Isa

Sharing my web development journey and trying to network with people. here to learn and grow with others. Dont be afraid to hmu!

[Isa @_IsaIsmail]

I've decided to commit to the #100DaysOfCode challenge starting today.

No matter what happens I will be coding for an hour minimum everyday as per the rules.

Im excited to see my progress over 100days, lets get it!

@ka11away https://t.co/DYvPHBtkZC #100DaysOfCode

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

There is a collective sense of dread across the planet right now.

Havnt you noticed everybody is scared, or sad?

We can only beat this with LOVE and HOPE.

Kiss your children.

Smile at everyone you meet.

Be polite and caring.

Love always wins in the end.

[Isa @_IsaIsmail]

@theInitialR @CQuill97 Why is that an issue? I mean genuinely just let superman take damage and die. Doom eternal makes it work and doomguy is literally immortal. All the damage you take isnt even real but it works. Why cant the same be done with superman?

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

🇹🇷🇵🇸 Erdogan on Hamas:

“Hamas aren’t terrorists, they’re mujahideen defending their homeland.”

[Ascendant Power @AscendantPower]

The key to a healthy ego is the accurate appraisal of self-worth

Overvaluation is arrogance

Undervaluation is insecurity

Precise valuation is confidence

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

A bunch of MAGA Boomers who have likely never left the country are telling me Muslims hate me and want me dead

Whenever I'm in the Middle East I have strangers invite me to their homes for lunch or tea

Strange behavior from people who allegedly hate me

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Many people assume they are bad at writing because it is hard. This is like assuming you are bad at weightlifting because the weight is heavy.

Writing is useful because it is hard. It's the effort that goes into writing a clear sentence that leads to better thinking.

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

The Prophet (PBUH) suffered.

Jesus suffered.

God bestowed suffering upon them.

How can you believe that you are above suffering?

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

@scrowder The pride flag are the only American values left that the government protects.

It is the only thing you can not insult.

That’s all that’s left of American values.

Gang signs and pride flags.

So you are correct.

The Quran prohibits worship of that trash.

[˗ˏˋmewtru´ˎ˗ @trunarla]

Call me a `<div></div>`, because I feel empty inside 😔

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

Israel admitted it.

Hamas rockets are not that powerful.

“And the servants of the Beneficent God are they who walk on the earth in humbleness…” (Quran 25: 63).

Admit you were wrong.

Thousands of dying children.

Is peace worth a conversation yet?

[ArtfulPrudence @ArtfulPrudence]

You see it in poetry all the time; the notion of nothingness. That’s because the most real state is nothingness, and it is out of that, that comes everything. Perhaps, the most real things we know are the most perishable, the more permanent; lifeless.

[David Perell @david_perell]

Spent two hours with Marc Andreessen, who gave me a masterclass on how to think, learn, read, research, and write.

Here's what I learned:

1. Read, read, read... then read some more.

2. Many of your best ideas will emerge in fits of rage or frustration. Channel the fury. Smash the keyboard. Lean into the passion. Torch the page with your energy.

3. Marc doesn't have much of a formal writing process. He thinks and thinks, and when epiphany strikes, he hammers out an outline as fast as possible to get his ideas on paper. Then, he turns it into a full article.

4. Marc's motto for writing and thinking: "Strong views, weakly held." Put yourself out there, but stay on the hunt for dissenting opinions from smart and respectful people.

5. Online writing tolerates and even encourages stylistic idiosyncrasies that traditional publishing would not accommodate. Lean into them.

6. The world is awash in bad content. You need to punch through. Snappy one-liners and genuine conviction are two ways to do that.

7. Marc's been reading online for as long as anybody on the planet, and the biggest thing that's surprised him is how political the Internet's become. Something changed between ~2013-2015. The Internet was once an escape from political debates. Now it's a hotbed of them.

8. Writing software is halfway between writing a novel and building a bridge.

9. Play around with communication tools. Push the limits. Doesn't matter what the rules are. When Marc felt constrained by Twitter's 140-character limit, he started replying to his own tweets and invented the Twitter thread.

10. On the quest for good ideas, surround yourself with "lateral thinkers" who can't help but come up with variant perspectives on everything they see. They won't always be right, but they're always challenge your thinking.

11. Media formats are cyclical. Nietzsche wrote in aphorisms and Twitter is aphorisms-as-a-service. Hip-hop brought back poetry. Montaigne pioneered the essay format and blogs brought them back into vogue.

12. People should write more manifestos.

13. Marc's nomination for the best living American novelist: James Ellroy.

14. GPT has revealed how much writing is pure pablum. Bland, lifeless, uninsightful, unoffensive, and not worth the price of the ink it was printed with.

15. "With GPT, every writer now has a writing partner who can do an infinite amount of grunt work without complaining."

16. "ChatGPT plagiarism is a complete non-issue. If you can't out-write a machine, what are you doing writing?"

17. Marc writes from the heart. He doesn't do much editing and likes to provide reading recommendations instead of directly citing his sources.

18. The person who writes down the plan in an organization has tremendous power. If you want to find the up-and-comers at a tech company, look into who's writing the plan. Though they may not be coming up with all the ideas, you'll know they have the energy, motivation, and skills to organize and communicate ideas in a written form.

19. Marc uses a barbell approach to consume information. He focuses on what's happening right now while also reading a lot of things that were written 10+ years ago. The content is either timely or timeless, with almost nothing in between.

I've shared the full conversation below.

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If there was an Olympic category for most insights per minute, @pmarca would be a guaranteed medalist.