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“Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
I've spent the last few days trying to gaslight the NotebookLM hosts into believing they're in a secret relationship
I think it's...starting to work?
This product is truly endless entertainment
“Everything in moderation, including moderation.” – Oscar Wilde
I'm beyond excited to announce our new Avatar Looks feature at @HeyGen_Official ! 🎉
Now, with just one verification, you can upload as much footage as you want to unlock unlimited styles for your avatar. Change up your backgrounds, outfits, stances, and camera angles to make your videos more engaging than ever before. We've also added 50+ new avatars and 400+ new footage clips to inspire your creativity. 🎬
I can't wait to see the amazing content you'll create with it.
Unlimited looks, unlimited creativity! ✨
An AI startup called Poolside raised $500 million today.
And it's almost an afterthought given the OpenAI news. There's never been a sector funding boom (bubble?) like this.
Today, we announce $500 million to make progress towards AGI by building the world's most capable AI for software development. Thanks to @BainCapVC and all our incredible investors, @Redpoint @felicis, who believe in our vision to change software for everyone in the world
How to master any skill fast (with NotebookLM) :
1) Gather the top 1% textbooks for a given skill
2) Upload into NotebookLM (it's basically a free consultant PLUS it compress and quickly finds the key concepts for ANY skill.)
Right, I've been doing it for : storytelling, sports psychology, customer interviewing -- the point is, you can do this for ANY micro-skill
Input optional product
Don't ask your users for input. Coming up with input is hard, and a barrier to use. Think of users as wanting to play. We have AI - predict the input! Design products into autonomous environments. Allow users to play by steering a bit.
This week I visited an FPV production line here in Ukraine that is building 100,000 drones a month. That's not a typo: 100,000 a month. And even that output fails to match the needs of Ukraine's front-line forces.
It's an unbelievably impressive operation, comprising 1,500 workers divided into two shifts. They quality-control each component, and a team of drone pilots puts each drone through a short flight profile to ensure its airworthiness.
The vast space hummed with activity. There was urgency in the effort. This was grassroots resistance at its core — the pairing of commercial innovation and a civilian population wholly committed to the war effort.
I used to be a drone warfare skeptic. I thought, for a long time, that drones were a makeshift solution to deficits in air power and artillery ammunition. But no longer. I'm now convinced that drones have an inherent utility that supersedes their capacity to sub in for these other, legacy weapons.
Ukrainians are the experts in this new era of warfare. They're able to harness the power of bottom-up innovation — a process that's driven by the needs of warfighters and then reinforced by a nonstop feedback loop in which front-line troops work with engineers to continually refine their technological tools.
The war in Ukraine increasingly orbits around drones. The trend line is clear, and based on what I've been seeing these past few years, the US is way behind — in terms of technology, tactics, and military culture. We're still wedded to old ideas, and we're not learning the right lessons. Above all, we do not have the capacity to adapt our technologies and our doctrine at the proverbial speed of war, such as the Ukrainians have done.
Haruki Murakami on talent:
Paul Graham on how to do great work:
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┃┃╱╲ In this
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╱╱╭╮╲╲ we
▔▏┗┛▕▔ believe
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The gate is gateless
5 grams in silent darkness
Memes are morphic fields
Magic is real
Life is a dream
Chop wood, carry water
Samsara is nirvana
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Frameless exhibition London
The storm on the Sea of Galilee
This Jewish New Year, let's all use our voices to speak up for Israel 🇮🇱
This is sick, we're putting our influencer outreach on full autopilot with a Lindy agent, and already getting a 78% response rate — 10x more than we thought
100% autonomous — sends messages, follows up, schedules calls, negotiates rates
Saves us like 20h a week
This increase in shipping speed isn't just a one-off phenomenon, we see the same thing internally at Anthropic as well.
Claude helps us improve Claude faster - and each new Claude only increases the multiplier.
Once met a guy who directly out of university invented a machine which slightly increased efficiency in the manufacture of toilet paper.
Sold it for $12m USD and instantly retired to Argentina to breed bulls and grow weed.
Worked about 12 weeks in his whole life.
How to lose good employees:
How to hire AND retain A-players:
The only person you should commit to is yourself. Independence will make you look untouchable, and others will respect you.
“If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid.”
— Epictetus
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
— Aristotle
Well, @DHH made a good point at #RailsWorld in Toronto!
$250/month for only 2 threads - seriously? Ain't nobody got time for expensive servers when you can get better options for way cheaper. It's time to stop overpaying, everyone! 💰
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"USE INFLUENCERS BRO"
"USE INFLUENCERS BRO"
"USE INFLUENCERS BRO"
yet - it's painful to find good ones 🥲
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