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Viktor Lazarov retweeted
Very very true.
Market > offer > copy.
That’s why your Claude doesn’t determine your success. It writes the most unimportant part.
The important parts?
You need to think for. YOU.
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
Guys… please stop building picks and shovels and go after the gold.
I know it hurts.
But build the business that needs tools, not the tool you hope another business needs.
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
System design in 6 lines:
Slow reads → add a cache
Slow writes → add a queue
Too much traffic → load balancer
DB struggling → read replicas
Files → object storage + CDN
Everything breaks → retries, timeouts, logs
Start here. The rest is details.
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
Protect your infrastructure and PATCH!
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
Omarchy is blowing up. I've never been involved with anything in my career that has grown this fast. With Ruby on Rails, we had years to build solid institutions, teams, and relationships. With Omarchy, we've been forced to figure it all out in twelve days. It's exhausting, but also incredibly exciting.
It was never sustainable with just Ryan and me running everything. That's how it was, more or less, up until Quattro. Lots of other contributors, but all the responsibility was on us to make sure the ship stayed afloat, the servers didn't crash, and fixes got pushed out quickly.
Now it's time to build a proper institution. Durable, resilient, and competent. That's what we're doing here on Basecamp now. I'm spinning up teams for every facet of responsible distro management, and I'm getting an absolute outpouring of interest for all of them. Everyone wants to be part of this. We're winning hearts, minds, and volunteers at an astounding rate. Great! We need all of it to succeed.
Because make no mistake: There are many people who'd love to see this rocket blow up before it reaches the moon. Aggrieved Linux users who don't like the sudden attention their exclusive hobby has received. Competing Linux distributions that are seeing our numbers explode. Mac stans who've sunk their identity into an apple. And, of course, any of the haters I've picked up in my quarter-century career speaking bluntly on the internet.
They're not going to succeed. Because we've already become unstoppable. There's too much momentum, too much money, and too much support now backing this effort. We're living the Mandate From Heaven meme at the moment. And we are here to fulfill the prophecy: The Year of Linux on the Desktop!
That has been a joke for two decades. But by the end of the year, nobody at Apple or Microsoft is going to be laughing. They're going to be scrambling. Because neither of these proud organizations currently has any method to counter the speed, vision, or ambition with which we're going to accelerate into the future of personal computing.
This is the moment. This is the opening. This is our chance.
For thirty years, we've been subject to one OS overlord or another. Dictating how we compute. Choking off competitors through platform malfeasance. Tollboothing the distribution. That ends now. Because Linux is going to win. And Linux is free. As in beer, speech, and source.
But just because it's inevitable doesn't mean it's going to be easy. We have a lot of work in front of us if we actually want to make our mark. But there's never been a better time for this kind of delusional ambition. The age of agents is the unlocking factor. It sounds like a LinkedIn slogan, but it's true. Where the application of tokens goes, the innovation follows.
We can fix everything.
Let's do it together.
Let's go.
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This is what I sent to the dozens of new volunteers who've signed up for teams within the new Omarchy organization yesterday. But we might as well broadcast our mission and intentions to the world too.
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
Lost my phone at the office and spent 30 minutes turning the place over. Find My was disabled by MDM.
Out of ideas, I asked Claude how I could find it. It suggested tracking the Bluetooth signal strength, then wrote me a meter in about a minute.
I walked around watching the number climb. Found it.
Apparently you can just make the tool you need now.
Code: github.com/ben-z/findphone
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
I assume you're Chinese + American because you have both flags in your bio
You presumably want your America and your China to thrive and receive the fruits of wealth and high tech as they both have now
Extending that it's highly beneficial for you that:
1) Europe remains a tourist place to visit on your holidays
2) Europe remains poor and stagnant so it remains cheap for you in American dollars
3) Europe remains in a lagging place in every single competitive field now (except ASML and selling luxury handbags)
So you and I are different, I care about my home land Europe and want it to thrive, just like America and China do
You just want to use Europe as your Disneyland aka "euromaxxxing"
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
“Meta ads are for businesses who can sell the first product at a loss.”
Nope.
Here’s what people who have never run ads don’t understand:
You start losing money on a product (in 90% of the cases) when you start scaling.
You can be breakeven or even be profitable in most cases at a low daily budget. And nobody is forcing you to scale.
You can keep the low budget profitably until you build an order bump.
The order bump adds $5 more to your average order value? Cool. Only AFTER you see that it does - you can scale.
Get an extra sale or two or three a day at the same profit.
Then you build an upsell.
Adds $15 to your average order value? Cool. Scale more. Get an extra 3-4-5-6 buyers a day.
At the same profitability.
Then you built a high-ticket.
3% of your low ticket buyers ascend?
Good.
NOW you can lose money on the front end.
Many people don’t understand this. Share it with them.
P.S.
Written by a guy who has done it dozens of times himself and hundreds with students/mentees. And it works exactly the same in 2026. Right now.
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
A testimonial as a testimonial is practically useless.
Anyone can fake or “play into” results. The result as of in itself is not an advantage. It’s the bare minimum.
The real advantage behind a testimonial is what you can do with it.
More specifically —
Each testimonial has a story behind it. Possibly more than one.
And it’s not the story about the RESULT that’s useful. It’s the story around it. Let me explain.
Most people don’t believe something is possible for them unless someone in their situation has achieved it.
Otherwise the excuses beat belief.
“I’m too old to do this.”
“I’m too fat to do this.”
Etc etc.
But when you see someone in a similar situation who got the desired result? You start believing.
Understand?
It’s the customer vs their own belief system. Not vs your offer. And each testimonial can help you tell that story.
That story that someone can relate to.
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
In 1993, Eric Hughes wrote the Cypherpunk's Manifesto.
Most people have never read it. But here is one you might have heard:
"Privacy is not secrecy."
Here's the point Hughes was making:
A secret is something you don't want anyone to know.
A private matter is something you don't want the whole world to know.
Secrets are binary. Privacy is selective.
When you close your doors, you're not hiding a crime. Or when you seal an envelope, you're not concealing evidence.
You're exercising the basic human capacity to choose who knows what about you.
Hughes called this "the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."
That's NOT secrecy.
The surveillance mindset collapses this distinction deliberately. It frames every closed door as suspicious. Every encrypted message as potential evidence. Every private transaction as probable cause.
This framing serves power.
If privacy equals secrecy, and secrecy equals guilt, then demanding privacy is an admission of guilt. The only innocent posture is total transparency - to institutions that never offer the same in return.
It’s a one way street.
Hughes saw this coming thirty years ago.
"We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence." - Hughes
"Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it." - Hughes
Thirty years later, the distinction Hughes made is more important than ever.
Financial surveillance has reached depths the cypherpunks couldn't have imagined.
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
My assistant sent me a file that was clearly AI.
Incoherent mumbling that seems smart but says nothing.
I told her to redo it.
Without AI.
Sent me another one.
Fully AI. Zero human thought behind it.
We’re no longer working together.
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
Anthropic just shipped native computer use
Every “computer use agent” startup is having a real bad morning right now.
This is the cycle. And it never stops.
You build a wrapper. You raise money. You get some traction. Then the model provider ships your entire product as a feature update on a random Tuesday.
OpenAI did it with code interpreter. Google did it with grounding. Now Anthropic is doing it with computer use.
The playbook is always the same. Find a gap in the base model. Build a tool around it. Pray they don’t close the gap.
The only AI companies that survive are the ones building something the model literally cannot do on its own. Vertical workflows. Proprietary data loops. Deep integrations that take 6 months to rip out.
Everything else gets eaten.
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
mine dont build 24/7, they watch and alert
client sites down? agent pings me. invoice overdue? agent reminds. competitor pricing changed? agent logs it
the boring operational stuff that would otherwise pile up. building is still hands-on iteration like you said
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
They said the same thing about index funds and Wealth Advisors, yet here we are. It will eliminate some, not all. Some people just like people.
Viktor Lazarov retweeted
9/ shit like this happens all the time but this is a little unique because @CaveMonkeh is trying to blend into the community, being a BAYC holder of over a year. It's a shame we have someone amongst us trying to scam
Please be safe and share this so everyone else has awareness ❤️
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