Gautham

📈Growth for your Shopify app. Customers from YouTube for your B2B brand.

Host of @ShippingWithAI 🎙️

Past: failed to grow a VC-backed ed-tech beyond $13M 🫣

[Aporia @aporia9n]

I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day.

A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on.

The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine.

And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday.

It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.

[Gautham @MindCharting]

@chrispisarski Will you be doing more of these?

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[Gautham @MindCharting]

Don’t talk to me about AI man, show me how it works!

I end up having so many aha moments when I see someone else use AI in a manner that I never imagined.

There have been too many of these moments off late and frankly, the FOMO is real. Everyone’s tinkering with Claude Code and Hermes and making their life significantly better while having a lot of fun in the process.

The other day, I demo’d a workflow to my friend Rahul and both of us were like, we should make a show out of this! And dear reader, we did. We made a show out of it.

Presenting to you @shippingwithai, a weekly show that Rahul and I are co-hosting.

A show in which AI goes from Hype to Implementation. Zero bullshit, straight demonstrations.

Every guest walks through a real workflow on screen, the tools, the prompts, the decisions. Every episode is a workflow you can steal.

We’ll do this until AI automates away show business too.

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[Gautham @MindCharting]

@prasanna_says Read it. It’s epic.

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"A dashboard over files that lie is a lie with better typography"

Fable to me when I asked it to make a Dashboard.

Ahem.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

No one knows yet what the next form factor for computing will be, and yet there will be a next form factor, and it will seem obvious in retrospect.

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@NavSha Great find!

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@dharmeshba We got Karpathy and Thalapathy in the same sentence. Wow. Damn it rhymes too.

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@NavSha What would you call this state of entrepreneurship?

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@Samhitab4u https://t.co/rXRq5UDJEL

Cc @shreshthmohan

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@ayushtweetshere

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@adithyashreshti Great going. Looking forward to the series. Let's vibe.

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@Jacobsklug Interested

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@ponnappa Is this in line with what you meant by Control plane app? I wanted to make sure I understood you right.

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Life is what happens between Claude Code limit resets.

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@aakashgupta "You need the best documentation"

Who better to write the documentation than LLMs?

What are the implications of that then?

Best agent that write LLM readable documents win this race?

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@ku1deep This is pure ADHD hell.

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@shaneparrish ‘The Common Cog’ by @ejames_c is a must add to this list.