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Using X as my second brain

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@Mho_23 Blueprint

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@samruddhi_mokal Sora

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@cinamarina The value's in the product. The rest is just decoration, and I suck at making sense of decorative stuff

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@Onuro_Chat Nice, but what sets your ide apart?

(The comments seem totally ai generated bro, just be careful)

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@MatthewSavitz Culture sure but food WTF. Americans are more fat than pigs, u know?

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@Onuro_Chat How many users so far? I need more than a link

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@zeroocode U r a real one

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Next time you feel behind, remember: the math is rigged.

Your network shows you the top percentile by design. Don't let sampling bias (i.e., your small, skewed view of the world) mess with your head or your product decisions.

Stay grounded.

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This is why:

– Your GitHub stars have more stars
– Your matches have more matches
– Everyone at that founder dinner feels 10x ahead

You're not seeing the average.
You're seeing the outliers.

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Here's where it gets spicy: Google paid $2.4 billion in licensing fees and compensation but crucially didn't take equity.

This wasn't an acquisition - it was the world's most expensive acquihire.

They bought the talent, not the company.

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The market timing is perfect. AI coding is exploding, Cursor is raising at crazy valuations, and everyone's building coding agents.

Cognition just locked up two of the biggest moats while their competitors are still figuring out PMF.

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Google made the classic big tech mistake - they optimized for talent extraction over ecosystem control.
They got the brains but Cognition got the distribution, the brand, and the moat.

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The real galaxy brain move?
Windsurf will now have full access to Claude AI models once again. Remember, Anthropic had cut them off before.

Cognition's relationship with Anthropic just became Windsurf's lifeline back to relevance.

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Here's where it gets spicy: Google paid $2.4 billion in licensing fees and compensation but crucially didn't take equity.

This wasn't an acquisition - it was the world's most expensive acquihire.

They bought the talent, not the company.

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Context for those who were touching grass last week: Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of the startup's top researchers went to Google DeepMind after a $3B OpenAI acquisition deal fell apart.

Absolute chaos in the AI coding space.

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@bryan_johnson @BrianRoemmele Glass vs steel?