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“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
— Aristotle
September 2024 · 507 bookmarks
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
— Aristotle
Well, @DHH made a good point at #RailsWorld in Toronto!
$250/month for only 2 threads - seriously? Ain't nobody got time for expensive servers when you can get better options for way cheaper. It's time to stop overpaying, everyone! 💰
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"USE INFLUENCERS BRO"
"USE INFLUENCERS BRO"
"USE INFLUENCERS BRO"
yet - it's painful to find good ones 🥲
HAD TO LAUNCH ✨ CREATOR HUNTER
A Directory of hand-picked Creators to grow your app
(no dancing allowed)
DM to join
"Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own." — Marcus Aurelius
The sexual tension between me and my potential
I hope this email finds you behind the wheel of a large automobile. I hope this email finds you in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife.
My usual experience with VSCode
👁️👄👁️
Did this just happen or
In the age of AI, the worst thing you can do is tie up your ego with the skills you developed, whether technical or not.
I uploaded 200 pages of raw court documents to NotebookLM.
It created a true crime podcast that is better than 90% of what's out there now...
And ends with the hosts debating the ethics of the genre 🤯
you can't exist without causing damage
so i put up a proxy on their app and guess what 270k coinbase engineers are calculating user's usage on client side. i blocked their log_tokens api and now i can access their all models without any usage restriction lol???
TIL that particle accelerators on a chip are a thing.
We humans are a crazy species.
Self-care life hack: if you feel a bit down/tired, paste the url of your website/linkedin/bio in Google's NotebookLM to get 8 min of realistically sounding deep congratulations for your life and achievements from a duo of podcast experts 😂
ADHD isn't a disorder, its a neurological type.
The same wiring that makes you distractible and hyperactive in todays world made you an elite hunter-gather
These "ADHD" genes were positively selected for until farming & peasantry became the societal norm.
"ADHD" went from being an elite advantage to a maladaptive trait. Hunter's mind, farmers world.
Modern life is a nightmare for somebody hardwired to hunt & gather:
The monkey that thrives in the circus has the opposite traits of the monkey that thrives in the wild. Its like putting a shark in an aquarium and wondering why it doesn't survive.
If you label yourself as disordered you’ll never ascend that label. Understand how your brain works and create a life that compliments those unique traits.
Some of the most successful & extravagant people in the world have ADHD and thats not by accident
The solution isn't amphetamines. Its reinventing your life to play games you're uniquely suited to play
ZIRP is over. Stacks like this are the way to go
Because coding will be largely automated, teams working on a piece of software will be tiny. This means no Agile, no Scrum, no Confluence, no t-shirt sizes, no poker planning, and no endless streams of idiotic tickets that take longer to open than to fix. All this nonsense will be gone.
Not every problem requires a SaaS solution.
Ignore the Indie Hackers in the ivory towers.
Focus on happy customers and $ in your wallet.
All nonsense about social persuasion comes down to a few things
>Being a positive person
>Being an optimistic person
>Being a confident person
>Take care of the image that you are projecting
Leave reading 48 laws of power to high schoolers
This is what gets the results
On a trip to Japan, ChatGPT advanced voice was incredibly useful.
Use custom instructions or say: “you are a translator between English and Japanese. You will wait for one person to finish talking and then translate into the other language. You will not add or say anything else”
Ken Thompson, co-creator of the C programming language, shares the origins of UNIX, stating, "I built it for me."
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
~ Steve Martin
The key to understanding the 1995-2000 Telecom Bubble.
Speaking uncomfortable truths is the best way to build trust in any relationship.
ChatMLX 1.0.0 powered by Apple MLX is out and new UI interface is simply amazing!
Great job @JohnMai_IT 🚀
Mark Zuckerberg: "Ship the app"
September 11, 2011
Yup @fatbellybella
Endorsed.
You’ll have less stress and more impact if you don’t call it a blog, on the site or to yourself. Occasional essays and thoughts, on the Internet, as the spirit moves you.
The era of incompetency is becoming a reality
>no attention spans
>no social skills
>no professionalism
>golden ticket chasing approach to life
>inability to stop comparing with others and their situation
>lazines
>entitlemten
Want to win?
Do the opposite
It was never easier
im learning. im building. my inner sisyphus is happy.
Take the credit when it is due.
“A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.”
— Confucius
Eric Schmidt, ex CEO of Google, says:
Are coming this year!
Oh, and btw: he also says within his lifetime (he is 70) will replace all programmers in the world.
So yeah, AGI 2025 feels pretty safe to assume.
The little claps? And when they patted the ground?! 😍😍
If your product is under $10 I will never buy it. $50 and I'll take it serious. $100-200 and I expect it to fix my problem.
Timing > Industry > Niche > Logo > Skills
No matter how good your aim, or how many arrows you brought, ain't no deer in Antartica
Got into FinTech few mo ago, auto-aim is on basically
Last Co was hunting EVERY SINGLE meeting pretending I was swimming in biz to hide commish breath
the smallest of touches create the mightiest of changes.
Yall need to try this style code! 👀
--sref 4199771363 --p dg2k8l2
#midjourney
Never take it for granted that your past successes will continue in the future. Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
Everything in the universe is moving !
Some constants in physics : ✍️
Wonderscape
This feels like home—or at least where I'd want to live if I were part of an illustrated world. Has anyone read Otherworld? Maybe we'll live long enough to make it a reality!
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Thinking about this one today
real
my cold email template
👋 [Name]
Hey [Name],
We automate doing [xyz job that you hate doing].
Interested in learning more?
Cody
The junior dev asked the senior dev “why are you pushing this code with no abstraction? What if you want to change it in the future?”
The senior dev responded “then I will change it in the future”
In that moment the junior dev was enlightened
OH at @ycombinator Demo Day, day 2:
"Our AI models predicted Hurricane Beryl's path far more accurately than any US Agency"
"We've created molecules that treat UTIs better than any antibiotics on the market"
"We convert bodycam footage into police reports, so police can spend less time on paperwork and more time policing"
"Our underwater data center requires 30% less power than above-land alternatives"
"We've built a new kind of weather balloon that collects 1000x more atmospheric data"
"Our robot will fold your laundry, put it away, and we have $1.8M in preorders"
...This is what acceleration feels like ✨💪
Doesn’t hurt asking, but im guessing if i publish this one day and its correct, i should get a nobel prize right?
>sub-linear energy efficiency
>O(d log d) complexity maintenance across the board
pretty sure i have just revolutionized computing forever. 👍 ♾️
Mordillo
How to do school with NotebookLM:
1. Record audio from class on your phone
2. Keep laptop closed. Just jot down short phrases to describe most important points
3. Upload audio and PDF scan of notes to NotebookLM
4. Ask Notebook to expand your notes with details from recording
Bonus: at the end of the week, create an Audio Overview from all your class summaries to review the most important concepts in podcast format.
(As of this morning, NotebookLM now supports audio files--and YouTube videos--as sources. And we've added easy sharing tools for Audio Overviews.)
This app just got 4k waitlist signups from a 15-second TikTok video
Founder-led content + Waitlist = THE fastest and cheapest way to growth hack to your first 10k users
350k views
4k waitlist signups for the app
>1% conversion rate
Keep it simple. Founder led content, just talk about your product. @Lillie__Sun is killing it, def one to watch
Full video below 🧵
Cinematic metallic monsters built for desert combat
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This style is optimal for sci-fi settings or disco inspired raves.
The choice is yours.
We're in the endgame now 🫡
One more square to $50K MRR.
No one tells you that work must be prioritized based on priority and energy required
>Creative work (creating - high energy)
>Mix between creative and manual work (innovating - mid energy)
>Manual work (no thinking - low energy)
This is how you get the most out of your work
FACE YOUR FEAR. ✨🙌🏽💫
Where does the #CIA invest their money?
Mainly #AI, #Cyber, and #Hardware. Apparently, they do a great job at #investing, as their portfolio doubled in a year.
Gemini 1.5 Pro is now the only frontier model in the @ArtificialAnlys "most attractive" quadrant for quality and price. 🙌🚀
RouteLLM - Automatically routes your query to the best LLM
Combines the chops of o1, Sonnet 3.5, GPT-4o and Gemini!
Super Intelligence in the making 😄
Heckin wimdy
People are struggling to understand what this means, thats fine, its on me to explain.
This means that im representing information as a weighted learnable “quantum state”, these states evolve and mix, creating new information gracefully.
Interested in NASA’s search for life in the universe? Want to know more about the people and missions uncovering the mysteries of the cosmos?
Dive into our astrobiology graphic history series this #NationalComicBookDay! Download issues 1-9 here:
Goodbye Google Ads!
TikTok just announced Search Ads Campaigns.
Now you can run keyword based ads on TikTok
To think we were celebrating 100 tokens per second just about a year ago on Llama 1! 2078 is quite the leap.
It begins.
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What it’s like being on twitter for 6 seconds
A woman’s whimsy is correlated to her level of stress. More stress, less whimsy.
If you want playful, charming, enchanting women, minimizing stress is key.
Crazy stuff is happening on reddit
you could remove any manager and add llama2-uncensored in its place. it will ask constant quality questions about the project in a much higher grade of importance and relevance than any current mid level manager could ever do.
Imagine a massive celestial bubble made of ice and dust surrounding our Solar System. That’s the Oort cloud and this is its scale.
The Oort Cloud lies at the very edges of the Solar system. Even the farthest ones which are still working, like Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons didn't go beyond the cloud.
Long-period comets, taking centuries to orbit the Sun, provide evidence for the existence of the Oort Cloud. Scientists believe this vast region is the birthplace of these cosmic travelers.
The worst prison in the world is having the talent and intelligence to achieve something great but lacking the courage to go out and do it.
I have successfully ran a hyperdimensional network running a learning algorithm into images, this allows for insane depth, i can run it up to 2^20 dimensions (1million>)
But i need insane amounts of storage to run it that high, over 4 terabytes of memory
Good observation
"Practice even what seems impossible." — Marcus Aurelius
1 post a day.
don't stop shipping.
have fun.
Feels under-remarked on that the top 3 AI labs respectively forecast "full" AGI (or in the case of Anthropic, AIs that are autonomously replicating, accumulating resources, “have become the primary source of national security risk in a major area”, etc.) in 1-4, ~6, or 6-7 years.
The median base Member of Technical Staff salary at Anthropic and OpenAI in the last two years are both ~$310k. This doesn't include equity grants.
Median engineers at these companies are well clearing 7 figures a year.
A good life is 2 good decision every year for a decade. A great life is 3
It’s wild to enter my 30s and see how their decisions in their 20s have brought them here.
Throwing Muses
“Not Too Soon”
The Real Ramona
4AD Records (1991)
Started flipping this over the weekend and now I can’t put it down. Bring industrial design back.
Why does networking matter?
If I got fired right now, I’d have at least 3 people willing to hire me by the end of the day.
Thats not even counting the folks who’d just refer me into an interview process.
That should be your goal.
Here is why @Kling_ai Motion Brush is absolutely insane!
We can literally control 3 different subjects at the same time and Kling understands how they should move, this is scary.
But the thing that really blew my mind is the car that's coming towards us actually avoids the red car we're controlling!
Prompt:
[Car driving, man walking, dog walking]
For years, Russia has used hybrid warfare tactics to disrupt governance, sow division, and undermine physical & economic security across NATO.
These attacks have become commonplace, but they must be treated as part of a shadow war 🇷🇺 is waging against the democratic world.
🧵1/7
Give Yourself 3 Months:
What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth.
make something you want
Harsh truth: Your first app probably won't make it. You still have to develop and release it anyway, so you finally get to the second one!
It can be tough to "abandon" your first project, but after a while, you must face that it would be better to focus on something new.
building = fun
marketing = $$
After trying Cursor, I realize the value of 80% of my technical skills dropped to zero.
The leverage for the remaining 20% of skills went up by at least 10x.
bryan johnson is the perfect ex mormon - transhumanist that follows a near religious regimen of self control
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Born to tell the truth, forced to yap
It's the thought that counts!
Try this!
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Admiral Zheng He's ship (larger one) compared to the ship of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.
😎
✨🙌🏽💫
Brian Eno: [On 4 tabs of CIA Acid and 3 grams of columbian coke] They took it man. They did it. I swear to God. The whole mountain.
Hallucination of Sun Tzu: By force, surely.
Brian Eno: [grinning] I'm about to blow your fucking mind dude
Digital artist Polyfjord animated the theme of Tetris in a captivating luminous musical score.
[🎞️ polyfjord]
.@naval: If I look back on my life, almost everything great that I managed to pull off—great by my own definition, not by the world’s definition—has come from following my own natural intellectual obsessions.
So I think if you can get obsessed over something, and if you can dive into it, just let yourself go and learn everything about it with no motivation other than just wanting to know the answer, that becomes the basis for all of the so-called “self-improvement” out there.
You have @bryan_johnson here somewhere. He’s obsessed with not dying and aging. Well, he’s obsessed, and that’s great. He’s following his intellectual obsession, and we all get to learn from that.
You’re following your obsession with the network state, and there are people out there following their obsession on AI, on crypto, and on history—Roman history, whatever it is. But if you get obsessed with something, you can figure it out to a detail that other people don’t. You can satisfy yourself. If you go deep enough into anything, you find the same commonalities, you find the same philosophies.
As a weird aside, I’ve gotten into photography recently. Don’t ask me why, but it’s just a way of combining art and science, being social and antisocial, doing something utilitarian. But sure enough, I’m obsessed with photography. I’m reading all the philosophical photography blogs where the authors talk about the meaning of life, art, science, and so on.
If you go deep into anything, you’ll find the same common threads. And so, I think self-improvement really just comes from letting yourself be who you are—following the things you truly want to follow, figuring out what you want to figure out—not worrying about what others want or think. And then, you kind of find yourself in the same place at the end, no matter which route you take.
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do not, my friends, become addicted to cracked engineer culture. that way lies building mountains of cancerous abstractions that amount to nothing, yakshaving for decades until you are forgotten by history. follow instead your natural curiosities and your pursuit of divine glory
emotional damage
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Vorbildliches Verhalten, an dem sich andere Mannschaften und Fans ein Beispiel nehmen können. @werderbremen zeigt klare Kante: Der Verein hat erneut auf das Schicksal von Hersh Goldberg-Polin aufmerksam gemacht.
Der 23-Jährige wurde am 7. Oktober beim barbarischen Terrorangriff der Hamas als Geisel genommen und nach 330 Tagen in Geiselhaft grausam ermordet.
Es ist herzzerreißend. Jedes Bild und jede Geschichte. Du wirst niemals vergessen. 🎗️
all-time hit
--sref 680572301 --personalize kzilt9y
taste is cultivated through an endless stream of creation, not consumption
Google's new NotebookLM generated a "podcast" from a bunch of PDF links on mechanistic interpretability. Is this the beginning of the end of podcasting? Very innovative work from @labsdotgoogle
Beautiful retro vibes 💘
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If you are smart you have a moral duty to be an aggressive asshole
Because idiots are already doing this, without qualms, spreading influence and taking up valuable mindshare
Stop sitting on the sidelines and waiting for someone else to make the situation better
Fight for it
hell yeah 🗡️
i'm convinced some people go into programming to express things (à la art), to discover things (à la science), or to solve things (à la engineering), and these are the roots of philosophical divides between languages, priorities, working relationships, and value judgments
Backpropagation by hand✍️ ~ spreadsheet. I designed this exercise to show it is possible to calculate backpropagation for a non-trivial, three-layer network by hand. p.s. I just started this community to share useful resources on AI math. 👇 Join the community.
"Our generation thinks it’s cool not to care. It’s not. Effort is cool. Caring is cool. Staying loyal is cool. Try it out."
~ Post Malone
To get leads in any niche:
1) Make something good
2) Advertise it
3) Trade it for contact info
To make money:
1) Follow up with them
2) Offer them:
A) More of that thing you gave for free
OR
B) More help using that thing
For more leads, do more step 2 or make 1 better
"A Baba Yaga drone came, dropped cookies and a life jacket": unique footage of how the Ukrainian Armed Forces saved a Russian soldier abandoned by his command.
A drone spotted 22-year-old Russian marine Andrey Alimov on an island in Kherson region. He was holding a piece of paper saying: "Can I have something to eat? It's hard." As it turned out, he was given one field ration for three weeks but was abandoned for three months. He ate frogs, reed roots, and drank water from the Dnipro River, hoping to be rescued.
"His faith disappeared when he was shot in the leg, and he was fed with promises of evacuation for another two months. When his leg got really bad, he came out and surrendered to a Ukrainian drone," journalist Yurii Butusov, who posted the video, wrote.
WAKE THE F*** UP shouts Jocko as I rise leisurely at 5:51am
HAVE FUN STAYING SOFT taunts David Goggins as I finish a light 3 mile run
DOES THAT THING COME IN MENS roars Joe Rogan as I step into a balmy 40°F shower
SLOP SLOP SLOP tweets Yacine as I fire up VSCode to write some Python
YOU PEASANT scoffs Tim Ferris as I start into my 5th hour of work for the week
WHAT DID YOU EVEN GET DONE scolds Elon Musk as I leave off after the 50th
THE WEST HAS SURELY FALLEN bemoans Jordan Peterson as I crack open a scifi novel
WHAT ARE YOU A LESBIAN mocks Andrew Tate as I kiss my wife goodnight
Wondering how to run laps around your peers in the future?
Bet on social skills
The bar is so low these days
That it has never been easier to impress people and build connections with a bit of practice and understanding of body language
Chapter one.
probably the most important essay you need to read as a designer, creator, founder for the upcoming era
“in a world of scarcity, we treasure tools.
in a world of abundance, we treasure taste.”
Nonrelativistic Schrödinger Equation
@usgraphics Made up words can be adequate for d/b/a or product lines but are fundamentally meaningless companies, e.g. "Avaya".
Topical word salads are better, e.g. Aerojet Rocketdyne . . . but too many of those muddle an industry.
However, nothing goes harder than founder/place and role:
The secret to doing anything you want is literally just saying to urself "let's see what happens" & being genuinely curious to experience it all unfold
Curiosity = one of most powerful human forces on earth
Allow it to override all other emotion. U will look "insanely confident" 2 outside world, but u r really just super curious
What!?!? THIS IS CRAZY
Guess I’m signing up for Kling
Meet the Social Design Agency (SDA), Russia’s newest weapon in the information war: a Kremlin-linked agency churning out 40,000 propaganda pieces in just four months, with content reaching as far as Elon Musk’s Twitter feed.
Inspiration comes on the twenty-fifth attempt, not the first. If you want to make something excellent, don't wait for a brilliant idea to strike. Create twenty-five of what you need and one will be great. Inspiration reveals itself after you get the average ideas out of the way, not before you take the first step.
My favorite thing in AI right now 🔥🍿
The only thing that separates successful people in this online business world is... speed.
How fast are you willing to exhaust your idea, so you can move on to the next one?
I see a lot of ppl tinkering on an idea for months... years... before even getting the courage to get some eyeballs on it.
It makes me sad bc this is such a simple fix.
Wow, Google's NotebookLM is insane. I asked it to generate a podcast from my shell script blog from last week.
It generates a novel conversation about the topic that adds color, nuance and context not present in the original post 🤯
half my consulting deal flow is 'ok so i'm getting a lot of pressure from the board to start investing in ai'
One of THE largest personas datasets dropped in @huggingface 🤯
21 Million rows and 142GB 🤯
FinePersonas contains detailed personas for creating customized, realistic synthetic data.
So now you can integrate unique persona traits into text generation apps.
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What's a Persona?
A persona is a detailed description of an individual’s characteristics, background, and goals, designed to reflect diverse identities and experiences. In the context of FinePersonas, each persona represents a unique set of attributes that can enrich synthetic data.
For example, a persona might describe:
A network engineer with a focus on routing protocols and preparing for Cisco certification exams, particularly CCNA.
How capitalism views catastrophic climate + ecological breakdown:
Just another 'business opportunity'.
90% of products can be built by one generalist who moves fast + A.I → In 5 years indie hackers will dominate the startup world.
Friendship is the key to new adventures.
Moo deng is never dry or calm😭
Corporate comms in a nutshell:
😂🤣
Feynman on the Scientific Method
"According to the Vedas, the universe in which the earth is located consists of a fourteen-layer planetary system.
The planets themselves are divided into three categories: higher, middle and lower planets. The lower or infernal planets are places... for the purpose of rectification.
The middle planets are the earth-like planets. The higher planets are those celestial kingdoms that people sometimes call heaven.
Beyond all these planetary systems is the kingdom of God, the spiritual world, which by its nature is not material and has nothing to do with the material world."
~ Bhakti Tirtha Swami
✨🙌🏾💫
you know what your company needs more of? high agency individual contributors
Israel didn’t intercept the pagers. It built a fake company and manufactured the pagers themselves.
Imagine the paranoia that must be running through Hezbollah now. If Israel can do this, what it can it do in a war? No wonder they’re so afraid to escalate.
I wanted to convince my team that we should build an app, and rather than describing it and doing wireframing, etc I decided it would be faster to just build a full prototype w/ @cursor_ai + @Replit and send them a deployed link.
Heres a video of that.
00:00 Introduction and Initial Setup
02:36 Firebase Configuration and Error Handling
06:47 User Experience + Note Management
12:29 AI Integration and Draft Creation
14:07 Template Management and Customization
17:23 Final Adjustments and Testing
27:25 Deleting Lists and Drafts
28:13 Template Type and Data Entry
29:07 Creating and Testing New Notes
29:22 Handling Errors and Debugging
30:23 Adjusting Note Layout and Design
42:19 Voice Note Feature Implementation
48:05 Final Adjustments and Testing
Many constructs created for human programmers will disappear because of AI coders.
Why does code have to look like alphanumeric characters at all?
if you're a cracked autist time to pivot to jacked himbo
If you don’t know what to pursue in life (right now):
Pursue yourself.
Pursue becoming the healthiest, happiest, most confident, most present version of yourself…
If you do so;
The right path will reveal itself shortly thereafter…
When in doubt;
Always bet on yourself.
Trying to understand a codebase? This technique BLEW MY MIND.
@retomeier told me to try uploading a code repo (after flipping all files to txt) and asking @GoogleAI NotebookLM (notebooklm.google) to make a podcast from just the code. It did, and it was crazmazing.
NotebookLLM grokked a rough essay I wrote about "Evolutionary Simulation Theory." It's hard to argue this isn't demonstrating near-AGI level cognition. Insane.
I doubt many humans would unpack this as well as it did here. Countless ways to misunderstand it, but it didn't.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. The #1, #2, #3 deciding factor of a startup’s success is the shipping velocity.
Companies have no long term moat, the only moat is a fast shipping culture.
I could watch this for hours
Contant courageous action is how you take back your own soul
Otherwise your just living shackled to the social approval of others, which is rather depressing
Express yourself
Why is nobody talking about how just 125 - 300mg of magnesium per meal reversed depression in just 7 DAYS?
Magnesium deficiency causes neuronal damage that can manifest as depression and over 50% of people are deficient.
Magnesium is incredibly cheap and has little to no side effects.
TypeScript's 'readonly' property kind of sucks.
It's extremely easy to break - just pass a readonly property to a function that expects a mutable one, and mutate it.
Fortunately, they're planning to fix this with a flag in the next version.
If you don't do it every day, you're not obsessed.
If you don't wish you were doing it when you're not doing it, you're not obsessed.
If you don't crave getting back to it when you're busy with something else, you're not obsessed.
In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools.
In a world of abundance, we treasure taste.
Ginger boosts blood flow to the balls and sperm volume 36%
Just sayin
"if you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you’re gonna have a bad time"
A great way to get clarity on something is to fast for it. If you want an answer to something, fast for a day or two with that intention. Answers reveal when your mind, body and energy are clear.
Suffocate people with free value until you become undeniable.
That's the reality of organic growth and true audience building that few are ready to embrace.
Meet Moshiko and Moshika, the open source Moshi models 📖🟢. Moshi is a 7B text-audio model, capable of doing full-duplex conversations: it can listen and speak at any time. Plus, its inner text monologue improves the generation 💬 All on device🧑💻
🔎
"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly." — Marcus Aurelius
What is stopping you from:
1. Screen recording your processes
2. AI-generating an SOP with Loom
3. Asking GPT-o1 what can be automated
4. Using Cursor to automate those pieces
Your outer world is a direct reflection of your inner state.
Be delusional.
The difference between working under a female manager and a male one is so massive in terms of empathy levels, communication, and boundaries.
Once you've experienced it, you'd never want to go back.
You feel miserable because you live out your history ― not your imagination.
Loser: “if I cold shower, meditate, journal, and optimize my sleep I’ll make it! I’ll also learn some dating skills and try to be a well rounded man!”
Winner: “GET IN THE FU*KING GAME. DAY AFTER DAY. NO MATTER WHAT”
Ok, wow, I'm really impressed and I've spent the whole morning looking into this space and the game itself.
So it does look like there is this one Italian guy who started to create a mobile game portfolio in 2017 and now his games are getting millions of downloads A DAY.
His latest "Offline Games" hit is not even 1 year old.
Revenue-wise I'm not sure, but with all apps combined, I wouldn't be surprised if he would be making easily $500k-$1m+ a month (@theshanal says it's $100k-$200k a day)
Not sure if he has a team now or if he's still solo, but his games are wildly successful. At the best part? It looks like it's mostly organic and he didn't really invent anything new with his games.
I didn't find any paid ads for his games (SensorTower also didn't display any), so I wouldn't be surprised if it's 100% organic.
How did he do it?
1) While his games aren't innovative, they are high quality. He enhanced existing games and made them easily accessible from one app.
This is something I keep repeating -- you don't need to be innovative and come up with something novel. It's enough to take something existing and create a better version of it (+and then nail the distribution he he -- I know, easy to say).
2) He nailed the distribution. I've seen "offline games" trending for years on the app store, but it seemed that very few apps targeted the keyword directly in the title (?). He repeated this for some of his other apps as well. Created an amazing game and put the main keyword in the title. He also localized them properly.
He also owns SEO search results, just search for "no wifi games".
On top of that, he cross-promotes his games within his game portfolio which drives even more traffic and helps with ASO and SEO.
3) His apps are user-friendly. They don't have aggressive monetization tactics. They work as advertised and the ads are not that annoying.
7 years in the making and he nailed every bit of it -- I assume that came up with years of experience in this space.
Perspective.
Lisp version of the superPrompt just dropped, this one is fresh and clean
(Link below)👇
To colonize the oceans, envision constructing genetically engineered, self-sustaining bio-dome structures modeled as massive jellyfish--designed to cultivate robust ecosystems that regenerate and support life in harmony with marine environments.
what it’s like living in sf right now
For Hezbollah, the loss of 100s of men, the castration and maiming of perhaps 1,000s more & the total destruction of their comms network is just the start of the pager attack:
Israel has the location history of all their operatives. All their infrastructure is mapped. Oops.
It was literally an attack on personal devices given only to operatives of a terror organization. That's the definition of a targeted counterterror attack.
software engineering is basically just 95% training to not get frustrated and training to never give up. literal dumb naruto hokage shit. most people just can't do it
Finally excited to ship Otto!!
Otto lets you use AI agents within tables to automate hours manual research in a few minutes
Here's my quick breakdown of how to use it, with some real world use cases
I put together a new list of 37 of the fastest-growing startups (based on recent hiring rates) backed by top-tier funds. All have <50 employees and are hiring:
Your purpose is not found, it is created by doing things that feel fun and useful.
Google’s NotebookLM is crazy good.
My mind is blown by the accuracy of the summary, the human voices, the banter, and the conversation. 🤯🤯
I gave it an 1,814 page CFPB Examination and Supervision Manual - one of the most boring topics for most.
It consumed those 1,800+ pages (imagine the context window size) and spit out a great conversation in a few mins.
I can’t distinguish it from a real podcast, it actually is than the ones out there.
I can’t imagine what the next 12 months will bring us.
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See how to upload CSV files, analyze them, and get tailored Python code to derive insights, powered by Groq
You want to be paid purely for the quality of your thoughts.
The 8th habit of highly effective people:
They don’t spend all their time reading about the 7 habits of highly effective people.
Extended reflection without action is a form of procrastination.
Doing is a catalyst for thinking and learning.
I just started Friendship Board, feel free to add yourself.
Drop a comment if I can find you there.
About a year ago, I built a (free) Clay alternative in Google Sheets.
Here's everything it can do:
➜ Finds a person's LinkedIn profile
➜ Finds company phone number
➜ Finds company website
➜ Finds LinkedIn link
➜ Finds Twitter link
➜ Finds Instagram link
➜ Finds Facebook link
➜ Finds company email
➜ Finds state from phone area code
➜ Checks phone number reputation
➜ Gets company name from LinkedIn
➜ Removes "LLC", "Inc", or "Co"
➜ Cleans phone number
➜ Shows time zone for a state
After some small update, I'm releasing it again.
Comment "DM" if you want access
Sauna.
The best big money health investment you can make
Overwhelming data on the health benefits
3-5 times a week, 15-30 minutes
Musk’s great tragedy is that he has all the money anyone could dream of but will never have the thing he craves most of all: to be funny, charismatic and well-liked. Ironically, this is the only amusing thing about him.
ohh husbandt, you spend 2 sprints replacing a java/springboot microservice with zig instead of creating shareholder value because the anime pfps on X dot com told you to, now we are homeress…
What if you could have a personal agent inside of your browser? Ryan and I asked ourselves this question and gave ourselves a week to build it. The result: a browser extension that does what you ask. I asked it to buy toliet paper...
Hersh Goldberg-Polin was a huge @werderbremen fan.
This is the beautiful tribute they dedicated to Hersh at a recent match.
We will never forget you Hersh 💙.
My coming out "no friends" post has 4.4M views...
I was expecting that maybe a few supportive indie makers would leave some comments, a bunch more likes, maybe a few new people would show up and that's it.
In my wildest dreams, I hadn't expected these numbers of views, followers and most importantly, messages from real humans wanting to connect with me.
And now I don't know how to manage it. I don't even know what the amount is and how to fit it into my daily schedule.
What I do know is that anyone who put in the effort to contact me deserves even a simple short answer.
I think I need to plan some time-based sessions to sit, read and reply back.
This is exactly why I follow more than just tech bros on X.
Too much of that bullshit kills your will to live.
I need some variety, real conversations, and people brave enough to take a stand on contentious issues.
💫✨
I wanted to keep it private, just my own experience I'll hold in my heart forever but I just can't.
Something tells me that there's someone who needs to read this.
Cynical people will comment I'm doing this for self-promotion, they know better about everything, so I'll let them be the sentencing judge in my case but I know my truth.
I went to sleep late yesterday as I wasn't sleepy at all, since my "no friends" post started to gain more and more attention. So I was hoping that on Sunday I'd sleep longer to reduce sleep debt but I couldn't.
Spent some time hoping I'd fall asleep again but nope, I had to get up, it was almost 6:00 AM. I took my iPad where I have an app to read my weight and body fat to take measures and did something I never do.
I took it with me to the bathroom, I keep the scale in the living room as we have a small bathroom without much space, and felt the urge to just briefly check what's up on X.
I saw a few DM notifications, I went into my inbox and after a few seconds, a new message popped up! It was Andrew Huberman with the most absurd message I could think about at that time. It was so surreal I sat down on the toilet and started to breathe heavily.
I thought, it's a fake account but then how would it land in my main inbox? I tapped on the name to see, it was real.
My heart started to race, I was out of breath, literally a full-blown shock reaction. I didn't know what's going on with me, all I was able to reply with shaking hands was "Hi"
This lasted several minutes, I couldn't get back to myself for quite some time and then after I told my wife what happened to me (she's not using X and didn't know any details of what I'm doing here).
Then it hit me so hard, I realized what was happening...
My entire life I was carrying inner pain, numbing it one way or another and running away from it trying to be in control of everything that would disturb my protection.
When in recent months the pain grew to an unbearable level I stopped bullshitting myself. Became vulnerable in front of myself, in front of my wife and in front of you, the entire world.
I met with the shadow and made him my friend. I saw him, I heard him, I took care of him.
This started to dissolve old patterns, behaviors that kept me stuck in the loop of being a victim. So for the first time in my life, I could truly experience the emotional reaction of my body and mind this morning, at 6 AM September 15, 2024.
And here I am in front of you, with doubts and worries if I'll be understood, how I'll be judged. What Andrew would think about this. If he'd think that I'm a weirdo.
But I had to tell this truth for those men who got beaten by societal norms, by the system we agreed to live in.
*This post I dedicate to my one and only best friend I never knew I had. A magical human being who is staying behind me finding inner freedom.
Manuela, my wife, but she always hated not only this but all other labels we put on ourselves and others as limiting in our human nature.
We are all interconnected human beings with the same needs. Let's stop pretending we're not.
With love, Szymon. 🫶
"The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state." - Tacitus, Roman historian
@MatthewBerman Not all use cases are equally important. The 1% can produce more value than the rest 99% combined.
things you won’t regret doing
The person you will be in 5 years depends largely on this:
I've seen a huge normalization of occultism these past couple of months & just wanna ensure everyone stays safe 🫶
So if you're interested in the occult as a girl, you need to be even more careful.
First of all: real male occultists don't exist.
I have never met a 'real' male occultist in my life, it's an oxymoron. The real male occultists aren't mediocre middle-aged men sitting in some gay little clubhouse.
Know that most of these 'secret' clubs/orders are all fake & gay larpers. - Thelema, Freemasons, Hermetic Dawn, etc.
Bunch of gay loser larpers all of them, they won't teach you much other than trying to take your money and have sex with you or some shit like that.
and these twitter pseudo-occultists are even worse. I have never learned anything new about the occult from a big page on X, everything I've learned about the occult has come from my own studies & esoteric experiences.
tldr
every 2 weeks I wake up to this and I can’t believe I did this with my own 2 hands.
ship a side project folks, you don’t know what you are missing out on 🫡
EVEN WHEN EXTERNAL EVENTS ARE BEYOND YOUR CONTROL, INNER PEACE COMES FROM MANAGING YOUR REACTIONS, NOT THE CIRCUMSTANCES AROUND YOU.
This is what product/market fit looks like
🌻🌻🌻
The need for certainty is the greatest disease the mind faces.
I used superprompt by @BLUECOW009 to generate and analyze hypotheses for SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) mechanism.
I spent ca. 5 years on that topic when I was in academia and still few ideas Claude generated were new to me.
Nice prompt.
Things coming to midjourney v soon:
>ability to edit external photos
>larger grid sizes (batches of 8)
>new midjourney storytelling tools
>model personalization on by default
>midjourney 3D (move around in images)
>midjourney video model (image 2 video)
This will all happen before end of year
If you are not your audience, become your audience.
Everybody knows that you should "build for yourself".
But, sometimes an opportunity so ripe presents itself that you would be foolish to pass up on it.
This is exactly what happened with Umax (9m downloads in <1 year).
I knew nothing about looksmaxxing, so I became a looksmaxxer. Bought my first skincare, vitamin c serum, gua sha, and more.
I consumed the content, hung out in the Reddit forums, and began to think like a looksmaxxer.
A large proportion of our success can be attributed to the Madden style rating screen - the screen that has been repurposed in thousands of other apps too. We would have never come to this idea if we hadn't oriented our life around the niche.
Your probability of success significantly increases with domain expertise. If you don't already have it, speed run it.
Simple.
Make something already working:
Or all 3 if you go for gold.
A Kafka in the cloud doing 30MB/s costs more than $110,000 a year.
A $1,000 laptop can do 10x that.
Where did we go wrong? 👇
The Cloud. Namely - its absurd networking charges 👎
Let’s break it down simply:
• 2x for 2/3rd of the produce throughput
• 4x for 100% of the produce from replicating it
• 6x of 2/3rd of the produce throughput for consumption.
(but it can get a lot worse - read until the end to see)
Simple example:
The producers are producing 30MB/s in total to the same leader.
2/3 producers are in a different AZ, so 20MB/s of produce traffic is being charged at cross-zone rates. 👌
It’s charged both on the OUT (producer’s side) and IN (broker’s side).
The leader is replicating the full 30MB/s to both of its replicas.
This is again being charged both on the OUT (leader’s side) and IN (follower’s side), for both replication links. (60MB/s)
Then, each of the 3 consumer groups has 3 consumers.
All consumers read from the leader, with 2/3 in a different zone.
This results in 20MB/s of consume traffic charged at cross-zone rates PER GROUP. (60MB/s total)
Again charged both on the OUT (broker’s side) and IN (consumer’s side).
The total amounts to 140MB/s worth of cross-AZ traffic. Charged both ways.
When one MB is $0.00001/s, this means we’re paying $0.0028/s. 🤔
That’s:
It all goes down the drain on network traffic ALONE. 🔥
What about the hardware?
Quick napkin math assuming:
We'd pay:
That’s right - you’re paying just $26.4k/yr for the hardware and 88.3k for the network (3.3x the hardware)
For a total of $115k/yr. 💸
I’m not even counting load balancer costs, which could be $12k by some quick napkin math too.
How ridiculous is that? 😂
Want it to get more ridiculous?
This calculation assumes you’re hosting your own Kafka cluster in the same AWS account.
💡If you use a managed Kafka provider that’s not AWS, or otherwise just another AWS account, you’re typically connecting to them through a public endpoint.
AWS then charges all traffic at the cross-AZ $0.01/GB rate internet traffic rate, even if it's in the same AZ.
The end result?
$113,000 a year for network costs. 💀
For 30MB/s. (!!!)
btw - 30 MB/s is absolutely nothing for Kafka... 🤡
It is most often network/disk bounded.
Doing 3GB/s is not hard. 👌
The higher throughput you go, the more absurdly large this discrepancy between network and hardware cost becomes.
For example - this exact setup could probably do 3x the traffic (90MB/s), assuming storage space isn't a concern.
Then you'd have:
Why is this cost (more than 300k a year) and complexity (this calculation) the case when three laptops can run this practically for free?
Where did we go wrong?
Worth Noting:
There are a few optimizations that can be done here:
And perhaps the best example - you can use an ingeniously-designed product like WarpStream that eliminates all of this complexity and cost. ⭐️
It's no wonder they got acquired after just 13 months of operation.
Bay Area will make you feel poor at $7M+ net worth and a $1M annual income before 40.
Why?
Because everyone else has more.
Today im gonna test a initiation/activation/seed using real quantum random number generator from @CryptaLabs on a complex tensor!
Check my latest project release! (Link below)
7 Techniques to 10X your productivity:
1.
Discover your inner Tony Stark
Introducing compute.hyper.space - a new type of deep dive agentic interface. Powered by open source models from @AIatMeta @MistralAI; running on @GroqInc, or on your laptop or the @HyperspaceAI peer-to-peer AI network.
No filters. No bias. No subscription fees.
You are in control.
cc @SmokeAwayyy @karpathy @pmarca @arthurmensch @MatthewBerman
Gary can be challenging.
How to cook onion flowers
Just a reminder what the Palestinian leaders did to Jordan, Lebanon and Kuwait after those countries decided to welcome large numbers of Palestinian refugees
🇱🇧🇰🇼🇯🇴🇵🇸
In the next version of Bun
You can compile and run C in JavaScript
🚀im proud to announce my first software release!
ComplexTensor: A PyTorch extension for complex-valued tensor operations. Enables efficient handling of complex numbers in neural networks, supporting quantum-inspired algorithms and advanced signal processing tasks.
you can download it now with pip install complextensor
FEATURES:
1. Dual real-imaginary tensor representation
2. Complex arithmetic operations (addition, multiplication, division)
3. Complex-valued activation functions (ReLU, sigmoid)
4. Gradient computation for complex backpropagation
5. Polar form conversion and operations
6. Complex exponential and logarithmic functions
7. Fourier transform operations (FFT, IFFT)
8. Quantum-inspired operations support
9. Hyperdimensional computing capabilities
10. Efficient memory management for complex tensors
11. Compatibility with existing PyTorch operations
12. Custom autograd functions for complex operations
13. Complex matrix operations (e.g., dot product, matrix multiplication)
14. Support for complex-valued neural network layers
15. Serialization and deserialization of complex tensors
16. Added working superposition and entanglement algorithm
github in the comments!
Clearest path to $1M liquid in 2024:
1. Build a SaaS
2. Get it to $25K MRR
3. Sell it
Got a better one? I'm all ears.
There’s only one way to explain the Double Slit Experiment.
Time is not linear.
Just realized that they really labeled the number two.
This guy builds
Those “i made it moments” hit the hardest.
A lot of your 16 year old selves would be really proud of you right now.
You have to enjoy life guys, the grind is part of the blueprint.
Smile through it.
Ya, it’s crazy how the whole creative process has flipped
The idea "just because you can, doesn’t mean you will" has been stuck in my head all day
AI lets one person be all these different roles at once, which seems like it should lead to a wave of high quality work
But just scroll through your feed...the gap between what people can do and what they actually create is huge.
It's like anyone can pick up a paintbrush, but that doesn’t mean they’ll paint a masterpiece. Tools don't replace taste, vision, or understanding how things fit together.
Also, the idea that now, instead of being a specialist, you’re expected to be a one person creative team is a lot
Just cause you can do it all doesn’t mean you’ll do it all well. It’s a different skill set, learning how to integrate all these pieces together. Visuals, sound, narrative, etc
I feel like the whole AI explosion has yet to raise the bar for the average quality of creative work, it’s just given more people access to make stuff
And the fact that you can generate stuff with them doesn't make you a creative person or an "artist"
That still has to be earned
Just demo'd Replit Agent to a top VC in NYC.
He said: "CFOs are asking me what tech stack they should be using. I think they should look at this and ask what they should build for themselves."
“Stay small until you figured out what's working.” — @naval
🚨BREAKING: DOJ To Declassify Confidential Report On Entire Russian Disinformation Network Next Week. Publicly.
Underperformers want ease.
Midperformers want credit.
Winners want pressure.
@patio11 if shit sucks... hit da books!
I need a stable salary above $150k, access to a lab, access to compute, if you give me this, i will share with you all my original algorithms, we will create something never seen before. Together we will become part of history forever.
This will kill your career as a leader. (Not joking)
Some leaders lack basic business acumen that most learn in their first semester of Business School.
And it’s killing their career growth. If you want to grow as a leader, study these 6 models.
1. McKinsey’s 3 Horizons
2. Smart Insights Framework
3. Porter’s Five Forces Analysis
4. TAM SAM SOM
5. Ohmae’s 3 C’s
6. The GE-McKinsey Nine-Box Matrix
♻ 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 to be the hero of your network!
𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 Me, @fuel_YourGrowth for more Leadership insights.
Working capital, explained:
More often than not – your content isn't spreading because you aren't energized by what you've written.
And neither is your potential audience...
Focus on your message.
Not your metrics.
Designing and coding is wild.
You design something.
Then you code it.
Then you use it.
And through using it, you discover how it should truly be used.
So, you redesign it.
This has always been the way, but now, it’s more possible than ever.
“You can just do stuff” is the most important advice for your 20s
this is truly remarkable, gpt o1-mini outputed tokens 25> minutes straight with a simple prompt, outputing up 17,000 tokens!!
I have never seen an model continuously printing an answer for 25 minutes straight like this, this is a new paradigm.
“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”
—Mario Andretti
tfw o1 came out but not stuck on a complex problem and don't know what to ask
I've had access to @OpenAI's o1 for several weeks. My advice on using it:
1. Don’t think of it like a traditional chat model. Frame o1 in your mind as a really smart friend you’re going to send a DM to solve a problem. She’ll answer back with a very well thought out explanation that walks you through the steps.
2. Write your prompt in notepad. Plan out what you want. Explain all the steps – provide even more detail than you’re used to.
3. Use o1-mini for tasks that don’t require as much world knowledge but following things through step-by-step.
4. o1 tends to give me the parts of the answer and the complete response while o1-mini will give me the steps.
5. In my anecdotal and highly subjective experience, when you make corrections or adjustments, use patience in explaining what you need changed. Models that reason respond well to reasoned responses.
Fucking wild.
@OpenAI's new o1 model was tested with a Capture The Flag (CTF) cybersecurity challenge. But the Docker container containing the test was misconfigured, causing the CTF to crash. Instead of giving up, o1 decided to just hack the container to grab the flag inside.
This stuff will get scary soon.
future models will think for weeks.
don’t die.
Some of our researchers behind OpenAI o1 🍓
Here's a quick example of this:
I told Claude I want to create a clone of Gumroad in Laravel. Here's the high level SOP it created:
Then I asked it for an in-depth SOP on how to create section 5 (product management):
(note: it cut off b/c it was SO detailed so you may have to ask Claude to continue and get a second artifact)
You can use @ link in Cursor to pass the detailed SOP as context and it has a literal blueprint to work to.
I liked the artifact approach because it's pretty and useful for humans too, but I also tested doing this directly in Cursor and I think it works EVEN BETTER
Shall I do a video on that?
everything good you want in life is on the other side of genuinely forgiving everyone who has hurt you.
2000 years of philosophy won’t help you, forgiveness is the only thing
@ossanchezo replit agent + cursor + v0 + claude, ftw:
I just tested ChatGPT-5 (o1).
I can't believe the length of the answers.
There is no way an LLM is capable of this much strategizing.
My prompting was absolutely garbage, and I have an entire strategy.
Rules for being human handed down from ancient Sanskrit 🩵
The B52s - Rock Lobster
Every homestead should have an aerial embroidery of the land hanging on the wall
Martin Amis,
fourteen rules for writers (2009)
When you speak, always try to say as little as possible. The more you speak, the more likely you are to say something foolish.
about soft skills: you either need to become 10x smarter than you already are ASAP or you need start developing them, because the truth is: a lot of the cracked kids here are nowhere near cracked enough to warrant not having soft skills
“The lesson was to stop trying to extract value and start trying to create more value.”
As soon as Brian stopped forcing users to use the payment apparatus for his tutoring marketplace (10% payments fee was primary monetization), the website began doubling every year.
An easy way to make more sales is to simply remind people:
So many people forget this very simple thing. Squeaky wheel gets the oil.
Helpful perspective shift when architecting a local-first app:
Local-first perspective: How to build the best app for a single user or small group of collaborators
Traditional SaaS perspective: How to build a massive platform that scales to millions of users.
Data Science
user testing 101:
“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”
— Peter F. Drucker
x dot com is the only place where literal code goblins like me can interact with researchers and academics and argue about CS education and FP and Rust and Jai and Mojo etc for 3hrs dude it’s kind of insane
This guy @julianweisser is the hype man for founders.
Never seen someone just fucking care about people, help, and promote them the way he does.
In my 20 years in tech I've met maybe 3 people with this energy. You have his full attention when you speak with him, fully present.
Brag about others.
“All my life I have been in love with bad weather. The clouds calm me down; if in the morning, from bed, I see them pass, I feel capable of facing the day. But I could never learn with the sun;...The sun only makes me lie down, digest my darkness.”
~ Emil Cioran
Wow: Just tried PaperQA, an open source AI-powered literature review whose research paper claims it achieves "superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge"
I tested it against papers I wrote and it seems like the real deal, putting together a good summary with accurate details.
Tips for building more complex apps with Cursor:
Naval said "if you can be trained/there's a school for the thing, it's not specific knowledge", sth like that.
True for wifi biz. If people call themselves "we do X" or there's a course for it, it's commoditized.
Can still make it work, but don't expect 7-fig+ months
all my most successful friends (happy & 500k+ tc) are hot, rich and low iq. they make more money and are happier than many other people i know. in fact their success scales almost 1:1 the lower their iq is. i've never actually met a high iq person who is successful.
wow, I didn't even know it was possible to do screen capture from the web
chat-to-code: @cursor_ai composer, claude artifacts, @v0_dev, maybe replit
generalist web search agent: @perplexity_ai @ChatGPTapp
multimodality: 0->1 creator tooling (music, tts, imagegen, we use this full stack for @latentspacepod but video/heygen will be Good Enough soon. am a skeptic of ai slides)
fan-out research workflows (@elicitorg, @aomniapp)
RAG+ drafting: knowledge work specific “copilot” (@harvey__ai)
character: erotic or creator roleplay & imagegen/videogen
async workflows (@getlindy , @smol_ai, @wondercraft_ai) (retention bc it works daily while u sleep)
there are smaller-but-still-killer things like chat to pdf, extracting structured data from unstructured data, customer support bots, but feel like those arent as retention focused
@EsotericCofe Literally be a US citizen, pass DoD background check, have 4 year degree, and have a pulse. They actually have quite low standards and are inefficient, probably due to close relationship with government.
DEFCON levels go hard.
Going straight into Los Alamos Mono™ marketing materials.
From the Midjourney Style explorer
photo of {scene} --sref 4215492873 --p 9iet6da --sw 50 --stylize 50
Link to style explorer below
😂🤭
For defense startups have a decent technical background but understand the problem space really well (cost plus based primes vs "product" oriented startups). Reading "The kill chain" would be a good primer for this. Also understanding the Palantir vs US Army court case from 2018 would be bonus points.
Maxim #10: How much value you create for others and help them improve their lives and position is how you will ultimately be rewarded. The greater the value you make, the more you get in return.
"I do be do. 👁️"
not dreaming harder is being disrespectful to yourself
Pavlova is a show-stopping meringue dessert made of egg whites, sugar, corn starch, lemon juice, and vanilla extract.
This is a strawberry variant made by Cedric Grolet.
A good example being Loom. I just want to record my screen and share a link on X.
Why would I need to pay $$$ for that when I can replicate a screen capture app in 5 min with tools like @Replit Agent.
(I used the app to record the app lolz)
Better distribution beats a better product all the time.
You don't need to be the best.
You need to be seen.
Focus on getting your startup's story out there.
That's how you win.
"Ask your soul !"
Hermann Hesse
I think surviving the "AI wave" means being irreplaceable, which means if you're now just getting by as a dev, you probably going to be replaced by AI.
Real competent devs on the other hand, going to be very valuable
Stripe founder John Collison explains his product principle of “talking up to the user”
John believes current consumer product thinking can be harmful:
“You have users by the wheelbarrow. You treat them in aggregate. You talk about MAUs. Everything is statistical and everything - like LinkedIn with the dark patterns and complete your profile - is nudging you towards some business outcome.”
He continues:
“What we really try to clobber people over the head with at Stripe is that [our users] are people starting a business who are generally really talented… And you can just see it if you go talk to any of them. And so we have another value at Stripe that we try to really inculcate, which is talking up to the user.”
To stay connected to their users, Stripe will invite one user to their weekly fireside chats, and they have a conversation about how they use Stripe and what they’d like to see Stripe do better.
“I think it’s important to stay connected to this because I think the classic technology product management domain - it’s a bit, I would say, not respectful enough of who the users actually are and how capable they are.”
Video Source: @MillionStories
I think I might be dealing with burnout, because all I can do is draw studies and that's all
Artificial Intelligence
This was the moment Harris had been waiting for - and she delivered it with composure.
Curve Fitting Methods
Convolution Neural Network Visualization
Did @iruletheworldmo leak the @apples_jimmy leak 3 weeks ago? 🤔
Klarna CEO saying they are firing their SaaS providers
even the "systems of record" that we thought were impossible to rip out.
gone
this is.....wild.
here, i open-sourced this: github.com/yoheinakajima/…
both give you stats about emails sent/received/dates
Klarna just shut down Salesforce and Workday and replaced it with a simpler tech stack created by AI
As AI engineers become prolific, you can create custom applications that are 10x cheaper to run than these SaaS applications.
The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
Carl Jung once noted the 7 psychological traits of great men:
Indie Hacker Pro Tip:
Monetize your free endpoints with sponsored messages.
Always
congrats to expand.ai! for everyone else, expand ai at home ;)
This is cool
In the past months I have generated over 100k lines of these VISUALS outputs, i did this mostly “manually”, my goal would be to automate this and represent the entire scientific canon in such format. This would allows LLMs to have a new creative outlet.
This has been sitting in my tabs to read for 3 months. Devastating
This dude @manoj_ahi shipped 40+ projects before earning a single $1.
Then he made $65K in 8 months from ONE tweet.
Now he makes $10K/month shipping for other people (cool idea).
Keep f*cking shipping!!
.@replit agents is basically an entire software dev and deployment team at your disposal for $25.99 per month
What else?
Someone recently asked what spaces I'm excited to invest in.
The short answer: Weird stuff.
New hustle just dropped.
I'm still convinced you can become a millionaire simply by doing the pomodoro technique over and over.
How the core of a click farm works.
A "motherboard machine" integrates 20 phone motherboards into a 1U rack and assigns them individual IPs.
Interviewer:
Invert this binary tree
Junior dev:
Here's the algorithm I memorized
Experienced dev:
Let me find a library for that
Senior dev:
Does inverting the tree align with our core business objectives?
One of the best piece of advice by Sam Altman
the reality of building anything
i predict this will age like unrefrigerated milk
“Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.”
― Buddha
This is my "user guide"
I share it with founders I'm lucky enough to work with
Each toggle has clear next steps
Good morning.
I have turned SuperPrompt into a symbolic language that allows the LLM to both understand and express complex ideas in images and code using SVGs. Now I want to generate these SVGs at large scale and train a model with this data, this allows the LLM to visualize.
Tried this deep work mode thing this morning and I understand what all the fuss is about now.
In 2 hours I..
1. Researched and contacted 30 quality leads
2. Sent reminders to 20 old leads
3. Had the new features demo call with the team
Seems to be working but will test it out more over the next few weeks 🤓
You need to hear this:
313 words on how Gary Halbert wrote high converting sales letters:
This is cool.
Probably a glimpse into the future of financing for cash-flowing software startups.
YC safe notes won't be the default anymore.
Supporting 'Palestine' is for ignorant, historically illiterate, naive, easily duped, politically immature, narrow-minded, tunnel-visioned, cowardly, foolish, antisemitic, terrorist sympathising & basically stupid segments of the population.
It is why I stand with Israel.
Don't underestimate Affiliate Marketing
The peace of mind is unmatched
GUYS NEW META:
lfg
1990 bedroom mixing 👀 Lot of big albums released that year. Public Enemy ⭐️ Kool G Rap ⭐️ ATCQ ⭐️ Master Ace ⭐️ Eric B & Rakim ⭐️ X Clan ⭐️ Lord Finesse ⭐️ LL Cool J ⭐️ BDP ⭐️ Paris ⭐️ Gang Starr ⭐️ Digital Underground ⭐️ Ice Cube ⭐️ Above The Law ⭐️ EPMD ⭐️ Boo Yaa Tribe 🎵💣
The 'magic' of hydrophobic materials
[📹 itsjustmynth]
a quick reminder for every day.
Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.
this book has been my guide to telling better stories.
the exercises help me focus on one memory that i’m trying to tell.
it’s like talking to a therapist.
Progress with @replit AI Agents seems like a step change in democratizing app development & deployment for non-coders and acceleration for coders alike - a few of my favorites:
Simon Sinek on How To Stand Out In Your Industry:
Understanding the Matrix
Become addicted to changing your life.
My previous startup (Talknotes.com) started to grow revenues when I removed the free version and asked to pay directly on the landing page
I had a super limited demo embedded ON the landing page so they could test the main feature, but that’s it
❌ Free Plan
✅ Free limited demo
Q: Who makes money in AI?
@peterthiel: "It's pretty confusing. AI in 2024 is like the internet in 1999. It's very big. It's going to be very important. It's going to completely transform the world in 20 years. And it's very hard to approximate who's going to make money, who will have pricing power, etc."
I'm pleased and proud to announce the biggest ever step forward for Hacking with Swift: the Swift Career Accelerator. A gigantic collection of tutorials across all skill levels, designed to take your career further, faster.
Mario Dragi, in @TheEconomist , right on 🎯:
He definitely deserved that tip 🥺❤️
"The world belongs to those who let go."
~ Lao Tzu
One or two of these might turn into good paintings
This app makes $6M monthly with just 90k installs!
let's check out their paywall:
Why are founders — especially engineers — allergic to interviewing customers?
Afraid of the truth?
Certain they “are the customer?”
Don’t know how to do it, so just ignore it?
Irrational confidence?
Genuine ignorance?
Introversion?
Ego?
inspo → claude prompt → working code in ~15m
this is the new 10x eng
If you ever hear anyone being dismissive about Ben Affleck's acting abilities, show them the 'best part of my day' scene from Good Will Hunting. He also nailed it on the very first take.
🚩 Red Flags in Product Leaders 🚩
What's the #1 feature or frameworks you want in @Replit Agent? As its creator, I'm all ears! Drop your ideas below 👇
Deepsilicon runs neural nets with 5x less RAM and ~20x faster. They are building SW and custom silicon for it.
What’s interesting is that they have proved it with SW, and you can even try it.
On why we funded them 1/7
A Visual Breakdown of The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene:
Have you seen the proof that 1+1=2?
AI video mobile app CloneAI is now doing $200K MRR.
19 days ago, they swiftly pivoted to jump on the TikTok "AI Hugs" trend and almost instantly went from #115 to #9...
...on one of the App Store’s most competitive categories.
The story and TikTok strategies:
Mario Draghi's new report on EU competitiveness doesn't mince words.
"Across different metrics, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the EU and the US, driven mainly by a more pronounced slowdown in productivity growth in Europe. Europe’s households have paid the price in foregone living standards. On a per capita basis, real disposable income has grown almost twice as much in the US as in the EU since 2000."
"First – and most importantly – Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies. Europe is stuck in a static industrial structure with few new companies rising up to disrupt existing industries or develop new growth engines. In fact, there is no EU company with a market capitalisation over EUR 100 billion that has been set up from scratch in the last fifty years, while all six US companies with a valuation above EUR 1 trillion have been created in this period. This lack of dynamism is self-fulfilling."
"There are not enough academic institutions achieving top levels of excellence and the pipeline from innovation into commercialisation is weak. [...] However, while the EU boasts a strong university system on average, not enough universities and research institutions are at the top. Using volume of publications in top academic science journals as an indicative metric, the EU has only three research institutions ranked among the top 50 globally, whereas the US has 21 and China 15."
"Regulatory barriers to scaling up are particularly onerous in the tech sector, especially for young companies. Regulatory barriers constrain growth in several ways. First, complex and costly procedures across fragmented national systems discourage inventors from filing Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), hindering young companies from leveraging the Single Market. Second, the EU’s regulatory stance towards tech companies hampers innovation: the EU now has around 100 tech-focused laws and over 270 regulators active in digital networks across all Member States. Many EU laws take a precautionary approach, dictating specific business practices ex ante to avert potential risks ex post. For example, the AI Act imposes additional regulatory requirements on general purpose AI models that exceed a pre-defined threshold of computational power – a threshold which some state-of-the-art models already exceed. Third, digital companies are deterred from doing business across the EU via subsidiaries, as they face heterogeneous requirements, a proliferation of regulatory agencies and “gold plating” of EU legislation by national authorities. Fourth, limitations on data storing and processing create high compliance costs and hinder the creation of large, integrated data sets for training AI models. This fragmentation puts EU companies at a disadvantage relative to the US, which relies on the private sector to build vast data sets, and China, which can leverage its central institutions for data aggregation. This problem is compounded by EU competition enforcement possibly inhibiting intra-industry cooperation. Finally, multiple different national rules in public procurement generate high ongoing costs for cloud providers. The net effect of this burden of regulation is that only larger companies – which are often non-EU based – have the financial capacity and incentive to bear the costs of complying. Young innovative tech companies may choose not to operate in the EU at all."
More:
After talking to many firms, I have come to believe a key factor in successful AI adoption is whether the executive team actually experiments with AI to try to get work done themselves. Those who do tend to push for transformation
Most c-level folks still haven’t even tried LLMs
Building a simple personal finance app 👀
Window cleaning
[📹 activemitch]
😅
Your format is what makes your idea 💡
A single topic, presented through different formats, can yield wildly different videos 🎬
If you've only ever done one format, it's worth trying out another 🎥
You may end up surprising yourself 🤷♀️
PMs and PMMs should do research in parallel. There will be some overlap, but the angle of inquiry will be different. PMs will focus more on the problem statement + function/design, while PMMs will tap into audience psychology, market dynamics, and language that resonates.
"AI is future of art, music, and writing!"
The future:
Another bestselling author app: Good Inside: Parenting
Released just 2 months ago, and already reached 30k installs and $200k revenue last month.
One reason companies switch into manager mode is they go multi-product and the founder can’t be in the details on everything and becomes a bottleneck. Managers sell manager mode as the ambitious move but often the right move is to kill the weakest products.
LOL.
Where are:
Outsiders:
And evil characters:
A Pro-Palestinian activist in Israel changed her mind after seeing what Palestinian terrorists did to Jewish families on October 7.
Today is 11 months later and 101 Israelis remain captive in Gaza. We don’t know how many are still alive.
This is England (2006)
Just to clarify, if using @tryastroapp you find keywords like these you have probably discovered a gold mine😂
Nothing, I repeat, nothing, beats digging through the crates of vinyl with your mates and having a mix! NOTHING 🎧
If you send out 200 CVs then you're guaranteed to fail.
You will always lose to someone who hand-writes each cover letter, hunts down the recruiting manager and makes friends with them at their favourite coffee shop or gym.
You can multiply zero by a million.
The output will always be zero.
🎯
Orbital mechanics in 30 seconds
[🎞️ aesthetics science]
You can enter a competitive niche and actually do really well, even against huge competition.
I've done this and people switch from companies with 100+ staff to mine
Reddit has just discovered that networking helps you land a job offer
with how easy software is to build
moats are now
1. distribution
2. distribution
3. distribution
4. Hardware
5. Data
6. UX
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software
OnlyFans generated $6.6bn in payments (+$1bn on ‘22), $1.3bn in revenue & $658m in profit before tax in 2023.
The number of hoes (“Creators”) rose +29% to 4.1m, and “Fans” +28% to 305m.
The owner paid himself a $472m dividend (up from $338m). The biggest PIMP of all time. 🥹
FRIDAY toy!
Now you can play with it and clone it.
Try it: draw.geeksplainer.wtf
Repo:
“No copilot will withstand agents. No finetune will outperform larger foundation models. No data moat will defend against sample-efficient algorithms.”
Thought-provoking essay from @aidan_mclau
Mnist Neural network visualization in Odin and Raylib.
I still need to fix a few calculations and find the right colors, but it's coming along nicely
Shooting visual effects with a disposable camera and Gen-3 Alpha.
Ironically your biggest quantum leaps are almost never from “working harder”
They are from following your hardwiring down to a super-wormhole hidden somewhere in your environment that can only be opened by the key of you
& then saying “let’s see what happens”
Starting a video with a flash cut as a hook is a cheat code for retention.
Talk less, do more
Reliability is a cheat code for life.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
The first thing you should do after launching a MVP is focus on SEO.
Can take months or years to kick in, so start early.
labs will crush every narrow ai wrapper.
but labs are cursed with a hidden weakness...
new essay on the zero-day flaw in ai:
The lazy don’t know how to start.
The losers don’t know how to finish.
The legends don’t know how to stop
Impatience with actions, patience with results.
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Donald Trump completely fails to understand the question he’s asked and rambles on incoherently. It’s clear Donald Trump has lost his mental capacity. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this and know Trump is senile.
30 years ago… things were…
…different…
AI is incredible at writing code.
But that's not enough to create software. You need to set up a dev environment, install packages, configure DB, and, if lucky, deploy.
It's time to automate all this.
Announcing Replit Agent in early access—available today for subscribers:
Loopy: New Audio-to-Video Lipsyncing Model Looks Insane
It generates lifelike facial expressions and movements from audio alone. It captures subtle details like sighs, expressive eyebrows, and natural head gestures, making your videos incredibly realistic.
Sample videos
1/5 Rapping statue
A truth I’ve found in my life:
If you put yourself in rooms with great people, great things will happen.
In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll discuss the Kremlin’s funding of Tennessee-based media company TENET Media. TENET Media is best-known for their promotion of Russian narratives and for strong support for Donald Trump in the upcoming 2024 US elections.
1/20
Find people who are passionate about doing the hard work.
Too many people can throw out the hard work and the big ideas, but will never know what it’s like to be locked in on one thing for days on end until you are satisfied.
Her partner answered her call
One by one each of these Russian propagandists will fall.
God bless the FBI and the Justice Department
BREAKING: And so it begins, the Russian house of cards in The West starts to collapse. Expect more name drops, bring these people to justice for trying to undermine our democracies.
Kremlin agents in the US with millions of Twitter followers were paid $10 million by Russia to spread disinformation and rally support for convicted felon Trump on social media per indictment unsealed by the Department of Justice.
TENET Media, based in Tennessee.
SuperPrompt - A How To Use Tutorial
revenue: $1.3M per month 😱
niche: crazy cat ladies
ahhhhh i need to make a powerpoint at my job as a consultant ahhhhhh need to align some logos
Introducing Paradigm – a reimagined workspace with AI at its core.
Centered around the primitive of a spreadsheet, Paradigm puts swarms of intelligent agents at your fingertips.
The real power of Paradigm comes with scale: imagine having tens of thousands of interns working for you in parallel.
Paradigm is 1000x faster than manual data collection, completing an average of 500 cells per minute.
Check out Paradigm in action below.
Everything is linear algebra
This Apple Vision Pro app makes ghosts appear in your house. It's called Hauntify and scans your rooms in real-time to find the perfect spots to scare you.
If we built a neural network where the weights were lenses instead of vectors, for instance, and the input was light-shaped, the inference cost would be zero.
stop motion! great microapp idea from @msfeldstein
“War Pigs” - Black Sabbath
Some Rare Black Sabbath Footage From Germany
In business, politics, and war, the best organized and most motivated minority wins.
One of the worst things a small business owner can do is try to be a big business owner while being a small business owner.
Wait a minute 🤯 my AI finishing songs I made in 2021!! Do you know how much unfinished music we all have as producers ?? the future is hear 🔥 next level 😱😱 let’s talk about it
Founders are allowed to play jazz because they have the legitimacy of being the creator.
Managers usually can’t play jazz because once they deviate from the scales or do something that breaks convention, they are fired.
Downside management vs taking risk to become legendary
Closed August with nearly $17K.
While I spent 0 effort on marketing.
Here’s the August breakdown:
September's modest goal: $20K.
He’s not wrong
A sense of urgency is a simple, but massive superpower
more tweets = more followers
source: I analyzed the "followers per tweet" ratio for my friend group, and there's a 0.94 correlation
How to Code a Full-stack app easily with v0.dev and @cursor_ai
1.) head over to @mckaywrigley github repo
github.com/mckaywrigley/m…
2.) set up project and ask cursor to spit out project Tree
3.) feed project tree to v0 new chat feature
4.) now use v0 to add files and create basic app functionality by following along with steps to add components and pages (all done for you by v0)
5.) use cursor to make changes to ui to match v0 dev
6.) once ui is finalized you finish with adding database and any api functionality to the app
Blue ink
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#midjourney
“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”
"Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status." @sivers
founder mode vs. manager mode
This video will change your life:
The single most productive thing I've ever done:
Giving up on creating the perfect productivity system.
These will always crumble if you're actually building & moving quickly—because that process is messy.
Embrace the chaos.
Nikita Bier tells the story of 15 failed app pivots before selling TBH to Facebook for $30 million
As a senior in college, Nikita built a tool to communicate the financial impacts of policy proposals of presidents. It went viral, hit 4 million users, and bunch of governments reached out asking Nikita to build this tool for their budgets. But after turning this project into a company and raising venture capital, Nikita soon realized he didn’t like selling software to governments:
“My core competency all along was making things that go viral on the internet. So we went to our investors and said this isn’t actually what we’re excited about doing anymore. We offered to give the money back and said we’re going to be building consumer apps and here’s a few ideas that we have. None of them took the money back, and so we then spent the next 4-5 years building a variety of different consumer apps.”
They launched every type of app you could imagine: mapping apps, chat apps, meetup apps. None of them worked but the team got really good at building and testing mobile apps. Their first mobile app took them about a year to build, but their last one took them only two weeks. This taught Nikita a crucial lesson:
“The most important thing that I often instruct teams to do is develop a reproducible testing process. That will actually influence the probability of your success more than anything. It’s so unpredictable whether a consumer product idea will work. And so if you actually focus more on your process for taking many shots at bat, that’s what actually reduces the risk more than anything.”
After five years of failure, the team found themselves on app #15, tired and low on money. A key team member but in his two week’s notice, and Nikita actually reached out to their lawyer asking how to dissolve a company.
But app #15 - a polling app called TBH - immediately took off, and in a matter of days, it was the #1 app in the United States. Nikita quickly put together a funding round to cover their skyrocketing server costs and ultimately sold the company to Facebook for $30 million.
Video Source: @lennysan
Morniiiing🎈
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You could buy 2.6 million clicks on adwords for $10 million
...or just focus on SEO, blog posts, free tools etc
This is probably how the first fast food restaurant was received by the public
B2C is playing startups on nightmare mode
Founder mode
15,000 requests/second! That's what I just got out of that $220/month EPYC 48-core hobby box from Hetzner running a basic Rails 8 scaffold MessagesController#show loading a single record from the DB with no caching of any kind. Hot diggity!
Interesting large “Super Prompt”
Allows LLMs (particularly Claude) to come up with novel ideas.
Need to experiment with this more.
two signs of intelligence:
1. getting what you want
2. figuring out what you want
The prompt used in the paper 'People Cannot Distinguish GPT-4 from a Human in a Turing Test' is quite revealing about humans.
tldr: "Be dumb"
I just opensourced something I have been working on for months.
I call it “super prompt” because it also allows some LLMs (claude) to come up with really novel ideas, (picture is an example the prompt is larger).
Its built in XML agent format btw.
Github in comments.