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Oral health is relevant to brain, respiratory, metabolic and joint health. Mine was bad most my life. Now my dentist reports that I have the gum health of a healthy teenager.
Here are my oral care basics ✅
“Your inner voice pretty much determines your destiny.”
That’s a quote from Dr. Jim Loehr, one of the world’s foremost experts on mental toughness and performance psychology.
He’s worked with some of the best athletes in the world to help strengthen their mental game so they can outperform others. He believes one of the most important parts of mental toughness is being able to change the stories you tell yourself—which are often lies—so they’re more aligned with reality. In this conversation, he’ll teach you everything he knows.
You’ll learn:
…and more.
Dr. Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist and author of 16 books. Dr. Loehr possesses a masters and doctorate in psychology and is a full member of the American Psychological Association.
Entrepreneurs when they go back to a job.
No, you shouldn't build in public on Twitter.
Yes, you should still build in front of your customers.
Send them emails about new features. Add a changelog to your website. Ask for feature ideas.
This will have x10 more impact without getting new copycats
You’ll learn more in one hour of doing something than in a lifetime of thinking about it.
blameitondom - Make Up
The word algebra comes from the Arabic phrase al-jabr, which means "reunion of broken parts," and was used in the title of a 9th-century book by mathematician Al-Khwarizmi that played a crucial role in developing the concept.
They blocked entry for the Jew into the campus - his response is golden "You can kiss your jobs goodbye".
Building a B2C product is a waste of time
Don't believe me?
Check out this support message Daniel got 😬
It takes the same time and effort to sell a $247/m B2B product as a $9/m or $19/m B2C product!
Prove me otherwise..
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
Very large context windows may extend the capabilities of LLMs because you can give them hundreds of examples on how to solve a problem (many shot learning).
This paper from Google finds significant performance boosts from many shot, even when the AI generates its own examples.
A major white pill for career-driven people is that the world’s a mess and most things aren’t actually done very well so if you look into just about anything deeply enough, you’ll find ways to make it better.
The universe as a network of rivers:
This remarkable new map reveals how galaxies flow like water, following the pull of gravity across hundreds of millions of light years.
set design shot w/Midjourney✨
PROMPT:
An arrangement of vibrant flowers and plants of various varieties and colours, including a large red bloom, pink orchids, a yellow ranunculus, and green foliage. These are interspersed with a collection of classic hard surface. A plain, light-coloured backdrop to emphasize the still life composition. The books are arranged at varying heights, creating a dynamic visual structure. The entire setup is on a polished marble surface, enhancing the elegance of the scene. The composition aims for an elegant and balanced still life aesthetic, with the botanical elements and books complementing each other.A rich and visually engaging still life setup that combines the natural beauty of flowers with the intellectual allure of classic literature, structured to draw the viewer’s eye across the varying textures and colours.
Got into it over Israel with a follower of mine. It was clear we disagreed. Just as things were heating up, he said, “Sheesh, it’s like you won’t bend in defending Israel.” I said, “True, but I also won’t bend in defending your right to criticize Israel.” Things then calmed down.
Growing a portfolio of products to $255k/mo with good, old-fashioned SEO
Ping He grew his products to $255k/mo by focusing on the long term and doubling down on SEO. Here's how he did it.
OH at @USV: a new experiment where an AI records our conversations during the current week, synthesizes themes from them and shares them with the world
Week of Apr 22:
1/ Organismic approaches to carbon sequestration - synthetic biology platforms to design microorganisms that can improve the carbon capture in agriculture as well as nature based solutions
2/ Advancing Computational Material Science - the development and application of computational methods and algorithms to predict and understand the properties of new industrial materials.
3/ Won't be evil on the frontend, can't be evil on the backend - the emergence of hybrid architectures where a front end is designed to be very consumer friendly and accessible and secure but its operating on a fully decentralized protocol
4/ Human Certified Content - amidst the rise of AI-generated entertainment, there may be a growing importance placed on content that is certified as human generated and there may be a premium placed on it.
5/ Sign all things - the importance of digitally signing all types of content (images, essays, etc.) to maintain authenticity and ensure the original creator is credited. It was discussed in the context of the potential of blockchain technology to facilitate this process.
Reminder that your bedtime is your most important appointment of the day. Respect yourself and be on time.
Garry Tan: one of the few actually paying attention.
“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.”
– Albert Szent-Györgyi
Because so many people doubt that GPT-5 even exists, I would like to refer you to the Business Insider article, which shows that GPT-5 has already been presented to numerous customers. These customers are surprised at how accurate GPT-5 is and speak of a groundbreaking breakthrough.
GPT-5 is real, it is here. It is yet to be introduced to mankind because it is powerful and perhaps even very computationally intensive. But there is no question that it will come.
"The generative AI company helmed by Sam Altman is on track to put out GPT-5 sometime mid-year, likely during summer, according to two people familiar with the company. Some enterprise customers have recently received demos of the latest model and its related enhancements to the ChatGPT tool, another person familiar with the process said. These people, whose identities Business Insider has confirmed, asked to remain anonymous so they could speak freely. "It's really good, like materially better," said one CEO who recently saw a version of GPT-5. OpenAI demonstrated the new model with use cases and data unique to his company, the CEO said. He said the company also alluded to other as-yet-unreleased capabilities of the model, including the ability to call AI agents being developed by OpenAI to perform tasks autonomously."
An absolutely fantastic way to increase this is to start a blog. Almost all the cool fun stuff in my professional life for me has come from doing stuff then blogging about it.
The evolution of currency
The indie hacking community is turning into some weird bubble where some 'successful' people sell to those that aspire the same success.
Courses, boilerplates, coaching, products targeting other founders..
Entrepreneurship is not a 'follow this checklist' type of thing, but some of these indie hacker influencers make it look like that.
You can identify these tools/products/content bundles by looking at their founder here on Twitter. Are they continuously promoting success and selling a dream only if you buy that product? Is their success the exact thing they're trying to sell you?
'I make 50k a month and so can you with <insert boilerplate/course>, it's what I'm using myself!' > except that the 'success' and 50k a month income comes from selling exactly that.
Products solving real problems don't have a founder that is continuously promising on Twitter how good it is and how bad you need it for your own success. Instead, the product speaks for itself.
Don't read next bit if you're too sensitive (you'll read it anyway hehe):
They're selling tools/info you think you need for a dream you will never achieve unless you are comfortable figuring it out on your own.
If you continuously look for 'quick ways' to do something and buy product after product from these 'successful' indie hacker influencers, hoping to emulate what success they have, you likely won't succeed.
Identifying as (only) an indie hacker, building a product for other founders and only doing your 'marketing' on twitter and product hunt is essentially a limiting belief. You're sticking to a comfortable bubble.
Think bigger, don't be too influenced by this indie hacker / founder bubble and don't fall for the buy-this-product-for-success shit.
“In 2024 we’ll have colonies on Mars, world peace and clean energy”
What we got:
An AI wrapper built in a single index.php file, on a cheap VPS, built by somebody with no licence or certifications, offering therapy for $10/mo.