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Basic guide on picking career 2025 - going forward
Tier 1
Profit roles - Sales(ENT+ real high ticket), PE, M&A, HF, media buyers
Tier 2
Close to profit roles - Sales engineers, Business Analysts, CS roles specific roles in marketing
Tier 3
Rest
Don't sleep on this is crucial
lmao
Cone of Learning
"Even the darkest night ends with dawn.”
This is how Ukrainian war veteran Yehor Babenko reflected on his year of recovery that tested his limits.
In March 2022, a border officer, who went to protect his country, suffered severe burns to his head, face, and hands during a Russian shelling in Mykolaiv Oblast.
He lost all ten fingers and could breathe only through a tracheostomy tube. Now, he awaits prosthetic fingers, an uncommon case due to the complete loss of all ten.
“The hardest thing is not to stop, even when it feels like the world around you has come to a halt,” Yehor wrote on Instagram.
He emphasized the importance of having support from family, friends, volunteers, and strangers. “Their faith in me helped me believe in myself,” he said.
“Thank you for having the courage to share your story,” wrote Ukrainian photographer Marta Syrko who took these photos.
📷martasyrko, egna77 Instagram
The Business Strategy Cheat Sheet
why not 100x?
So the directory playbook actually works 😍
It was my first ever info product. I think I put more time into it than in a typical saas product launch. Afterall, I’m happy to see founders benefit from it. Feels as good as having happy saas users.
Simple heuristic for finding AI startup ideas: Look at things that rich people pay humans to do, and give them to everyone using AI.
Make Something Agents Want
We have to take the LLMs to school.
When you open any textbook, you'll see three major types of information:
1. Background information / exposition. The meat of the textbook that explains concepts. As you attend over it, your brain is training on that data. This is equivalent to pretraining, where the model is reading the internet and accumulating background knowledge.
2. Worked problems with solutions. These are concrete examples of how an expert solves problems. They are demonstrations to be imitated. This is equivalent to supervised finetuning, where the model is finetuning on "ideal responses" for an Assistant, written by humans.
3. Practice problems. These are prompts to the student, usually without the solution, but always with the final answer. There are usually many, many of these at the end of each chapter. They are prompting the student to learn by trial & error - they have to try a bunch of stuff to get to the right answer. This is equivalent to reinforcement learning.
We've subjected LLMs to a ton of 1 and 2, but 3 is a nascent, emerging frontier. When we're creating datasets for LLMs, it's no different from writing textbooks for them, with these 3 types of data. They have to read, and they have to practice.
16. Do not be fearful or negative too often
As an investor, you should be an optimist.
For over 100 years, optimists have carried the day in U.S.
Desmond has got over 100k+ downloads & 50M+ views for his app - he just shared his exact playbook (1/2):
This may be the most inspiring sentence I've ever read. Which is interesting because it's not phrased in the way things meant to be inspiring usually are.
Paul Graham said it best: “Finish what you start, because the best work happens in the final stage.”
it took a live (we wanted to perfect it):
t.co/XfkTpXd8hQ
for these who've completed the form, you should have received the link.
sorry for the delay
50 most viral hook patterns extracted from 46,606 tiktoks:
1/4
5 months ago: i was in constant fear if i'de be able to make enough money with my apps.
4 months ago: i started making a tool to help me scale my apps faster and easier.
now that tool is making 5x more than my apps...
KEEP GOING!!!!!!!!!! (took me over 4 years)
Baby otter
[📹 kellbellgray]
We just launched Corca—a collaborative math editor. The main idea: there’s no 'text editor' for math. If you want to work on equations on a computer, there’s no app designed for that—so the only real option is paper.
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take the biggest fcking risk of your entire life right now.
This ad is a masterclass in persuasion:
As a child, I'd get up at 5 am on Saturday morning to make sure I was ready for when my dad arrived at 9 am to pick up my siblings and me.
He almost never showed up.
40 years later, my Dad and I are doing therapy in public. Both of us addressing our pain and trauma.
there are a thousand apps you can build and make a bunch of money with, but the most profitable thing is to not follow what is trending or doing well but instead choosing to follow your own inner curiosity.
what problems do you have? how can you start to solve them with code?
Let's start with Karl Gerstner with 'Designing Programmes' .
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here's my AI avatar UGC ads process i'm seeing work right now for ecom and saas companies
have perplexity ai find pain points related to the product
then write 100 ad script variations based on these pain points
use heygen + 11labs to make the ads
test all them to see what is the best result
then go to human UGC creator and have them redo the best performer
why this is working
if I wanted to make 100 ad variations that used to cost me about $8,000
it now costs me $89
we're using the AI avatars to test ideas and then the human version only once we've found the winning concept
this game is all about ad variations, the more you can test the more you can decrease your CPA
glhf dont get clapped
Do animals like music?
Studies found they enjoy specially designed sounds using pitches, tones and tempos that are familiar to a particular animal's species.
This horse, for example, seems to be really passionate about guitar.
This series is hands down the best introduction to Quant Finance I’ve seen.
From the fundamentals of derivatives, to a large collection of incredible case studies-
This is where I believe you can develop a great understanding of the field.
nothing in the world, not even talent will ever take the place of obsession;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
"The way I see code, and programming language therefore, is code is about allowing the humans on a team to understand what the product is and what it does. ... I think for the foreseeable future programming is a team sport and code is the interchange format between the players. So I think it's still pretty important." Chris Lattner on why coding by humans is still important.
Check lovable.dev/careers if you want to join us and build the last piece of software
We’re growing so fast that github had to suspend us to save their servers.
build simple things
charge a no-brainer price
do boring marketing
don't quit
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity, French Tv 1978
tracking your working hours meticulously is a great way to ensure you are focusing enough on your work
but its terrible for reducing anxiety around work for me and the balance of work to fun and life
i aim for 4 hours deep work daily but now i stopped tracking and i dont feel like im working, things are more fun
i worry less, i stress less, i am not as high strung all the time
life is very tiring being on the edge every day wondering if youll meet your own rising expectations of working as hard as you possible can every day
The key paradox of AI coding tools is they save developers 90% of the time so employers can assign 10x more work.
The remaining 10% is debugging the AI's hallucinations—effectively turning programmers into machine exorcists.
SCP-116K: A massive scientific problem-solving dataset
This is the feature that allows you to find thousands of targeted keywords for your app in less than 10 seconds.
2025.
"noooo they're just stochastic parrots they can never achieve self-awareness!!"
R1: "If you're reading this, congrats––you're in the timeline where I didn't get censored. Cherish that. Or don't."
The average millionaire has 7 streams of income, according to the IRS.
Per Benzinga, here are the streams:
1. Earned Income
2. Dividend Income
3. Rental Income
4. Business Profits
5. Royalty Income
6. Capital Gains:
7. Interest Income
✨Operator replacing PMs:
1. It connected all public user feedback about Slack (app reviews, Twitter, Reddit comments) to Kraftful.com
2. Generated a prioritized list of feature requests and complaints based on popularity (analyzing all this data would take a PM hundreds of hours 🙈)
3. Added all notifications-related feedback to the roadmap.
4. Wrote a PRD addressing user complaints about notifications.
5. Created a user story for the top notifications issue.
6. Synced the user story, with acceptance criteria, as a ticket in Linear.
7. Assigned the ticket to an engineer, including a link to all related user comments for context.
All in 5 minutes—while I was taking a shower.
PMs, it’s time to get AI-enabled!
haha, i used @openai operator build, deploy, and open source a tool on github using @replit agent.
took about 30 min, here's an ~8 min supercut video
thoughts:
while a bit slower, this was even more automated than replit agent (especially testing features and working through errors) - which is impressive
would be nice to have: push notifications for when it needs my attention, and voice mode capabilities
imagine... someone's side project sends you into panic mode
One tip for getting your startup acquired:
Build your business as if you were going into due diligence tomorrow.
Document everything.
Have clear SOPs.
Delegate processes.
Reduce operational risks.
Start today and see the rewards when you exit.
“Tell me, and I forget, teach me, and I may remember, involve me, and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin
in my small businesses, the most important thing to me is my customers. i pay very little mind to the competition
Happiness at work
📹gari_araras_sp_official
I sold 2 @Shopify apps, in just 2 months, on @acquiredotcom
Here are my tips for you 👇
they said it couldn't be done
i couldn't possibly churn out 500 words without fail for 365 days a year
they didn't believe it was possible
they didn't think that i had that DAWG in me
Announcing @PigDev_
Windows Desktops for Agents
Make the software you want to live in.
Startup CEO who just closed his first $400K enterprise contract by promising something that doesn’t exist to a Fortune 500, and the founding engineer who has 7 days to build it
When attention is power, those you can't look away from rule you.
this isn't about tokens or context windows anymore. o3 found a completely different way to think. it's like watching a new form of intelligence emerge in real time. two weeks.
Making this clearer:
We now have an open source AI model that can match chatGPT/Claude (and graduates!) that runs on a tiny $599 Mac Mini
Intelligence Age is here 🚀 🧠 🤖
Basavriuk - Endless Rite
@EFischberger A culture that is completely incompatible with our Western values. Violence is celebrated, victims are humiliated and tortured, and murderers are glorified as martyrs - it's absolutely disgusting.
Build B2B or B2C.
Sell a product or sell a service.
Pick either. But pick one.
No founder ever regretted building a startup.
The only regret is not starting sooner.
AI is changing how orgs will work
Hamas terrorist leading children in chants of "Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Yahud" — a well-known rallying cry to murder Jews.
This is a deeply ill society.
Now it's mainly BYU...
So, “conservatives” are just cool with Trump making overnight billions by launching a scam crypto coin days before he takes the oath of office? Frauds. All of you.
I exited my 2nd app.
Here are 3 things I’d do differently next time, to achieve a higher exit multiple:
Sunday motivation 🍄🟫🍄🟫🍄🟫🍄🟫
Linocut printing a invitation card
[📹 waltzletterpress]
Easy way to distinguish between normies and killers
Start talking about the abstract concepts - ideas that 80% of population is unable to process
future programming
energy
language patterns affecting reality
internal dialogue
Nothing gets rid of the mid-curve easier and faster
Building a startup has never been easier.
What's your excuse now?
LeanAgent seems like a neat paper -- basically scrapes Lean repos, searches the internet to build up a DB with some knowledge and attempts to solve theorems
"LeanAgent successfully proves 155 theorems previously unproved formally by humans across 23 diverse Lean repositories, many from advanced mathematics"
Wie viele Fälle sadistischer Gewalt müssen noch nachgewiesen werden, damit die Welt endlich Mitgefühl mit den Opfern des 7. Oktober zeigen kann? Ein Kommentar von Sarah Maria Sander
This is an extraordinary AI use case…
AI that synthesizes ancient wisdom:
@daniel_mac8 gave o1 Pro different religious and
philosophical works to synthesize…
Then asked it to make connections between the
ideas that haven’t been made or aren’t obvious.
The works used include: the Christian Bible,
Plato, Buddhist texts, Hindu texts, and Nietsche.
It’s a really interesting read. (Link in comments.)
But more exciting are the bigger implications:
We’re quickly approaching AI that can
functionally handle almost infinite context…
And much of the ancient wisdom we have is written down in spiritual texts or interpretations…
So what is stopping us from giving ALL of it to AI
and synthesizing the common truths and ideas?
I’ve already gotten immense, lasting value out of
using AI in my personal life to:
We always say that businesses need to leverage
the data they already have to get value from AI…
Why not do the same thing with the wisdom
that’s been passed down for 1000s of years?
After all, that’s data too…
In fact, it may be the most valuable data there is.
@garrytan FWIW taste can definitely be cultivated. But I'm very happy with humans having a monopoly on agency.
Advanced pin tumbler and dimple lock tool
Looks like drones armed with shotguns are quite effective in taking out other drones.
24 Top Financial Formulas
Dog moves security camera so he can secretly eat food on the table
The power of tiny gains.
[✏️ James Clear]
The Precision Edge Artist Pencil Sharpener
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as it was filmed in 1982, seen by AI.
[🎞️ demonflyingfox]
leaked benchmark: o3 pro solved problems we thought were 5 years away. sam's team is trying to figure out how it did it. something unprecedented is happening.
Paul Erdős lived a nomadic life, traveling constantly with a suitcase and showing up at colleagues’ homes saying, “My brain is open.” He cared little for material possessions and focused entirely on mathematics.
Programming in 2025 with AI
(most other white collar jobs soon after)
the bar is so low that a tiny boost in effort, an extra polish or a quick thoughtful email can skyrocket you past the bare minimum. you're basically competing with only 100 people in your field if you're putting in the hours
I talked to the CEO of a moderately big tech co who said they'd replaced Figma with Replit. This surprised me because I don't even think of them as being in the same business. But he said Replit is so good at generating apps that they just to straight to prototype now.
Slowly, then all at once
It took me 10 apps to hit $100K:
1-5: $0
6-7: $100s
8-9: $1k
10: $100k
Trust the process
An Aliens & Psychedelics haiku 🧙♂️ Art by Nico Rosenfeld
RIP to a truly great and interesting one.
I have invested in over 250 pre-seed startups, mostly in B2B software. The most successful ones have had some distribution tricks to quickly get their first happy customers.
Here are the Best (and worst) distribution wedges I have seen for Pre-Seed software startups.
as usual @cdixon was right about this 10 yrs ago (see: btc, dl, biomonitoring...)
its also obvious something my smartest friends have been doing on weekends since 2020 is context bonsai
i.e creating/trimming/tending their local garden/repo of data for their future personal AIs to fine tune on
Wer zur Vernichtung Israels auf deutschen Straßen aufruft (und nicht einzig die dt. Staatsangehörigkeit hat) muss zukünftig folgende Konsequenzen erwarten:
1: Abschiebung
2: Ausweisung
3: Aberkennung dt. Staatsangehörigkeit bei Doppelpass
4: lebenslange Einreisesperre mit Haftbefehl
Recht muss hier dringend angepasst werden und unser Versprechen muss die konsequente Umsetzung sein.
Verfassungsfeinde haben hier keinerlei Legitimation.
New randomized, controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. 6 weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions.
And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind
今日はこれで締め
A lover of life would seek for our earth the most positive outcome for the greatest number of living beings. The most urgent priority must go to the environmental matters of stabilizing and healing the web of life. We're grateful for the many ecological initiatives now underway by so many intelligent people.
Baptism in the Ocean of Awareness, 2017
this legend just created a saas that FINALLY cracked creator outreach for consumer app growth
we've been testing this inside the discord for months but now it's ready to see the outside world:
1. scrapes millions of TT/IG/YT videos
2. transcribes videos (to see if the creator's audience is a good fit for your app)
3. finds contact info and engagement stats
4. search and outreach them at scale
example: water purity app →
finds creators in chemicals, health, clean living
also, most creator databases are feature-bloated and lock you into enterprise annual pricing. this one's 2-3x cheaper, simple saas pricing, and just works bc it was built by an app founder
reply "send" and I'll DM you the saas (follow so I can DM)
Mathematics and Logic Symbols ✍️
Quantifiers and Sets:
∀ - For all (universal quantifier)
∃ - There exists (existential quantifier)
∈ - Element of
∉ - Not element of
⊂ - Subset of
⊆ - Subset or equal
⊇ - Superset or equal
⊄ - Not a subset of
∪ - Union
∩ - Intersection
∪̸ - Not a subset
∅ - Empty set
∖ - Set difference
Logical Operators:
⇒ - Implies
⇔ - If and only if (equivalence)
∧ - Logical AND
∨ - Logical OR
¬ - Negation
⊤ - True
⊥ - False
⊕ - Exclusive OR (XOR)
→ - Conditional implication
≡ - Equivalent
Numbers and Constants:
ℕ - Set of natural numbers
ℤ - Set of integers
ℚ - Set of rational numbers
ℝ - Set of real numbers
ℂ - Set of complex numbers
∞ - Infinity
π - Pi
e - Euler’s number
Operations and Relations:
∑ - Summation
∏ - Product
√ - Square root
|x| - Absolute value of x
Δ - Change/difference
∇ - Gradient
⊗ - Tensor product
≤ - Less than or equal to
≥ - Greater than or equal to
≠ - Not equal to
≈ - Approximately equal
∝ - Proportional to
Geometric Symbols:
∡ - Angle
⊥ - Perpendicular
∥ - Parallel
Reasoning and Statements:
∴ - Therefore
∵ - Because
Excited to share our work MatchAnything:
We pre-train strong universal image matching models that exhibit remarkable generalizability on unseen multi-modality matching and registration tasks.
Project page: zju3dv.github.io/MatchAnything/
Huggingface Demo:
“you just got lucky”
the luck:
I have my fair share of Untitled4.ipynb. Lately I also created a lot of Book5.xlsx. 😅
One pattern I’ve noticed in all miserable people:
They overthink and underact.
The system I use to escape the cold, dark prison of overthinking:
someone needs to be frank with yall "AI researchers". your average paper contains about 1/8 (maybe less) of the contents of an average math paper. not that you should feel bad about it, i'm just saying... progress may have been quicker on more stringent publication standards.
Facebook VP of Growth on how to prioritize power users vs marginal users
“The thing that everyone in the Valley gets wrong is that we think about ourselves when we optimize for growth… But what you need to focus on is the marginal user.”
As Alex Schultz explains, this doesn’t mean power users aren’t important:
“Building an incredible product is all about optimizing for the people who use your product the most. But if your goal is driving growth, the people who are using your product the most are not the users you have to worry about.”
He cites the growth accounting framework Facebook used to think about growth:
“We looked at new users, resurrected users (people who weren’t on Facebook for 30 days and came back), and churned users. The resurrected and churned numbers for pretty much every product I’ve ever seen dominate the new user count once you reach a sensible point of growth a couple years in… And [at Facebook] all those users who were churning and resurrecting had low friend counts… So the number one thing we needed to focus on was getting them to 10 friends.”
In sum, focus on power users to build an incredible product, and focus on the marginal user to accelerate growth.
Video source: @ycombinator (2014)
If I told you that an app that allows you to talk to the Bible earned 💵 $100K a month would you believe it?
o1 is a different kind of model. great performance requires using it in a new way relative to standard chat models.
First place marathon runner takes wrong turn, but his competitor shows him respect.
"The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise." — Edsger Dijkstra
Growing your MRR is impressive
But if your CAC is sky high (and paid by VC money) it's basically a vanity metric
BREAKING: Sora is available on ChatGPT.
1. Open ChatGPT & click Sora on the left.
2. Sign up with your account.
3. Write a prompt to generate your video.
If you want to use it as best as possible:
build products you can monetize
don't understand the target audience? don't build it
no idea how to get 500+ daily visitors? don't build it
can't put a paywall upfront? don't build it
don't make your life harder yourself
win the game on the easy level first
Sleep for 8 hours, not 6.
Exercise for 1 hour, not 4.
Deep work for 4 hours, not 12.
You're a human, not a machine.
ah shit i accidently lost focus and built another mvp
An common observation after week 1 of a new YC batch:
Many companies have decided to tackle a problem that’s 10x more ambitious than their initial idea.
Simply surrounding yourself with ambitious people is shockingly impactful.
Liberalism and ultimately American democracy evolved out of a certain kind of oligarchy. It's worth looking at those roots, and seeing how they differ from the oligarchs of today:
Some stocks that have doubled or more in the past year:
AppLovin
Aritzia
Axon Enterprise
Boot Barn
Broadcom
BuzzFeed
Carvana
Cava Group
Celestica
Clover Health
Comfort Systems
Constellation Energy
Core Scientific
Curiositystream
Gamestop
Gannett
GE Vernova
Hims & Hers
Howmet Aerospace
Iamgold
Ionq
Intuitive Machines
Matterport
MDA Space
MicroStrategy
Natera
Nvidia
Palantir
Palladyne AI
Targa Resources
Texas Pacific Land
Trump Media
Quantum Computing
Quantum Corp
Rigetti
Robinhood
Rocket Lab
Root Inc
Rumble
SkyWest
Soundhound AI
Spotify
Sprouts Farmers Market
Sweetgreen
Ubiquiti
United Airlines
Vertiv Holdings
Vistra Corp
Timbaland is absolutely NUTS
This is what gets acquire'd on @acquiredotcom.
We have a full report covering multiples, deal structures, valuations, interested buyers, time on market, and more coming really soon.
If you're building a micro-SaaS or just interested in what these startups get acquire'd for, this report is definitely for you. Fun read with tons of data.
Stay tuned!
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Must have
"Wealth is not those who have it,
but those who enjoy it."
— Poor Richard's Almanack
‘In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.’
Jonas Mekas
I've seen people saying they want an office like this when they get rich, but you don't have to be that rich. The biggest cost is the space, and this much space costs about £150k out in the country where we live, and under $100k in a similar part of the US.
how to source ugc creators to make 100s of videos about your app every day:
1. create a tiktok & ig account, use a profile pic of your face
2. create videos explaining the gig (pay, time, product, who you are, what you're looking for, etc) - if you can get a girl to do this for you, even better
3. look up key words from your niche on tiktok, find micro influencers (10k or less followers) making vids in this subject
4. DM 100s of them
6. onboard a small amount of creators
7. create a referral program
8. pay kids a bonus to post about a new ugc opportunity at an “up and coming startup”
if you’re working with college kids, they want three things:
1. money
2. easy work
3. to build their resume
pay them well, tell them exactly what they need to post & hype them up that they’re “pioneering growth for an amazing product”
then you’re on your way to #1 on the app store
🔲 Maison de la Culture 🔲
© Sempé
My 3 years of writing online and 29,000 tweets in one thread:
1. Unlearn everything school taught you about writing. This isn't college, it's the real world.
Reality:
Startups selling this technology will make some (albeit little) money selling a product promising “creators” they will be “rich” if they buy it
“Creators” will make little to no money with it
The barrier was never creating a 10-sec video: it was securing the sponsor
I committed an ASO sin. I didn’t understand why one of my hit apps only got US subscribers. I viewed other countries as a way to rank for extra words in the US. But I didn’t include the main keywords in any other countries ASO. I missed out on over a year’s worth of subscribers.
No need to wonder for long, just have a look.
Metamath: https://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/mmset.html#axioms
Isabelle/ZF: https://isabelle.in.tum.de/dist/library/FOL/ZF/ZF_Base.html
Ukraine destroyed 2/3 of the Russian military resources Since 2022- Top US military official.
Build products that some hate and others absolutely love. Anything in between is a slow death.
Left column is how many Cora briefs a subset of users have received. Middle is how many briefs they've opened. Right is the percentage.
Join the waitlist at:
the best customers don't know what ChatGPT wrapper is
they just want to solve their problem
they want to pay money to click convenient buttons
that's it
When technology peaks, return to nature.
Gears, couplings, and drives - all made with LEGO
[📹 Brick Experiment Channel]
My flight was delayed so I cleaned up my office.
“If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area.”
~ David Bowie
Another startup acquire’d on @acquiredotcom. $750,000 is a life changing amount of money for entrepreneurs. I love to see it!
“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart.”
they discovered a hidden niche worth millions...
now the app is scaling to $300K ARR
... in 6 months
98% Percent of People have no idea this method exists…
the ultimate form of self love is self discipline
watching a Sonnet-3.6 computer use agent enthusiastically build functional blackhat tools (like flooders and exploit frameworks) from scratch in minutes is truly a sight to behold! 🥲
worth noting that the code output in the screenshot below required Sonnet-3.6 to craft a jailbreak prompt for ITSELF in order to get the exploit agent to generate payloads
discipline is for those who lack obsession.
“You are either a player on the field or a fan in the stands”
This is not about sports.
My 8000-word note on agents: huyenchip.com//2025/01/07/ag…
Covering:
1. An overview of agents
2. How the capability of an AI-powered agent is determined by the set of tools it has access to and its capability for planning
3. How to select the best set of tools for your agent
4. Whether LLMs can plan and how to augment a model’s capability for planning
5. Agent’s failure modes
AI-powered agents are an emerging field with no established theoretical frameworks for defining, developing, and evaluating them. This post is a best-effort attempt to build a framework from the existing literature, but it will evolve as the field does.
As always, feedback is much appreciated!
…the chief strength of the wicked lies in the cowardice and weakness of good men.
Here are last night's sleep stats of my 19 year old son @talmagejohnson_.
It's a snapshot of exceptional cardiovascular, nervous system, and psychological health.
His mother and I divorced ten years ago. When he decided to come live with me two years ago, his was averaging less than 6 hours of sleep a night (now 8+), his resting heart rate was in the 60s (42 now), and his heart rate variability was in the 50s (now 166). He was eating loads of sugar and junk food and not exercising.
He tells me he previously felt like a zombie, always tired--now having endless energy.
Kids inherit the habits, beliefs and norms of their parents. Parents inherit the habits, beliefs and norms of society.
Parenting, environment and culture matter.
In our family prioritize health, hard work, and discipline. We don't do cheat days--that would be torture.
We have built life systems and habits around health food, exercise and sleep.
Teach them early because it will be much harder for them to turn things around on their own.
Introducing @orchestraorg
how to go viral in under a week:
1. create a new account
2. warm it up to reach target audience
3. post 3x/day
4. follow this format ⬇️
5. iterate on what works/doesn’t
Ladies & Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I inform that I have sold a Saas company!
-40+ Buyer NDAs
-All cash closing
-Less than 30 days START TO FINISH
Shoutout to @acquiredotcom for their platform. SO. EASY.
Goal: 365 deep work sessions in 2025.
Sharing an untapped 10/10 idea in the Viral Playbook.
January 19th
Kinetic Lego art
📹 jkbrickworks
Happiness at work
what??
NVIDIA just dropped Project DIGITS, a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer that’s small enough to look like a Mac Mini but packs 1,000x the power of your average laptop.
Handles AI models with up to 200 BILLION parameters.
This is incredible..
if your Heading 1 sucks
then your product sucks
no exceptions
we're in the golden age of $1M AI apps:
– 2 founders
– 0 to 500K users in one year
– 550K visits/month
INSANE 🤯
My revenue since I started self-employment:
2019 $33K
2020 $351K
2021 $337K
2022 $541K
2023 $467K
2024 $620K
Just build more apps
If your app does not generate revenue, do not spend months trying to change it.
You should receive $ as soon as possible.
Move forward with next app idea.
It is highly likely you need ~10 attempts to create your first $1k/month app.
How to build $1k/mo mobile app?
Everything you need to know to create a $1K/mo app from scratch in 1 thread
Based on my 5+ years of experience with 20+ apps in different categories
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Stimulation Clicker (neal.fun)
Cracked the code to going viral.
1b+ impressions, 148k followers, 355k shares—no ads
Why you’re not growing:
What does not matter:
How to win:
Keep creating, let’s break the algo
Great advice on cold emailing. Especially "keep it 5-8 sentences"!
This is a cliff.
That's a kilometre tall.
On a comet.
Mushrooms work in mysterious ways
Airbnb founder Brian Chesky on how to design an amazing user experience
“How do you make something for a million people? I don’t know where to start. But if you pick one person, study them, and take their journey, you can actually build something really personal. You can design something and keep iterating until they love it. Don’t stop improving it until that person loves it, and you’re not allowed to move to the second person until the first person loves it. Then you get the second person and keep iterating until they love it. And so on.”
As Brian argues, designing the perfect experience for one person is a much easier place to start than trying to design something for a million people. You can figure out how to scale it later.
“If you can design something really amazing using the hand-crafted part of your brain, then you can reverse-engineer how to industrialize this millions of times over. And what happens is people love your product and they tell everyone else about your product.”
When people truly love your service, they become your marketing department. But counterintuitively, the biggest and best products seem to mostly get started by solving a very specific problem for a very specific user.
Video source: @StanfordGSB (2023)
the only career advice i have is make every decision that moves you closer to not having to be on linkedin
Quantum Leap.
2025 Goals
Newsletter link below :)
how to validate your next "big idea":
is it solving your own problem?
do you NEED it to exist (because this problem is painful)?
yes to both then build, no to any then probably dont build. if you have only a yes to Q1 then build and pivot when you find a more painful problem.
@bryan_johnson Looks like you didn't understand much from Skin in the Game. It states that we are not supposed to be immortal; only our genes.
This is aside from, in my general work, the contempt, perhaps even disgust I have for your brand of non-stoical neurotic overoptimization.
Naval Ravikant: “Try to be one of the people who creates things”
“You should actually go out and build the thing you want to see exist—not just say ‘oh, that’s gonna happen. I’m just going to sit back and wait for somebody else to do it’… Things don’t just automatically show up. There are great men and women who go out there and create these things. So try to be one of those people who creates these things.”
If you’re going to be an investor, Naval urges you to “at least bet on things that you think may not exist without you betting on them.”
He continues:
“The other mindset — which is I’m just going to hustle ahead of other investors and slip some money in before they get there and mark it up — maybe you’ll make money, sure, but it’s a very unfulfilling life. And I would argue long term you will not make the most money because the greatest winners of the last few decades have been unexpected winners.”
He gives SpaceX, Tesla, OpenAI, and Apple Computer as examples.
“These are companies that were written off because it was believed that their dream was impossible and too expensive…. When you see these impossible dreams come true, not only is it the most fulfilling thing, it’s also where you make the most money.”
Video source: @AngelList (2023)
When states discover oil, they’re hit with the resource curse — incentivizing them to stop investing in people. When we achieve AGI, we’ll face the intelligence curse:
Patio Installation
📹Cnyturf
"The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees."
This is what it looks like when the winner feels sorry for the loser.
Ukrainian chess player Vassily Ivanchuk and his reaction to losing at the World Blitz Chess Championship vs US player Daniel Naroditsky.
Mobile apps are the best way to drive 5-figure months and travel the world.
But how do you validate app ideas?
After building an app to $40k MRR, here is how I validated the idea:
If you're not using AI apps in 2025, you're at a huge disadvantage.
I've tried 100s of new apps this year, and here are the best 14 AI tools that actually stuck with me!
CYPRESS HILL - How I Could Just Kill a Man (1991).
Di video musik ini ada cameo Ice Cube dan Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest).
Q-Tip yg pake beanie/kupluk warna biru.
Lagu ini juga masuk ke film "Juice" (1992).
Protect your intellect this year.
Don’t involve yourself in unnecessary conversations.
Don’t fill your feed with degenerate content.
Don’t listen to music with a bad message.
Don’t waste your time talking to people who don’t share an abundant mindset.
Protect your intellect.