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it is wild how few people can take an idea and follow through on it to the point where it gets shipped
it’s an incredibly small number so if you can force yourself to do this you have a huge advantage
AI timelines should make us take Peter Thiel's famous question much more seriously:
"What is your 10 year plan, and why can't you do it in 6 months?"
Jerry Seinfeld on why he still works hard: "Because the only thing in life that's really worth having is good skill. Good skill is the greatest possession. The things that money buys are fine. They're good, I like them, but having a skill - I learned this from reading Esquire magazine. They did one issue about Mastery. This is a very Zen Buddhist concept: pursue mastery. That will fulfill your life. You will feel good. I know a lot of rich people. They don't feel good - as you think they should and would - they don't. They're miserable. So I work because if, you don't, in standup comedy, if you don't do it a lot, you stink."
Kevin Systrom (co-founder of Instagram): "Learn just enough to be dangerous."
Cheat codes at 34 I wish I knew at 24:
Anything worth doing takes a lot longer than you think. And until you work for 1000 hours on one project, you don’t begin to know how much work it takes to make something great. And, as a result, how few things you can really make.
Calling fetch(url) 15,000 times, in batches of 50
left: Bun v1.1.7
right: Node v22
"Recognize and adapt to the true nature of the world around you; don't expect it to adapt to you."
— Charlie Munger
Code is read much more than it is written.
Great speaking with @adamsilverman about @PaymanAI!
The future is agents and humans working together. Payments is the big way these happens and we’re happy to be enabling it!
Want to get access, sign up to be an early member of our beta at paymanai.com 🚀
wake up new neural network just dropped (holy shit)
You want to get rich... build relationships with accountants. They understand the game.
10 accounting terms you need to know in under 3 minutes:
If you want financial freedom, start a home service business.
These are the top 10 right now:
1) Carpet Cleaning
tidy up
If you've ever wondered how Ingres et al made those photographic-seeming drawings and paintings, this was how.
Looking for a remote developer employee who wants to fix things like this :)
💰 $1000 per month for 1 day a week (maybe more days later)
🌍 Fully remote
⌚️ Set your own hours
👨🏾💻 Write in Next.js (some Nuxt.js)
📱 Communication on GitHub + Telegram
🛟 Some tech support
DM me
30mins of fasted cardio in the morning is hard to beat
Guaranteed way to set you up for a day of productivity and clarity
Nonstop feel of energy and momentum throughout the day
Give it a week
You will have a complete mindset shift
Trust
Not sure where to start with emails?
1. Build a free tool that collects emails
2. Write a sequence for those who left an email
3. Write a sequence for those who signed up for your product
4. Write a sequence for those who purchased
5. Send a weekly newsletter to all emails
This is why you should aim to build an SLC instead of an MVP
I named what I believe is the correct alternative to the MVP: Simple, Lovable and Complete (SLC).
We pronounce it “Slick.” As in: “What’s the ‘Slick’ version of your idea?”
$27,000 MRR with this simple tool 👇
Convert PDF bank statements from 1000s of banks world wide into clean Excel (XLS) format.
Most of the website traffic originates from Google, thanks to strong rankings for primary keywords.
👉
Build a LLM app with RAG to chat with your Gmail Inbox in just 30 lines of Python Code (step-by-step instructions):
✦
On top of intelligence, obsession, and willpower, I strongly believe that success requires a nasty little pinch of pure ego that says “I’m better than everyone else at this. I am utterly incomparable and irreplaceable.”
I love following the money.
Here's a report on all the AI startup funding.
On my lists at x.com/scobleizer/lis… I have lists of all investors (6,200) and VC firms (1,300).
Great for entrepreneurs who are about to raise funding to figure out who your top 20 should be.
The saddest goodbye is the one you have to say to the older version of you that worked so hard to get you this far but can’t go into the future with you because too many things have changed
At 37signals, three is a magic number.
Nearly all new product work is done by teams of three people. A team of three is usually composed of two programmers and one designer. And if it’s not three, it’s two or one — not four or five. We don’t throw more people at problems, we chisel problems down until they can be tackled by three people, at most.
We rarely have meetings, but when we do, you’ll hardly ever find more than three people on a call. Any conversation with more than three people is typically a conversation with too many people.
What if there are five departments involved in a project or a decision? There aren’t. Too many dependencies. We don’t work on projects like that — intentionally.
What is it with three? Three is a wedge, and that’s why it works. Three has a sharp point. It’s an odd number so there are no ties. It’s powerful enough to make a dent, but also weak enough to not break what isn’t broken. Big teams make things worse all the time by applying too much force to things that only need to be lightly finessed.
The problem with four is that you almost always need to add a fifth to manage. The problem with five is that it’s two too many. And six, seven, or eight on a team will inevitably make simple things more complicated than they need to be.
Just like work expands to fill the time available, work expands to fill the team available. Small, short projects become bigger, longer projects simply because all those people need something to do.
You can do big things with small teams, but it’s a whole hell of a lot harder to do small things with big teams. That’s a disadvantage of big teams! Small things are often all that’s necessary. The occasional big thing is great, but most improvements come as small incremental steps. Big teams can step right over those small moves.
Three keeps you honest. It tempers your ambition in all the right ways. It requires you to make tradeoffs, rather than keep adding things in. And most importantly, three reduces miscommunication and improves coordination. Three people can talk directly with one another without introducing hearsay. And it’s a heck of a lot easier to coordinate three people’s schedules than four or more.
Three is all-in for us.