Undulata

A series of predictions and observations for personal and professional purposes.

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[grapgat @grapgatza]

All Blacks. Coached to Cheat:
The Stars so far.

I still cannot understand how Luke Jacobson and Fabian Holland have been getting away with the blatant and continued dirty tactics and cheating in the first 3 Tests of the Rugby's Greatest Rivalries series.

They have been key to the All Blacks' negative cheating gameplan, and it's soured what would've been an amazing series.

Honorable mentions that didn't make the video.
Ardie Savea (i said what i said)
George Bower

That fact that the SA players have been subjected to largely unpenalised play like this for 3 Tests, and didn't retaliate, shows the level of discipline they have.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Hi, actual chemist here. Please don’t do chemistry in your garage.

There’s a reason labs have fume hoods, ventilation, chemical storage, gas-cylinder restraints, spill containment, emergency showers and eyewashes and other safety systems.

These exist to make sure a small mistake doesn’t become a catastrophic one.

[Kanyi Maqubela @km]

@beffjezos is cooking.

[Undulata @UndulataGokdepe]

@rdominguezibar ozempic won the 2020's VC Game.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

MrBeast keeps going on podcasts and keeps giving away the entire YouTube playbook. Here’s what he’s said across dozens of appearances.

On the algorithm: it doesn’t exist. Replace “algorithm” with “audience” every time. The algorithm didn’t like your video. No. The audience didn’t. YouTube is a mirror. If people click and watch, it gets promoted. The growth hack industry sells you a god that isn’t there.

On what actually matters: studying humans. The checklist before you hit record. What’s the thumbnail. What’s the title. What’s the first 5 seconds. What’s the first 30. If you can’t answer all four, don’t film.

On titles: under 50 characters. Above that, devices cut them with dot-dot-dot and viewers don’t know what they clicked. Short, simple, so interesting it’ll haunt them if they don’t click.

On thumbnails: simple enough a scrolling viewer instantly understands and feels emotion. His test: “I rode a skateboard with 1,000 other people, it’s about to go off a big ramp.” Hours later, daydreaming, you still wonder what happened to those 1,000 people.

On autoplay: videos autoplay now. Many people never see the thumbnail. You have to visually convince them in the first 5 seconds.

On extremity: “Fiji water sucks” does fine. “Fiji water is the worst water I’ve ever drunk in my life” does way better. The more extreme the promise, the more extreme the delivery has to be.

On matching expectations: title and thumbnail set the promise. The first 10 seconds honor it or break it. Click “Tether is a scam” and the creator starts on anything else, you’re out. Start with “Tether is a scam and I’m gonna teach you why.” Match, then exceed. The thing people undervalue most is literally the first 10 seconds.

On retention: remove every dull moment. Find 10 critical people, make them watch, let them roast it. Ten seconds of talking head without a cut loses people. B-cam three seconds in, different angle, now it’s interesting.

On drop-off: creators drag it out. “I’m going to eat $100 ice cream, but first…” and then it’s them birthday shopping for their mom. Give them why they clicked. Tell them why to watch. Stay on topic. Upper echelon of YouTube.

On the real metric: it’s the next video. If they loved what they just watched, they watch your next one. You don’t want “that was good, but enough for the day.” You want “holy crap, what’s that?” and they watch 10 in a row.

On quality vs quantity: easier to get 5M views on one video than 50K on 100. Small creators post stuff that isn’t bad but isn’t great, nothing pops off, no audience forms. Upload a third or a fifth as often and make each one so good the algorithm has to promote it.

On the consistency trap: a schedule you can’t hit at quality is dangerous. “Monday I said I’d upload” floors your quality at exactly the level viewers notice. They watch less. Longevity suffers.

On the first 100: they’re going to suck. You think they’re good. They’re not. When he was 14 he thought his videos were the best in the world. They were terrible. Under 1,000 subscribers, your videos probably aren’t good yet.

On the improvement loop: ship 100, improve one thing each time. Second, better script. Third, new editing trick. Fourth, vocal inflections. Fifth, thumbnail. Sixth, title. No such thing as a perfect video.

On analysis paralysis: planning your first video for three months is the worst move. Your first 10 get zero views. Confirmed. Stop thinking, start shipping. On your 101st we’ll talk.

On the ceiling: “I could start a new channel tomorrow without my face, my voice, or promoting it, and hit 20M subscribers in six months. If you knew what I knew, you could get 10M from wherever you are.”

Every creator watching a 30-second clip thinks they got the tip. They got one tile from a mosaic he’s built in public for years.

[Yonan @yonann]

Chris Camillo reveals how people are making $500K/year being an "AI guy" for small businesses

"There are millions of small businesses out there and almost none of them are willing to embrace AI right now, you just walk in and say give me one area where you're leaking money, I'll fix it for free"

"Within days you've set up an AI agent answering their calls, sending responses, getting quotes out in real time… and you just increased their revenue by 5 to 15% at essentially no cost"

"Now you're invaluable. They're paying you $2,000 or $3,000 a month to be their AI guy, you replicate that across 10 or 20 businesses and you're making half a million a year"

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

Bruce Lee rewired my brain with this...

[Klara @klara_sjo]

VAPES ARE A DEEP STATE PSYOP DESIGNED TO CONDITION US TO ENJOY SUCKING ROBOT DICKS.

ONCE AI TAKES AWAY ALL OUR JOBS AND THE ONLY THING LEFT FOR HUMANITY IS TO BE SEX SLAVES FOR ROBOTS!!

REAL EYES REALIZE CLANKER LIES!!!!

DON’T FALL FOR IT!!!

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!

[CG @cgtwts]

This is INSANE, Anthropic ran its marketing with basically one person.

Austin lau, a non-technical growth lead, was running paid search, paid social, email, and seo solo.

Here’s the workflow:

> export ad CSVs into Claude Code
> AI flags underperforming ads
> agents generate new headlines + descriptions
> Figma auto-swaps copy across 100 ad templates
> MCP server pulls live Meta data

The results:

> ad creation went from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
> total marketing output grew 10×.
> conversion rates landed 41% above industry average.

One person doing what used to take an entire marketing team.

[Undulata @UndulataGokdepe]

@NoContextHumans this guy should be playing full back in the URC

[greg @greg16676935420]

Seems like Diddy was ahead of the game with stockpiling all that oil

[True market Leader @TmarketL]

This guy literally explained why some people become successful while others stay average.

The reason is uncomfortable. Game Theory

Watch this:

[𝘼𝙍𝙏𝙐𝙍𝙊 @Ke_Arturo]

You can never battle South Africa with Dancing, Im sorry😭

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Monitoring the situation intoxicates you. It degrades your attention and decision making capacity.

[Naval @naval]

People who don’t organize into tribes get wiped out by people who do.

[Undulata @UndulataGokdepe]

@cesifoti Extremely excited for this - when will it be released?

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Okay so that Miles Davis quote "if you hit a wrong note, it's the next note you play that determines if it's good or bad" applies to basically everything

[Nat Eliason @nateliason]

Your #1 priority in college should be finding a wife / husband.

It’ll never be that easy again.

[Lamar Jackson @Lj_era8]

For now on this wat we on😮‍💨

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

The world is at an all time high of “retired” 27 year olds who are pumping out 5 YouTube videos per week and 27 Shorts promoting a course on how you too can retire by only working 50 hours per week on YouTube selling courses