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By 1998, you would have known the internet was the future. By middle of 2000, you would have lost 70% of your money investing in it
Reminder that you can be bullish on something and still agree that it is currently overvalued. A lesson that is getting lost in AI startup land
Anyways. Back to reading more interesting things like the 1978 Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association Foundation, Inc. Annual Report.
TikTok in 2025 is nuts
here’s how to blow up on TikTok
with Slideshow Content in 30 Seconds
Account Warm-Up:
For 3–7 days before posting, I engage with content in my niche for 5 minutes, twice daily.
I like, save and comment to establish authentic activity and build trust with TikTok.
Image Selection:
I source aesthetic images from Pinterest, deliberately avoiding the most popular ones.
I choose images with high contrast or dark backgrounds to ensure text readability.
I often reuse a core set of images, prioritizing a strong opening image. Once I download the images I will re-edit them eg inside Canva or Lightroom.
Content Strategy:
I analyze my For You Page to identify recent viral slideshow formats.
I repurpose effective hooks and frameworks, refining them with AI tools for originality and relevance. The hook makes 80% of the post. Hooks are everything.
Posting Schedule:
I post 2 x per day. Typically morning and night approx 8-12hrs apart from each other.
Slide Structure:
Each slideshow contains 5–6 slides.
The first slide always has a strong hook, then followed by relatable value or story telling content.
Call to Action:
I include a clear call to action on the last or second-to-last slide.
I recommend my app as a solution related to the hook and add a sticker of the app logo for recognition. Soft selling is the key to monetizing views. Good luck
Robert Greene’s Last Message to the World @RobertGreene
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe's advice to ambitious young people:
My MVP checklist
before I write a single line of code:
✅ Are people already searching for it?
✅ Can I explain it in 1 sentence?
✅ are people already paying
to solve this ?
✅ Can I launch in under 5 days?
If 4/4 → GO.
If not → kill it.
New study just came out showing that monthly psilocybin use extended mouse lifespan by up to 60%.
Results showed less oxidative stress, longer telomeres, and better mitochondria.
Psilocybin might be the most misunderstood anti-aging molecule on the planet.
Vibe coding is real. 1 month later, Aura hits 15k MRR and 21.7k users.
I soloed this project from scratch and made a cursor for design. Our entire design team is using it daily and we don’t use Figma anymore. Here are a few tips for vibe coding your own app.
Don’t just vibe code, vibe design as well. Too many spend too little effort in design. AI likes to generate basic UIs, so make sure to provide templates, urls, images, figma, etc. Starting with a meh UI will permeate the rest of your app. That’s because AI uses the initial design as a blueprint. So, spend some time vibe designing components, styles, cards, buttons and use resources like 21st dev, tailwind, reactbits, uiverse, aura, etc.
Don’t just use Claude 4 Sonnet. 90% of my prompts are with Claude 4, but it’s not perfect. Sometimes, it gets blocked and repeat the same mistakes over and over. So I switch to Gemini 2.5 Pro or o3 for second opinions. I tried Opus but that didn’t solve harder problems, and the cost isn’t worth it.
Don’t expect to one-shot things. Those are the worst results because you won’t understand what the heck is going on. Instead, do incremental changes, read the logs and comments. Learn basic code and security. As your app gets more complex, this is even more crucial. Before you say that vibe coding apps are impossible when they’re big, Aura has 118k lines of code.
The context is in your brain. AI isn’t that good at knowing where things are. EVEN if you attach your entire codebase (costly!) or create rules, AI gets confused a lot. It doesn’t remember. 99% of the time, I prompt with a file or two attached. The best results I get are by starting with a simple file and let AI be the detective.
You gotta be creative at rephrasing/reframing your prompts. Most people quit at the first prompt. But often, you can only solve hard problems after the 3rd attempt. Know your vocabulary, seek alternatives, simplify your goals, make small jumps.
The emotions you most resist are the ones that will set you free.
Feeling your fear → Dissolves chronic anxiety
Feeling your sadness → Unlocks vitality
Feeling your anger → Transforms depression
Here's a breakdown of what I teach my CEO clients about emotions:
here's the thing:
the only reason anyone is successful is because they repeat the same boring tasks every single day for years until something finally clicks.
– sit down
– open laptop
– deep work
– 2 hours
– every day
– 1 year
– 3 years
– 7 years
most people will quit after 1 WEEK.
you won't.
and that's why you will win.
AI makes every manager an IC and every IC a manager
@AiDervish Nice
Cognitive Security
Is the most important word of our age
Everything you see online
Is a military grade psyop
A month ago this tweet went viral
And then I realized... you only need one number:
elon delivering world class results with grok 4 while meta’s burning $200m per engineer is pretty remarkable.
people keep underestimating how much top builders want to follow a strong, even if polarizing leader.
vision > perks.
conviction > consensus.
i roughly think of vibe coders as the new bloggers and vibe coded apps as blog posts - anybody can do it, most people won’t. most who do won’t be significant and most projects will be irrelevant quickly, but some people will have impact and some projects will endure. regardless, the process leads to growth.
for all mcp developers out there - make it easy for users to add your server to cursor with a button like this. generate it, add it in your docs and you’re good to go
if only we had a place to put all this data instead of random text files. like a base. like a base for data ...
The faster you ship.
The faster you learn.
The faster you improve.
The faster you find PMF.
Speed wins with startups.
I’m starting to think this whole TikTok farming thing is just a bit silly
It only costs $100 to pay for a sponsored shoutout on a youtube video that gets 5000 views
Far cheaper than a farm of iPhones and the infrastructure needed
Prediction: We'll soon see a breakout app that "builds itself". If a user has a feature request, they can vibe code it themselves.
Excel / Gsheets are create because you can use them for anything. This is similar but for the AI era.
WAKE UP & TAKE NOTES
-Cognitive Security
-Network Nations
-Value-Based Economies
-Space, Robotics, Resources & Labor
-Bio-Engineering
-New Societies & Ethics
-Cities & Colonization
Everything, Everywhere all at once.
build cool shit and share it online
posting coherent thoughts in sync with the zeitgeist on x might be the highest leverage unlock i have experienced in my life. every time i write about relationships, i get hit up by thoughtful founders building in the space. every time i talk about stuff like generative music, top researchers + model devs reach out.
this platform is still the best vector for finding the people operating at the edge… if you’re into ideas, discourse, & building, x collapses the discovery loop in a way nothing else does.
i am incredibly grateful for that. if you’re working on anything at the edge, please don’t hesitate to dm. i love jamming. i won’t be able to get back to everyone since the volume is so insane, but i will do my best.