5632 bookmarks · page 108 of 226
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.