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Beautiful Mind 💫 Building digital products one pixel at a time.. 👨🏽‍💻

[David Senra @davidsenra]

"Books are the closest thing you’ll ever come to finding cheat codes for real life. You can access the entire learnings of someone else's career in a few hours." —@tobi

[A @AustinUsen]

“John! I want a letter” 😂

[A @AustinUsen]

COYG!!! Actually wanted them to win 😮‍💨

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

Countries get the cabinets they pay for. Singapore pays its Foreign Minister about S$1.1m, around US$800,000. The salary is benchmarked to 60% of the median income of the top 1,000 Singaporean earners. That is why you can get Vivian Balakrishnan, former eye surgeon and hospital chief executive, implementing @karpathy's external brain idea (link below). The speech shows deep understanding of AI and fills one with confidence about Singapore's future.

The UK Foreign Secretary earns roughly £165,000: the MP salary plus a ministerial salary of about £67,000. The ministerial part is frozen since the crisis and is down by roughly a third in real terms since 2010. This is what a junior Magic Circle lawyer earns.

Spain pays its ministers around €85,000. So you do not get a surgeon who has run hospitals. You get a party loyalist who has never run anything.

[A @AustinUsen]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Congratulations, Giga Berlin Team!

[Wale Adeyemo @ceo_wale]

I hired a BD who relocated from Lagos to our then Akure office. Two weeks into the job she requested to attend a training she had registered for in Lagos. She got back to work on Monday.

I remember we had a strategy session that day..reviewed our playbook etc.. an agency even came to pitch us ... you need to see the way she grilled them, speaking in "us, we, 6 months plan, 1 year plan" . LOL

That same day, by 5PM on the dot, she dropped a resignation on Slack...and before I could say jack she's gone offline.... she left for a big commercial bank (fair enough)..... the 'training' was actually her 'onboarding'.

Employees also have dreams and aspirations. They have a dream job in mind, and 9/10 times it's not your shaky, not-funded, about-to-die, barely-meeting-payroll startup.

The onus is on you to build that company into the "dream job" that people would fast and pray to land...

Until then, support and appreciate their contributions.... and when it's time to move on let them leave with the 'loudest possible' applauds.

Game on !

[nikita @poohthebear0]

youth is never coming back.. so you better take pictures of sunlight coming into the house, plant a tree, roam the city without a purpose, follow the moon

[Taher Dhanerawala @taherdhanera]

oh no, you used the camera to shoot the film.
oh no, you used editing software to cut the film.
oh no, you used CGI.
oh no, you used VFX.
oh no, you used dubbing.
oh no, you created fake sets.
oh no, you used green screens.
oh no, you used stunt doubles.
oh no, you used makeup and prosthetics.
oh no, you color graded the footage.
oh no, you used motion capture.
oh no, you recorded Foley sounds.
oh no, you used background scores.
oh no, you used autotune on vocals.
oh no, you used wire rigs for action scenes.
oh no, you used drones for aerial shots.
oh no, you used miniatures instead of real cities.
oh no, you used matte paintings.
oh no, you used body doubles.
oh no, you used teleprompters.
oh no, you used render farms.
oh no, you used sound mixing.
oh no, you used ADR to replace dialogue.
oh no, you used stock footage.
oh no, you used smoke machines.
oh no, you used fake blood.
oh no, you used lenses to manipulate perspective.
oh no, you used filters to change the mood.
oh no, you used playback monitors.
oh no, you used digital de-aging.
oh no, you used face replacement.
oh no, you used animation pipelines.
oh no, you used Unreal Engine virtual production.
oh no, you used render engines.
oh no, you used storyboards.
oh no, you used previs animatics.
oh no, you used sync sound technology.
oh no, you used stabilization rigs.
oh no, you used cranes and dollies.
oh no, you used subtitles for global audiences.
oh no, you compressed the movie for streaming.
oh no, you used digital projection instead of film reels.
oh no, you used software to simulate explosions.
oh no, you used compositing to combine shots.
oh no, you used LUTs to create cinematic looks.
oh no, you used virtual cameras inside 3D scenes.

Traditional cinema mocking AI filmmaking while forgetting it was built on every fake technology before it.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Full grown adults who can’t vacation, take a gap year, have hobbies, play an instrument, speak multiple languages, swim, cycle, skate, or backpack. Just a lifetime of hustling and trying to escape survival mode. These are subtle poverty metrics no one really talks about.

[A @AustinUsen]

Self worth too attached to future greatness?

[A @AustinUsen]

JSYK 100 years from now, you’re the history they will read.

[A @AustinUsen]

Damn #MyXAnniversary

[Sam Hall @Shmall]

They say your phone knows more about you than your mom. So why can't Siri tell me things like how much I spent on food delivery this month?

DM me if you want to try a phone that can.

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

excellent use of free will

[A @AustinUsen]

there was a time when we had to go business centers to make calls

[A @AustinUsen]

Time to rewatch this masterpiece

[lia @avmelias]

that’s him

[A @AustinUsen]

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[SKB @seyikanbai]

he is HIM! 🤯

[A @AustinUsen]

Curiosity will never lead you astray

[A @AustinUsen]

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[dev @zivdotcat]

pov: after Claude, now Perplexity just dropped its own Openclaw version