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[Philosophy Sage @philosophysage]

14 HARVARD TECHNIQUES to be better than 99% of the world

1. The 5 - second rule

[Ridark @ridark_eth]

I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet

Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, posted a simple idea that hit 16 million views: stop using AI to write code, use it to build a second brain.

You point Claude Code at a folder, drop in any source, an article, a transcript, a PDF, and Claude reads it, links it, and files it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest, the more you feed it, the smarter it gets.

Here's the whole thing:

> Install Obsidian, create a vault, open it in Claude Code

> Paste Karpathy's wiki idea file and tell Claude to build it

> Claude makes three folders: raw for sources, wiki for its pages, a CLAUDE.md that runs it

> Drop any source into raw and say "ingest this"

> Ask questions across everything, forever

Five minutes to set up, and you never start from a blank chat again.

Full step-by-step guide with Claude and Obsidian, link below.

Bookmark this

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Iliad (Troy) trailer made by Grok Imagine 1.5, which was just released

[Jesse Michels @AlchemyAmerican]

🚨BREAKING: A cognitive scientist from MIT has mathematically proven that evolution guarantees we see zero percent of true reality, that most consciousness in the universe exists without a body, and that non-human intelligences with a wider window on reality than ours can reach in and manipulate it the way a programmer manipulates a video game.

Donald Hoffman (@donalddhoffman) is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine who has spent 40 years building a mathematical theory of the observer. His work was cited by John Wheeler in the "It From Bit" paper. He studied under Marvin Minsky at MIT, spent two decades secretly meeting with Francis Crick to study consciousness, and has nine specific mathematical conjectures on the table that would derive general relativity, quantum field theory and the Big Bang from a single framework. The top high-energy physicists in the world, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Nobel laureate David Gross, are already saying spacetime is doomed. Hoffman thinks he knows what replaces it.

This interview is the first time he has publicly laid out what his mathematical model explains about alien life, embodiment and the structure of reality.

It already derives time dilation and quantum wave functions directly from differences in observer window size. Physics has spent a century failing to solve the measurement problem because it has been looking in the wrong place. The observer has to come first, and no physicalist framework can get you there.

A consciousness with a larger observer window has access to the underlying structure of our reality in ways we can't perceive or counter. A craft going Mach 40 instantaneously in our headset could be a leisurely maneuver in theirs.

The implications for UAP and alien life are immense.
Embodiment, being locked into a body with fingers and toes as your only interface with the world, is a probability zero anomaly in the full space of possible minds. He also says current large language models are dumber than cucumbers. His new framework, the recursive trace logic, is a completely different architecture, and some of the biggest names in frontier AI have already come to him about it.

The framework has no ceiling, and the implication is a single unified consciousness exploring itself through an unbounded number of perspectives, each one capable of waking up.

Death, in this framework, is just the closing of an icon on the desktop.

Full conversation is live now.

[MAVERICK X @MAVERIC68078049]

I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

[shmidt @shmidtqq]

A 20-year-old guy earned $37,250 in a month creating YouTube content and barely even touches the editing software.

He set up an autonomous "content factory" where Claude acts as the brain and Premiere Pro serves as the body. The system works 24/7 while he lives his life.

Claude analyzes high-CPM niches, writes scripts, and uses Python scripts to trigger voiceovers and video generation. In the first month alone, one of his channels hit hundreds of thousands of views on Shorts.

One client video ($400) -> 15 minutes of AI work = $400 profit.
20 videos per week = $8,000.

He simply had an idea, and Claude took care of everything: from the first word of the script to the final render.

[ANB @GoodVenturs]

@S_Kbreizh @clem_garin Qui veut sa crêpe ?

[cvxv666 @antpalkin]

A 35-year-old accountant from New Orleans left his job and spent a full month in isolation with Claude.

The result? He made $45,000 in a single day.

300 hours of meticulous work - and the perfect BTC trading algorithm was ready.

If he keeps cooking like this, he’s hitting over $1,000,000 in a single month.

His wallet: https://t.co/ZS6sjM9aoW

He selected username nsh91qaz - an ironic nod to his 1991 birth year, an age when most people believe it’s too late to change their lives.

But he changed anyway.

I ran a backtest of his strategy using Claude + Nautilus via PyPI.

Results genuinely shocked me - mechanics are understandable to pretty much anyone.

The real alpha is in the numbers under the hood. That’s what lets you pull $45k per day with pure math.

I simulated every single one of his trades and broke down every transaction: 75 markets, 72 fills, 85.1% win rate, Sharpe ratio 4.21.

All run on the Nautilus-core broker simulator with 41.8 GB of parquet data in DuckDB.

Every trade is a perfect cycle. Every dollar earned is pure exploitation of market inefficiency.

He doesn’t predict the future - the math already knows it. He just reads the numbers right and takes the money

Brier-loss ensemble: 400 trees · lr 0.03, walk-forward validation with Sharpe 4.21 ± 0.08.

Save this post if you actually want to learn how to build something like this.

Or just skip the homework and start copying his trades right now - that’s the easiest and most profitable route I’m on: https://t.co/vbDZyVcfT3

[Blaze @browomo]

This Chinese guy created agents in Claude Code for landing pages and single-handedly serves 47 small businesses a month, taking $400 from each.

He built a system of 7 agents on Claude Sonnet 4.6 that analyzes Google Maps in small towns, finds small businesses without websites there, and over 1 weekend takes each one to a finished mockup with video and cold message.

No assistant, no sales team, no SDR. Just him, a MacBook, an iPhone, and 1 API key.

And traditional web design agencies keep teams of 8 people on salary for the same order flow, while his expenses are only tokens and subscriptions to Lovable, Higgsfield, and Calendly.

7 agents work through 1 orchestrator on Claude Code Router. Usage is about 3 million tokens a day, the average API bill is about $480 a month.

All 7 go through MCP servers and write shared state to the file system, without shared state in memory and without race conditions, and 1 of them lives right in the iPhone and picks up positive replies from the subway, a taxi, or on walks.

And here is the system prompt he put into the orchestrator before launch:

"You are the orchestrator of a solo agency that sells ready-made websites to local businesses. You delegate read-only tasks to 6 sub-agents and own all writes.

sub-agents:

// Scout (walks through Google Maps in selected cities, looks for narrow niches: 5+ years on the map, fewer than 50 reviews, no website or a website from 2014, but high ratings)
// Diagnoser (for each lead writes a 50-word diagnosis, hero angle, tone matched to the industry, and a cold message under 70 words)
// Builder (generates a landing page mockup in Lovable through MCP only for the top 5 leads per day, with the sharpest diagnoses and the biggest gap)
// Filmer (pulls 5 screenshots of the mockup and through Higgsfield renders a 10-second vertical video 1080x1920 with a soft zoom)
// Pitcher (sends a personalized cold message through the right channel for the niche: email to roofers, SMS to tradesmen, IG DM to salons, LinkedIn to realtors)
// Checker (runs every message through evals for personalization, absence of AI markers and buzzwords before sending)
// Mobile (lives in the iPhone, handles positive replies in real time, books Zoom calls in Calendly through MCP while the owner is on the go).

You never let 2 sub-agents touch 1 lead. You stop and request approval from the human only when a deal exceeds $3,000 or the reply rate in a niche for the day drops below 12%."

Meaning the system knows what it is and within what boundaries it is allowed to act.

It knows it is supposed to find leads on its own.

It knows it is supposed to take each one to a mockup, video, and cold message without intervention.

It knows the human only steps in when a deal goes above $3,000 or the reply rate stops converging.

→ The system runs 24 hours a day

→ Scout goes through about 220 local businesses on Google Maps per day and leaves 30 new leads in the queue

→ Diagnoser outputs 30 structured diagnoses + briefs + cold messages per day

→ Builder assembles 3 to 5 finished landing pages in Lovable for the sharpest leads

→ Filmer renders a 10-second vertical video in Higgsfield for each one

→ Pitcher sends 30 personalized messages per day across 4 channels with a reply rate of about 14%

→ Checker runs every message through evals before sending

And only when a deal breaks $3,000 or the reply rate for the day drops below 12% does the orchestrator wake the owner.

And when the owner at that moment is sitting in the subway or a taxi, the Mobile agent in his iPhone picks up 1 move on its own: replies to a fresh positive reply from a dentist, books a Zoom through Calendly synced to the local time of the client, and puts the lead back in the queue. The owner only has to tap "approve" and in just 10 minutes join the call.

Here is what the system writes in his log during 1 of the Saturdays:

"scout report: 218 businesses checked in Austin, Denver, and Miami, 34 without a website, 19 with a website from 2014, 6 with an active redesign request in reviews. passing top 30 to diagnoser."

"pitcher: 30 cold messages sent across 4 channels, 14 replies, 5 positive, 3 Zoom calls booked for Sunday. passing to closer."

"builder: landing page for Westside Cosmetic Dentistry built in Lovable, 5 sections, mobile, soft beige. URL placed at /Users/dev/maps-agency/clients/westside/v1. filmer launching Higgsfield."

"eval flag: deal with The Lotus Salon at $3,400 exceeds the approved limit of $3,000. sending for manual review."

He has no server of his own and no separate backend.

Just a local file sandbox at /Users/dev/maps-agency, an MCP router, 1 API key to Claude, and the same key forwarded to Claude Code on his iPhone.

Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the cleanest one-person agency for selling websites to small businesses: $480 a month on the API, about $18,800 into the account, and between them 7 prompts, 1 file system, and 1 phone in the pocket.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Tom Bilyeu @TomBilyeu]

If I sold my company tomorrow, I'd build my next multi-million dollar business in 90 days using Claude.

Here's the exact 5-person AI team I'd hire on day one. Steal every prompt.

[ANB @GoodVenturs]

@UStwts__ @MasculineTheory Bro science that has existed for millennia, present in many traditions, Taoism, Hinduism, Sufism, hermeticism, Christian asceticism, gnosis…look it up maybe they’re not all wrong

[ANB @GoodVenturs]

@drgurner I tell people I’m a street sweeper, it doesn’t match my style so they’re shocked at first and then you can feel their slight disgust. Perfect way to filter out leeches and other NPCs

[Ancient Hypotheses @AncientEpoch]

They shouldn’t have known this, yet somehow they did.

More than three thousand years ago in Peru’s highlands the pre-Inca carved nine kilometers of flawless stone water channels called Cumbemayo; riddled with deliberate zigzags and sharp jogs cut straight into solid rock.

But here’s the catch, the water flows up slight elevations before descending.

The how: Those exact turns create turbulent flow a mechanism that silently pushes the water ahead.

No pumps. No computer models, Just stone and hidden physics.

[Pierre-Louis Biojout (PLB) @plbiojout]

3k companies already launched on @NanoCorpHQ , some already generating revenues!
Can't believe I launched it only 3 weeks ago!

-> Launch an autonomous company in one prompt at nanocorp .so

[ANB @GoodVenturs]

@LeBunkerBtc L’aire de jeux à côté du stand de tir c’est parfait

[ANB @GoodVenturs]

@clairobscur__ Qui veut sa crêpe ?

[ANB @GoodVenturs]

@OwenBenjamin Who does the construction in Israel ? I doubt it’s all Arabs doing the plumbing

[ANB @GoodVenturs]

@ryunuck Interesting take, maybe

[Everything @isjuustadream]

"The world is a dream"

Here's some of what the world's most famous physicists had to say about reality:

A short thread 🧵