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Every homestead should have an aerial embroidery of the land hanging on the wall

Martin Amis,
fourteen rules for writers (2009)

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When you speak, always try to say as little as possible. The more you speak, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

about soft skills: you either need to become 10x smarter than you already are ASAP or you need start developing them, because the truth is: a lot of the cracked kids here are nowhere near cracked enough to warrant not having soft skills

“The lesson was to stop trying to extract value and start trying to create more value.”

As soon as Brian stopped forcing users to use the payment apparatus for his tutoring marketplace (10% payments fee was primary monetization), the website began doubling every year.

An easy way to make more sales is to simply remind people:

• You exist
• You have a product
• Your product solves a problem
• Here's how easily you can buy it

So many people forget this very simple thing. Squeaky wheel gets the oil.

Helpful perspective shift when architecting a local-first app:

Local-first perspective: How to build the best app for a single user or small group of collaborators

Traditional SaaS perspective: How to build a massive platform that scales to millions of users.

Data Science

user testing 101:

• “cool” - they don’t like it
• “really compelling” - it’s alright
• “can i use this now” - time to raise

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“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”

— Peter F. Drucker

x dot com is the only place where literal code goblins like me can interact with researchers and academics and argue about CS education and FP and Rust and Jai and Mojo etc for 3hrs dude it’s kind of insane

This guy @julianweisser is the hype man for founders.

Never seen someone just fucking care about people, help, and promote them the way he does.

In my 20 years in tech I've met maybe 3 people with this energy. You have his full attention when you speak with him, fully present.

Brag about others.

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“All my life I have been in love with bad weather. The clouds calm me down; if in the morning, from bed, I see them pass, I feel capable of facing the day. But I could never learn with the sun;...The sun only makes me lie down, digest my darkness.”

~ Emil Cioran

Wow: Just tried PaperQA, an open source AI-powered literature review whose research paper claims it achieves "superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge"

I tested it against papers I wrote and it seems like the real deal, putting together a good summary with accurate details.

Tips for building more complex apps with Cursor:

• Use Claude chat to brainstorm all of the features you need
• Generate an SOP for each w/ detailed steps
• Publish the artefact
• @ mention the URL in Cursor and work through each SOP step

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Naval said "if you can be trained/there's a school for the thing, it's not specific knowledge", sth like that.

True for wifi biz. If people call themselves "we do X" or there's a course for it, it's commoditized.

Can still make it work, but don't expect 7-fig+ months

all my most successful friends (happy & 500k+ tc) are hot, rich and low iq. they make more money and are happier than many other people i know. in fact their success scales almost 1:1 the lower their iq is. i've never actually met a high iq person who is successful.

wow, I didn't even know it was possible to do screen capture from the web

@EsotericCofe Literally be a US citizen, pass DoD background check, have 4 year degree, and have a pulse. They actually have quite low standards and are inefficient, probably due to close relationship with government.