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🏙️ How I stopped retraining AI every week

Aug 16, 2026

🏙️ How I stopped retraining AI every week

Four folders on my Mac, and not one of them ever starts over.

Aug 9, 2026

🏙️ doubling value without capex

No renovation. We answered the questions everyone else walked away from.

Aug 2, 2026

🏙️ inside the deal

A live look at the retail center we're buying right now - and how the value gets made

Jul 26, 2026

🏙️ we build a house and give it away

The best 4 days of my year · You're invited

Jul 19, 2026

🏙️ the checklist I run on every deal

I wrote it two years ago. It still clears every acquisition we make.

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🏙️  the checklist I run on every deal

Jul 19, 2026

🏙️ the checklist I run on every deal

I wrote it two years ago. It still clears every acquisition we make.

🏙️ rate reversal

Jul 12, 2026

🏙️ rate reversal

The Fed just flipped the script on where rates go next.

🏙️ 21,559 firms disagree

Jul 5, 2026

🏙️ 21,559 firms disagree

The data says AI is hiring more people, not fewer. Here's what I found.

🏙️ a dream on paper

Jun 28, 2026

🏙️ a dream on paper

Most of negotiating happens in a realm no playbook covers. Here's mine.

🏙️ close your eyes before you send it

Jun 21, 2026

🏙️ close your eyes before you send it

Most of negotiating happens in a realm no playbook covers. Here's mine.

🏙️ superposition

Jun 14, 2026

🏙️ superposition

This week's Deep Dive is from my partner Rafik Moore. I think you need to read it.

🏙️ shallow bay

Jun 7, 2026

🏙️ shallow bay

BKM and Kayne Anderson just paid $1.8 billion for 275 buildings. Here's the signal.

🏙️ I was slow on offers

May 31, 2026

🏙️ I was slow on offers

The prompt that turns any OM into a signed LOI in under a minute.

LOI GENERATION — MASTER PROMPT FOR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

May 30, 2026

LOI GENERATION — MASTER PROMPT FOR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

Paste your deal terms, get a clean .docx LOI in seconds

🏙️ a four-hour work week

May 24, 2026

🏙️ a four-hour work week

How Shay Yakobovich runs his calendar - and why it keeps making him money.

🏙️ the 90-minute filter

May 17, 2026

🏙️ the 90-minute filter

Easy. Lucrative. Fun. Three words that say no to almost everything.

🏙️ $175B flows into CRE every year. Here's the map.

May 10, 2026

🏙️ $175B flows into CRE every year. Here's the map.

The six source stack for raising serious equity...

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