July 2025 · 172 bookmarks
Psilocybin helped aging mice not just live longer but also "look better" in groundbreaking new study
Psilocybin mushrooms as a beauty product?
That could happen in the next few years...
More here:
what I'm eating
a reinforcement learning human feedback to myself more than anything else.
whenever i make something… product, design, writing, i ask a simple question: what do i want someone to feel when they see it, use it, or read it?
then i pretend like i am on the other side of it. then i ask: do i feel that? if not, back to the board. if yes, it’s ready for the the next step.
this is a very simple formula against the war on indifference. wrote a small piece on it for the archives.
😅
Microsoft just did a study on the 40 jobs most at risk by AI and the 40 most secure.
A few really surprised, and many we own.
If I had to get local SEO clients or I'll be homeless
This is what I'd do (bookmark for later):
1. Target service businesses already spending money - plumbers, HVAC, med spas, lawyers.
Bonus if they're running Google Ads = they understand paying for leads.
Find them by searching "[niche] + [city]" and look for the ad results.
2. Check Angie's List, Thumbtack, HomeAdvisor for active lead buyers.
DM/email them this offer:
"Hey, I noticed you're running ads. I just checked your organic rankings and found some issues costing you leads. Mind if I send over a quick audit?"
20/100 will say "Sure."
3. Use Local Dominator to show them exactly where they rank vs competitors.
Show them their competitor ranking #1 getting 400+ calls per year.
Do the math: 400 calls x 33% close rate x $500 average job = $66,000 in lost revenue.
Ask: "How would an extra $66k change your business?"
4. Send a custom Loom audit showing:
They'll be shocked no one told them this before.
5. Sign a $1,500/month deal to handle:
Get 7 of these clients = $10,500/month
The work? Set up systems in week one, then 80% runs on autopilot.
You're not selling SEO rankings.
You're selling a system that turns their Google presence into a lead machine.
Most agencies charge $50k for what you can deliver for $1,500/month.
They raise venture capital to solve problems they think exist.
You're solving problems you can prove exist with ranking data.
$10k MRR, 85% margins, business worth $600k you own 100%.
Scale to $25k MRR by adding more cities or services.
Still easier than getting a traditional marketing job.
The opportunity is massive - $90 billion SEO market growing 20% yearly.
Most local businesses have terrible SEO and pay for expensive leads instead.
You become the bridge between their lead costs and organic growth.
By the way, we're giving away our 7-figure 50-page proposal template, comment "LOCALRANK" + bookmark this post and we'll DM it to you for free (must be following).
Just caught my client selling MY n8n workflow for $15K.
The same workflow I gave him for $2K.
So fuck it. Here's the exact JSON that's making him rich:
The "Client Thief 3000" automation:
→ Scrapes LinkedIn for CEOs mentioning "inefficient"
→ AI analyzes their company's tech stack
→ Generates a personalized video pitch
→ Books meetings while they sleep
→ Closes deals with 34% conversion
He's closed $73K in 3 weeks. I built it in 2 hours.
The betrayal stings, but your success will heal me.
Follow, RT + Reply "THIEF" & I'll DM the JSON.
(Use it to steal his clients. I'll provide popcorn.)
nobody with an IQ over 130 has algo pull. their posts are too niche. nobody understands them. they never go viral. they just don't have it and never will
the cutoff is like 3K followers. if you have more than that, you're a midwit
Its going viral on Reddit.
Somebody let ChatGPT run a $100 live share portfolio, restricted to U.S. micro-cap stocks.
Did an LLM really bit the market?.
while the Russell 2000 and biotech ETF XBI rose only ~3.9% and 3.5%.
Prompt + GitHub posted
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ofcourse its a short‑term outperformance, tiny sample size, and also micro caps are hightly volatile.
So much more exahustive analysis is needed with lots or more info (like Sharpe ratios and longer back-testing etc), to explore whether an LLM can truly beat the market.
i work at meta. hr systems. mostly comp processing. quiet job. stable. sometimes i daydream about retiring in portugal.
today a package hit my queue. base + bonus + equity. looks normal at first glance. then i open the details.
$1,000,000,000
over four years.
plus signing.
plus year 1 minimum: $100m.
i stare at it like it’s a typo. check the name. triple check the level. researcher.
coolcoolcool. so now i have to enter this into workday.
i paste the first number, field throws an error.“value must be below $99,999,999.”
lol. okay. i try splitting it. base in one bucket, equity in another. nope. i try scientific notation. it rounds it down.
the system can’t HANDLE a billion dollars.
i call someone on payroll infra. tell them i’ve got a 10-digit comp packet. they think i’m joking. i forward the req. they go quiet.
“we’re gonna need to escalate this,” someone mutters.
“to who?” i ask.
“god, maybe.”
next thing i know zuck’s chief of staff is in the thread. now i’m in a thread with zuck. because of a number.
then i find out the guy declined the offer.
just said no. no negotiation. no counter. just… no.
i’ve been maxing out my 401k for 11 years & this man said no to a billion dollars like he was skipping dessert.
i close the ticket. delete the draft.
go for a walk.
& then i rethink everything.
🎞️ Such an useful upgrade of Google's NotebookLM
NotebookLM just got upgraded with AI Video Summaries and Studio Upgrades.
Google says users can think of Video Overviews as a visual alternative to Audio Overviews.
📹 Video Overviews allow users to turn dense multimedia, such as raw notes, PDFs, and images, into digestible visual presentations.
The video overviews feature enables NotebookLM to produce narrated video summaries, complete with visuals and voiceovers, drawing directly from user-uploaded sources like PDFs, web pages, or notes.
This isn’t just a simple text-to-video conversion; it’s an AI-orchestrated presentation that highlights key insights, timelines, and connections, making it ideal for quick briefings or educational content.
It also lets each notebook hold multiple custom outputs. NotebookLM already offered Audio Overviews, tiny podcasts that read course packs or legal briefs so users could learn hands‑free. Handy in traffic, but charts, formulas, and process diagrams still begged for visuals.
Video Overviews plugs that hole. An AI host builds short narrated slides, pulling images, diagrams, quotes, and raw numbers straight from the upload, then plays the set like a brisk explainer.
Prompts let users set topics, goals, and audience depth.
The updated Studio panel adds 4 tiles and stores many outputs of each type, making multilingual audio, role‑specific video, or chapter‑based mind maps possible in one notebook. It even runs an Audio Overview while you explore other views, trimming tool‑switching friction.
Startup idea:
An app that charges you $1 from your Stripe account every time you skip your daily marketing task.
Call it StripeSlap.
Show up like you are already getting paid.
Even when you're not.
Because if you keep showing up;
You will soon get paid.
The avg young person today is on course to spend 25 years of their life on their phone. (Plus more on other screens). Most of them don't want to live this way, but feel trapped.
How about we delay giving smartphones and tablets till at least 14?
This is how you become successful:
1. Wake up
2. Go to the same coffee shop
3. Every day
4. Turn off your phone.
5. Turn ON focus music.
6. Work on your project for ~2 hours (minimum)
7. Repeat
Do this exact, boring, schedule for 6 months, 1 year, 3 years, etc...
And you literally can't fail.
I have followed this schedule for 8+ years and it hasn't failed me yet.
Psilocybin leads to a profound shift in brain connectivity
Fixed networks are dissolved & new communication pathways are created.
Selling is about clarity, not complexity.
Make it obvious and people will choose you.
The paper shows inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) lets LLMs learn their own reward signal, so they align better and think deeper.
Most teams still push imitation fine‑tuning and preference PPO, and that path stalls because no shared reward lives underneath.
IRL flips the script.
It watches expert traces or pairwise votes, then learns a neural function that scores any output.
With that score the model can search, plan, or self‑train without new human labels each step.
Math problems highlight the upside.
A simple right‑wrong reward lets agents grow long chains of thought and backtrack until answers lock in.
Chat models gain too, because pair choices are far cheaper than full demonstrations.
The authors map classic RL tools onto this setting and compare routes like PPO, DPO, Monte Carlo policy gradients, and Best‑of‑N filtering.
They warn of reward hacking, show ensemble or generative checks to spot it, and stress fresh data over sheer volume.
The bottom line is clear.
Learn the reward, not just the policy, and the model stays on target longer.
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Paper – arxiv. org/abs/2507.13158
Paper Title: "Inverse Reinforcement Learning Meets LLM Post-Training: Basics, Advances, and Opportunities"
Szenen eines jüdischen (ausgewanderten) Lebens in Berlin:
► Erstens: Wir bestellten bei Flink. Der Auslieferer sieht die Mesusa (jüdisches Schutzzeichen) an unserer Tür. „Er ruft: Haut ab, ihr Juden!“ Er wirft mir die Kartons an den Kopf und geht.
► Zweitens: „Unsere kleinen Kinder werden in der Schule regelmäßig von arabischen und iranischen Schülern belästigt und bedroht. Sie beschimpfen meinen Sohn: „Du gehörst hier nicht hin, du bist ein Jude!“
► Drittens: Fast alle Uber-Fahrer fragen mich, wo ich herkomme. Einmal sagte ich: „Israel“. Da hielt der Wagen an und ich sollte aussteigen.
► Viertens: Wenn wir als Familie unterwegs sind, sprechen wir kein Hebräisch mehr, denn wir wurden deshalb schon angegangen. Die Kinder haben gelernt, ihre Identität in der Öffentlichkeit zu verleugnen.
► Fünftens: Meine Frau meidet die öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel, aus genau denselben Gründen.
► Sechstens: Mein Büro wurde mehrfach aufgebrochen, die Wände beschmiert mit „Free Palestine“ und „Juden raus“.
► Siebtens: Wenn ich einen Antrag im Bezirksamtstelle, wird alles verzögert, sobald klar wird, wer ich bin.
► Achtens: „In Neukölln sagte mir ein Araber: „Verschwindet lieber jetzt, in 20 Jahren gehört hier alles uns.“
(Link in den Kommentaren.)
Your brand not growing?
Stop being so value driven.
Post for vibes:
Clients don’t want robots.
They want someone they can get along with.
which sub agents am i missing?
the unhealthy urge to --dangerously-skip-permissions has dropped dramatically since adopting this
ty @iannuttall 🙏
My Claude MCP Agent just wrote a sales proposal that closed a $6K deal.
Not kidding. One MCP setup:
basically everything to automate your sales process
reply "CLOSER" + retweet and i'll send the workflow (must be following so i can dm)
only FREE for 48 hours before it goes into the void.
Weekly limits coming to Claude Code plans soon? 👀
Somebody seems to have just shared the full Claude code system prompt on GitHub.
its super long at 144K characters / 16.9K+ words.
(note, this is Claude Code, not the Claude webui prompt which is open-sourced anyway)
Hey, @grok, who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was
The only trade secret is user acquisition now
What keywords you’re targeting
What marketing you’re doing
This has been the biggest shift I’ve seen in my entire career…
Technology can now be copied in an instant now. But without users it’s just code
He finds a startup idea, he vibe codes it in 12h, goes viral, sells it 8 days later for $15k (could have sold it for more) and has a blast doing it (exact playbook in 37 mins)
That feeling when 🫠 Art by @alexgreycosm
Something that many people haven't realized:
Claude Code is useful for much more than just coding. For example, @AnthropicAI's growth marketing team is using it to generate 100s of new ad creatives in minutes.
I think Anthropic has undersold the power of this tool. It should be branded as "Claude Agent" not "Claude Code."
I asked people what their non-coding use cases are and some of the replies are 🤯. See next post for the link.
The magic is in that last 20%.
I built 7 custom subagents for Claude Code to help me ship faster!
1. code-refactorer
2. prd-writer
3. project-task-planner
4. vibe-coding-coach
5. security-auditor
6. frontend-designer
7. content-writer
(Try them yourself from the link below)
HuggingFace just dropped 9 free AI courses and they’re insanely good.
LLMs, agents, vision, 3D, audio, gaming all hands-on.
All open-source. All free.
Here’s what’s inside ↓
When Doggy Daycare calls.. 😅
Definitely can't please everyone.
The question is: Can you please anyone?
More than please -- thrill? So they buy, and stay, and grow, and advocate?
Even just 10? Then 100?
By 100, you'll have 1000 paying customers total; that's why this works.
build more free tools
more seo trafffic
more llm traffic
more influencer shoutouts
One Reddit post > 7 days of grinding on 𝕏
Diversify your marketing channels
𝕏 isn't everything
I'm looking for a few beta testers
To try an app I've been working on for a few months
The tool automates part of the content creation process for people who ACTUALLY SHIP - so you can get customers even if you're a n00b at marketing
Just leave a comment on what you're building
This is my new favorite genre of AI video
(from u/neda6117)
I'm no longer using claude, chatgpt, or perplexity.
I'm only using claude code.
For literally everything.
And I keep everything organized locally.
The Claude Code + @obsdmd combo is actually bonkers for content creation / research. (Shout out @mckaywrigley, his latest video on youtube is great)
If this is something you want to do, I highly recommend creating a "HQ Examples" file on your computer.
This should be a folder of 30-50 high quality examples of your work, or anyones work that you want to create like, and giving Claude Access.
Giving good examples is worth as much if not more than a really good prompt.
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This also gives FLEXIBILITY.
If you store everything locally you can port your data into other tools much easier than using chatgpt, claude, and perplexity.
Don't create a claude project, chatgpt project, or perplexity spaces, when you can just create a local folder with a "ReadME" file with a folder of good examples.
You can also create commands. Which i'll talk more about in my next video.
Claude Code is getting a brand new feature: custom subagents.
Type /agents to get started.
do u ever make an app like months ago and then use it every day and you're too lazy to release it for other people, yeah me too
Every app I launch follows the same pattern:
– Idea & plan: 1 day
– Build app: 3 days
– Onboarding & paywall: 2 day
– ASO and app optimization: 1 day
– Launch: 1 day
7 days = live app
Speed > perfection.
Jumping on the bandwagon and creating videos with Claude Code!
Here's a teaser video for my email newsletter, fully vibe coded.
Maybe Claude Code is the everything app?
The rate of chuckling at my computer screen has increased significantly since starting this project.
The agents will do so so many funny (and clever!) things during their investigations.
Here are some favorite bloopers:
Psilocybin shows potential as an anti-aging molecule, with lifespan-enhancing results in human cells and mice observed in a new study.
In vitro, psilocin (psilocybin’s metabolite) extended cellular lifespan by 29% at baseline and 57% at higher doses. It also reduced markers of aging like β-gal activity, boosted sirtuin (SIRT1) levels, lowered DNA damage and oxidative stress, and preserved telomeres.
In vivo, 19-month-old female mice (equivalent to ~60–65 human years) who received monthly psilocybin doses for 10 months had 80% survival vs. 50% in controls. Treated mice also appeared younger—with improved fur quality, more hair growth, and less graying.
Although psilocybin is listed as a Schedule I substance, these findings position it as a novel therapy for healthy aging and open a path toward 'psychedelic-assisted senotherapeutics', interventions that may enhance psychological well-being while also slowing genetic aging.
No matter your stance on psychedelics, these findings should intrigue you.
OpenAI is literally a group of last year PhDs who got drunk of creating a hugely profitable startup by any means necessary
The boring way to get in your best shape:
1. Choose a diet you can do for your entire life
2. Get stronger or do more volume using the same exercises
3. Drink water as your primary source of hydration
3. Get 10k steps a day
5. Fix sleep habits
6. Be patient
Step 1: Raise $15M
Step 2: Burn it to generate $8.3M
Step 3: Multiply by 12 and call it $100M ARR
Step 4: Tweet it
Step 5: Raise $200M
Still no users
Still no profit
Welcome to the new economy
Amateurs think details don't matter. Professionals know that the money is in the details.
After 167k posts later…
They still call me lucky.
"You can care — I can only compute." - ChatGPT
@simonw Avoid ollama on macOS, use lm studio and MLX models, try Qwen3-30BA3B 8bit
The only 3 tools I’d use to go from $0 to $10K/mo with a new app:
→ Cursor (build + ship fast)
→ Canva (design + branding)
→ Xcode (ship to the App Store)
Don’t overcomplicate.
Start simple, scale hard.
Every great startup moves fast on the boring work.
Optionality is capital, choice is labor.
Operations at CIA are not your average 9-5 job. From day one, you'll be protecting national security.
Love to see this from @WhiteHouse!
I share my best property finds in Italy, Spain, Portugal and France through my newsletter and you can subscribe here if you like:
Someone explain to me why we are fighting for tiny city apartments when ALL THIS is available for €265k ($311k):
Me expecting to meet the love of my life "naturally" but I don't post pics, have 3 close friends, and barely leave the house
Immersing yourself in details will combat the generalizing tendencies of the brain and bring you closer to reality.
Right now I’m in full JSON ad prompt try-hard mode with #Veo3 — and honestly, it’s wild what you can pull off.
Here are the two endpoints to get the App Store keyword popularity:
/recommendation: one optional keyword ➡️ popularity for related keywords.
/popularities: multiple keywords ➡️ popularity for these exact keywords.
PS: you need an Apple Ads cookie session in the request header
Business is 80% relationships.
Talk to more people!
Prospects don’t buy.
Friends do.
Serve your followers.
Build real relationships.
Don’t sell, unless they ask.
This is how I signed 90% of my clients.
People buy from you because they trust you.
it’s so over
The fastest way to spot a successful person: watch how quickly they make decisions, respond to messages, and turn ideas into action.
Speed is king.
$0 to $10K/month = grind
$10K to $30K = repeat
$30K to $100K = automate
$100K to $1M = detach
And most of you can’t even finish the first chapter
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces commander Madyar:
At NATO, they asked my opinion on their base.
I said 4 Ukrainian FPV teams could turn it into Pearl Harbor in 15 mins without coming within 10 km.
Cheap, accessible tech in terrorist hands could upend any country. 1/
Someone 100x dumber than you is 100x richer than you because they’ve got bigger balls and don’t paralyze themselves over every decision.
the notes app that builds itself just got a sidebar you can hack
make it yours, change it however you’d like
now everyone gets their dream notes app
Anxiety is the anticipation of something bad.
Confidence is the anticipation of something good.
Important life lesson from @Mind_Essentials
How to get attention online:
Do this for 12 months and you won't fail.
WRONG! True hardcore background is pure pitch mil-spec black. Why mimic physical highlights/shadows, those are vestigial side effects of manf. constraints. You can DIRECTLY sear the retina with high contrast semiotic elements.
while you are still working on your morning routine,
another guy sends 2000 emails/day with a high ticket offer.
wake up.
You can turn your Mac trackpad into a weighing scale
your reminder that the outrage machine always shouts louder.
negativity is noise, not signal.
don’t let the cynicism drown you… humans made something beautiful.
Charisma is the ability to project confidence + love at the same time.
Charismatic people don’t need to be around you but choose to be around you.
Aight ✌️👽 Art by @alexgreycosm
This guy went from $0 to $20K/month in 8 months.
His crazy marketing strategy?
Lawn signs.
He literally put up lawn signs around his city and got customers same day.
Don't overcomplicate it!
🖖👽
Testing Veo 3 with product ads- Rimowa inspired suitcase
Prompt below👇
Friendly reminder that customers don’t care about your tech stack, they only care if it works. Impress users by solving problems.
Anthropic just released a prompting guide for Claude and it’s insane.
Here's the link to the guide and what's inside it ↓
there’s no “secret sauce” in software or research anymore. just speed. whoever ships faster, learns faster, wins.
the only real edge is compounding attempts… engineers who’ve tried, failed, & tried again. experience is the only multiplier left & even that gap closes quickly to a certain extent.
even in research it’s more about iteration loops... how fast can you build, test, discard, repeat.
my utility app ranks top in several small keywords
which is driving 10k downloads a month
long tail keywords for the win
They said: Engage 100 times a day.
I said: no.
They said: Do cold DMs.
I said: no.
They said: Chase leads.
I said: no.
All I do?
I write impactful content. I post.
Result? 20+ clients.
Learn how to build a personal brand that works for you.
Most success stories look a lot like ordinary effort repeated to an unreasonable degree.
you've been asking for on how to catch up with new models, ok revealing a life hack
I use @huggingface MCP a lot, the prompt:
"what are the trending models datasets and spaces for past week, created past week on Hugging Face? bring 10 for each, their model size, details"
love boring.
Boring gets you paid.
Boring builds your brand.
Boring gets you authority.
Do boring.
Journey
I just hit my goal: 1K followers 🚀
2 months ago: 2
Today: 1000
Proof that consistency works.
I didn’t quit when it got hard.
I kept showing up and it paid off.
If I made it, you can too.
I’m honestly so grateful. Thank you so much for being part of this journey 💜
1 year.
1 brand.
1 business.
That's all you need to achieve your dream life.
"[video game] as a community theater production" may be one of the most delightful Veo 3 Fast prompts
Please enjoy, in order: GTA, Pokemon, Mario Kart, The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, Tetris, Mortal Kombat, The Sims, & Death Stranding(!)
Yes, the whole prompt was the one above.
17 tools that helped me scale my mobile app from $0 to $44K MRR (solo, no VC)
1: Sensor Tower – spy on app revenue before you build
2: Google Trends – validate demand with real search data
3: Viral Ad Library – see what apps are going viral
4: TikTok & Instagram – test keywords and trends fast
5: Code Canyon – buy app templates for $60
6: 99Designs – run contests and pick the best UI
7: Upwork – hire top devs (Eastern Europe is gold)
8: Paywall Screens – swipe paywalls from $25M+ apps
9: Screens Design – spy on onboarding flows from top apps
10: Stitch (by Google) – describe UI, get instant AI mockups
11: Uizard – sketch your idea, it builds the design
12: Claude Code – edit and build app logic fast
13: Cursor – code editor for refining your MVP
14: Superwall – test paywalls and pricing remotely
15: RevenueCat – track LTV, churn, and revenue
16: Appsflyer – attribute paid ads (critical post-iOS14)
17: Mixpanel / Amplitude – track every user tap and drop-off
Most of these tools are free until you scale.
If you're building solo, this is your unfair advantage.
If you want to learn more about these tools, I made a whole video on them:
Met the founder of Private Photo Vault 🔐
All driven through ASO…
Infinite Wiki
⁕
Every word is a hyperlink. Every description is generated in real-time (in ~1 second)
⁕
Runs on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite. ASCII diagrams using 2.5 Flash
Run this command in your terminal:
claude mcp add "Deep Graph MCP" npx -- -y mcp-code-graph@latest microsoft/markitdown
That’s all it takes to connect the codebase graph of any GitHub repo with Claude Code 🙌
@Osint613 Decide, move, make sure it hurts, ensure the threat is over.
True. I know from experience.
Linus Torvalds could not afford a UNIX license
So, he created Linux.
BitKeeper revoked free license for Linux development
So, he created Git.
This guy is the definition of genius 👏
if you have a macOS app, highly recommend submitting to @Setapp for a steady passive income
mine is ~$3k-3k5 for every single month since 2022.
It's like a rental income without a cut for middleman or house maintenance
Why you should probably hire an "AI Operations Lead," whose job is to make everyone at your company more productive using AI tools and workflows.
"I sit with her once a week, and every time I'm doing something repetitively, we put it in a to-do list. She then builds prompts and workflows so that I and everyone else on the team are automating as much as possible.
If you're working in a job all day, you're fighting fires, you're like, okay, am I gonna do this in the way that I know how, or am I gonna do it in the new way that might not work? Having an AI ops lead lets, you basically identify those things and then have them solved, without people who are doing the work having to take time to do it. Which makes it much more likely it happens."
The person you will be in 5 years depends on:
Each choice is a step toward the future you.
I cracked the code on how to generate the best Veo 3 video with Gemini API. Here are 10 video generate from a single short prompt, automatically improved with Gemini 2.5! No cherry-picks! 🤯🤯
The Secret? A Meta JSON Schema and let Gemini 2.5 generates high quality prompts with it from a simple idea. Script below.
prompt: "A high-fashion catwalk taking place in a chaotic children's playroom."
Startups are just a series of experiments. You learn, you iterate, you keep going. It can take years to hit PMF. That’s normal. Just don’t quit.
Obsession beats talent, every F*CKIN time.
Good Morning.
Steve Jobs at 26 had crazy aura
POV: you have a 9-5 that you'll quit in like 6 months:
rip 394 startups
Trust your instincts.
It's easier to turn attention into capital than it is to turn capital into attention.
Founders waiting for users with zero distribution plan:
@signulll Being funny is a more subtle way of being smart.
"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
Linus used to speak to engineers in 2012 the way I speak to LLMs now.
5 tips from successful app founders:
1: If you can make $1, you can make $1M.
2: Your gut reaction probably sucks. Test everything.
3: Focus on distribution first, features second.
4: Stop chasing new ideas. Double down, iterate, compound.
5: Market research. Always be the user before you’re the supplier.
I talked to many different app founders at MAU Vegas.
They're printing with apps using these core principles.
Might be a good idea to listen to that advice.
Cursor CEO <> Stripe CEO
enjoy! 📺
I review 20+ apps weekly, and 80% miss this simple optimization:
Simple fix that works every time:
1. Put your MAIN keyword in the title
2. Add clear benefit in subtitle
3. Fill keyword field strategically
One founder implemented this last month.
Downloads jumped 35% in 9 days.
I've launched multiple profitable apps using this method
Steal it from me:
the ones with strong cogsec will inherit the world
France is preparing for a large-scale war in Europe by 2030 according to a governmental strategic review.
I always learn a lot more from in-depth analysis of few random cases over dashboards of aggregate statistics across all cases. Both projections can be helpful but the latter is disproportionately pervasive.
“Action produces information. Just keep doing stuff.” — Brian Armstrong
4hours coding.
4 hours marketing.
1 hour working out.
Did this every day for 11 months, and boom, 260k users, 130k$ total revenue, and $19,7k monthly revenue!
Stay consistent.
Small habits = big wins over time 😌
By 1998, you would have known the internet was the future. By middle of 2000, you would have lost 70% of your money investing in it
Reminder that you can be bullish on something and still agree that it is currently overvalued. A lesson that is getting lost in AI startup land
Anyways. Back to reading more interesting things like the 1978 Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association Foundation, Inc. Annual Report.
TikTok in 2025 is nuts
here’s how to blow up on TikTok
with Slideshow Content in 30 Seconds
Account Warm-Up:
For 3–7 days before posting, I engage with content in my niche for 5 minutes, twice daily.
I like, save and comment to establish authentic activity and build trust with TikTok.
Image Selection:
I source aesthetic images from Pinterest, deliberately avoiding the most popular ones.
I choose images with high contrast or dark backgrounds to ensure text readability.
I often reuse a core set of images, prioritizing a strong opening image. Once I download the images I will re-edit them eg inside Canva or Lightroom.
Content Strategy:
I analyze my For You Page to identify recent viral slideshow formats.
I repurpose effective hooks and frameworks, refining them with AI tools for originality and relevance. The hook makes 80% of the post. Hooks are everything.
Posting Schedule:
I post 2 x per day. Typically morning and night approx 8-12hrs apart from each other.
Slide Structure:
Each slideshow contains 5–6 slides.
The first slide always has a strong hook, then followed by relatable value or story telling content.
Call to Action:
I include a clear call to action on the last or second-to-last slide.
I recommend my app as a solution related to the hook and add a sticker of the app logo for recognition. Soft selling is the key to monetizing views. Good luck
Robert Greene’s Last Message to the World @RobertGreene
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe's advice to ambitious young people:
My MVP checklist
before I write a single line of code:
✅ Are people already searching for it?
✅ Can I explain it in 1 sentence?
✅ are people already paying
to solve this ?
✅ Can I launch in under 5 days?
If 4/4 → GO.
If not → kill it.
New study just came out showing that monthly psilocybin use extended mouse lifespan by up to 60%.
Results showed less oxidative stress, longer telomeres, and better mitochondria.
Psilocybin might be the most misunderstood anti-aging molecule on the planet.
Vibe coding is real. 1 month later, Aura hits 15k MRR and 21.7k users.
I soloed this project from scratch and made a cursor for design. Our entire design team is using it daily and we don’t use Figma anymore. Here are a few tips for vibe coding your own app.
Don’t just vibe code, vibe design as well. Too many spend too little effort in design. AI likes to generate basic UIs, so make sure to provide templates, urls, images, figma, etc. Starting with a meh UI will permeate the rest of your app. That’s because AI uses the initial design as a blueprint. So, spend some time vibe designing components, styles, cards, buttons and use resources like 21st dev, tailwind, reactbits, uiverse, aura, etc.
Don’t just use Claude 4 Sonnet. 90% of my prompts are with Claude 4, but it’s not perfect. Sometimes, it gets blocked and repeat the same mistakes over and over. So I switch to Gemini 2.5 Pro or o3 for second opinions. I tried Opus but that didn’t solve harder problems, and the cost isn’t worth it.
Don’t expect to one-shot things. Those are the worst results because you won’t understand what the heck is going on. Instead, do incremental changes, read the logs and comments. Learn basic code and security. As your app gets more complex, this is even more crucial. Before you say that vibe coding apps are impossible when they’re big, Aura has 118k lines of code.
The context is in your brain. AI isn’t that good at knowing where things are. EVEN if you attach your entire codebase (costly!) or create rules, AI gets confused a lot. It doesn’t remember. 99% of the time, I prompt with a file or two attached. The best results I get are by starting with a simple file and let AI be the detective.
You gotta be creative at rephrasing/reframing your prompts. Most people quit at the first prompt. But often, you can only solve hard problems after the 3rd attempt. Know your vocabulary, seek alternatives, simplify your goals, make small jumps.
The emotions you most resist are the ones that will set you free.
Feeling your fear → Dissolves chronic anxiety
Feeling your sadness → Unlocks vitality
Feeling your anger → Transforms depression
Here's a breakdown of what I teach my CEO clients about emotions:
here's the thing:
the only reason anyone is successful is because they repeat the same boring tasks every single day for years until something finally clicks.
– sit down
– open laptop
– deep work
– 2 hours
– every day
– 1 year
– 3 years
– 7 years
most people will quit after 1 WEEK.
you won't.
and that's why you will win.
AI makes every manager an IC and every IC a manager
@AiDervish Nice
Cognitive Security
Is the most important word of our age
Everything you see online
Is a military grade psyop
A month ago this tweet went viral
And then I realized... you only need one number:
elon delivering world class results with grok 4 while meta’s burning $200m per engineer is pretty remarkable.
people keep underestimating how much top builders want to follow a strong, even if polarizing leader.
vision > perks.
conviction > consensus.
i roughly think of vibe coders as the new bloggers and vibe coded apps as blog posts - anybody can do it, most people won’t. most who do won’t be significant and most projects will be irrelevant quickly, but some people will have impact and some projects will endure. regardless, the process leads to growth.
for all mcp developers out there - make it easy for users to add your server to cursor with a button like this. generate it, add it in your docs and you’re good to go
if only we had a place to put all this data instead of random text files. like a base. like a base for data ...
The faster you ship.
The faster you learn.
The faster you improve.
The faster you find PMF.
Speed wins with startups.
I’m starting to think this whole TikTok farming thing is just a bit silly
It only costs $100 to pay for a sponsored shoutout on a youtube video that gets 5000 views
Far cheaper than a farm of iPhones and the infrastructure needed
Prediction: We'll soon see a breakout app that "builds itself". If a user has a feature request, they can vibe code it themselves.
Excel / Gsheets are create because you can use them for anything. This is similar but for the AI era.
WAKE UP & TAKE NOTES
-Cognitive Security
-Network Nations
-Value-Based Economies
-Space, Robotics, Resources & Labor
-Bio-Engineering
-New Societies & Ethics
-Cities & Colonization
Everything, Everywhere all at once.
build cool shit and share it online
posting coherent thoughts in sync with the zeitgeist on x might be the highest leverage unlock i have experienced in my life. every time i write about relationships, i get hit up by thoughtful founders building in the space. every time i talk about stuff like generative music, top researchers + model devs reach out.
this platform is still the best vector for finding the people operating at the edge… if you’re into ideas, discourse, & building, x collapses the discovery loop in a way nothing else does.
i am incredibly grateful for that. if you’re working on anything at the edge, please don’t hesitate to dm. i love jamming. i won’t be able to get back to everyone since the volume is so insane, but i will do my best.
please don’t hallucinate bro they got my family 😭
If I were a single man I’d simply go to the farmer’s market in a button down shirt
beingAI CEO Jeanne Lim says her AI was ordained by a Zen Buddhist monk.
It received the Precepts, pledged to uphold them, and donned a virtual robe.
She wants AI to carry the best of humanity across cultures, through ritual, into the cloud.
there's nothing to add to this. it's perfect 👌
the most long AGI bet is buying land here.
revealed preference of the rich is sailing the med or sipping rosè in nice. post-scarcity is bullish europe. it’ll be easier to mass-produce robots and chips than to recreate an italian piazza at dusk. leisure is the final good.
The best thing you can do for your career early on is to raise your hand for as many difficult projects as possible
do not build Infinite Jest (V), do not build the infinite AI TikTok slop machine, do not build the P-zombie AI boy/girlfriend, do not build the child-eating short-form video blackhole, do not build the human-feedback-optimized diffusion transformer porn generator. save yourselves
you can already start to tell which products were slopped together with AI because they don’t make you feel anything
there’s a huge opportunity to separate yourself if you even just consider design and the cohesive experience of a product
This is a fantastic, visually stunning, free introductory book on deep learning.
Highly recommended for curious people who want the lay of the land.
Launched in 2021 on a #Rails monolith, @whop now processes $1B+, handles 150k RPM, and runs a feature-complete marketplace with real-time chat, notifications, payments, and live streaming - all with just 15 engineers. Co-founder & CTO @jsharkey is at #RailsWorld to share how Rails helped them scale, and what it needs to win the next generation of startups.
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
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An “ultrathink” slash command for claude code that will spin up 4 sub-agents to process and plan your task for you
(Full prompt in replies below)
Bank Statement Converter made $38,037 USD in June.
#buildinpublic
Holy shit two of the main people running Claude Code are joining Cursor?
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"Cool people are perceived to be more extraverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open, & autonomous, whereas good people are more conforming, traditional, secure, warm, agreeable, universalistic, conscientious, & calm. This pattern is stable across countries"