building https://teapaw.org/t.co/xTIT1RC5qz / prev cofounded jumpcut (acq), and led product/growth for buzzfeed quizzes
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has been true for over a decade - we thought about this a lot at BuzzFeed with the quiz result cards
.@alexandr_wang says modern product marketing is now all driven by the screenshot:
“To have a modern consumer product, it has to work on the screenshot. The screenshot has to fly, either through group chats or word of mouth or online.”
“Having Jolly in the screenshot immediately communicates this is a Muse screenshot.”
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Will never stop marveling at how BuzzFeed's eventual founder predicted this in a 1996 graduate paper
TL;DR: Capitalism would need to create an ever-growing number of micro-identities for people to fit themselves into, so that those identities could be commodified and marketed to
anyone have a favorite markdown viewer/editor?
don't want obsidian or a full-fledged workspace. just the most minimal reader to view a random one-off markdown file every now and then
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good things often take time to compound.
play long term games with long term people.
great piece by @zaygranet
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hello world, meet sigil, a new way to write for work. it has been a joy to work on something i care about deeply with @jackiehluo. we first met as 19 year olds in manhattan obsessed with writing and startups. not much has changed, except we're in brooklyn now.
introducing sigil. it's a new way to write for work that gives you the power of machine intelligence while putting your words and ideas first.
here's why we think that matters.
sigil.so
Ranking people I saw in SF last week:
3. Chatty uncle at the szcheuan spot - said his meal as good as one he had in NYC last week with his son, and I correctly guessed it was the Han Dynasty in east village
2. Doorman who tried kicking me out for eating a burrito in the hotel lobby, then brought me napkins when he realized I was a guest
1. Guy at wework salesforce tower reading “Transcending the Levels of Consciousness” and demolishing iced coffees for 4 days straight
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one of my favorite short films is centered around this
youtube.com/watch?v=JS8f2cTv…
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guy selling post trained oss models: if you don’t own your models you don’t own anything
guy selling harness on top of models: if you rely on one model you are cooked
guy selling tokens: instead of manually prompting your models just put them in a loop where they prompt themselves
asked AI what the dress code for my wedding should be and it said "emergency broadcast chic"
....should I be worried?
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all I see is the Daniel Caesar album cover
After more than two decades building Jotform, I've found that momentum isn't something you summon from within, it's something you create.
In my latest for @Forbes, I share the strategies that have helped me keep going, even during the downturns.
forbes.com/sites/aytekintank…
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golden gate claude except it’s fixated on jay z’s verse on Monster
gpt-5.5 prompt for codex seems to have a duplicated line trying to get it to not talk about creatures?
Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query.
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Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query
gh link:
github.com/openai/codex/blob…
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