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Progress in genetic sequencing is something else.
You can now sequence whatever samples you want from a device that plugs into your iPhone.
If the meta raybans had an App Store, building apps for said store would probably be the highest ROI thing someone can do rn. People are underestimating how rare it is to find a new compute form factor with such stickiness. It’s just really really convenient.
Study suggests less conformity leads to more innovation @RSocPublishing
Squeeze - Cool For Cats
The average Money Twitter guru who is pushing business offers and convincing kids that everyone can make 10k online
Has less morals and conscience than your neighborhood dealer pushing heroin
Wish this was a joke
just promise that the thing they buy will give them status.
your note taking app is about "being a better executor"
your meetings app is about "being a better sales person"
your rag app is about "being a better decision maker"
your diligence ai agent is about "avoiding profit erosion"
once a week i tell a founder "stop trying to finetune models, and just go sell, use opus, use 4-turbo, and just raise prices, find value, go sell, and sell to rich people,
stop selling to developers, sell to capital allocators, and not wage workers. make your roadster, get the money, and make the model 3 afterwards.
how am i signing a 6 figure contract in the month as as a solo bootstrapped twitter influencer with a suspended business account and a with an open source library and you are not!?
No-one cares about your shitty ai photos, or your fake ai replies or your fake positivity or your fake life
Stand out by being real –
be emotional
be messy
have a bad day and rant about it
say what you really think
disagree with people
offend people
share your failures too
piss people off
say what others are afraid to say
make mistakes
people will respect you for it, you'll build an audience and relationships grounded in reality
from andrej karpathy's 2019 blog on - a recipe on training neural networks
"become one with the data"
The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.”
— Aristotle
Any culture which is not organic, rarely works at scale.
The only thing we can sustain long term are cultures that are true to how we behave.
It’s like lying . . . It’s easy to stick to a story when you are telling the truth, but it takes great effort to stick to something that is untrue.
Jason Fried is a legend of business.
He’s published 4 books and 1,000s of blog posts and built a massively profitable software business his own way. How does he write? This interview is a 91-minute answer to that question.
Here’s his method:
1. Don’t write, communicate.
2. If you’re writing and not feeling the flow, close the computer and walk away. Don’t struggle.
3. Jason’s best writing just flows out. There are no drafts. He gets the whole thing on paper in one sitting, then goes back to edit and play around with it.
4. How do you know when you’ve found a good idea? Well, you don’t know. You feel. You give in to your intuition, tune into your senses, and notice goosebumps. Follow those things. Good ideas are like slipstreams — they have their own effortless, accelerated pull.
5. You need a point of view. Something you stand for. Something you believe that others don’t. Something you see that others are blind to. That’s the writing that spreads and makes a difference.
6. Good writing has rhythm. It flows, it bounces, it brings the reader from one word to the next, then the next.
7. Focusing on attention at the expense of writing something of quality is a Faustian bargain. Jason says: “In the same way that sound isn’t music, traffic isn’t audience.”
8. If Jason could teach any writing class, he’d focus on distillation. He’d ask students to explain something in five pages, then one page, then one paragraph, then one sentence, then one snappy phrase. This would teach students to find the essence of what they’re saying.
9. Sometimes, it’s okay to be detached from your industry. Jason doesn’t read industry news and built his software company in Chicago, not Silicon Valley. That detachment gives him a point of view.
10. Murakami once wrote: “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
11. Writing is the first filter he uses in the hiring process because he doesn’t look at resumes. Only cover letters.
12. Why is writing quality so important to him? He says: “Business writing isn’t about beauty or eloquence. It’s about clarity of thought. To write is to scale your thinking. And the better you write, the further your ideas spread, which is why good writers make the whole team smarter. When choosing between two people, hire the better writer.”
13. Jason’s tip for overcoming writer’s block: Don’t write, speak. Chances are, you won’t have a problem explaining what you’re trying to say out loud. So do that. Then write it down.
14. Writing prompt: Where are you the most unconventional in how you do things? Write about that.
15. Jason’s marketing strategy has been to share without expectation of return — books, blog posts, podcasts, design reviews, code reviews, and the ins-and-outs of how he runs his business.
16. Jason has time to write because he insists on an open calendar. That gives him time to walk, think, and follow his creative whims. He has no set writing schedule.
I’ve shared the full conversation with @JasonFried below. The best part is the deep-dive into his Founder Letter’s, which he publishes whenever he launches a new product.
If audio is your thing, I’ve linked to Apple, Spotify, YouTube in the reply tweets.
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I like to study what Seth Godin doesn’t do as much as what he does. Seth has no comments on his blog, he doesn’t pay attention to analytics, and he doesn’t use Twitter or Facebook (except to rebroadcast his daily blog posts, which is automated). In a world of tool obsession and FOMO (fear of missing out) on the next social platform, Seth doesn’t appear to care. He simply focuses on putting out good and short daily posts, he ignores the rest, and he continues to thrive.
There are no real rules, so make rules that work for you.
General Election is it? Let’s go lads.
Another example of loaded jargon for LLMs. This should be the poster child of that.
We should only be saying the first thing. Talk in plain language
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
✨ I spent 3 months writing the best interactive introduction to queueing I could, and it's live now!
I started this on March 1st, and in total have sunk over 70 hours into refining and perfecting it.
It starts off showing what happens without queues...
How to bypass the #ChatGPT macOS app waitlist:
1. Launch the app and login
2. Quit the app (cmd+Q) when the window size changes, but right before the login error alert shows up
3. Launch the app again and you're in
Simple but somehow ✨ it works ✨ – give it a try!
You get what you measure
Nature is healing.
64 office buildings in NYC could become new housing - Gothamist
Corollary: If you're making something for which your friends are the potential users, you shouldn't spend any time or money on "marketing" until your friends love it. And if they do, you may not have to.
In a classic startup, product design and marketing are the same thing. You figure out what your friends want. That gives you the design. But if you execute well, it also gets you your initial set of users: your friends.
"The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed.
Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it… What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is."