All statements about McDonald's

21 statements about McDonald's in 19 sources, by upload date.

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2023

2023-02-14 · If I Started a YouTube Channel in 2026, I'd Do This — recommendation: Ali: With systems and leverage, Ali says, he can do YouTube in five to ten hours a week, thinking like a business such as McDonald's, whose systems give the same experience anywhere. — 00:10:59
2023-04-26 · The Science of Gut Health (& Why It Matters) — Ali says a medium portion of McDonald's chips has around 340 calories, about the same as meals of very different nutritional value. — 00:14:04
2023-04-28 · 6 Lessons I've Learned About Online Dating — Ali: When a profile gave him nothing specific to comment on, Ali opened with "how do you feel about McDonald's drive-through on a first date? Asking for a friend", which got a far higher response rate than generic profile comments. — 00:10:33
2023-05-07 · How I Started My YouTube Channel in My Spare Time — Ali: Retelling The E-Myth's McDonald's example, Ali says McDonald's, like Starbucks and other franchises, gives the same experience anywhere in the world because it has created systems for everything, written in a handbook for its employees. — 00:05:15
2023-09-01 · 8 Steps That Got Me Millions of Subscribers on YouTube — recommendation: Ali's first habit, learned from the author Matthew Dicks: when you have a few spare minutes, such as seven minutes waiting for someone in a McDonald's, make progress on your creative project instead of scrolling social media. — 00:00:37
2023-09-27 · Starting A Business is Easy, Actually — Ali: A traditional business, Ali says, from a local laundromat or accounting firm to McDonald's, Coca-Cola or Ford, has steady, moderate growth, margins of usually under 20%, moderate capital needs, no priority on work-life balance and a formal, hierarchical structure. — 00:02:46
2023-11-01 · 7 Things I Wish I Knew About Productivity Earlier — Matthew Dicks (quoted): Meeting a would-be writer for breakfast at McDonald's who had not started her book and arrived seven minutes late, Matthew Dicks showed her the sentences he had written in those seven minutes. — 00:03:37
2023-11-28 · If I Wanted to Grow An Audience in 2026, I'd Do This — Ali: Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited completely changed Ali's life by introducing him to systemisation and delegation: he saw his YouTube channel as the prototype for a franchise, like McDonald's, which gives an identical experience anywhere. — 00:08:39

2022

2022-02-28 · 5 Financial Mistakes I've Made In The Last 10 Years — Ali: At about 14 Ali took on two big web design projects paying about $300 each; they took around three years, leaving him an hourly rate far below flipping burgers at McDonald's. — 00:13:55
2022-11-19 · Why We Should Use Our Time More Intentionally #shorts — Ali: In Ali's favourite story from Someday Is Today, the bestselling novelist Matthew Dicks meets a woman in a McDonald's who wants to become a novelist but has not started writing: she says the process is complicated, she needs the right equipment and has never found the time in her busy life. — 00:00:00
2022-11-30 · How to Make Difficult Decisions (without overthinking) — Ali: Asking whether he wants to be the sort of person who exercises every day, and who eats healthily, nudges Ali towards daily exercise and away from deciding case by case about the McDonald's drive-through. — 00:10:16

2021

2021-03-14 · Why I Left Medicine (And Why I'm Going Back) — Ali compares medicine with McDonald's: a tight, well-tuned system lets almost anyone with a little training deliver a consistent result, and that is what medicine should be too. — 00:15:34
2021-03-21 · Relationships, Annoying Habits and More - Q&A with my Housemate — Sheen will miss the spontaneous things with Ali, like going to McDonald's at 2 a.m. or ordering crepes after deciding to eat healthy. — 00:20:49
2021-03-28 · My Favourite iPhone Apps — Ali: Before a late McDonald's drive-thru with his housemate Sheen, Ali uses the Tesla app to pre-warm the car and heat the front seats remotely. — 00:09:56
2021-07-23 · 12 Evidence Based Tips to Improve Your Sleep — Ali sometimes still has a caffeinated Diet Coke with a McDonald's drive-thru in the evening and always regrets it when he struggles to get to sleep. — 00:04:40
2021-07-23 · 12 Evidence Based Tips to Improve Your Sleep — recommendation: Ali: For good sleep the biggest meal of the day should be lunch and dinner a lighter one, so Ali concedes his midnight McDonald's drive-through takeaways are probably not a good idea. — 00:06:08
2021-10-08 · The Best Book I've Ever Read about Making Money — recommendation: Ali's practical tip for a producer mindset: when out and about, think about the business side, for example how McDonald's makes every fish burger taste the same. — 00:11:17
2021-10-08 · The Best Book I've Ever Read about Making Money — recommendation: Ali recommends The E-Myth Revisited, one of his favourite business books of all time, on how McDonald's built its franchise system. — 00:11:41

2020

2020-04-26 · What Makes People Successful? — Ali: For location and luck, Ali quotes Ray Kroc of McDonald's on being in the right place at the right time, and says location matters: businesses cluster, as in Silicon Valley, and the right place unlocks opportunities, connections and markets. — 00:04:02
2020-05-10 · Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results - Atomic Habits by James Clear — James Clear (quoted): James Clear says short bursts of dopamine from a McDonald's drive-thru or scrolling Instagram reinforce bad habits, so good habits need some immediate gratification attached. — 00:09:13
2020-07-01 · Why Motivation is a Myth — Ali: Whenever Ali catches himself saying "I can't", he switches to "I don't": he doesn't eat McDonald's drive-thru because, he jokes, he is going to look like a Gymshark athlete one day; this is his identity. — 00:05:31