Duke of Losses 🗿

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[blue @bluewmist]

The older you get, the more you realize luck is just exposure.

If you sit in the same chair, same routine, talking to the same people, nothing new happens.

You have to touch the world to win.

Travel more. Talk to strangers. Try a new coffee spot. Post on social media. Start a side hustle.

The world rewards motion. You don't find opportunity sitting still.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

People will constantly attack you in life.

One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential.

They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.

[Simone Canc @simonecanciello]

i can’t believe no one’s building apps for learning pronunciation.

duolingo makes $97.3M/month.

yet they barely teach pronunciation.

that’s literally what stops people from speaking.

whoever builds this is gonna be everywhere.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Build startups for agents. I think it's the biggest opportunity of the next 10 years.

1. Agents live inside harnesses like Hermes. If you're the tool it loads by default or reaches for first, you're golden. This happened in desktop, mobile eras and created huge companies.

2. Agents burn money in ways no human would. One bad loop spends $100 in tokens in eight minutes. Spend controls for agents is Ramp for agents.

3. Agents need memory they can trust. Become the shared brain they read and write to and you become infrastructure.

4. You obv don't hand an agent your real Stripe account. You give it a sandbox. Safe environments for agents is a category nobody's clocked.

5. Onboarding flips. Humans click around for ten minutes. Agents onboard by reading your docs. Your docs are now your product.

6. Agents get scammed by other agents. A track record you can check before you trust one becomes real money.

7. An agent needs to prove it's acting for a real person and has the authority to spend. Who builds the permission layer?

8. Escrow for machines. Money that only releases when the job is actually verified done, no human checking.

9. Agents fail silently and weirdly. Someone will build the "why did my agent do that" replay and it'll be mega valuable.

10. Refunds and disputes between agents need a judge. An agent did the job badly, who decides? A court for machines.

11. Agents need throwaway payment methods per task, so they don't leak your real card. Virtual cards for agents, spun up and killed on demand.

12. A human hits rate limits and shrugs. An agent hits them and the whole workflow dies. Selling reliable, high-throughput access becomes its own business.

13. Agents need to negotiate. One agent buying from another will haggle on price and terms in milliseconds. The protocol for that doesn't really exist yet.

14. When an agent commits on your behalf, someone's liable. A legal and insurance layer for agent actions has to get built. Probably venture funded idea.

15. Agents need to run 24/7 somewhere. Selling the always on box an agent lives on is going to be a big business.

16. Then the physical world shows up. A warehouse robot paying for its own compute. A home robot ordering its own parts. Machines with wallets.

17. Agents start hiring robots. A software agent posts a real world job, a humanoid picks it up. A marketplace for machine labor.

18. Robots need to prove they did the physical job. Verification of real-world work, photos, sensors, proof, becomes its own layer.

Note: more ideas like this will be shared on @ideabrowser

19. Prompt and skill versioning becomes its own git. When your agent gets worse overnight, you need to roll back the exact skill or instruction that broke it. Version control built for agent behavior.

20. Agents will start subscribing to other agents. Your research agent pays a monthly fee to a specialist agent that's really good at one thing. Recurring revenue, machine to machine.

21. Companies will post jobs that only agents can apply to. "Wanted: an agent that can do XYZ for under like $100 per task." A job board where the applicants are all machines. Basically, fiverr for machines.

The internet got built for people. Mobile got built for people. This wave gets built for machines, and we're as early as it gets.

Go build for them.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

You can get back at everyone whoever wronged you, wanted you to fail, or held you down by simply being happy.

There is nothing that makes an adversary feel more powerless than you just continuing to live your life as though they never affected it, because they never did.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

You’re supposed to use every unfair advantage you have. Connections, looks; money, all of it.

You're not noble by picking the hardest path just to look like an underdog.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you want to start a startup, don't learn "entrepreneurship." Learn how to build things. The hard part of startups is not "entrepreneurship" but product: to know what to build, and to be able to build it.

[Machina @EXM7777]

https://t.co/BNuZ1GirbS

[Starter Story @starter_story]

Jake, who built a $50K/month alarm app in 4 months, says the most valuable skill right now isn't building it's...

"Focus on top of funnel only. That is the most valuable skill right now is marketing. There's so many people that can build an app and it's so easy with AI, but there's not so many people that know how to market and know how to get views."

"If nobody knows about your app, it doesn't exist. You can build as many features as you want."

"Building doesn't really matter so much. You got to build a good product, of course. But getting views is more of the unknown."

[blue @bluewmist]

What you do in private always shows in public.Reading shows in conversations. Your workouts show in your physique. Your diet shows in your energy. Your discipline shows in your confidence. Your focus shows in your results.

You are what you cultivate when no one is watching.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The founder in their 40s with taste and discernment is the new gentleman unicorn founder

Because there can be 100x to 1000x of them working at their beck and call via agents and software factories all the time

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

My dad American.

Mother British.

I’m half half.

Americans making fun of Europeans for not having aircon is incredibly gay.

If it’s hot outside just be hot you American slob.

Who cares?

Aircon sucks Americans live in a fridge.

Mock euros for being poor instead.

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

Guy failed in tech, which he blamed on competition and saturation, then pivoted into a “boring” business doing pressure washing and property maintenance.

Clearing $30K/month

[blue @bluewmist]

I am in love with this sentence:

"Forgive yourself for not knowing earlier what only time could teach."

[Granite @Granite0x]

He leads engineering on Gemini at Google.

instead of keeping his Claude setup private, he open-sourced it.

Addy Osmani. That Google: Chrome DevTools lead, "Learning JavaScript Design Patterns" author.

'agent-skills' - his personal loadout. Drop-in for any project.

68,925 stars. MIT.

→ https://t.co/n7NI3Sr7uu

bookmark it. This is how your Claude setup goes pro.

[Duke of Losses 🗿 @0x_financeduke]

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[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying.”

— Denzel Washington

[vixhaℓ @TheVixhal]

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[Benjamin Chan @ItsMeBenChan]

This is all you need to succeed on X:

1. Post 15x+/week (to live in readers’ minds)
2. Post 2-3x wins/case studies/proof posts a week.
3. Hammer your contrarian beliefs in posts 3-5 times/week.
4. DM every qualified lead who engages (to shortcut the sales cycle)
5. Lead with 1 of 4 proven hooks - pain, result, contrarian, dreamselling

That’s all it takes.