David Melamed

Helping Mass Tort Attorneys Make Smarter Marketing Investments | Host, Fixing Incentives Podcast | Founder, Tenfold Traffic

[David Melamed @DavidMelamed]

Note to self:
Look for the good in others.
Even if their behavior warrants critique.

The world seems to be great at highlighting people's flaws without my help.

Instead, highlight the good, which is easy for everyone else to overlook.

(Advice from my older brother.)

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@FrumTikTok AI has gotten crazy good!

[WillC @willchen500]

Harvey is valued at $11B. Legora just raised at $5.5B. I built their entire web application in two weeks and I'm making it open-source and free for everyone to use. Say hi to Mike: https://t.co/NdtTt5MSJ2.

When I got the chance to try Harvey and Legora, I was surprised by how simple they were. A thought came to mind: I could probably build something similar in no time at all with Claude. And so I did.

Assistant, project, tabular review and workflows. You get it all without vendor lock-in.

Mike offers law firms an alternative, where they own the application layer and aren't stuck with a vendor they're renewing forever.

You can try Mike in the demo on the website, or go to the GitHub link on the site to download the code and run a local version yourself.

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@Camicees Sop

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@noam_dworman @ProfessorPape This interview made me believe in Student loan forgiveness - from fraud victims funds.

[Henry @HenryCrochemore]

just built a swipe file of 58 VSLs actively scaling on facebook right now

not theory, not 2021 examples

current 7-8 figure ads that are printing today

inside you'll find:

→ long-form problem → agitation → mechanism breakdowns
→ short hooks that stop the scroll in 3 seconds
→ on-lander VSLs built for warm traffic
→ hybrid advertorial + VSL structures
→ 12+ niches: supplements, skincare, weight loss, gadgets, beauty and more

you'll see exactly:

→ how they hook in the first 3 seconds
→ where the mechanism drops
→ how they stack proof
→ how they kill objections before the viewer thinks them

if you're running ads this saves you weeks of testing

if you're not, it shows you what winning creative looks like in 2026

rt + comment "vsl" and i'll send the full swipe file
(follow for dm)

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@HenryCrochemore Vsl

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@Jesse_Leg @noam_dworman @ComedyCellarUSA It was fun watching too. What I didn't get clarity on is if you also attend Minyan. You used some Jewish concepts that Noam and Dan seemed to miss.

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@bnj @variantui Cool. Would love to try it.

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@mikefutia ADS

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@JohnnotJon airpost

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@noam_dworman A pay walled article about antisemitism. As @sammorril would say, "know your audience."

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@RohunJauhar @grok run this prompt, show the output and than critique it.

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@JohnMappin @yashar @whokilledck The fact he felt a need to deny it is what makes it suspicious. Im not saying he did it - just that now that he denied it - I think we should be investigating it, right? Right?!

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

High agency is often mistaken for speed. People assume it belongs to the ones who decide quickly and move without hesitation.

That version looks impressive, but it is not what actually drives results. The real marker of high agency is quieter. It appears the moment someone stops protecting their assumptions and puts them in contact with something that can push back.

Most people hesitate because they operate too far from the facts that matter. They think through scenarios, build arguments, weigh options, and wait for a feeling of certainty. They want clarity before they act. They want proof without the discomfort of exposing their thinking. They want to be right before the world has a chance to disagree.

High-agency people do something different. They shorten the time between an idea and its first collision with the real world. They build the smallest version that can reveal a truth. They ask the customer before polishing the story. They test behavior before optimizing the process. They trade speculation for evidence, not because they enjoy being wrong, but because every collision with reality sharpens their understanding of what actually works.

That shift changes their relationship with learning. Mistakes are not signs of incompetence. They are the natural cost of moving forward. The most valuable insights rarely come from perfect planning. They come from constraints, surprising reactions, unexpected metric shifts, and outcomes no one predicted.

This behavior compounds. Every early interaction with reality creates a faster cycle of adjustment. Every adjustment increases clarity. Over time, decisions feel fast because dozens of small signals have already done the work. To an outsider it looks like intuition. In practice, it is earned through repeated exposure to the world.

High agency is trained. It builds through the choices you make when uncertainty shows up. It strengthens every time you expose your thinking to something that can reshape it.

Speed shows up because the environment favors teams that gather evidence quickly and adjust without ceremony. Their focus is on contact with reality. They waste less time debating ideas that have not been tested. They look for the next piece of information that moves the work forward.

Founders who operate this way avoid the trap of endless planning. Product managers avoid the trap of presenting polished ideas that have never touched a user’s world. Engineers avoid the trap of optimizing solutions before validating the problem. Teams shaped by this habit reduce the distance between ideas and truth.

You take an idea, remove the parts that do not matter, and place the remaining piece somewhere it can be disproven. You let the result inform the next version. You let the world reveal the gap between what you believe and what is true.

The discomfort never disappears. It becomes familiar. You learn to recognize the moment when you are delaying the collision because the idea feels fragile. That moment is the signal. High-agency people move toward it. Everyone else moves away.

If you want to raise the agency level of a team, focus on faster confrontations with reality. Encourage smaller tests. Encourage questions that can be answered in days instead of weeks. Encourage conversations with customers before the work becomes precious. Encourage an environment where truth carries more weight than confidence.

You become high agency by removing the distance between what you believe and what the world is willing to teach you.

[David Melamed @DavidMelamed]

@noam_dworman @josh_hammer Noam is slowly discovering that epistemology has more to do with who you identify with than the substance of the matter. People dont decide what they believe and than find a community...they decide who they want to identify with and than adopt beliefs. It's never about the truth!

[Eugenia Kuyda @ekuyda]

“One of my favorite features is being able to use other people's apps, and then clone them. With the clone, you can make any type of edits - again, through prompting - before publishing and sharing it. If you ever had an "I wish it had this feature" thought while using an app, this is perfect for you.”

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@noam_dworman @josh_hammer @RealCandaceO @megynkelly @TPUSA Candace has to one up herself to remain interesting in a dopamine addicted novelty seeking landscape. She can't get off on the same old story as yesterday. She has to keep upping the claims to continue earning outrage clicks and virality. She's addicted.

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@megynkelly Did you hear what he said about cowards?

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@rom1trs Editor

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@aidenybai Ami