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Wow... this QR code generator website makes $3.6M/year 🤯

– 2M pageviews/mo (SEO)
– 850,000 customers (lifetime)
– Pricing: ~$20/month
– 0 investors
– 1 ugly website 😆

The simplest ideas ALWAYS win.

Jeff Bezos on embracing failure

why stop with numbers

i have an idea

Ernest Hemingway & Gary Cooper on the streets of Paris, 1956.

50 Ways to fuel a conversation

Credits: @readswithravi

Cool... this Airtable plugin makes $300K ARR

– 1 founder
– 0 employees
– built MVP in 1 month
– first paying customer in 3 days
– startup costs: $100
– profit margin: 90%

It wasn’t the steam engine alone that caused the Industrial Revolution. It was the thousands of specific machines invented by skilled craftsmen that used steam to augment or do existing work that created the Revolution

Assuming AGI doesn’t happen, AI will evolve in similar ways

The 2 biggest superpowers in the world:

(1) Learn to code.
(2) Ship your own products.

This is my favorite kind of story:

– dude has a secure job
– gets fired out of nowhere
– locks himself in a hotel room
– teaches himself to code in 2 months
– ships 17 apps in one year
– sells one for $65K
– now makes $5,000/mo with his own products

1000s of stories like this on

Al Pacino’s Letter to Robert De Niro after watching "Raging Bull" (1980) by Martin Scorsese.

As I was told when I joined Bell Labs:
"You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps!"

One of the most difficult things about managing a research lab is to be welcoming of intellectual weirdness.
Intellectual weirdness is sometimes accompanied by nerdy personality weirdness.
Nothing wrong with that.
But it does make management more difficult.
Most truly creative people don't fit into neat little pigeonholes with predictable outcomes.

An underrated superpower is being able to repeatedly do something even when it becomes boring

Expertise requires repetition until perfection. At some point, the beginners excitement goes away

The people who succeed push through the boredom and just keep on going

my bet:

in 2 years all communications will be through an ai assistant (calls, email, message etc)

eventually people will start to hate talking to ai

someone will launch a "verified human" badge and people will reply to emails/text/etc from them at 100x a higher rate

Really interesting repo

A dataset consists of 15,140 ChatGPT prompts from Reddit, Discord, websites, and open-source datasets (including 1,405 jailbreak prompts).

Fish can see what happens above water

They can see through a limited window created by refraction and opening at a “critical angle" of 97.2°, which is the fish's field of view, but it will be less when the water’s surface is rough

[📹 sportzcenter365]

Wait, people still argue over GraphQL? I never really worked with it seriously apart from few hello worlds but when it came out my first immediate reaction was "just allow doing SQL over REST if that's the kind of shit you really need". Was that not obvious 10 years ago?

A student (perfectionists) have a harder time than B students (okay w ~10% errors) embracing AI

The Skill / Will Matrix

Source: @JadeBonacolta

The ultimate test of your knowledge is your ability to convey it to another.

We're on course for $1T/year of AI investment by 2027.

It sounds crazy, but it's not totally unprecedented.

And it's happening.

Well, well, well. What is this?
The new SREF code for 3D!

--sref 955852072

1/ cute ghost, grey background --ar 2:3 --sref 955852072 --stylize 300

2/ old computer, olive grey background --ar 2:3 --sref 955852072 --stylize 300

#midjourney

The most accurate map of the entire known Universe in one image:

“The link between lack of sleep and cancer is now so strong that the World Health Organization has classified any form of nighttime shift work as a probable carcinogen."

Viktor Frankl's book "Man's Search for Meaning" on success

CEO of Snowflake on “pushing the urgency”

via: @cory