You're not just managing somebody else's workload. You're managing people's feelings, and people's personal lives." The leadership framework Jon cites at Sagan: habit one is know and take care of your people, habit two is communicate about performance, positive and negative.   People & Companies Cited: Centennial Investment Partners, and the three companies Jessica covers: Loved Veterinary Services, in-home euthanasia and end-of-life care for pets; Dayrise Wellness, mental health therapy for all ages; and The Autism Therapy Group, one-on-one ABA therapy for children and young adults with autism   Tools Mentioned in the Episode: ADP, Indeed, Excel, HRIS, Sagan AI agents   Follow Jon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmatzner/| https://x.com/MatznerJon| https://jonmatzner.com/ Follow Jessica Doyle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-doyle-81222aa7/| https://centennialinvestmentpartners.com/   🌎 Brought to you by Sagan Passport: https://saganpassport.com Schedule a free consulting session: https://www.saganpassport.com/free-consultation   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LazyLeverageofficial Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/763FBQuzXqTqJ3mb837WbW Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lazy-leverage/id1777098486

  7. 4 авг. ·  Видео

    You Need to Get Good at Wasting Time | Lazy Leverage #120

    Juan is who Jon becomes when he finally takes real time off. There is a specific shirt, one extra button undone, a jacuzzi and a cocktail. Then something breaks at the company, the shirt comes off, and Jon is back. In this one: the AI that told Jon to sit on the beach and not write about it, the three categories Arthur Brooks says will make you good at leisure, and the fourth one Peter's grandfather figured out that Brooks left off the list.   Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:59 - Welcome to Lazy Leverage 01:39 - Brought to You by Sagan Passport 02:59 - Leisure Is a Skill for Strivers 07:51 - The Irony of Leisure Maxing 10:46 - David Choe and Art With No Purpose 12:46 - Alan Watts and Designing Your Environment 17:05 - The Asset That Never Hits the Balance Sheet 20:00 - Cocktail Hour at the Cottage 23:20 - Meet Juan, Jon's Leisure Alter Ego 27:09 - Category 1: Learning Things You Don't Have To 31:51 - Category 2: Relationships Nobody Pays For 35:57 - Category 3: Getting Philosophically Deeper 39:56 - The Missing Fourth Category: Wasting Time 43:48 - Why Your Best Ideas Arrive at Rest 48:42 - The Head Trash Around Taking Time Off   References Mentioned in This Episode -   Books: The School of Life & de Botton, A. (2016). Small pleasures. The School of Life Press. (Jon refers to it as "Simple Pleasures" in the episode.) The School of Life. (2021). A simpler life: A guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity. The School of Life Press. Putnam, R. D. (2000). Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community. Simon & Schuster. Allen, D. (2001). Getting things done: The art of stress-free productivity. Viking. Quotes Referenced: Alan Watts (paraphrased): if you live for a goal that sits in front of you, you will still be living in the future once you reach it. Arthur Brooks (paraphrased): leisure is not compensated, but it enriches us and it makes us better. Rob Dyrdek: "You can do exactly what you intended to do and still have a terrible experience. That's why we use Energy Ratings in Existence." Jeff Bezos (paraphrased): a senior executive only needs to make a small number of high-quality decisions a year.   People & Frameworks Cited: Arthur Brooks, Harvard Business School, on leisure as a developed skill Alain de Botton, Swiss-born philosopher and founder of The School of Life Alan Watts, philosopher David Choe, artist, painted the mural in Facebook's first office Rob Dyrdek, founder of Existence, the time-tracking platform behind the calendar Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone, on the loss of third places Wim Hof, breath work Crane Breaks, Peter's month-off practice   Tools Mentioned in the Episode: Claude, Zapier, Notion, Slack, Riverside, Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses   Related Reading: Arthur Brooks on why leisure is a skill worth developing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Sk2LgtJno   Follow Jon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmatzner/| https://x.com/MatznerJon| https://jonmatzner.com/ Follow Peter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pslohmann/| https://x.com/pslohmann| https://www.peterlohmann.com/   🌎 Brought to you by Sagan Passport: https://saganpassport.com Schedule a free consulting session: https://www.saganpassport.com/free-consultation 👷 Join Crane, Peter's community for property management operators: https://www.joincrane.co/   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LazyLeverageofficial Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/763FBQuzXqTqJ3mb837WbW

  8. 28 июл. ·  Видео

    I'd Put These $300 Glasses on Every Employee | Lazy Leverage #119

    Jon bought a pair of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses to take pictures with his kids without pulling his phone out. Weeks later, he's texting his AI agent from them, dictating voice memos into Codex hands-free, and rebuilding how his content workflow captures footage. In this one: why he'd put a set on every employee if he still ran a home services business, the backdoor around Meta's ecosystem that lets you route commands to any AI agent, and why the future of field ops looks a lot like a body cam.   Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 01:40 - Meta Ray-Bans: What They Actually Do 02:53 - The Fantasy: Fewer Screens, More Leverage 09:03 - Texting Your AI Agent (The Meta Backdoor) 14:33 - Long-Form Voice Notes via Google Voice 20:49 - Give Every Crew a Set: The Content Machine 25:25 - Live Event Coverage That Actually Works 29:21 - Master Plumber / Junior Plumber Leverage 32:22 - The Body Cam for Your Business 36:20 - How do you picture a year in your head? 38:32 - Wrap + Next Week Tease   References Mentioned in This Episode -   Quotes Referenced: Leonardo da Vinci: "Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work the least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form." (Recorded in Vasari's Lives of the Artists.)   Tools Mentioned in the Episode: Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, OpenAI Codex, Claude, Google Voice, AgentMail, Zapier, Airtable, AppFolio, Slack, HubSpot, NFC tags   Follow Jon: https://x.com/MatznerJon | https://jonmatzner.com/ Follow Peter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pslohmann/ | https://www.peterlohmann.com/   🌎 Brought to you by Sagan Passport: https://saganpassport.com Schedule a free consulting session: https://www.saganpassport.com/free-consultation   👷 Join Crane, Peter's community for property management operators: https://www.joincrane.co/   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LazyLeverageofficial Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/763FBQuzXqTqJ3mb837WbW 🍎 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lazy-leverage/id1777098486

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Talking about using leverage in life and business.

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    Jon Matzner and Peter Lohmann
  • Годы выхода
    2024 - 2026
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