Alexander Falere

Full-Stack Developer | Autodidact | Polymath | Building Better Habits And Systems 1 Day At A | Self-Taught Dev | AI is cool but I am still learning to program |

[Rahul @sairahul1]

Andrej Karpathy's advice for beginners getting into AI:

"Put in 10,000 hours of work."

He's right.

But most builders waste the first 1,000 hours on the wrong things.

They write code before understanding context windows.
They build agents before understanding token limits.
They ship products before understanding what models can't do.

The builders who compound fastest aren't the ones who code the most.

They're the ones who understood the fundamentals before touching a single line.

These are the 10 concepts that make the first 1,000 hours count ↓

Bookmark this before you start.

[Killa 🌺 @KillaKreww]

NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo tells the story of when Adidas tried to FINESSE him early in his career and not sign his brother even though they agreed to, which ultimately led to him signing with Nike 😳👀

He also shared GOLD advice for young athletes on managing their inner circle and major business decisions early on 🔥

“There’s two things that you can do. One, don’t ever let your lawyer, financial adviser, and agent know one another. They should never be boys and cool… because they keep one another accountable.”

[Felipe Demartini @namcios]

30 anos.

Por 30 anos o PC foi a mesma coisa: Intel ou AMD dentro, GPU do lado, e torce pra não travar.

A NVIDIA acabou com isso numa keynote.

RTX Spark. Primeiro chip deles para computador pessoal. CPU, GPU e memória num único silício. ARM, 3nm, 1 petaflop de IA local.

Num laptop de 14mm.

Rodou Forza Horizon 6 e 007 First Light no palco a 100 FPS em 1440p. Fora da tomada. Sem throttling. No Windows.

O número que muda tudo: roda modelos de IA de 120 bilhões de parâmetros sem cloud. Sem API. Sem assinatura. Seu agente de IA mora na sua máquina. Ligado 24 horas. Só seu.

O PC não é mais uma tela com teclado. É uma estação de IA pessoal.

[Graphic Designer @MimiTheDesigner]

If you want to make mad money in this AI economy right now, let me give you a very simple blueprint.

I want you to open a faceless YouTube channel, a faceless Facebook page, a Twitter account, or even a UK TikTok account.

The reason why I’m mentioning these platforms is because these platforms pay very well. We are talking about platforms that actually pay creators.

Now, once you create these channels, you’re going to start creating AI videos. Whether it’s AI cartoon videos, AI UGC videos, AI podcast videos, or even videos about herbs and roots, smoothies, natural herbs that can cure different sicknesses — different kinds of niche content.

Very simple faceless videos.

Now, here’s the exact step.

First, open a YouTube channel if you want to build on YouTube.

Go to ChatGPT and tell it you want to create a YouTube channel that focuses on a particular niche. Write the niche you want the channel to focus on, and ChatGPT will suggest different channel name ideas for you.

Pick the one you like.

Then go on YouTube and check if the name is available. If it’s free, use it.

After that, go back to ChatGPT and ask it to write scripts for your niche. Different kinds of scripts based on your content style.

Now, don’t share your link with everybody because you want to build your subscribers organically, especially if you’re building on YouTube.

Focus on international viral topics. Topics that can go viral internationally.

Because once your channel gets monetized, a US audience pays far better. Their RPM is higher. So if most of your views are coming from the US, you’ll make more money compared to someone whose audience is mostly from Nigeria.

Now, that’s the whole strategy.

If you want to build on Facebook, do the same thing. Facebook also pays creators.

The reason why many Nigerian creators earn small on Facebook is because Nigerians are mostly the ones watching their content. But if your content is watched more by a US audience or international audience, your pay will be higher.

Now, the reason why I’m not putting Instagram is because Instagram does not really pay creators directly.

But if you still want to build on Instagram, you can monetize your Instagram through digital products using your AI videos.

Now, a lot of you might not know how to create these AI videos.

That’s why I already created a course that will teach you how to create AI cartoon videos, AI UGC videos, AI podcast videos, basically any kind of AI videos.

So if you want to learn, get the link in the comment section and register now.

This is the AI economy.

And if you’re not taking advantage of it now, I’m telling you, you might regret it later.

[Сarm1ne @carm1nee]

He invested $10 billion in 15 weeks while the world was panicking after Lehman, he manages $200 billion

Buffett says his memos are the first thing he reads - he just explained why most investors are guaranteed to fail

"some stupid people get rich, aggressiveness at the right time you don't need much skill, but to be right repeatedly over a career, now you're talking about skill"

"you have to dare to be different, dare to be wrong, dare to look wrong because even if you're right, that's probably not going to be clear for some time"

bookmark and watch it today it will change the way you think about markets ↓

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Peter Thiel on the question he asks every startup founder he invests in

“Why will the 20th talented person join your company when they can get paid way more at Google, they will have to work way less hard at Google, and it will look better on their resume to go to Google?”

The 20th employee won’t get the equity or prestige that someone on the founding team will get, so there needs to be another incentive if you’re going to build a truly great company and attract the best people in the world.

Thiel believes the best answer is something along the lines of:

“This is the only place in the world where you can work on this incredibly important problem.”

He continues:

“It has to—on some dimension—be a really important problem that at least some people think is the most important problem in the world. Those are the kind of businesses that are unique, and when they work, they end up being leaders in their respective markets.”

If it’s a problem that a bunch of other team are working on, it will be hard to attract a truly world-class employee #20.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Joe Rogan is talking about what happens when the wall between your thoughts and the world disappears.

Not whether it should. What happens when it does.

Rogan: “One of the big technological breakthroughs that’s gonna change the way human beings interact with each other is the development of a universal language. And some sort of technologically assisted telepathy.”

Everyone hears telepathy and thinks about connection.

What Rogan is actually describing is the end of the gap.

The gap is the half second between what you think and what you choose to say.

That half second is where you decide who you are.

Where you soften the cruel thing before it leaves your mouth.

Where you swallow the sentence that would end a marriage.

The gap is not a flaw in human communication.

It is the birthplace of every version of yourself you’ve ever chosen to be.

Rogan: “The Tower of Babel. We can’t communicate with each other.”

Babel was never the curse.

Babel was the architecture.

Scattered tongues forced every human on earth to choose their words.

And the act of choosing your words is the act of choosing yourself.

When thought transfers raw, that choice changes.

Not because someone finally sees you clearly.

Because you can no longer decide which version of you they see.

The self was never the thought.

The self lives in the gap between the thought and the mouth.

Remove the gap and the question is where the self goes next.

Rogan watched two people communicate without saying a word.

Rogan: “They’re not even talking.”

The question was never whether we could move thought without language.

The question is who you are without the half second you’ve always used to decide.

[Mr. Buzzoni @polydao]

KARPATHY WAS RIGHT. THIS 40-MINUTE Y COMBINATOR LECTURE PROVES IT

Karpathy said we're in the 1960s of AI - most people using Claude Opus 4.8 are still acting like it's just a search engine

> software 3.0 - LLMs as operating systems, not chatbots
> autonomous agents that run entire workflows without you watching

the 32 skills in this article are how you actually cross that line

bookmark this 👇

[DINQ @dinq_me]

OpenAI just hired the statistician who:

→ Graduated #1 from Peking University math
→ Won the "Nobel Prize of Statistics" this year (1 person under 40, per year)
→ Built the theoretical framework another researcher used to solve a 42-year-old math problem last month

He's not coming to write papers.
He's coming to train the models.

The compute wars are over.
The data wars are over.

The talent wars just got more interesting.

#DINQ #AI #OpenAI

[darkzodchi @zodchiii]

Anthropic engineer:

"You're not supposed to watch Claude Code work. You're supposed to wake up and review what it shipped."

In 22 minutes she builds the entire workflow live on camera.

Most people close their terminal and everything stops.
This setup keeps shipping while you sleep.

Watch the video, then save the exact setup below👇

[bodila @51bodila]

JPMorgan CEO rejected Jeff Bezos offer to be Amazon CEO, to invest $60M of his own money into a bank

- now that same bank - JPMorgan - is worth $700B and moves $10 trillion a day

a young 32-min Jamie - all his personal rules that led him to become the world's best banker

this is the first lecture from the moment Jamie Dimon was hired as JPMorgan CEO

save this - it's the best biography of one of the greatest on Wall Street

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Naval Ravikant: "You're going to die. It's all going to zero. What's there to stress about?"

"Stress is when your mind has two conflicting desires at once. You want to be liked, but you want to do something selfish. You don't want to go to work, but you want to make money. You have two conflicting desires, and that's stress."

Naval explains the difference between stress and anxiety:

"Anxiety is this pervasive, unidentifiable stress where you're stressed out all the time and you're not even sure why. The reason is you have so many unresolved problems that have piled up in your life, you can no longer identify what the problems are. There's this mountain of garbage in your mind. A little bit is poking out the top like an iceberg; that's anxiety. But underneath, there's a lot of unresolved things."

He shares his personal anxiety resolver:

"One big anxiety resolver for me is just ruminating on death. You're going to die. It's all going to zero. You cannot take anything with you. If you can keep that idea in front of you at all times, what's there to stress about?"

Naval reframes what "wasted time" really means:

"What is wasted time? Everything is wasted time in a sense because nothing matters in the ultimate. But in each moment, it's the only thing that matters. So if you're doing something you want to do and you're fully there for it it's not wasted time. If your mind is running away, wishing you were somewhere else, anticipating the future, regretting the past, that's wasted time. That's time you're not present for."

He concludes:

"People get worried about dying and no longer being here. But they don't realize that so much of their life is spent not being here in any case."

[Smart👨‍💻 | Software Engineer @smartnakamoura]

APIs every Nigerian fintech developer should understand:

→ NIBSS NIP — interbank instant transfers
→ CBN RTGS — high-value settlement rail
→ NIBSS BVN validation — identity verification
→ Paystack / Flutterwave — payment infrastructure + collection
→ Smile Identity — KYC (ID + selfie verification)
→ Dojah — BVN, NIN, CAC & identity APIs
→ Mono — open banking / bank data access
→ Stitch — cross-border payment infrastructure (SA focus)
→ VGS (Very Good Security) — PCI vaulting & card data security

I know most of you know the top 2.

The ones building serious infrastructure know all of them.

Save this.

[darkzodchi @zodchiii]

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei:

"The cheapest way to use Claude is also the smartest. Most devs do the exact opposite."

In 36 minutes, he breaks down the real economics behind every Claude model, and why running them all the same way is a mistake.

Watch the full interview, then save the config below 👇

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Pay close attention to this conversation.

Ekene flew in from Germany to school me on Ausbildung as we redesign the Igbo Apprenticeship System.

Ekene went through the Ausbildung program himself, currently works in Germany, and now teaches within the Ausbildung system.

Germany has the strongest workforce and the largest economy in Europe.

Within 10 years, we will build the greatest workforce and the largest economy in Africa.

[Leonard Rodman @RodmanAi]

This 32-min Stanford lecture by Graham Weaver will teach you more about living boldly than 10 years of self-help books.

Bookmark it and give it 32 minutes, no matter what. It’s the best way to start your week.

[Jack @Jackkk]

Michael B. Jordan shares one of the biggest lessons he’s learned in life

“I think being unapologetically honest with what you want and that goes across the board because a lot of times the fear of how somebody’s going to react to what you really want to say is what stops you from saying it”

“So you find another way or you put it off or you don’t say it and maybe the situation doesn’t change and you get frustrated and upset why this thing doesn’t change because you might not have said it the way you wanted to say it”

“I think there’s a way to be unapologetically honest and still be respectful and speak your truth”

“If I would have done that earlier, I would have been further along in relationships that I have with people I care about. Work relationships, business, family, friends, whatever it may have been”

“I think being honest with where you stand and how you feel is really giving another person an opportunity to be as honest with you and whatever your fear of that outcome is, it’s never really as big as what you make it up to be”

“Tomorrow is not promised to anyone but time will move on, you will move past it and if tomorrow never comes, at least you can know that you said what you needed to say”

[Defileo🔮 @defileo]

While everyone picked sides on AI models, Jensen Huang was at Stanford for 1 hour discussing who actually wins.

Workforce, domestic policy, national strategy, all on camera, all free.

Just 1 hour, and most people scrolled past it.

The people who watch this will understand something everyone else will spend years figuring out.

[Akeem Jr @AkeemJR001]

I recently won a @Microsoft organised hackathon.
10+ major hackathons have happened this year alone with MILLIONS in prizes.
Most students didn't enter a single one. Not because they couldn't win, because no one told them.

If you're a student in tech and you're not hunting opportunities, you're leaving money and experience on the table.
Here are 7 you don't want to miss 🧵

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX has almost finished writing V1.0 of an in-house AI training stack in C that exact-maps to 220k GB300s with 800G NICs, making heavy use of pipeline parallelism and getting as close to bare metal as possible.

The potential speed improvement vs JAX for large training runs is over an order of magnitude.