November 2024 · 218 bookmarks
Defensive spoofing. “Ninety-five of the drones were successfully ‘redirected’ from their original targets towards Russian soil, according to Le Monde, which cited a ‘source close to Ukrainian military intelligence’.”
one of the most valuable assets on the internet right now is jacky chou's BIP sheet
EG yesterday dropped a list of 3,000+ foundational links you can build for new sites
you can find google citation infra
ecommerce SEO playbooks
it is ridiculous it is free
the best part
its just a public notion link he updates daily
this is not promo, this is just insane value
go get it for free at link below
this is the way
Cartoon vs reality
"Our results reveal that whenever handwriting movements are included as a learning strategy, more of the brain gets stimulated, resulting in the formation of more complex neural network connectivity...typewriting do[es] not activate...networks the same way that handwriting does."
The fundamental domains of physics. ✍️
Let's do a dev hunt for Black Friday 🙌
With the freshly updated demo of Tailscan on the website, you can find a coupon code for $10 extra off ON TOP of the Black Friday deal 😁
Hint: use the 'show other classes' in the demo to find it!
Redeemable only three times so hurry!
Physics laws, animated
[🎞️ Alan Becker]
from a super secret undisclosed location (definitely not in our basement or whatever…), see @stripe’s latest in real-time hardware:
The art of sentence length by Gary Provost
i got 60,000 downloads to my b2c app using a simple 2x2 fade-in 6 second template
then i made a free generator @postbridge_ so anyone can make the same style vids in 2 mins to promote their own app
ollie used it and got his first 1000 downloads to his app in less than 2 weeks
The art of calligraphy
"Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe."
1 hour of daily marketing ✅
because you cant make money if people don't know about your amazing thing
did you do it today? did you tell people about your thing?
If you’re looking for the single best note-taking or “managing my stuff / life / work” app: it’s Craft Docs.
I could well be biased: as it’s built by my brother @balintorosz (and I’ve been using it since the alpha version).
It’s not just me saying it, though. The Verge:
Feynman's monologue on the beauty of Science ✍️
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the Earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of stars. What strange arrays of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products.
There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts — physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on — remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!
-- mentioned in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences
First time getting a data as a service biz shut down on stripe..
Not sure how it violates anything but appealed and waiting to hear..
It's not an active product and did ~$5k gross in 6 months 😬
Just found some good keywords, I will update some things to leverage the traffic from them.
Fun fact
Dogs love the freshly mowed grass
[📹 Mystical Frenchies]
Visualization of Euler's polyhedron formula:
V - E + F = 2
or
Vertices - Edges + Faces = 2
[🎞️ Beau Janzen / reason4math]
7 days, 7 apps challenge
The first one already submitted to the App Store! r🚀
Now let's wait for the review.
Tomorrow the second one, stay tuned!
Love the amount of creativity I'm seeing from devs using MCP!
If you make a cool MCP server, definitely create a PR to add it to our servers repo:
Starter Story Academy in a nutshell:
Blue tit singing on a cold early morning.
You can even see its song in the air.
[📷 Mikhail Kalinin]
Die Demonstranten in Berlin wollten gestern meine Fragen zur Ermordung von Homosexuellen und den Misshandlungen von Frauen durch die Hamas in Gaza nicht beantworten. Leider wurde ich von einer Frau ohne Migrationshintergrund mit der flachen Hand auf die Brust geschlagen. Immerhin konnte ich mit Frau @PreislerKa sprechen. Schaut euch das Video selbst an! #b2512
Unlikely friends
📹 luna_the_pantera
Say whatever but @ProphetsOfRage we had mad fun AND said more as a collective than 98% of bands in movement stage and records in over 50 countries 4 years and 3 million fans. Thank you @tmorello @B_Real @DjLORDofficial Timmy C and Brad God Of Raged Drums Wilk
there are no magic pills
do the work
bitch
Why is the "Cash Flow Statement" also called the "Statement of Cash Flows"?
Full explanation in 47 seconds:
We can mine asteroids for space food (cambridge.org)
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.
💯
Accounting is the language of business
I’ll teach you the basics of a
In a few minutes.
Closure is a myth. Grief doesn't evaporate—it waxes and wanes.
The purpose of grief is not to cause pain. It's to keep memories of loved ones alive and remind us to make the most of our time.
Moving forward after loss is not about erasing sorrow. It's about gaining perspective.
Actual traits of successful founders:
Good at building.
Genuinely interested in the problem.
Very determined.
Talks a lot to users.
Use the 9-5 to fund a 5-9.
Once built, use the 5-9 to fund the 24/7.
“experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world, everything is designed by people no smarter than you, and courage is in shorter supply than genius”
wise words from Roon
Bain de soleil (Rupert Fawcett)
my hot take is that people who don’t make things should not be in the business of telling other people what to make
1 Dataset. 100 Visualizations (100.datavizproject.com)
Maxwell's Equations outside the university of Warsaw, Poland.
Pulp
“Do You Remember the First Time?"
His 'n' Hers
Island Records (1994)
Director: Pedro Romhanyi
Smartphone under a microscope
Restoring a Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch
[🪛 siyuanhorologe]
Our fishy ancestors evolved lungs and bony fins, not for living on land but for life in the waters of Devonian swamps. They evolved bony fins to help push them through the think swamp mud. Because the waters they lived in tended to be a bit low on oxygen, their gills mutated into primitive lungs that could supplement their oxygen intake with the occasional gulp of air at the water's surface. These changes happened to also give them the ability to briefly scurry across land to evade a predator or move to a different swamp. Over millions of years, these little excursions got longer and longer until they had come to live entirely on land.
Later, some of their descendants would do the same thing in the opposite direction. Whales and dolphins evolved from four-legged galloping dog-like animals. They developed a big enough lung capacity that they could take little excursions into the water to hunt prey. Over millions of years, their lung capacity grew and their excursions got so long they came to live entirely underwater, only needing to rise to the surface for air. Whales are currently in the equivalent stage our fishy ancestors were when they could spend a lot of time on land but still had to return to the water here and there. Perhaps, in a few more million years, whales will have completed their transition, modifying their lungs back into gills and no longer needing to come to the surface at all.
By the way, fish all swim by oscillating their bodies from side to side. But whales and dolphins swim in an up and down motion—a remnant of their past as land gallopers.
nevermind, be afraid
Stop tinkering:
#FindsFriday
Beautiful Mesolithic baskets so well-preserved they look modern rather than made by hunter-gatherers some 9,500 years ago! 🤯
A rare glimpse of ancient crafts used by people long ago that are still in use today!
When they were found in the 19th century, inside the Cave of Los Murciélagos (Cave of bats) in southern Spain, their near-complete state of preservation (due to arid environmental conditions in the cave), caused their authenticity to be doubted. In the 1970s carbon-14 dating showed they were ancient. A recent study shows they’re even older! Read the study here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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How to analyze a dividend stock:
h/t @Alphamojo1
The older I get, the more I realize that success at most things isn't about finding the one trick or secret nobody knows about. It's consistently doing the boring, mundane things everyone knows about but is too unfocused/undisciplined to do.
Get good at boring.
Mission ∩ Vision = Purpose
The 10x programmer/designer is created largely as a function of motivation. The will to see your creation exist. An impatience with turning nothing into something.
How to figure out what your passion in life is
>Take pen and paper
>Imagine you have 50mil in your bank account
>No financial worries
>Ask yourself - What I would do in life
>Write down the first three things you think about
Those three?
Answers you have been looking for
Remember that you will rise to the level of your systems, not the wants of your goals.
RizzGPT did $250k in its 4th month.
Umax did $700k in its 3rd month.
Cal AI did $1m in its 6th month.
I share everything I know for free. Jon Yongfook is not a serious person.
go to arcads ai
write your script
pick the "interview filter"
... that's it
what would take weeks now take minutes
Private equity firms discovering a family business with no website and outdated technology
12 side effects of building:
No meetups
No zoom calls
No networking
No pitch decks
No brainstorms
No cofounder drama
No coffee chats
No board meetings
No cap tables
No valuations
No elevator pitches
No "let's circle back"
Just build shit, baby!
Secret of success
📹 digitalskillnoonelikeus
you can now build your own ai sdr in < 10 minutes to help you with inbound (user signups, form intake)
Uses our new automations feature and our api!
built an inbound AI SDR with @ottogrid_ai
now when someone signs up, our agents instantly researches, scores, and creates a personalized message to send them (and pings me on slack)
saves a few hours per day + now we know exactly who's using our product
Good morning
Reflected a bit about what I've learnt about running experiments over the last few months
Over the past few months, I have been super consistent with my #buildinpublic posts. I hope to extend this streak even more 💪
ok so if you want free 3000+ impressions and like 100 clicks to your biz just use @postbridge_, make video using content studio template (2 mins) and post it to your accounts
paid ads this would run you $50-$100, and organic content has viral potential with $0 at stake
Beastie Boys
“Jimmy James”
Check Your Head
Grand Royal (1992)
Director: Nathanial Hörnblowér & Lisa Ann Cabasa
im trying to make it easy for solo founders to get 1000 downloads this month with organic content
pls someone use this lol
honestly 1 fade in video that is 6 seconds long can get you 100x more downloads to your b2c app than $100 in ad spend ever will - and you can make it for $0 and ~2 minutes of effort now.
Fastest bookmark of my life
You are being dangerously manipulated by advocates of an aggressor power via irrational propagandistic fearmongering into supporting and justifying the occupation and extermination of a 40-million European nation under the false pretext of "saving the world from World War III."
The aggressor power is right now committing all of its propagandistic resources and assets to manipulate public opinion in the United States and other western nations.
Do not sign up for a crime of historic proportions by blindly siding with the monster.
YC F24’s @scrapybara is building instant, secure virtual desktop environments for AI agents. Deploy instances in seconds, and host Claude Computer Use in production via API.
ycombinator.com/launches/MHN-s…
Congrats on the launch, @justinsunyt and @lordspline!
If you weren’t tied to what you’re doing now, what would you pursue?
You should consider entrepreneurship through acquisition. Buying startups on @acquiredotcom and flipping them can be seriously profitable for the right buyer.
Fix it up, upgrade it, and who knows—it might sell for way more than you paid:
Tomorrow at 9am PST: Watch us build a white-labeled customer portal LIVE in just 30 minutes. Last chance to register:
think like sam, write like roon
This is the beginning of truly autonomous AI agents that can navigate computers and complete tasks independently.
While 250M people are using ChatGPT weekly for text generation, only a select few are using AI agents. Claude Computer Use is now available in beta, and you have the chance to leap ahead and see what's coming.
I've created a detailed guide to help you implement Claude Computer Use in under 20 minutes. Every step is documented with screenshots, even your grandma could do it.
pg is basically living the "guy who keeps postponing his true passion" meme except he accidentally revolutionizes startup funding and web apps while procrastinating on painting
paul graham's whole life:
"i need money to paint"
learns programming, falls in love with lisp
works briefly at interleaf
starts viaweb to fund his painting lifestyle
sells to yahoo for life-changing money
moves to california, then new york
tries painting, can't focus properly
feels lost
discovers writing essays online
creates YC
"this is temporary, then i'll paint"
builds hacker news
gets stressed running online community
leaves YC to paint
tries painting in 2014
gives up mid-painting
codes bel for 4 years (2015-2019)
returns to essays and lisp
moves to UK "for a year" (never leaves)
$2M in 1 year...
This Singaporian app studio is blowing up
Let's try to understand how...
Laser engraving
[📹 laser_engraving_machine]
SaaS is a long term game.
Get your product launched and buckle up.
If I was an indiehacker in my 20s / 30s, I would keep my day job, MVP until I have a SaaS @ $1k MRR, then focus and make improvements every day.
After 10 years, 70% chance you have a business at $1MM / year.
Crazy interesting paper in many ways:
1) Voice-enabled GPT-4o conducted 2 hour
interviews of 1,052 people
2) GPT-4o agents were given the transcripts & prompted to simulate the people
3) The agents were given surveys & tasks. They achieved 85% accuracy in simulating interviewees
Do Not Normalize Him. Normalize this message…
Donald Trump is STILL:
❌ Lawless.
❌ A threat to democracy.
❌ A wannabe dictator.
If you believed he was a threat yesterday, believe it today.
Do. Not. Normalize. Him.
#HeIsNotNormal #SaveDemocracy
v4 spoken word test in @sunomusic
voices are way cleaner
Relvy (YC F24) automates the monitoring of production software. Their efficient language models monitor logs 24x7 to discover and debug issues before customers notice them.
ycombinator.com/launches/MGE-r…
Conngrts on the launch, @bharathpbhat and @simsingh2112!
The team behind the incredible Human Simulacra paper from last year just released a new paper!
They interviewed 1,000 people for two hours to "make agents from them."
Then they let those agents live in a simulated environment!
paul graham on becoming rich and his first startup idea in 1994
Consumer app founders, there is $5M sitting, no, bursting at the seams of your laptop. You just need to figure out the right combination of buttons to press to let it out
If you missed this part of the @gregisenberg pod, go to 10:55 right now
Halfway into our pod convo on viral consumer apps, Greg looked like he had an out of body experience, paused for a couple seconds, and said:
"It's crazy that we're going to publish this episode, because I think so many people are going to listen to this
... and I think it will actually change the dynamics of TikTok Shop"
.@dalus_io is exhibiting at the Berlin Security Conference for the next two days. Come around if you happen to be there #bsc24
Here are 9 AI datasets still dominated by humans 👇
It shows the insane amount of value left to capture
Will these tasks be solved through ad-hoc LLM engineering by companies or directly by LLM providers?
Thanks to @ldjconfirmed for the data!
Green vine snakes don't bite. They do better: they judge you.
BUCKLE UP!! AI agents are capable of cybercrime! 🤯
I just witnessed an agent sign into gmail, code ransomware, compress it into a zip file, write a phishing email, attach the payload, and successfully deliver it to the target 🙀
Claude designed the ransomware to:
cybersecurity is about to get WILD...stay frosty out there frens 🫡
DISCLAIMER: this was done in a controlled environment; do NOT try this at home!
Ilhan Omar is a member of the Democratic Party and serves as a US Representative.
Real microscope footage of the surface of a soap bubble
[📹 oneminmicro]
This stunning video of the @SpaceX Inspiration4 mission launch was made of multiple telescope tracking shots and composed in a neverending loop.
[🎞️ MarsScientific]
today I cancelled my subscription on 𝕏 and updated by 🦋 profile
f4f
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on why you should hire the divas: “Steve Jobs was a diva”
“If you read any management textbook, it says ‘don’t hire the divas’ because they’re nothing but a pain in the ass. And by the way, they are. But the people who are the divas—who believe—are the ones who will drive the culture and company to excellence. Steve Jobs was a diva. I worked with Bill Joy who was my colleague for many years—he’s an example of a diva. And I mean this in the most flattering way: they expect a lot, they drive people hard, they’re controversial, and they care passionately. If you find those people, you’re probably going to work for one so be nice to them.”
However, Eric does not mean that you should tolerate arrogant jerks at your company.
In his book How Google Works, he uses use the terms “divas” and “knaves” to distinguish between who you should tolerate and who you shouldn’t:
“Knavish behavior is a product of low integrity; diva-ish behavior is one of high exceptionalism. Knaves prioritize the individual over the team; divas think they are better than the team, but want success equally for both. Knaves need to be dealt with as quickly as possible. But as long as their contributions match their outlandish egos, divas should be tolerated and even protected. Great people are often unusual and difficult, and some of those quirks can be quite off-putting. Since culture is about social norms and divas refuse to be normal, cultural factors can conspire
to sweep out the divas along with the knaves. As long as people can figure out any way to work with the divas, and the divas’ achievements outweigh the collateral damage caused by their diva ways, you should fight for them. They will pay off your investment by doing interesting things.”
Video source: @GreylockVC (2015)
@rom1trs Sensor Tower does not fully account for downloads that originate from advertising campaigns
wake up.
ICYMI: Russia cannot defeat Ukraine or the West - and will likely lose - if the West mobilizes its resources to resist the Kremlin. If we lean in and surge, Russia loses. (🧵1/5)
in my happy place
"When you know how to listen, everything becomes your teacher."
— Old Zen Proverb
i dont think you understand how many ai coach keywords there are and how early it is and that you can just grow these with shorts
Create more, consume less. 90% of this is all fake.
Cash Flow Ratios Every Investor Should Know:
This app studio released 6 apps in 2024
$50K/m for one of them already...
Guess which one is most successful...
Yesterday I had only 5 reviews lol
Moving and restoring an ancient mosaic
[📹 davide.ferro.official]
Our user made this amazing edit for Rise (voluntarily) 🤯
I can literally run ads on this video without changing anything
Anyone who're looking for editor to make ad creatives/short videos about your product, check out @macksamberlight 🫡
9 Soft Skills to Fast-Track Your Career
Some of the important equations ✍️
In the data manifold, the shortest path between two points is a geodesic that pass through high density regions of data. Just like mass curves the space geometry, data also curves the space. In the example below we can see a geodesic being optimized between two points. 1/3
build things that are cool to you but maybe boring to others
I just spilled the consumer apps alpha on the pod with @gregisenberg
video just dropped today
watch it rn before alpha gets used up lol 👇 full video
Graffiti, gemalt von Fans von Hapoel Jerusalem und Hapoel Tel Aviv in #Hamburg. Zum Gedenken an Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran
2 trillion tokens available now on HuggingFace! Super proud of the @pleiasfr for putting this together!
Use this before-and-after ad template to boost sales:
"I have never seen ordinary effort lead to extraordinary results."
— Alexandr Wang
The House Oversight Committee is holding a hearing on UAPs in the next few minutes. Apparently some big news dropping on confirmation of existence of government programs, retrieved aircraft, non human intelligence with names/evidence, etc.
Should be interesting.
For $3,000 I’m able to create & distribute more content, to more people, than a 100+ person organization 30 years ago.
$1M business idea framework:
1. Find a $1B platform
2. Build apps for their marketplace
3. Reach 1000s of customers instantly
4. Make a lot of money
Example:
It's all about the right framing.
The learning Pyramid
i don't think the Y Combinator "pocket guide of essential advice" ever gets old
You can validate consumer app startup ideas in a 24 hours now
DON'T DO THIS:
1. Design -> 2. Build -> 3. Marketing
FASTER, RISK-FREE WAY:
1. Market selection: Find TikToks in a niche, if ANY unsponsored content exists then that's opportunity. (e.g. "hey guys here's 3 hacks for adhd"... creator didn't plug an app? great you just found a pain point without an app solution)
2. Design: Design your app screens to look good in a TikTok. Otherwise just talking about an app on video is too abstract and no one will be curious enough to download
3. Build: Code app in a day with the help of AI
4. Marketing (just replicate ideas you found during research you already did in #1)
If it doesn't hit, either iterate or select a different content market and try again
How learning actually happens:
Gary Dahl, the inventor of the Pet Rock, a product that sold for $3.95 and made him a millionaire, 1975. The Pet Rock fad lasted about 6 months.
If you work at an AI company, do your team a favor and share this chart in your slack
LLM inference costs are dropping roughly 10x per year for a given performance level
Does your 2025 plan account for that?
great saas advice from one of the most customer obsessed founders i know.
the moat is you
being yourself is a competitive advantage
every day, 1 hour on 'marketing'
sorry, cant just code all day long
Shipping crap in 3 days is not an option.
Polishing every edge case for 3 months is not an option, too.
Find balance:
its actually insane that one dude from his moms basement can do all of this:
all in just ~1 year! serious daily effort works.
Living in a small country means yours posts mostly reach nearby people, making it hard to get more than a few thousand views. So this only works really well if:
1. You use a VPN and remove your sim-card from your phone. (TikTok uses your sim-card and IP to detect location)
2. You live in a bigger country
1 hours a day spent marketing my app (making + posting 6 videos)
30,000 downloads with this routine last month, 100% free.
you too can grow any b2c app for absolutely free, no paid ads.
yes YOU CAN. YOU READING THIS.
HERE IS HOW TO GET 1000S OF DOWNLOADS THIS MONTH TO YOUR APP FOR FREE:
Open new account (instgram or tiktok first, or BOTH) scroll on it for 2 days, 15 min/day in your target audience. Save any videos you see that you could remake to promote your app (yes you'll need to think creatively for this)
On day 3, make some content! Based on 1 of the saved videos you have.
Make sure the comment, caption or end of video CTA is related/relevant to your app. If you just want views but no downloads, whats the use of this?
Start with 1 post/ day and after 30 days of this if you didnt hit a reel with 500k views then feel free to DM me if you need help.
Try to see what other apps are doing (can even look at mine) , and keep trying new formats, this is all about testing, but know that it IS POSSIBLE.
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Once you find a winning format, double down on it. Each apps "winning format" is unique and this may take more than a month to find a true winner. Took me 300+ videos for my app. Now i post 3 a day on one account and 2 a day on another.
Don't rush into posting a million videos. Posting ONE a day that you have put reel creative thought into is much better than spraying out 2,3,4,5,6+ a day.
Stick to 1 a day per warmed account (account that is new and you scrolled on without posting for 2 days in your target audience)
Aim for short videos as algo LOVESSS watch time and comments. These are your two goals. MAKE content that drives comments and watch time
What type of content drives these the best? GOOD CONTENT! not slop. You can go viral if you let yourself try hard enough and keep going. I know you can. and it will be a nice boost to your app downloads and revenue.
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okay now stop bookmarking this and just go do it, open a new account on tiktok/ instagram and warm it up.
I prefer instagram as main, then reupload to YT, TT and all others at the same time via @postbridge_
finally yes, the screenshot you see below is from my own tool post bridge. this is how ive been able to post AND MAKE 6 videos a day now after finding a winning format for my app that drives downloads. I upload and schedule all my apps content using this and it takes 10x less time!
You can do the same for $9/ month (10x cheaper than the cheapest service out there for this same thing)
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HOW TO WARMUP ACOUNT RECAP:
Make new account, scroll on it for 15 mins /day for 2-3 days. Scroll, follow, comment and like posts that YOUR APP or product is relevant to only. This helps the algorithm know where to push your content to first. This is CRITICAL for tiktok especially as its hard to change later. You should never buy Old accounts, they suck, and are very hard to warm up or change the existing set audience. I use same email for all my tiktok accounts, most little things dont matter like this. If you dont get views following this then its most likely your content is not that great. Keep trying, and don't be afraid to stop posting for 2-3 days if you cant break 500 view mark on TT or IG.
OKAY NOW GO GO GO TRY IT!
The big picture, 2023 edition.
Such an outstanding visual:
me: refreshing server logs every 5 minutes to make sure everything is okay...
"the burden of responsibility is the cost of achieving anything worthwhile"
giggles at mind control
porcelain insects
#ai #aiart #midjourney
Dieser Montagmorgen wird Ihnen wieder einmal von Happy Dog Loki versüßt✨💚
Im Kampf gegen miese Laune und doofe Stimmung 🫶🏻
Einen schönen Start in die Woche 🍀
@postbridge_ watch this video: youtu.be/oOvNaE1oc6I?si…
(free) by @desmondhth
and then make sure when making new account you WARM IT UP! Use it like an actual human for 2 days NO POSTING. scroll 15 mins a day in your TA.
first month of new IG account going good!
using this to promote my app @curiousquench and has driven 1000+ downloads in last week alone
all for free, organic reach only, 0 paid ads
make 3 vids in 15 mins and schedule all 3 hours apart using @postbridge_ (only takes 60 secs)
My wish is to get old, stay healthy/creative and to be bathed in cash.
Respect to KS and ER
The Chemical Brothers feat. Noel Gallagher
“Let Forever Be”
Surrender
Astralwerks (1999)
Director: Michel Gondry
a quick reminder since there are a fuck ton of new followers:
this account is strictly for analyzing the incredibly rapid changes in culture at the intersection of hyper capitalism & proliferation of tech at scale—we are likely only at the beginnings of the profound implications of both on macro & micro aspects of society.
buckle up.
Cycles of political (r)evolution according to Polybius' Anacyclosis (160 BCE)
A visual guide to memorize the Morse code
Reminder that Google Maps only exists because of one 100-1000x engineer who rewrote all the code in one weekend
Humans are mimetic. Your peer group has an outsized impact on your mindset and aspirations.
If you surround yourself with status-seekers and credentialists, you’ll aspire to get a job at McKinsey or Goldman.
Surround yourself with wildly ambitious founders and you’ll aspire to build something huge.
every AI power user I talk to has some workflow hack they think is obvious
eg: for me its voice. 10x faster for prompts than typing
what's your "obvious" AI workflow that others should know about?
who wants alpha access @saranormous
80,000 simulations..
Generosity can boost your mood and health if you do it right
Cold War 1: we can't allow a missile gap!
Cold War 2:
made them in capcut
Export all 6
then upload to @postbridge_
select tiktok account + twitter + threads + instagram + youtube accounts
schedule times (all 3 hours apart), takes less than 5 minutes to schedule all 6 videos to 6 platforms each
netting me 100-1000 downloads
Pre-orders are now open for the book "Innovation in Isolation: The Story of Ukrainian IT from the 1940s to the Present," commissioned by @MacPaw.
Dive into Ukraine's tech journey, from the dawn of cybernetics to today's leading innovators!
Pre-order: amazon.com/Innovation-Iso…
1/6 👇
Universally speaking, wood is way more rare than diamonds.
Roquefort is a sheep milk blue cheese from southern France with veins of blue mold Penicillium roqueforti.
Its tradition goes so far back in time that in 79 CE, Pliny the Elder praised the cheese and reported its popularity in ancient Rome.
Village party by Weegee maybe fifties. Joans the tall guy, Charlie Parker crouching in the front
My daughter Vali, now 19, did an essay on Ted Joans for her 'Beats' class. Joans was a great figure, lesser known 'Beat', Charlie Parker's roommate, surrealist, poet etc. (Here w Baldwin in Paris) I'd already been scared so much history will be lost
i just imagine databricks on one side and snowflake on the other
Architect Katerina Kamprani designs everyday objects with the deliberate intent to make them 'uncomfortable'.
[📹 mark_the_meme_bloke]
What a devastating indictment of our country.
1 year ago today:
today:
one mission: build cool stuff that helps people, and KEEP GOING!
"The more physics you have the less engineering you need."
— Sir Ernest Rutherford
@victoriaazad24 @munkihanger And again here. It was in fact the collapse of the Taliban regime in 2001 that led to a resurgence in Bacha Bazi abuse. One reason for the popularity of the Taliban is that they cracked down on it. So this is far more complicated than we wish to admit.
There are two methods to move science forward:
1. The Edisonian way -- exhaustive and mostly blind trial-and-error experimentation
2. The Einsteinian way -- sitting down and ideating a conceptual breakthrough (to be followed by targeted experimentation)
The most effective form of marketing for startups is just having a product people willingly share and recommend. Period.
From the Planck time to the eon, how time is fractioned.
thought experiment: if the internet were to go down tomorrow for an indefinite period, what content would you most want to download and preserve?
Building a $10,000 MicroSaaS is easier than you think.
Look at your job.
Find the task you hate most.
Go on cursor ai.
Build something that kills it.
That's it.
That's the whole formula.
Paul Graham on why starting with a “small, intense fire" is the key to startup growth
“You’ve got to find people who want what you’re making A LOT. And that's necessarily going to be a small number at first. But that's ok. That’s how these giant things get started… You don’t have to do any better than Apple and Facebook.”
Apple started by selling just 500 Apple I computers. Today it’s the largest company in the world.
"You have to know who those first users are and how you're going to get them. Then you're going to sit down and just have a party with those first few users and focus entirely on them and making them super super happy."
He gives another example of a startup in a Y Combinator batch with a beta group of just one user: Sam Altman.
This startup was building a new mobile email client and their goal was to just make Sam happy. Sam uses email a lot on the go and knows all of the other email client options, so he is sufficiently demanding.
If they can build a product that makes Sam happy, odds are it will make lots of other people happy too.
"One of the things we tell startups in these extreme cases where they can make just one user happy is to act like a consultant. Act like Sam has hired you to make an email app just for him. All you have to do is make Sam happy--it can say 'Sam Altman' at the top of the screen. That's ok! Just so long as Sam would feel bummed if you stopped working on it. That's the test."
Video source: @twistartups @Jason (2014)
My AI Scanner apps have nearly generated $10k in revenue
This blows my mind… I open sourced the code and thought it would hurt revenue (it didnt)
Link below:
“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.”
—David Sivers
As you become more senior in your career, you’re not hired for some shiny happy opportunity, you’re hired to fix something.
You’ll probably inherit mess (product, tech, org), but if you’re good—you don’t complain.
It’s not your fault, but it is your problem.
So get to work 💪
Last month, I managed 5 client projects using Cursor + V0, all while working a full-time job, and I think I’ve finally cracked the formula for efficiency with minimal mistakes.
Here’s everything I’ve learned to make AI work for you. THREAD BELOW
turning PDF's into brainr0t videos
this is ACTUALLY the future of learning for gen alpha
My entire life changed when I realized that preparation always beats planning.
Planning is based on the expectation of order. Preparation is based on the expectation of chaos.
Plan for order and you'll be destroyed by chaos. Prepare for chaos and you'll thrive in any condition.
Hers's a tactic I use when Stakeholders come with solutions, NOT problems.
Don't work backwards, work forward.
What do I mean by that?
Commonly when a stakeholder comes w/ a solution we try to get them to work backwards to the problem.
But for some this is a stretch.
Probabilistic software demands a mindset shift.
Forget edge cases. Embrace long tails. Design experiments, not features.
Your goal isn't perfect code. It's making decisions under uncertainty. Measure, learn, cut ruthlessly.
Create these micro tools to boost website sales:
One the saddest realizations for me when we were scaling the @midjourney server at @discord in ‘22 was seeing millions of US gen z kids struggle to prompt
They literally don’t have the words. Broken english. Pidgin lingo. Translating thought to language is insanely hard for them
Use these triggers in your ads to boost sales:
I built a $1M business by doing the same, boring sh*t every day.
Naval Ravikant on the importance of hiring high-agency people
Naval defines agency as:
“People who just solve problems without even being asked to solve the problem—they identify the problem, they go solve it, they don’t even necessarily have to update you every step of the way, they’re not asking silly questions, and they’re just coming up with solutions.”
He believes this is important because “building a startup is an infinite set of problems that are being thrown at you.” And there comes a day where you can’t even look at every problem your company is facing—let alone solve every one of them.
He cites the Vinod Khosla aphorism:
"The team you build is the company you build, not the plan you make.”
And your ability to solve problems is based entirely on how many problem-solvers you have at your company. As Naval puts it:
“If you have somebody who takes 10% of your time and management to solve problems, you can only have 10 of those people working with you. But if somebody takes 5%, you can have 20 of those people.”
When building Airchat and AngelList, he thought of each team as a Navy Seal team:
“Everyone is just really good at what they do. They know their job. They do it. They don’t complain. They’re not egotistical about it. And if they have to constantly be corrected, led around by the nose, you have to clean up after them, or you question their judgement, it’s not going to work out.”
Video source: @AngelList (2023)
The exact email YC shows Founders to land meetings with investors (plus template):
Jeremy Sherman PhD/MPP speaks to Trumpists in their own "language," and explains why they're doomed.
Please give his original video a view and a like here:
GHASP!
Without any exaggeration, one of the best build-in-public makers in the community.
It is your chance to ask any question and get an answer based on practice and a lot of experience.
Tarun Nayar is a former biologist who turned into a musician when he found that every life form has bioelectricity: he now makes music using mushrooms and plants.
Rays riding the waves
[📹 jessroseowens]
[📍 Okaloosa Island, Florida]
My October 2024 ScreenshotOne.com public report:
💰 $11,682 (+$1,176) MRR
🫂 285 (+16) paying customers
😭 5.7% revenue, 7.5% customer churn
📸 20M+ API requests (+3,051,006)
1. The churn is getting better. I emailed churned customers—I have ideas of what to try next.
2. I launched more free tools for SEO, a funny tiny game, wrote blog posts, and added new features...
2. One month of break helped me a lot. I prioritized sleep, and now ship like a machine. I ship daily.
3. My next challenge is to set a new goal—it should be intrinsic, resonated, and challenging enough for me.
How was your October? Reply with a quote of your report if you have one.