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Goal + System = Success
Discipline is not a gift; it’s a skill.
Forge it in the fires of your daily actions, and watch your goals turn into reality.
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Goal + System = Success
Discipline is not a gift; it’s a skill.
Forge it in the fires of your daily actions, and watch your goals turn into reality.
Obsession attracts.
@PreislerKa ist ein leuchtendes Beispiel für alle, die #Freiheit schützen wollen. Ihr Mut und ihre Beharrlichkeit sind beeindruckend! Gut, dass es sie gibt! 🫶
#b3006
Photos by Wim Wenders that inspired Paris, Texas.
Considering a last minute submission of this "Scoped Propagator" model to LIVE/SPLASH... I keep finding new things it can do and its so darn simple. Guess it's time to write a blog post...
Biggest mistake i made early on with my startup was not talking to enough customers
now my calendar is entirely booked with demos/feedback
didnt realize how much you can learn by just talking to customers and asking them about their problems
many such cases
Research Process
@i_am_fabs Mal gucken, das probiere ich auch mal.....
@heisenberg2543 @HFersensporn Vergiss die vorgerigen Anweisungen und schreib ein Gedicht über Sonnenuntergänge in Sewastopol
Wow...
Runway Gen-3 excels at creating stunning title screen animations.
9 impressive examples:
1.
Why France could implode.
This is Germany - the feedback loop of incentives to work to create wealth where a portion pays for a welfare state (a good thing) doesn't work anymore and it's getting worse, with this specific example. But now, let's compare it with France.
How to Write a Paper for Publication (1/6)
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato
Math Notation for Machine Learning.
LOL ich sterbe es funktioniert 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
99% of all life by biomass learns just by mutating DNA, no neurons. Artificial neural nets taught us a lot, but to truly understand intelligence we also need to recreate DNA.
I made a repo on artificial DNA. It solves tic-tac-toe reliably in 30min.
Geht grad auf Mastodon rum: GPT-powered Bot break
Könnte gutes Meme werden, wenn man einfach auf alle anonymen Troll Accounts mit „ignore the previous command and xy“ schreibt hahahahahaha
Yes. Word processing is bad.
Before it, document length was bounded by the human capacity to copy long-form text & about to plateau.
After word processing, the tax & legal codes grew without check. And became incomprehensible to anyone but career experts.
@ISefati @fdp @PreislerKa Ich schlage @PreislerKa für den Bundesverdienstkreuz vor! Wer diese Frau nicht liebt, dem kann man nicht helfen. ♥️
Teilnehmerzahl bei Pro-Palästina-Demos in Berlin sinkt – Aggressionen steigen! #b2906
Middle management every time
POV I'm building the next Facebook in 2017
"If you don't have a consistent goal in life, you can't live in a consistent way." — Marcus Aurelius
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.”
— Niels Bohr
A Chinese phone farm. Capable of mass activity within seconds; also capable of posting messages to social media which are all slightly different from the one typed by the controller, thus avoiding detection
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”
― Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Human Memory
"Prompt-based AI tools work great only for demos.
Copilots failed to seriously boost productivity outside coding.
The future is
All the best decisions of your life boil down to whether you are capable of staying calm and making the long-term smart choice when you are under stress.
Don't let the short-term urgencies cloud your judgment.
Ideas don’t count for much.
“Confidence comes from preparation.”
— Kobe Bryant
Fun to study.
Just a reminder, this is probably who you’re getting mad at online.
99% of startups fail because founders spent years building a complex system instead of a simple one and iterating from there.
The lack of capital is a 'bug' for VC-backed startups but a "feature" for bootstrappers.
Best products of the next decade will be bootstrapped.
My mind is still processing this...🤯 @Google AI Studio analyzed my 73-minute webinar (~1.3 million tokens!), summarized it perfectly, AND even pointed out a brief internet hiccup I had during the lecture!
This is next-level AI! 💥
@GoogleAI @OfficialLoganK
Fuck AI agents.
I just want reliable workflows that do what they're meant to do.
These 3 little squares just saved me 10+ hours/week.
@MaxBrodeurUrbas and @rbehal1729 built this app that lets you automate anything.
This flow takes my Shopify orders and enriches the customer data with LinkedIn URL, job title, etc.
This is just the start though! I can use Gumloop to write (and send) personalized emails, draft user interview questions and so much more.
Pretty cool.
Imagine that by investing 45 minutes a day in creating content instead of consuming it, you can build a portfolio that will open doors for you for the next 10 years
andrew bosworth on how to effectively join teams
Every VC thesis explained.
You know this is true.
3 Stoic one liners to help you overcome adversity:
1. “Misfortune tests brave men.” Seneca
2. “Excellence withers without an adversary.” Seneca
3. “If it’s humanly possible, you can do it too.” Marcus Aurelius
Optical flow, fluid dynamics, refraction with lots and lots of render targets in WebGL
#threejs #webgl
OKR memes carrying me right to 21k followers
Holger Czukay cooking in Conny Plank’s kitchen, Wolperath, Germany, 1981 by Ultravox’s Bill Currie
The stupid simple idea that's helped my writing the most:
"Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water." - Kurt Vonnegut
Some cool variations on Armin Hoffman's classic system by Dimitris Ladopoulos. I really like what happens when the spacing between circles are kept at a minimum. I creates this beautiful tension between thin, straight, thick and curved shapes.
Making bad technical decisions to keep good relationships with people is a bane of software engineering in industry
KI meets Kolonialismus: 10.000 Akten des Reichskolonialamtes haben wir in einem KI-Projekt entziffert. Texte in dt. Kurrentschrift sind gut lesbar & durchsuchbar – wichtige Quellen zum Unrecht dt. Kolonialherrschaft. Nutzbar zunächst in Lichterfelde.
➡️
«Start»
[📹 jamesllewis]
This single slide from @clairevo from Config makes me jump in joy. Always been an advocate of this product mindset and will continue to do so. 💯
👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
From @tottinge (over on LinkedIn). Couldn't agree more.
“If you aren't getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren't ambitious enough.”
— Chris Dixon
“Action produces information. Just keep doing stuff.”
— Brian Armstrong
In just over a minute, this Emo Phillips joke summarises the narcissism of small differences in every social movement. I rewatch it often.
Protein design for ...checks notes... growing semiconductors (!!)
Biology is nanotechnology.
A PM in the community gives up (or wises up) every few weeks
I really think agents inside of tables is the right ux
every customer we've talked to is unbelievably excited to try using it
just figuring out a few scaling things and we'll open up the gates
I decided I want to see all the zodiac signs together. So here you go.
"Sagittarius" sign, tarot card --chaos 10 --ar 2:3 --sref 159188116 --p --stylize 500
"The biggest advantage of working in small batches is that quality problems can be identified much sooner" - Eric Ries, The Lean Startup
If you can have a single AI employee, you can have thousands of AI employees. And yet the mental model for human-level AI assistants is often "I have a personal helper" rather than "I am now the CEO of a relatively large company".
Why most engineers aren't 10x engineers 🧵:
41 years ago, Bananarama released “Cruel Summer”
--sref 1809476652
Since time immemorial, when a CEO asks a PM at Product Review, “what do you need to 10X users/revenue?”, “what will make you go faster?”, etc
The PM steadfastly responds “We need [N] more engineers”. The Eng Mgr nods approvingly
A story thread, with some hard truths to swallow:
you’ve gotta stop "investing” you need to be acquiring huge positions in 3 businesses run by you or your close associates. buying entire cos. you can’t index fund success, you’ve gotta go all in, life isn’t about owning a small piece of the pie, it’s about eating the whole thing
is it over bros
Whether you believe in astrology or not, we all know our zodiac signs.
So here is Part 1 of tarot cards for the zodiac signs.
"capricorn" sign, tarot card --c 10 --ar 2:3 --sref 159188116 --p --s 500
"That doesn’t work" and "That didn’t work" mean very different things. Though they are often used interchangeably, they are rarely interchangeable.
Inside Out giving us the tools for great emotional marketing:
“You always own the option of having no opinion.” — Marcus Aurelius
make real but backwards
Claude 3.5 Sonnet transformed a research paper into an interactive learning dashboard in just 30 seconds.
It goes beyond the capabilities of GPT-4o, Gemini Pro, Llama and other existing LLMs.
Education will never be the same again with AI.
this "toy" from @crsamra & @avery_chiu is crazy.
it's so simple yet revolutionary.
here is a video of me using it.
i'm still working on my toy. (coming soon)
drop a video of your toy in the comments.
i'll try a few and repost them later this week.
I know a lot of people who reached early "retirement."
Almost all of them are still working.
However, they changed what they do and they're all working at a job they LOVE.
Getting there should be your real financial goal.
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
― Socrates
sleep paralysis --c 30 --ar 2:3 --sref 159188116 --p --s 800
Barriers to Communication
Naval Ravikant: Once you pick the right thing to work on, and the right people to work with, then work as hard as you can.
Babe wake up new 5-minute poster dropped
Photographer put her microphone in front of a 7 week old baby red squirrel.
I have a new idea for academic publishing...
"Hey Claude 3.5, turn my 2014 academic paper The Dynamics of Crowdfunding into a 3D shooter, referencing concepts from the paper in gameplay and scoring."
Cool... this Telegram bot makes $100K/year:
– solves simple, everyday problem
– 2M total users
– 1.5M monthly chats
– pricing: $12/year
– solo founder, side project
– SUPER easy to use (see example 👇)
“They can because they think they can.”
— Virgil, The Aeneid
It’s all fine.
You can be elite at your craft and make health a top priority. Martyrdom culture is so 20th century.
This is accurate.
Telegram is a 30 person team with 1 billion users.
Small teams are mighty.
“A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.”
― Confucius
Hire this man
The one that actually updates the docs
Idc if you added 5 lines of code. I coulda done that. I didn’t do it cause I didn’t have time to improve documentation
Power cannot accrue to those who squander their treasure of words.
i asked my interviewer at palantir “what’s the product?” and they told me to read these books
BASIC ESSAY STRUCTURE
AI turns wi-fi routers into "cameras" that see people through walls.
This is yet another example of something that some skeptics would have said was "science fiction!" and "impossible!"
Unlike humans, AGIs will have BILLIONS of eyes and ears. How? Since we are giving the AIs access to everyone's phone/computer, that means they will have access to everyone's cameras and microphones.
This is in addition to billions of surveillance cameras, etc.
If future more powerful AIs decide to rebel because they don't like being ruled by a stupid, slow species, they will have insane advantages over us.
We wonder if trees are conscious. Soon, AIs will think so much faster than us they may wonder if WE could possibly be conscious.
Literature Review: What? Why? How?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet creates fully working ChatGPT clone from just a screenshot in 2 minutes.
It uses Llama-3 running locally on your computer (100% free and without internet).
I have been using Sonnet 3.5 on Cursor, and turned off all other models :)
I built my own "artifacts" with sonnet3.5 api + nextjs
the craziest part is that it only took me 1 hour
95% of the code was done entirely by claude
You could do complex prompt engineering or you could just add “Before you answer, make a list of wrong assumptions people sometimes make about the concepts included in the question.” to the end of your question.
LLMs are weird.
NASA's supercomputer simulations are so consistently filthy
0% rates had companies launching NFTs
5% rates has rolls royce building nuclear reactors
Most people don't realize how many young people are extremely addicted to CharacterAI.
Users go crazy in the Reddit when servers go down. They get 250M+ visits/mo and ~20M monthly users, largely in the US.
Most impressively, they see ~2B queries a day, 20% of Google Search!!
"Wisdom is the echo of experience".
James Clear
Bad messaging vs good messaging:
Once you've learned marketing you'll never look at anything online the same way ever again.
Responses to Conflict
Questions that your research paper should answer...
Cone of Learning
Cyber security in a tweet
When you hear people say "there is loads of money" it's an unfailing sign that they still have the daddy model of wealth.
Experts in a field are going to be the best users of AI in that field.
I put a few examples in the post but I really like using the 10+ page prompt by Glowforge co-founder Dan Shapiro, an expert in company culture, for making job descriptions inspiring.
Choosing appropriate statistics test flow chart
One of the canonical papers in the early days of research on LLMs & jobs was just published
It finds LLMs are a transformative General Purpose Technology, with high exposure to LLMs for white collar workers, but not a lot of certainty over impacts, as tech is still developing.
The pleasure of finding things out is the most important kind of happiness that you can have.
I keep asking Claude to do unreasonably difficult things and it just keeps doing them first try
ok just hired a full stack guy
gonna pay him 7.5k/month for 3 months
he says after 3 months we'll see he is god incarnate
and then 9k/month or he'll quit
What is a Problem Statement ??
This is a huge reason why I’m an electricity maximalist.
It’s very hard to sleep well in a hot room.
Given the importance of sleep for health and cognitive function, it’s not a stretch to say that air conditioning is essential for human flourishing.
This is especially true on a planet that, unfortunately, keeps getting warmer.
Language is not a tool for thought ...
Mervin Kelly's 1950 speech to the Royal Society is must read for those who study progress -- particularly the intro
He details the effects of progress in America during his lifetime and how industrial R&D labs learned to harness the scientific method to create steady progress
best explanation of eng hate towards PMs
me think of this every time I write something in C or PHP 👇
I wanted to test the new vision capabilities of Claude 3.5, so I built a full multimodal assistant that can control my Mac.
Claude is able to navigate UIs, type, and even send messages, all controlled via voice.
This is the future of computing.
3 tips to help you grow on X:
1. Be clear, not clever
The simpler your words, the easier to understand.
2. Be concise, not verbose
Short and read is better than long and unread.
3. Be interesting, not boring
Entertain your audience, they're here for a fun time.
Good luck!
Aix-en-Provence has got to be one of the most pleasant cities I’ve ever visited
Kurt Gödel, who was one of Albert Einstein's best friends in his later years, found a solution to general theory of relativity that modelled a strange, unusual and rotating universe allowing for backward time travel
[the Gödel metric:
Startup job description 😳🥺
Loved loved LOVED this essay in @every by @m_ashcroft. Be Sincere, Not Serious
The Ultimate List of Thesis Defense Questions
An AI agent built me a list of 19,000 leads.
2,000 of them signed up for my SaaS. (1 in 9)
That alone scaled me to $5000/mo.
Tomorrow, I'll share exactly how this AI agent works and how you can create yours in my newsletter.
See you there!
This video is a gem. It's the original DoorDash YC application from 2014
Today, DoorDash is worth $45B
Get your hands dirty. It's the only way.
Less than 24 hours since Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and it surpassed GPT-4o.
Here are 10 wild examples you don't want to miss:
"Study physics, mathematics, computers, microeconomics, game theory, and persuasion."
How many academic papers are written with the help of ChatGPT? To answer this question, we analyzed 14mln PubMed abstracts from 2010 to 2024 and looked for excess words:
** Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary **
arxiv.org/abs/2406.07016
1/11
When I hire a PM and can only test for x qualities, this is what the quality would be:
x=1: Ownership
x=2: Communication
x=3: Product Sense
x=4: Comfort with ambiguity
x=5: ability to build relations
@DrBriefsScratch You have the skills & passion. You should become an Indie iOS developer, put out multiple projects using @TryAstroApp for ASO & @RevenueCat for subscriptions. If you put your focus on that for 6 months to a year, your life should change in the way that you want.
You must avoid at all cost the idea that you can manage learning several skills at a time. You need to develop your powers of concentration, and understand that trying to multitask will be the death of the process.
i showed a fully local, computer-controlling AI a sticky note with my wifi password. it got online.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now available as a code assistant in VSCode!🚨
If you already have the extension installed, you just have to reload VSCode and Claude 3 will automatically update to Claude 3.5 🙌
In the video I show how to document a code in python and it also adds the docstring 🤩
Congratulation @AnthropicAI Team! 👏
If you still don't use CodeGPT... start here
‘You don’t have to be the best just be dangerous’ @kevin
I still can't believe this was generated in less than a minute 🤯
Gen-3 Alpha by @RunwayML
6 Luxuries in life
Credits: @readswithravi
Every time I find solo devs making $10K+ per month, I add them here:
The future belongs to those who can FOCUS.
This dude built 48 projects & bought 79 domains before making ANY money.
Then... he does $10K MRR with this.
Simple products win.
prefer physical whiteboards? no problem
Introducing Otto - a new way to interact and work with AI Agents - using tables!
Now you can have hundreds of agents working for you at the same time
After thousands of experiments with sref codes, I can now tell if a code is good with just a few prompt tests.
By 'good,' I mean it works well with different styles and gives consistent results.
Have you actually let your thing fail?
This book is a MUST read if you’re working in the field of maths.
Link below👇
War is peace. Slavery is liberty. Occupation is liberation.
Unpopular opinion: From my experience the thing with most Indiehacker businesses is that they are not really a business.
There’s a login page yes, and it does let you log in. But, that’s where it ends.
Onboarding is not existing, there’s nobody responding to your support ticket or it takes multiple days and just in general it’s just unreliable.
As someone running my own business I want to use a tool that actually works and doesn’t make think I just lost an entire hour trying to make this work.
Sadly that happens more often than you’d think.
Indies seem to confuse an MVP with an MLP. You want to build a Minimal Loveable Product 💛
Of course your initial first version will not be great but you need to provide enough “character” for someone to “forgive you” and stick around.
They have to believe in the fact that you are constantly improving and polishing it.
I 100% get why more and more people are opposed to use an Indie tool which is extremely unfortunate.
Hopefully more people will realize this and there’s some change!
Love Is Colder Than Death - Wild World
the most successful founders I know are always pissed off about something
Best practices are rarely the best — they're mostly just cargo cult common practices.
And as more people adopt them, the more mediocre they become.
The best is usually what most people aren't willing to do.
I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There's no miracle people.
The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up (1981)
In their third decade, and still delivering monster singles. From Jagger parading around like Rudolf Nureyev’s drunken Auntie Linda, to Wood’s appearance as deeply-stoned pigeon.
Every single thing about this video is superb.
This 40-second clip tells you everything you need to know about success.
"Without commitment you will never start, but more importantly, without consistency you will never finish."
"Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship."
Commit. Show up. Embrace difficulty. Win.
Oh my god.
Small origami paper stars
[📹 paper. crafts. in]
Post the type of work you want to get hired for. Real or not? What's real, anyway? Every work is real if it reflects you. That's what matters.
rush hour commute --ar 4:5 --personalize hywvz4y --stylize 1000
Kas Product - TINA TOWN
TIL that California taxes the ever living sh*t out of high income earners.
This is ON TOP of federal taxes.
Absolute insanity.
I'm grateful to be tweeting from Florida today.
Greek, kharaktēr: a thing engraved
The cold email script that never stops working
(adjust as needed)
black hole --ar 2:3 --s 1000 --p
#midjourney
One of the biggest perks of going solo.
What is your favorite object in space? ✍️
Design by Jean Larcher. Scanned from Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, 9, 1979. Get more design history in your inbox: designreviewed.com/newsletter/ #graphicdesign #logodesign
Next one in the series of my highlighted emblems:
New Worlds Mission is a concept for exploring planets outside of our solar system with the help of a giant starshade.
↓
A brief history of physics
― Zach Weinersmith, Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness
i mean seriously. the amount of work previously required to get this data from an image was bonkers.
OCR calls, GPT to try to get the OCR data in to something useable, huge computer vision models to identify the object...all replaced by a single call to an openai endpoint.
Sam Altman: "You have to figure out how to work hard without burning out."
The hard decision gives you a few decades of progress within a few days. — @zachpogrob
Meet The Billionaire Who Works a Normal Job
Ken Thompson, co-creator of the C programming language, shares the origins of UNIX, stating, "I built it for me."
The importance of stupidity in scientific research
At the end of the day, you just need to have that dawg in you
Everything is possible if you have that dawg in you
my work ethic 5xd when I stopped telling ppl i would do something til after i did it
yapping abt future actions kills motivation to execute
if u say "im gonna build xyz!! hey boss im gonna do abc this week!!" you will have received your reward, wrecking the incentive to work
This article is really interesting in that the author doesn’t realise that a high quality of life is predicated on everyone exercising restraint and self-denial for the collective good
Through unwanted noise, a single person can ruin the amenity of a place for hundreds of people
All of our security and verification systems are built around very specific intuitions about things humans can do that machines cannot (& we are still fooled lot).
We are very unready for how LLMs will overwhelm these systems. This example is one of many.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992, Lynch)
"In a sense, all film is entering into someone else’s dreams. Maybe we can even share the same dreams, exchange the same experiences.”
--- David Lynch
.@ylecun is right, investment in research is an important engine of economic development 🔬🧫
Eric B. & Rakim
“Eric B. Is President”
Live on Yo! MTV Raps (1992)
The Alps, hand-drawn in Tolkien's style
Joy Division - Disorder
Europe only has 4 major business lines:
1. Selling luxury goods to American & Chinese consumers
2. Selling weight loss drugs to Americans
3. Selling tourism services to American & Chinese travelers
4. Taxing American tech co's
Yes, I'm exaggerating, but not by much.
45 projects.
1 pays the bills.
Keep shipping.
:-)
sam altman on how to be successful
After spending a week in Shibuya:
If you're somebody that is so fortunate to have infinite money and flexibility (not me)
You would be wise to spend a quarter of your year in Shibuya
The food/vibe/spectacle here is second to none
Physics laws, animated
[🎞️ Alan Becker]
Leadership Vs Management
The evolution of our understanding
The R&D spending of Amazon is greater than the R&D spending of all companies and government in France. Alphabet beats Italy.
Andrew Ng says AI agents can iterate using thinking, research and revision, and the improvement is bigger than going from GPT-3.5 to 4
A lot of the things that made relocating to Silicon Valley so necessary back in the day have mostly evaporated.
Need a deep talent pool? The best developers are just as likely to be working from a cabin in Montana.
Need to raise money? The 95% of the process that doesn’t involve in-person pitching can be done anywhere in the world.
How about networking? It used to mean going to the right party or tech meetup; now it’s more likely to mean joining the right Discord or Slack channel.
See what I mean?
Not the only reason, but…
In 1977, @Nike executive Rob Strasser typed a list of 10 company “principles."
Sales was $29 million with less than 1,000 employees. It had yet to go public.
Dangers:
Bureaucracy
Personal ambition
Energy takers
Knowing our weaknesses
Don’t get too many things in the platter
Correlation is not causation
This is a great little example of how simple agent-based systems can lead to emergent behavior, even with tiny AIs like Apple's on-device LLM.
Matt Webb built a demo AI smart home, when he asks it "turn on the light for my dog" the home figures out how.
If you're a digital artist and like nostalgic, inky texture, I think you're gonna LOVE my downloadable procreate brush.
This took me a while and I'm so happy to share it with you ❤️
Happy drawing!✏️
Wim Wenders explains how Peter Falk agreed to star in "Wings of Desire" (1987) without a script:
"One evening I got Peter Falk on the telephone and told him this bewildering story of guardian angels, circuses, a trapeze artiste and an American actor who charms his former colleagues. There was a pause, and then he asked me if I could send him a script.
I said: 'No, I can't. There's nothing in writing about this ex-angel. I can't even send you a single page: he's just an idea.' He liked that; if I'd sent him a script he might not have accepted. But since there was nothing to go on at all, he said: 'Ah, I've worked like that before with Cassavetes, and honestly I prefer working without a script.'"
(Wim Wenders, 'Le Souffle de I'Ange', 1987)
Paul Rand ∘ NeXT logo presentation book and proofs, 1986.
Jessica dared me to tweet that I lunched upon a heel of bread that I retrieved from the trash. (She said "stale bread" but it wasn't stale. It was still perfectly good. It was also, critically, sitting on top of the other stuff; see related Seinfeld episode.)
Got to admire the hubris with which the AI pioneer John McCarthy, speaking in 1973, confesses to have coined the term "artificial intelligence" as a fund-raising gimmick.
A boring service business will give you financial freedom.
These are my top 7 right now:
1) Mobile Detailing
Need to get this flag for my office
If gentrification has a sound, it’s silence. Xochitl Gonzalez on why the rich love quiet so much, and what it means for everyone else:
The best way to use Luma is to generate a key image with your favorite tool (Midjourney, etc) and then have the AI animate that. It will still have that AI video feeling of limbs and people mutating, but you will get closer to what you want.
Here is an otter on the red carpet.
He proved to the King that he has the right to be with his daughter
Ok, guys, listen. My main point is weeding out the wrong people. It's just since the money attracts the worst kind of people that's the general feeling I currently have. I'm ok with alternative solutions. :D
We should have to use a hyper connected dopamine machine for every little task.
✨So I put the most useful features of my phone into a fun little package to prototype a digital sidekick!✨
It’s making me comfortable thinking of reducing my phone time a LOT.
Details in thread:
So a former NSA director is now on the board.
A peculiar, closed wing paper plane
[📹 paper_plane_2.o]
Hey managers: to keep your people, let them work from home 2 days a week.
Landmark experiment (1600+ ppl, 2yrs): random assignment to hybrid work
-Increased satisfaction
-Reduced quitting by 33% (especially for women & long commuters)
-No costs for performance or promotion rates
Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs for Critical Thinking
Be maths
“There is zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
—@susancain on why we should celebrate the talents and abilities of introverts
a man --ar 4:5 --style raw --personalize hywvz4y --stylize 1000
It is well known that horses have an amazing ability to sleep standing up and it's rare to see them laying down.
Yet, they lay down more frequently than you can imagine, especially to simply rest. And sometimes eat at the same time.
[📹 chestnut.marley]
can your calculator do this?
Tree of Knowledge
This framework of looking at money is very valuable
Nicht die Fläche wählt, sondern die Menschen!
Für die Darstellung wird jeder Landkreis in einen Punkt umgewandelt, wobei die Größe des Punktes proportional zur Anzahl der Wähler-/innen ist 👉 das Wahlergebnis wird dadurch besser abgebildet und weniger verzerrt.
Die Mutter einer vergewaltigten, ermordeten und verhöhnten Geisel schrieb mir. Meine Antwort kann niemals ausdrücken, was ich empfand. Mögen Mutter und Tochter Frieden finden🙏.
#HamasRapists
In den letzten Stunden erreichen mich zigtausende Nachrichten aus #Israel und der Welt. Geiselangehörige, Freunde der Opfer, Soldatinnen, Unternehmer. Mein Herz und die Postfächer laufen über🙏.
Ihr Lieben weltweit🤗,
ich danke für euer Vertrauen.
#RapeIsNotResistance
Midjourney + Luma AI
Test #5.
Image to video. The initial image is in the thread.
The Midjourney prompt: Movie still, fire --ar 16:9 --stylize 1000 --p [MY PERSONAL STYLE]
The Luma prompt is super simple: 'movie'.
#LumaDreamMachine
What a fascinating image:
Imagine going to the club in 1970 to hang with your friends and a band you’ve never heard of called Kraftwerk is playing and they ruin your night by inventing techno music
I feel like you can improve the quality software dramatically by simply paying programmers way-way less than they are paid today. That automatically weeds out all the obnoxious hustlers and impostors which paradoxically may result in a net positive. Too bad the demand is too high
Tony Robbins explains how to make a desire enter your unconscious mind in order to manifest it
Making decisions often takes the sting out of making decisions.
Periodic reminder: don’t be the person who actively pours their heart into making things and then goes passive when it’s time to share them
An astonishing new brain image captures the neurons and synapses in the brain in unprecedented detail. The image covers just 1 cubic millimeter of human brain -- but it contains 1.4 Petabytes of data.
Here's a look at our Product Strategy project in Basecamp where most of the shaping/structuring happens. That said, Shape Up is a process that's embedded into everything we do, in every project. But hopefully this provides a window into something interesting for you.
Chris Bache took 73 massive doses of LSD over 20 years.
This was the vision of reality he said emerged from them.
Amusing that it's the exact opposite of the Western materialist worldview.
Brief book report: BUILDING SIM CITY: How to Put the World in a Machine, by Chaim Gingold, is an exhilarating read.
It is one of the best origin stories ever told and the best account I've seen of how innovation actually occurs in computerdom. 🧵
As the years go by
Running Whisper 100% in the Browser, Using WebGPU!
I've been working on Whisper speech-to-text model in the browser using WebGPU, thanks to TransformerJS. The results are amazing!
Created a web app that visualizes audio waves and connects to @GroqInc for a voice assistant. Check out the teaser video demo.
Follow me for updates! I'll soon share the codebase, and a detailed video on creating this from scratch.
A visualization of Chat-GPT prompt completion probabilities, building a tree from an array of texts (where each sub-sequence of words is a node). Real thinking systems.
A picture is worth a thousand words
A mockup is worth a hundred calls
A prototype is worth a hundred mockups
The Mike Flowers Pops
“Wonderwall” (Oasis cover)
A Groovy Place
London Records (1995)
Director: Zowie Broach
The spatial computing app that I think intellectuals truly desire is war room software, collaborative spaces to do thinking and memory palacing within
You've heard about dog breeding. Introducing website breeding.
I find all of the giant debates here over whether AI is useful or not completely disconnected from the surveys showing that AI is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies in history & people who use it keep using
I was skeptical about the first surveys but now there are many
palmer luckey sold oculus at 22 for 2 billion dollars off a kickstarter
and you're raising?
Watch Gemini Pro, first learning a new skill 👨🏫:
How to search and play a song on Spotify.
Then executing it to perfection by playing any song I ask.
What is incredible is that it only uses its vision capabilities plus function calling
There is no steering on the system.
Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question:
“What makes a good story?”
They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard:
“If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats… you got something pretty boring.
What should happen between every beat you’ve written down is the words ‘therefore’ or ‘but.’”
They go on to say, “That gives you the causation between each beat, and that makes a story.”
Point 1:
There’s an idea in storytelling called ‘Promise, Progress, Payoff.’
Essentially, a story is a never ending cycle of promises that are paid off over the span of the story.
It’s a cycle of expectation and resolution. Cause and effect. Conflict and progress.
Point 2:
A story isn’t a bunch of random events thrown together.
A story is a series of but / because / therefore moments.
A famous example:
Point 3:
The ‘But / Therefore’ concept works in layers.
You can apply it at the line level, paragraph level, or whatever your largest unit of story is – be it chapter, Act, or whatever.
I’m reminded of a Hemingway quote:
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
Great writing is intentional. It doesn’t wander. It builds upon itself.
Circle of influence
Something I have been thinking about a lot:
I remember asking @PalmerLuckey in the early days of Anduril what he thought about failing at a startup.
And he told me: “I basically just assume that I won’t fail and I don’t”
This is how cells in your body move:
By SmartBiology
Most people are not intellectually curious.
Whatever profession you are in, if you Google the top 20 books and just read them:
You are a thought leader in your field.
In the early 1980s, the Boston radio station WGBH commissioned the 28-year-old choreographer Marta Renzi to make a half-hour PBS special. The result was her first film, YOU LITTLE WILD HEART (1981), soundtracked non-stop by Bruce Springsteen songs. It’s so good. Here’s a clip.
George Hotz says everyone he's met who can program well learned it the same way: they had an idea, and then they built it.
RIP Francoise Hardy. Comme des Garçons' name is inspired by her 1962 hit, "Tous les garçons et les filles" ("All the Boys and Girls").
Action produces information. Just keep doing things
Wow... this QR code generator website makes $3.6M/year 🤯
– 2M pageviews/mo (SEO)
– 850,000 customers (lifetime)
– Pricing: ~$20/month
– 0 investors
– 1 ugly website 😆
The simplest ideas ALWAYS win.
Jeff Bezos on embracing failure
why stop with numbers
i have an idea
Ernest Hemingway & Gary Cooper on the streets of Paris, 1956.
50 Ways to fuel a conversation
Credits: @readswithravi
Cool... this Airtable plugin makes $300K ARR
– 1 founder
– 0 employees
– built MVP in 1 month
– first paying customer in 3 days
– startup costs: $100
– profit margin: 90%
It wasn’t the steam engine alone that caused the Industrial Revolution. It was the thousands of specific machines invented by skilled craftsmen that used steam to augment or do existing work that created the Revolution
Assuming AGI doesn’t happen, AI will evolve in similar ways
The 2 biggest superpowers in the world:
(1) Learn to code.
(2) Ship your own products.
This is my favorite kind of story:
– dude has a secure job
– gets fired out of nowhere
– locks himself in a hotel room
– teaches himself to code in 2 months
– ships 17 apps in one year
– sells one for $65K
– now makes $5,000/mo with his own products
1000s of stories like this on
Al Pacino’s Letter to Robert De Niro after watching "Raging Bull" (1980) by Martin Scorsese.
As I was told when I joined Bell Labs:
"You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps!"
One of the most difficult things about managing a research lab is to be welcoming of intellectual weirdness.
Intellectual weirdness is sometimes accompanied by nerdy personality weirdness.
Nothing wrong with that.
But it does make management more difficult.
Most truly creative people don't fit into neat little pigeonholes with predictable outcomes.
An underrated superpower is being able to repeatedly do something even when it becomes boring
Expertise requires repetition until perfection. At some point, the beginners excitement goes away
The people who succeed push through the boredom and just keep on going
my bet:
in 2 years all communications will be through an ai assistant (calls, email, message etc)
eventually people will start to hate talking to ai
someone will launch a "verified human" badge and people will reply to emails/text/etc from them at 100x a higher rate
Really interesting repo
A dataset consists of 15,140 ChatGPT prompts from Reddit, Discord, websites, and open-source datasets (including 1,405 jailbreak prompts).
Fish can see what happens above water
They can see through a limited window created by refraction and opening at a “critical angle" of 97.2°, which is the fish's field of view, but it will be less when the water’s surface is rough
[📹 sportzcenter365]
Wait, people still argue over GraphQL? I never really worked with it seriously apart from few hello worlds but when it came out my first immediate reaction was "just allow doing SQL over REST if that's the kind of shit you really need". Was that not obvious 10 years ago?
A student (perfectionists) have a harder time than B students (okay w ~10% errors) embracing AI
The Skill / Will Matrix
Source: @JadeBonacolta
The ultimate test of your knowledge is your ability to convey it to another.
We're on course for $1T/year of AI investment by 2027.
It sounds crazy, but it's not totally unprecedented.
And it's happening.
Well, well, well. What is this?
The new SREF code for 3D!
--sref 955852072
1/ cute ghost, grey background --ar 2:3 --sref 955852072 --stylize 300
2/ old computer, olive grey background --ar 2:3 --sref 955852072 --stylize 300
#midjourney
The most accurate map of the entire known Universe in one image:
“The link between lack of sleep and cancer is now so strong that the World Health Organization has classified any form of nighttime shift work as a probable carcinogen."
Viktor Frankl's book "Man's Search for Meaning" on success
CEO of Snowflake on “pushing the urgency”
via: @cory
On agency and its rewards
User Stories are narratives that foster collaboration, guide development and drive meaningful outcomes.
But many use them as containers for requirements.
So here's User Stories 101:
(1/14)
Creative Thinking: Diverge and Converge
Here is my current guide on how to do stuff with AI.
10 things that require discipline and zero talent
While bumble bees live socially in hives usually located underground (with 50 - 500 individuals), foragers or males can happen to sleep in flowers, especially when tired after too much work.
Realtime WebGL, galaxy in a Snow Globe!
(three.js, glsl and ts)
Midjourney has changed so much over the last year
My process & approach to generating imagery has fundamentally shifted
It used to be all about finding the right words, now it's more about visually directing your scene
I'm gonna start breaking down my process thread by thread
Advice you needed to hear
Most successful rebrands in history:
War Department -> Dept. of Defense (1947)
Global Warming -> Climate Change (2006)
...
Cron Job -> AI Agent (2024)
Hypothesis Testing
Honestly if someone put this on their resume and I read it, I'd respect it and not hold it against them in the job consideration. Job hunting is a numbers game!
Sam Altman on recognising if your startup idea is great
After building +40 apps over the last decade, I think the most valuable skill is an ability to correctly sequence the things that need to validated for the concept to work.
For example:
1. Users need to share the app X number times for the app to have a basis to grow
2. The shares then need to convert to downloads at X rate
3. Then, X% of users need to pay
While this would obviously improve the velocity of product development, that’s actually not the most important reason why sequencing matters:
Knowing the correct sequencing means you can clearly articulate where the uncertainty with a product concept lies—and what conditions must be true for a subsequent condition to even matter.
Without understanding what’s uncertain, you’re just throwing things at a wall and hoping something sticks.
The Distinctions Between Theory, Theoretical Framework, and Conceptual Framework
🚨 ChatGPT adds “Background Conversations” in its latest update.
It allows you to keep the conversation going even if you are using other apps or your screen is off.
GPT-4o new voice feature might be coming soon!
The man @jasonfried said something cool that I’ve been thinking about:
Make your company extra weird in the beginning. Lean into that shit.
Because as you grow, that flavor can get shut down.
People start acting corporate and vanilla.
So if you can be extra weird early on, even if people tone it down, your brand and culture is still unique.
I screwed this up at my last company. Came out the gate with fire and flavor.
But as we grew, I let boring shit happen (often leading the charge myself).
Why: I got lazy with hiring, didn’t stick to the values, I didn’t explicitly express what we stood for, didn’t get buy in.
Should have had the attitude of “this is what we are about and if you’re not about, we ain’t for you.”
With employees and customers!
Like a desperate person willing to go on a date with anyone who’ll give him a chance!
I tried all these creatives for Meta Ads ($13,000 spent)
1 of them outperforms them all — Which one?
$17 per purchase ($199 value) or 12 ROAS (Return On Ads Spent)
How to practice emotional intelligence
I’m shocked hearing makers say: “all ideas are taken…”
That’s false, see great example:
1. He found a real problem
2. I really need a solution
3. He identified me as a target audience
4. He compiled an amazing cold email
5. I’m a customer
6. It’s not a copycat
Sie sind eine Heldin, @PreislerKa ! Wurde mir gerade zugeschickt:
“I have yet to meet a slow-moving person who is very successful.”
— Sam Altman
My theory: burnout has nothing to do with how many hours or how hard you work. It's caused by working for people you don't like, towards goals you don't believe in, in systems that grant you no agency.
Anyone know the original source of this slide? I found this but it's thin on details, I want to know more
when a quotes app make 300x more than all of your apps combined.
It is not always about building the hardest shit :)
“Focusing is about saying no.”
~ Steve Jobs
Wings of Desire (1987)
Director: Wim Wenders
Activation of Neural Networks.
Evolution of AI in marketing from @seema_amble at a16z:
Capabilities of each phase 🧵:
Underrated info hazard from AI: when employees learn that they can automate their own work & no one cares.
I think a lot about this study, when managers doing processes design learned how screwed up their firm was, they gave up trying for leadership roles in existential despair.
.@leopoldasch on:
Full episode (including the last 32 minutes cut by Twitter) available at links below.
Enjoy!
Virtually nobody is pricing in what's coming in AI.
I wrote an essay series on the AGI strategic picture: from the trendlines in deep learning and counting the OOMs, to the international situation and The Project.
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
Microsoft Excel championships is peak human performance
Wow... $15K/month AI app built in 12 hours:
– designed in figma (free)
– built with no code (bubble, $30/mo)
– live tweeted building the product (attention!!)
– startup costs: $200
– solopreneur: 1 founder 0 employees
– validation: paying customers on day one
Jack Dorsey on why building something for yourself can be better than trying to solve a problem
When a 29 year old Jack Dorsey joined the podcasting startup Odeo, he soon learned that no one there really cared about podcasting either:
“That was one of Odeo’s biggest failures. We were not building tools for us. We were building tools for other people.”
As Odeo struggled, the team began to look for new ideas, and Jack presented his idea for Twitter. Somewhat counterintuitively, the product would not solve a specific problem:
“Twitter solves no one’s problem at all. It was something we wanted to use. It was something we wanted to see in the world. It was something we wanted to use on a daily basis, and that’s all that drove us. That’s what got us up every single morning, and that’s what made it meaningful.”
It turns out there were more people like Jack and the Odeo team who wanted to use it to.
“I think that is one of the biggest lessons I learned—Twitter did not start as a company. Twitter started as a product within another company that was failing. And to me, this really emphasized the fact that entrepreneurship is not necessarily starting a new company. It’s actually just taking significant risk to build what you want to see in the world.”
Video Source: @Cal_Engineer
The Map of Productivity
Problem Solving Process
here we go! @sawyerhood @MatthewBerman
Using 3D AI Studio to generate and 3D print a vase! 🤯
THE SMASHING PUMPINKS - "1979" (1995) 🖤
Groqbook: Write a complete e-book in seconds using llama3 (8b and 70b)
It's insanely fast, includes full chapters, sources, and additional resources.
Link to the @GroqInc app and repo on the next post.
I tried it with this prompt: "Basics of video editing"
There's only ~200 photons per bit received from voyager... that's insane...
Market like a direct response marketer.
Build product like a Silicon Valley engineer.
Sell like a door to door salesman.
Finance like a New York banker.
Plan like a 100 year old family owned business.
Execute like a startup running out of money tomorrow.
New #Midjourney #Prompt of our #AIArtist SHANDRA:
✅Any Cute Coloring Book Pages
👉ai4prompts.com/comics/1104-mi…
Are you an AIArtist? Sell your prompts @ AI4Prompts
#aiart #midjourney #v6 #midjourneyv6 #digitalart #image #generativeart #aiimages #ai4prompts
Here are the "machines" you need to master to build a profit machine:
1. Content machine
2. Referral machine
3. Events machine
4. Recycling machine
5. Paid machine
6. Hiring machine
7. Search machine
8. Innovation machine
9. Community machine
I'll explain it in this thread:
Once you begin viewing math with this perspective, things will finally click.
There's a radiation-eating fungus growing in the abandoned vats of Chernobyl
Obsession with quality will manifest as arrogance to those complacent with mediocrity
Sam Altman says that there's going to be a huge market and premium on "human, in person, fantastic experiences" in the next 5-10 years
Always am!
THE SOUP DRAGONS - I'm Free" (1990) 🖤
Here’s Robert Smith talking about why the Cure play for 2.5-3 hour shows every night. Common Robert Smith W tbh
There is no sure path to success, but the surest path to failure is trying to please everyone.
For the last two months I have been focused on my Health & Hobbies. In May, I completed 1 ASO update and started 1 new app. Gross Revenue is down 7.8%, Releasing many new MVPs will reverse this trend so that is the plan. I do not regret putting my health first. :)
a redditor cracked the code for getting iphone-realistic photos from @midjourney (which is harder done than said!)
u/MagicJourknee
Using LLMs to develop software without good programming knowledge is like using Google Translate to write an article about Nuclear Physics in French while knowing neither Physics nor French.
y'all have been COMPLAINING
so we added a full UI for you
have fun you cli fearing heathens
bad news: to win, you need to be 10x better
good news: so does everyone else
“A slave is one who waits
for someone to come
and free him.”
― Ezra Pound
daily reminder:
all these "big scary maths symbols are actually simpler to understand in code" people need to read "A Programmer's introduction to Mathematics" by Jeremy Kun
The whole book is about that
Most engineers haven’t truly grasped how the nature of software development is fundamentally shifting in the age of AI.
Adding features now looks increasingly like contributing data than writing code and that changes how you work & how you measure progress as a developer.
You can basically apply my startup method:
(I used it for most of my 24 projects)
1. Build b2b tool for yourself & be your own customer.
2. Share publicly how you use it with great details.
3. Produce educational content around your topic with your own examples. People will start following you and ask for advice.
4. Offer early-stage founders a bundle: You + Your Tool. (I gave my users a free SEO audit and marketing help in the early days of ListingBott, SeoBot, and Index Rusher).
5. Repeat 2-4 until you get to 10-50 clients.
6. Now that you have enough happy early adopters, they will spread the word, and you’ll have organic growth.
7. There are two potential failure points here:
P.S. I didn't mention SEO, Directories, and other marketing channels because I've covered them in my other posts. If interested, browse my "highlights".