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March 09, 2026
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Morning Geniuses!
You know the Vitruvian Man^
How about this one:
Mhmm mhmmm
The Mona Lisa.
The most famous painting in the world. Painted BY Leonardo DaVinci..
He was an architect, anatomist, astronomer, botanist, cartographer, engineer, geologist, hydrodynamicist, mathematician, theater producer, scientist, gay
..not that..that matters..
Who the F*CK?!
It’s the 1400s. Italy.
The Renaissance is popping off.
So everyone’s painting naked angels and inventing math
When–
Out pops Leonardo in a tiny town called Vinci.
Get it? Leonardo DAvinci??
And this guy’s just on fire!
He’s drawing machines before they exist:
Sketching anatomy before people know how the body works:
He’s left-handed, writes in MIRROR SCRIPT so people can’t copy his notes:
Dissects dead bodies:
Then he starts….PAINTING…
He spends 4 years painting the Mona Lisa, but never actually finishes her:
But, there’s a problem!
He never builds any of these things.
He kinda just obsesses over something, thinks all day, then…
..onto the next idea
But this was novel!
He was the first to treat
like a
And science like an art
He saw beauty in how things work.
So it’s no wonder, 400yrs later, his ideas like the submarine:
Tanks:
And the helicopter:
Came true!
Stay Inventive,
Henry & Dylan 🌈
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MarketingIdeas.com is one of the best marketing newsletters out there.
60,000+ subscribers. Written by Tom Orbach, Director of Growth at Wiz (a $32B startup). Read by CMOs at companies like HubSpot, Google, and Shopify.
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Recent issues covered: how to reach customers when 90% of the internet is AI slop, how to recruit an army of micro-influencers, how to make journalists write about you (for free), and what to do if your marketing sucks.
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