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“Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.” — Albert Einstein

This startup sells peace of mind and makes $480K/year:

The pocket guide of essential @ycombinator advice

"Estimating all projects is devilishly difficult, and estimating large projects is virtually impossible. Yet we insist that what hasn't worked for sixty years will definitely work on this next project, if we all just try a little harder. Delusional."

Very fascinating. We might finally understand what sleeping and dreaming are “for”. And it’s unlikely that we would have understood this were it not for all the research on ML and DL. One of the examples of how all science is interlinked and bootstrapped.

How to start your week off right:

drive to a coffee shop
order your favorite drink
open your laptop
block all websites
review your todo list
pick the scariest task on there
break it into smaller chunks
make progress for 2 hours

Who else is doing deep work today?

What can an 8-year-old build in 45 minutes with the assistance of AI?

My daughter has been learning to code with @cursor_ai and it's mind-blowing🤯

Here are highlights from her second coding session. In 45 minutes she built a chatbot powered by @CloudflareDev Workers AI 👀

"What product should I build"?

This:

For fun*, I scraped a list of 84,504 Chrome extensions that will be disabled in the next few months.

This is a HUGE opportunity to acquire or build an alternative

TLDR; Manifest V2 is being phased out. Any extension still using it will be disabled.

Want the list? Link below ↓

The easiest way to build a reputation with the people you admire and respect

Ask them for advice

Once they give you advice or provide you with an idea, implement that same idea and reach out back to them with proof of how it helped you achieve results

This works

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5 midjourney images + Kling

carl jung was so right when he said "the feelings you don't feel will start to feel u up from the outside fr"

build software that automates a thing people hate doing

charge them $29 a month

pay your rent

how to make a company start talking about you internally

find all their employees on LinkedIn

add them

post clips content daily

find all their employee emails

cold email them about the product

run linkedin ads to every employee at the company

make podcast

send it to them

close enterprise deal

repeat

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bad dog

I like this terminology.

Scarcity mindset teaches discipline, which is needed to acquire competence.

How does a post-scarcity society foster competence?

How DOES a post-scarcity society foster competence?

I love simple code.
Code that looks simple, feels simple, because it is simple.
Complex is not better, at all.
Over time I've become more and more picky on what kind of project I want to work on.
And overengineered projects are not what I want to work on.

pro tip

just dont build b2c

Founder doing $30M+/year sent me his "secrets".

Autotuneless T-Pain covering Black Sabbth's "War Pigs"

»Ich weiß, die Ukraine wird gewinnen, und ich weiß auch wie.« (Gen. Syrsky)

Sehr differenziertes Porträt

Quantum mechanics

Claude is actually godly at decompiling binary formats. You upload the binary spec as a reference doc, and it just nails breaking things down.