Jaap Vergote

Founder @UpsellPlus

[Jaap Vergote @JaapVergote]

yes

[Nick @nickcammarata]

i hate how well asking myself "if i had 10x the agency i have what would i do" works

[Jaap Vergote @JaapVergote]

@jon_kennedy1 who are they merging with?

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

you must cross the river by feeling the stones

[Jaap Vergote @JaapVergote]

@blueprintsmb22 At some point, people realize that compounding is the only thing that matters. The main ingredient is time.

Better to own what you want to compound over decades.

[Joshua Kushner @JoshuaKushner]

what if everything goes right

[Jaap Vergote @JaapVergote]

@startingfromnix Nubeluz. Tigre. the Grill

[Ryan Mather @Flomerboy]

I think genius is what happens when someone's energy is fully unblocked for a few years (internally and externally) and it compounds for a few years.

[Jaap Vergote @JaapVergote]

A tree is essentially compounded sunlight

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Game theory pretty much proves that the long game is not a strategy most people can execute at all. That's because it tends to require a negative short-term position in exchange for a real advantage later. Most people cannot commit to this because their threat-detection system reads current loss as an existential failure. And that's vicious short-sightedness. It leads them to optimize for visible progress and sacrifice their real position. The people who constantly win rarely have better information. Instead, they accept that losing now will pay off later. Never quit a game before it starts.

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

I don't remember where I found this, but its spot on.

[georgina @somaobscura]

The joy of owning beautiful things, a good knife, a proper linen towel, a jar of excellent honey, one soul encapsulating perfume, over many mediocre things. Doing this slowly across every domain.

[kache @yacineMTB]

you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding

[Jaap Vergote @JaapVergote]

@DaveRekuc Yep we can do that. Dm’d

[Jaap Vergote @JaapVergote]

@fortelabs I like notesmesh, dead simple
https://t.co/oERBdoXSEE

[Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly]

Here in brief is the method I’ve honed to optimize a two-week vacation: When you arrive in a new country, immediately proceed to the farthest, most remote, most distant place you intend to reach during the trip. If there is a small village, remote spa, a friend’s farm, or a wild place you plan on seeing on the trip, go there immediately. Do not stop near the airport. Do not rest overnight in the arrival city. Do not pause to acclimate. If at all possible proceed by plane, bus, jeep, car directly to the furthest point without interruption. Make it an overnight journey if you have to. Then once you reach your furthest point, unpack, explore, and work your way slowly back to the big city, wherever your international departure airport is. In other words you make a laser-straight rush for the end, and then meander back. Laser out, meander back. This method is somewhat contrary to many people’s first instincts, which are to immediately get acclimated to the culture in the landing city before proceeding to the hinterlands. The thinking is: get a sense of what’s going on, stock up, size up the joint. Then slowly work up to the more challenging, more remote areas. That’s reasonable, but not optimal because most big cities around the world are more similar than different. All big cities these days feel same-same on first arrival. In Laser-Back travel what happens is that you are immediately thrown into Very Different Otherness, the maximum difference that you will get on this trip. You go from your home to extreme differences so fast it is almost like the dissolve effect in a slide show. Bam! Your eyes are wide open. You are on your toes. All ears. And there at the end of the road (but your beginning), your inevitable mistakes are usually cheaper, easier to recover from, and more fun. You take it slower, no matter what country you are in. Then you use the allotted time to head back to the airport city, at whatever pace is your pace. But, when you arrive in the city after a week or so traveling in this strangeness, and maybe without many of the luxuries you are used to, you suddenly see the city the same way the other folks around you do. After eight days in less fancy digs, the bright lights, and smooth shopping streets, and late-night eateries dazzle you, and you embrace the city with warmth and eagerness. It all seems so … civilized and ingenious. It’s brilliant! The hustle and bustle are less annoying and almost welcomed. And the attractions you notice are the small details that natives appreciate. You see the city more like a native and less like a jaded tourist in a look-alike urban mall. You leave having enjoyed both the remote and the adjacent, the old and new, the slow and the fast, the small and the big. We’ve also learned that this intensity works best if we aim for 12 days away from home. That means 10 days for in-country experience, plus a travel day (or two) on each end. We’ve found from doing this many times, with many travelers of all ages and interests, 14 days on the ground is two days too many. There seems to be a natural lull at about 10 days of intense kinetic travel. People start to tune out a bit. So we cut it there and use the other days to come and go and soften the transitions. On the other hand 8 days feels like the momentum is cut short. So 10 days of intensity, and 12 days in a country is what we aim for. Laser-back travel is not foolproof, nor always possible, but on average it tends to work better than the other ways I’ve tried. #KKtraveltips

[Jaap Vergote @JaapVergote]

Future of all software/digital experiences

[Zain Shah @zan2434]

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.

@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

[Zain Shah @zan2434]

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.

@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

[Ben South @bnj]

Getting painfully obvious that frontends in the future will be 120fps diffusion models

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

It’s very hard to lose the day if you wake up at 5am and work out.

[kache @yacineMTB]

Thinking is unnatural. You should try your best to do as little thinking as possible. You should trust your gut

[𓁹‿𓁹 @kitvolta]

the trick to surviving is having a european approach to life with somehow an american work output