the engineer who built Claude Code just dropped a 28-minute video on how to write prompts that actually work
I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what he shows in the first 10 minutes
CLAUDE.md files, memory shortcuts, parallel sessions, prompting patterns
all in one video and completely free
works whether you're a developer, a beginner, or someone who's been using Claude for months
based on this, I put together 11 Claude things I wish someone had told me 12 months ago
full guide in the article below
Thank you all for the support the last week or two. Really means the world. I can't get back to all the positive DMs/comments but I truly appreciate it.
Sucks that we have now lost on Day 9 and Day 10...but that just means the next time we get there, we are completing it.
Day 1 Incoming on Thursday. 🪜
Love you all! Wouldn't trade this job for anything else in the world. See you guys back in the morning for the return of the NBA. Love you all. ❤️
Austin out. ✌️
BREAKING: Israel reportedly will unveil a new defense technology called "Iron Beam", which was not slated to enter service for years.
Iron Beam is a breakthrough technology that enables the country to use a laser beam to shoot down hostile projectiles at a fraction of the cost of the Iron Dome.
It literally costs about $3 per shot rather than hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Iron Beam is a directed-energy weapon air defense system that has been designed to destroy short-range rockets, artillery, and mortar bombs.
Below you will see the capabilities of what the Iron Beam can do.
Is this the future of defense?
Lift weights, get 8-10k steps a day, sleep 7-8 hours a night, spend time in nature, drink water, stretch daily & eat single ingredient nutrient dense foods.
Everything else is a distraction.
Canva has 130M active users.
But only few people know how to create stunning designs & videos seconds
Here are 10 incredible ways to use ChatGPT with Canva & start making $2000/m
🚨 BREAKING: Code Interpreter is FINALLY rolling out to all ChatGPT Plus users.
It's the most powerful feature OpenAI has released since GPT-4. It makes everyone a data analyst.
Here are 15 mind-blowing use cases of Code Interpreter:
I've used Microsoft Excel for 20 years and these 15 shortcuts will maximize your productivity 100X
(Don't use Excel again without knowing these shortcuts):
In 1997, at the age of 27, Matt Damon won his first Academy Award for Best Screenplay ("Good Will Hunting").
After Damon won the Oscar, he went home, sat down on his sofa, & looked at the award.
As he looked at it, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a heartbreaking thought.
"Imagine chasing that, and not getting it, and getting it finally in your 80s or your 90s with all of life behind you and realizing what an unbelievable waste of your life...It can't fill you up. If that's a hole that you have, that won't fill it."
"My heart broke," Damon said. "I imagined another one of me [not getting that award until I was] an old man, and going like, 'oh my god. where did my life go? What have I done?' And then it's over."
Takeaway 1:
Many successful, rich, famous, etc. people talk about chasing success, money, fame, etc., getting it, and realizing that it didn't feel like they thought it would. That it didn't, as Damon said, fill the hole they had.
One of my favorite analogies for this pattern comes from Sam Hinkie.
Hinkie was asked about what he's learned from reading Robert Caro's books—about some very successful, rich, famous, etc. people.
"I think of it like the Pacific Salmon," Hinkie said. "They spend their whole life making this journey upstream to spawn in this one spot. And as soon as they do, they die. That's largely what Caro shows you."
Takeaway 2:
Before he was a big-time comedian, Hasan Minhaj was asked if he thought he was going to become a big-time comedian.
“I don’t like that question,” he said. “I fundamentally don’t like that question.”
Because that question implies that he is only doing comedy as a means to some end (success, money, fame, etc.).
“No, no, no,” he said, “The set I get to do tonight at 7:20 PM is the win. I get to do comedy—I won. It being predicated on doing X or being bigger than Y—no, no, no. To me, it’s always just been about the work."
"The work is the win," as Ryan Holiday once told me.
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"It's such a gift to be able to [do] something and to love it for the sake of it...I see people with talent, with all those things. But the one thing they don't have is just that love for doing it for the sake of it...So if there's anything, just find joy in what you do for the sake of it." — Rodney Mullen
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