Figuring things out
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Lots to learn, lots to improve. That said, happy with the initial mvp!
Those that want to check it out:
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My first vibe coding experiment was building a very basic app that fetches a transcript when I paste a yt link and the option to summarize it with either Claude or Gemini in 2-3000 words. Use it multiple times per day.
I have close to zero programming knowledge, but spending some time with tools like V0, Cursor and Claude gives you a sneak peek into how much productivity gains are ready to be captured by AI tooling. First time for me where it truly clicked.
Can't wait to see this compound over the next few years. Creativity is about to accelerate.
Very few free lunches out there when it comes to supplements, but creatine seems one of them.
Incredibly safe and well-researched, wide range of benefits.
You should probably be taking creatine
Really... there are too many benefits not to
• Aids memory formation
• Mitigates symptoms of depression
• Possibly staves off cognitive decline
Not to mention the physical performance benefits
And no... it doesn't cause hair loss
3-5g/day is a good dose for most people
Broccolex retweeted
Something I wish someone had told me when I was like 15 years old, is that you should focus on what you're naturally curious about and that everything will be all right. Parents and the society around us have well-meant intentions when they say you should go to a university, it's just that this advice suits the average person, not you. The reason I am saying this is because I tend to believe many of us in here are outliers.
I believe a combination of skills and an obsession with what you're working on will take you far. The way I go about this: I get insanely curious about a topic or a field, and I basically go all in. It is like nothing else exists. I am going so deep into the rabbit hole that it is hard to get out. The drawback with this is that you lose a touch of reality and the people around you.
I guess you could say that my life stopped making sense when I stopped working my 9-5, and instead made being a degen on the internet my job.
Another benefit of being insanely deep in the trenches is that like-minded people will find you. This gives a positive fly-wheel effect in terms of that you are learning from each others with the net benefit of gaining even more skills.
I like Naval's framing on this. Optimize for the love of reading first, worry about quality later. As you read more, your filter(s) get better and you generally know something is worth reading quite quickly.
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Broccolex retweeted
50% of you don't exercise
80% of you don't do cardio
And 90% of you don't do intense cardio
aka... VIGOROUS exercise
You're missing out on the best longevity drug in the world
Rhonda Patrick just released an absolute banger you all need to listen to
For the sleep hackers out there, recently discovered that taking magnesium l-threonate before bedtime raises my average HRV (during sleep) up to 20-30%.
Big fan of the Hacker Newsletter that curates gems all over the internet.
This is an interesting article that resonated with me and likely a lot of others that have been using X for a few years.
The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy
I’m not quite sure when I started feeling uncomfortable with Twitter.
It wasn’t when Elon Musk bought it, or during the mass firings, or the bluecheck fiasco, or the rebrand to X, or any of the other politically-obvious times that many people decided to give up on it.
No, I was a Twitter optimist for a long time.
But somehow, somewhere over the last few months, my positive outlook on the platform has slowly eroded away. As I—ironically—spend as much time as ever scrolling through my feed—I find myself more and more annoyed, jealous, outraged, yes, but mostly just… bored.
And what’s funny is that the content is more “engaging” than ever. My feed is full of posts that have obviously had more effort put into it than most of what I used to see. Megathreads about AI, thoughtful, longform narratives that could have been blog posts, carefully curated images, and super-positive business updates. It’s mostly engaging stuff.
And therein, I think, lies the problem. The content I now see on Twitter is content that has been designed to be seen on Twitter. Tweeting has become a job. Quite literally, for many people, ever since they’ve started paying creators a share of ad revenue.
And yes, on the surface this incentivizes people to create better content. The better your content is, the more it gets seen, and the more money you make. And yet, my felt experience of this change is the exact opposite—as people seek more engagement, their content gets worse. What’s going on here?
One possibility is that I am unusual. I go on Twitter for authenticity. I have carefully curated a list of human beings who I know by name, and whose ideas and actions interest me. But authenticity is often at odds with growth.
Why? Well to grow you need to be noticed. To be noticed, you need to stand out. And to stand out is—usually—inauthentic. Yes, we all say and do noteworthy things, but not every day. To do or say noteworthy things every day involves some degree of forcedness, repetition, or trying. The opposite of authenticity.
If I wanted to get 10x more engagement than usual on a Tweet tomorrow, I could. I could post some celebratory brag about how much money I’m earning from my businesses (“omg $10k MRR!”). I could pick a fight on a topic people feel strongly about (“React sucks!”). I could mention it’s my birthday and post a picture of myself (“Can’t believe I’m 41!”). I could ask a question that lets people promote themselves (“What’s your favorite personal website?”), angrily quote-tweet a terrible take, and so on.
I know these things work. And I occasionally do them, knowing they will work. I try to do this only a handful of times a year, because even though they work, and even though they are useful for me and my businesses, and even though they make my lizard brain feel good, a part of me still hates them. Even a few times a year.
But oh boy, not the people in my feed. The people in my feed—most of whom I’m not following, by the way—love posting for engagement. Some of them love it so much that they offer courses teaching other people how to do it—which amplifies this godforsaken death spiral even further.
And so now we find ourselves in a situation where all these asshats with 20k followers and a Stripe account are now running their Twitter account as a business. And this has led to a slow and inevitable decline from authenticity to some version of marketing (look at my content!) and sales (follow me!).
And look, I don’t think it’s just the algorithm and the incentives. Elon’s political antics chased away a lot of good people. Many of my favorite follows have moved to Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Also, more and more people are waking up and realizing that social media is actually quite bad for you, and leaving it behind. Good for them. Bad for me.
Still—and quite ironically—if anything actually gets me to stop using this platform, it’s going to be the changes that are supposed to make it grow.
Broccolex retweeted
my personal theory is that if you simple eat real, whole foods, your body's "fullness" function actually works very well to tell you when to stop eating
it only fails us when we eat calorie dense processed foods designed to make us overconsume.
Peter Attia's 'centenarian decathlon' is such a good way to think about this when old age seems so far away.
Start with the end in mind, then train until knowing what you're inevitably going to lose still lets you do everything that you consider important at old age.
