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title: "360MEN WTA 03 - Iterating w Constant Change"
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summary: "In this third 2018 WTA episode (still years before Scotomaville or any AI tools existed), Daniel Comp confronts the exhausting reality of constant change that every entrepreneur must endure—iterations, punch lists, market timing, and the emotional drain of repeated failures and adaptations. Using vivid personal stories (Constance’s quarter-million-dollar remodel changes, Graham Kerr’s chalkboard ghost message “Thank God constant change is here to stay”), he introduces the necessity of building a shared tribal language (Seth Godin’s *Tribes*, “minyan,” scotoma, illusions, Dataism) so men can support one another through the grind. Created in raw, pre-AI earnestness, this video plants the earliest practical seeds of resilience, acclimation, and collective insight that would later become the backbone of the full Scotomaville framework and Initium journey."
keypoints:
  - "Constant change is not a bug—it is the permanent condition of entrepreneurial life; the only choice is whether to fight it or iterate through it."
  - "Iterations are the repetitive loops (mathematical, creative, relational) that slowly turn raw effort into something the market is finally ready to receive."
  - "A tribe is defined by shared language; without common terms like ‘minyan,’ ‘scotoma,’ ‘illusions,’ and ‘Dataism,’ men cannot effectively warn, encourage, or protect one another."
  - "The entrepreneur’s daily reality is the punch list—unfinished tasks, sudden defects, shifting client minds—yet depression is not an option when clients are depending on you."
  - "True significance cannot come from entertainment or busyness; it demands stepping into the conversation, contributing hard-won insight, and helping the tribe navigate accelerating change before technology decides for us."
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  notes: "Unscripted, conversational, and multi-layered; Daniel moves between personal stories, whiteboard concepts, and big-picture warnings while visibly building the shared vocabulary that will later define Scotomaville. Light-hearted anecdotes (chalkboard ghost, windsurfing season) balance the heavy theme of enduring decades of uncertainty."
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### Original YouTube Description

Talk about a challenge. How do you feel about going around in circles, repeating experiments, adapting to change and shifting tactics - for years or decades? Most people avoid change. Entrepreneurs have to love it - or at least accept it as a process of acclimating, learning and scaling their niche. It can takes many years - even decades to learn enough, create something needed - and time it just right when the market is ready for it. Daniel Comp, founder of 360MEN shares insights and a tribal language about change in this third episode of 'Worth Thinking About'. Constant change sucks your energy. It challenges your faith and taxes your resources. Learning from mistakes and iterating quickly is key to success and essential for survival over time. At the heart of a Tribe according to Seth Godin is a language - a set of words with shared meaning and value held closely by the participants. Daniel shares a bunch of words like 'minyan', 'iteration' and 'DATAISM' There's a conversation to be had. You can't have a sense of significance by spending your life being entertained or by staying busy. Consider taking a position on an issue by sharing what you believe with men that need your insight. Visit: [http://360MEN.net](http://360MEN.net)

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### Cleaned Transcript

**Daniel:**  
In Episode two, that would be last week, we talked about experience, process, and history as far as the context for this journey. And more Tatlin and a couple of the other guys in the past that I share a bit more in depth of what their entrepreneurial journey is like.

How do you feel about change? Not that little loose… Queens, thank you. I need interruptions—changes, you know, like go to the grocery store, you put your debit card in to get the groceries out and the house locks you out. Or heading to the airport and traffic… you got everything all worked out, it’s all gonna be just right, and then weather changes, market changes, somebody changes their attitude. That’s what we’re gonna talk about.

Welcome to Episode 3 of *Worth Thinking About*. This one’s full of words, words, words, words, words—all kinds of words. It’s about change. It’s about iterations. It’s about coping with constant change.

And oh, here comes—how about when the transmission in your vehicle blows out because of a factory defect and it’s not covered? Some people just go into a depression. So just get really emotional. You can’t do that with your clients though.

So no, let’s talk about it. Just definitely *we’re thinking about*.

I had a client—she’s a good one. I had a construction company. Her name was Constance. She had about a quarter million dollars of change orders. That means she changed her mind on her large remodel that we were doing for 16 months with a crew of about 20 guys, to the tune of a quarter million dollars in changes.

Prior to that I worked with a galloping gourmet named Graham Kerr, famous celebrity chef. And Graham had written on a chalkboard during a staff meeting: “Thank God constant change is here to stay.”

Those two things—Constant Change and constant change—have been with me for decades.

You know, the point of a good story is a punchline, and Daniel, if you forget to tell the punchline, it’s not a good story. So Graham went to the chalkboard and erased that… well, he tried to erase it. For some reason, for about the next two years, as a ghost in the background, this phrase of “Thank God constant change is here to stay” would never go away. Like every meeting he would be presenting and right behind him—and we’d be making another iteration, another change, another walk around the paddock as they say in Australia.

So iterations—it’s a huge part of enduring as an entrepreneur. You have to be able to go around and around and around, improving your product. I’m on version 8 of our software and we’re just now like, “Yahoo! The market’s there, ready for us.” It’s called LifeCopy and this indicator—that’s another story.

So don’t forget: constant change. That’s what it’s all about.

As a contractor, an architect, and a builder in the built environment, I have punch lists—always had a list of to-dos, things that the guys needed to finish, things that we needed to be sure got all wrapped up.

And I’m talking about in this episode what it’s really like to be an entrepreneur. What are those day-to-day things that you have to encapsulate, embody, be part of? And one of those big things is developing a language.

Seth Godin in his book *Tribes* lays it out very well: that leadership in a tribe is responsible for developing a language, and the tribe as a whole for developing the behavior and the communication around those words. Words matter. We have to be able to talk to each other, and that’s what a tribe does—it has a common language.

So some of the things that we have up here that we talked about, right? Scotoma—those blind spots you don’t see, right? They can kill you. How about illusions? You’re half wrong all the time. All the time you’re half wrong. You don’t see things the way they are; we see things the way we are.

Okay, so some of these words that we need to pick up: what do we as a group… well, one of them is a minyan. A minyan is a dozen men in a Jewish culture that surrounds somebody—like the disciples and Jesus—or a group of peers that help you see the different facets of something.

The number of iterations… Daniel, you well know what iteration means. However, I believe you are wanting me to reiterate you. Okay then. Iteration is the repetition of a mathematical or computational procedure applied to the result of a previous application, typically as a means of obtaining successively closer approximations to the solution of a problem.

Daniel, is this how you wanted me to iterate you? This was curious. Let’s reiterate: the number of iterations that you have to go through to figure out when you’ve built something incredible that the market is ready for, that you can communicate clearly enough in simple terms.

And on a sidebar, let me say this: there’s called the Einstein test, and that is basically when you can say complex things in simple terms. And as you’ve heard me say before, as a watchmaker it’s difficult to tell people the time when you know so much about what you’ve been doing.

You know what you’ve developed—they ask, “So what do you do here?” Here comes bolo aviation.

Right? One of the things I wrote up here that just stuck with me the very first time I heard it: Stephen Hawking. He says, “What monstrosity would walk our streets should their faces be as unfinished as their minds?” Write an admonition to: don’t just lay around your whole life—from a guy trapped in a wheelchair. Use your mind. Think. Spend energy. Use it to figure out where you’re going in history.

Hope, weather, guys—expand their experience and make the process better for others and yourself.

This has been my roughly done syllabus. It’s, as I said, it’s been a punch list. It’s been a reminder of where we’re going. Sort of a descriptive ingredients for this series.

Constants. Change—that’s the process. Iterations. Lots of attempts at a summit. Acclimation, right? Building up strength, muscle memory, insights on things—books you read, videos you watch, lessons you learn—they all become compounding after a while.

We need to have a language. It’s really important. It’s what Seth Godin talks about in his book *Tribes*: that we share a common understanding to some basic elements and we can help each other avoid scotoma. If when we say “watch out,” bite—what scotoma? If we understand illusions and that is things that we’re certain we see them the way they are—you can’t possibly, because we see things the way we are based on our experiences, our wounds, our strengths, that are our coping mechanisms from adapting and coping with the world, dealing with the world as it is. We develop weird belief systems.

And together as a group—as a minyan, a quorum, a mastermind, a nexus, as a tribe—lots of different ways to say the same thing—we could work this out together. We can learn together.

It’s the end of the windsurfing season. The wind’s blowing. It’s the middle of October and we’re headed to Phoenix soon. Yes, James would say on a channel that we watch. And when I mean soon, I have no idea. I have no idea.

Angelina is launching Wellness by Choice and we have to go at the right time in the market—right? The right time when things are completely ready, including the people are ready for embracing it.

Let’s talk about every feather. The geese fly over this time of year—they rotate, but someone in the front—that’s the kind of guide people—and they have eyes on each side of their head. They kind of look out one direction or the other. And as a wingman and as a whole group of them, you hear them going over there going, “Wow, honk honk honk honk honk.” Right there—they’re making their server, telling the guy in the front, left, right.

That’s what the open-source movement is about. When we write code, somebody goes, “Hey, that’s good.” “Ah, that one’s terrible—no good at all.” Built into our platform is the ability to do that—an ability for us to give each other insights, to vote, to contribute, to ideate, to discuss topics, issues, challenges, processes, experiences.

I want you to start grabbing on to some of these terms so that we can communicate clearly about tough challenges.

For the first time in history, more people died today from eating too much than from eating too little. More people died from old age than from infectious diseases. And more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists, and criminals combined.

Up till now, increasing human power relied mainly upon upgrading our external tools. In the future it may rely more on upgrading the human body and mind, or on merging directly with our tools. This is why it’s so vital to think about humanity’s new agenda precisely—because we have some choice regarding the use of new tech.

We had better understand what is happening and make up our minds about it before it makes up our minds for us—like firefighters in a world without fire.

So humankind in the 21st century needs to ask itself an unprecedented question: What are we going to do with ourselves in a healthy, prosperous, and harmonious world? What will demand attention and ingenuity? This question becomes doubly urgent given the immense new powers that biotechnical and information technology are providing us with.

What are we gonna do with all that power? We’ve entered an era of rapidly accelerating change. If we’re not aware—so who we’re seeing—what’s going on around us, how quickly things are progressing… and no one on the planet—no single person understands everything that’s going on around us in the world today, and not even any one group has a good grasp on where technology and all these fabulous things are taking us.

But if we’re not aware of that, we won’t respond in time. And if we don’t respond, then a system is gonna act on our behalf. No, that’s an interesting point of view. I hadn’t thought about that one.

What are you gonna do about the opportunities that you have? I mean, we can entertain ourselves to death and just to no end. But imagine being able to address a coming plague before it gets here—to be able to divert some of the disaster and have your life contribute to something of significant meaning for humankind.

I think this Dataism is a substantial issue for us to take a hard look at and to start doing some things that we can about the information bias that’s plaguing us and certainly dividing us as a country—most likely globally—gonna bring us into conflict.

Well, I’m not sure about you, but they all that think it makes my head soar and I’d rather not do this one on my own.

So why don’t you come join that conversation at 360men.net. If you want to just stick your toes in the water and go ahead, subscribe here on YouTube. And if you want to join in the book or come have a meet-up with us—I’ll be in Phoenix in a couple of weeks—think anyway, connect on LinkedIn. I’ll let you know more. See you next week.

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**CODEX ENTRY**  
**Date:** 2018-10-18 (WTA Episode 03)  
**File:** 360MEN WTA 03 - Iterating w Constant Change.md  
**Monomyth Stage:** 03 - Crossing the Threshold  
**Gameboard:** Camp -2: Crossing the Threshold  
**MA5 Domain:** Initium  
**Summary:** Daniel delivers an unscripted, multi-layered examination of the entrepreneur’s daily grind: constant change, endless iterations, punch lists, market timing, and the absolute necessity of building a shared tribal language so men can endure together. He weaves personal war stories (Constance’s remodel, Graham Kerr’s chalkboard) with Seth Godin’s *Tribes*, the minyan concept, scotoma/illusions reminders, and the first clear Dataism warning—framing resilience not as optional but as the price of significance.  
**Key Insight:** “Constant change is here to stay.” The only viable response is to iterate deliberately, develop common language, and support one another so the tribe can cross the threshold before technology crosses it for us.  
**Narrative Significance:** This episode is pure pre-Scotomaville seed material. Every core Scotomaville theme—embracing constant change, iterations as the path to mastery, building tribal language (minyan, scotoma, illusions, Dataism), and the entrepreneur’s punch-list grind—appears here in raw, earnest form, delivered without AI assistance or the later branding wrapper. It marks the exact moment Daniel begins publicly mapping the hidden architecture of resilience and shared language that would become the foundation of the entire Initium journey.

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**INITIUM.**