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[@levelsio @levelsio]

Things I learnt after buying a house after 1 year and going through lots of shitty products and things and what I'd do know if I bought or build a house again:
- home assistant + their HA Green (little box that's open source to connect all your devices with Home Assistant)
- LG or Mitsubishi air conditioning in EVERY room, both cooling/heating, every unit should have its own outdoor unit, or you get annoying things like you can't cool one room and heat the other at same time! I think they're called mono splits
- xiaomi air purifier in every room, big spaces get the big purifiers, smaller rooms small ones (most air purifiers are too small for the space they're in!)
- a good smart lock, it's so good because you come home and your door auto opens (esp nice if you carry stuff)
- matic vacuum (they gave me one so I have to disclose but it's GREAT, all the Roomba and Chinese ones suck)
- unifi router with access points, outdoor extenders, cameras, doorbell, all PoE
- starlink with local fiber backup
- tesla dreamwall or other batteries sufficient to power for days (means like 4-8 batteries @ 13kwh per maybe!), then connect your freezer, fridge, stove, etc to it (heavy loads) so you can keep and cook food when shit goes down
- related get a Weber Genesis gas bbq so you can always cook food, fun with friends too
- solar panels actually sufficient to power (so like 30-50, crazy number but if you get like 15 it's just not enough?)
- pool is honestly overrated, you'll almost never use it, also lots of maintenance (we had a massive water leak with a $10,000 water bill this month, so F that)
- but u DO want a standalone jacuzzi, that's nice, with lights!
- if you care about safety get steel doors with massive locks for other rooms, and make those safe rooms, so if someone comes in you have multiple layers of security
- also get weapons to defend you and your family where legally possible!
- garden should be permaculture kinda concept with vegetables, herbs and stuff you can grow to eat, like strawberries, rosemary etc
- harvia dry sauna, and if outside, add a little changing room to it so you don't exit in the cold outside!
- related, build a home gym, get a big power rack with cables, free barbell, smith barbell, everything built in, and then some dumbbells and kettlebells, and a gym bike like concept2, maybe concept2 rowing machine too, with that you can do almost anything to stay fit! then hire personal trainer to come to your house or you will never go!
- ALL lights should be changeable to red at night, via home assistant, so you can make everything red at 10pm for sleep!
- also get outdoor lights for fun and security (burglars hate lights)
- ALL windows black out blinds on outside, for both security and just NO light during sleep
- when you're not sleeping, get lots of sunlight, big floor to ceiling glass windows, it's great!
- all doors to outside flat on floor level, no stepover edges (like in PT)
- preferrably lots of land around your house so you're not close to any neighbors (neighbors are always annoying even if they're nice!)
- fellow water kettle, fellow ode 2 coffee grinder
- sofas, other interior, make sure to find natural materials, 99% of interior is polyester/plastic
- LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates
- re: TVs, people show these formulas of like blalba distance to sofa from tv is N meter so now you need 60", in my experience they always sell you a TV like 10-15" too small, we had 77" LG TV and it was like diving into the screen, beautiful, but then we followed the formula and changed it for 65", not the same! get bigger!
- get a VERY big bed, 2m wide by 2m long at least, get natural bed sheets/duvet and seperate duvet from partner, the less you wake up when your partner moves the better
- guest rooms are a bad idea, it's annoying to have friends and family IN your house for weeks or a month, good luck trying to have SEX! better get a small house or apt near for them or put them in airbnb!!!
- add a delivery box outside ur house so delivery people can put packages inside without having to ring your doorbell 10x per day
- get a $500 mini projector and big projection screen outside (or a white wall) so you can have movie nights outside w friends

[dreamDEX @dreamDEXSomnia]

No time to watch the whole Builder Office Hours #1 video?

Here's a short version: watch a dreamBot place its first order on testnet, straight from the bot kit, in under 30 minutes of setup.

https://t.co/jZGaXnSgQ8

[Oliur @UltraLinx]

Wait what!? Repetitive tasks are now finished.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Like good odds I'm wrong but I wanted to write this down:

It's pretty clear to me that superintelligence is here and it's more powerful than us and it's moving where things are going now, not humans anymore

I don't see many people realize this yet, it feels like that pic I posted the other day, everyone is running after the same carrot which is the AI, thinking they're special, and their work is special and their use of AI is special, but it's really not, we're all mostly making the same slop, I mean it's nice slop, useful slop but everyone is making the same slop

And because it's so fast to make things, like people used to spend a year on just building an app, now it's done in hours, it's such an immense change, people send me their projects and it all looks the same, it's useful but it's slop

Non-technical people (e.g. the gfs) are now building the same or better things than technical people like us

So AI has made everybody is just as capable as everyone else, it equalized everyone in the world, as in everyone can make everything (software, music, images, art etc) now and everyone is equal, at least in the digital realm now

And maybe now we're in some odd transitionary time where we have to find out waht the next differentiator is as coding/building/execution isn't one anymore for sure

I thought it'd be distribution but who knows, obviously creativity and ideas, but if you can copy a successful apps in an hour, then how does that differentiating work?

A guy on here @aporia9n wrote how he increasingly meets founders who blast through apps/products/startups, kind of money grabs, very quickly jumping on a trend, building super quickly with AI, make lots of money quick, everyone copies them, then their margins go to 0%, and they shut it down and go to the next thing, in a way they found one differentiator which is speed

That's one way to do it, but it shows how radically things are changing I think

For now I think the only ones winning is the AI superintelligence itself and the companies providing the AI

[Adam Friedland @AdamFriedland]

I just keep watching over and over

[Jaxon @jaxoncoder]

Apple wants you to think you need to pay for iCloud storage every month.

You don't.

iOS defaults secretly hoard gigabytes of junk data until your phone fills up.

Here are 5 settings to stop the drain:

[Vadim @VadimStrizheus]

If you’re a founder struggling to market your app, you need to read this.

My app crossed $10k/mo in 90 days after launching, and here is exactly what I did to achieve this feat.

it literally doesn’t get any simpler:

1. Create 3 Instagram UGC accounts
2. Copy your competitors viral UGC content
3. Post 2x everyday on each account

if you can’t even do this, then you’re not built for entrepreneurship.

and I’m being so fr, it doesn’t get any simpler, this is your wake up call.

[Jason Zook @jasondoesstuff]

This video is a GREAT take on how to build a product in a crowded market.

I wanted to see how to apply it to Teachery, so I had Fable generate a prompt after transcribing the video, creating takeaways that could be applied to any business.

No DM bullshit, here you go:

// PROMPT:

Business name: [ADD YOUR BUSINESS NAME HERE]

I want you to act as a strategic growth advisor for this business.

First, use what you already know about this business from your existing knowledge, memory, or prior context. Include the founder, product, audience, pricing, positioning, strengths, weaknesses, and market category if you know them.

Important: do not hallucinate. If something is from your existing knowledge but may be outdated, label it as “prior knowledge, needs verification.” If you do not know something, say so.

Then, if you have web access, research the business using its official website, pricing page, product pages, social profiles, docs, blog, customer stories, and any public roadmap. Use this research to verify or update what you already knew. If you do not have web access, continue using your existing knowledge and clearly labeled assumptions.

Use the following business-growth lesson as the source framework:

A founder shared how Postiz grew quickly in a crowded social media scheduling market. The key lesson was that Postiz did not win by being “another social media scheduler.” That problem had already been solved by older incumbents like Hootsuite and Buffer. Instead, Postiz grew by changing the problem it solved, the audience it served, the category story it told, and the outcome it marketed.

Core lessons from the video:

1. Do not compete in a solved category as a generic alternative.
If your market already has obvious incumbents, feature parity is not enough. You will get compared on reliability, maturity, trust, and feature depth.

2. Find an underserved wedge.
Postiz moved away from generic small businesses/agencies and focused more on technical and semi-technical users, especially developers. This gave it a clearer audience that competitors were not serving directly.

3. Features alone are not differentiation.
A small feature difference is not enough to create durable growth. The bigger win is changing the positioning, use case, or buyer outcome.

4. Change the category message.
Postiz did not market itself as “a scheduler with agent features.” It became “a social media scheduling tool for agents.” That repositioning made the product feel tied to a new behavior and a fast-growing market.

5. Sell the outcome, not the tool.
Competitors sold “schedule posts to multiple platforms.” Postiz sold outcomes like making money, going viral, and building repeatable social content systems.

6. Turn customer success into repeatable recipes.
The founder looked for creators already using Postiz, studied how they made money, extracted the repeatable process, and turned that process into marketing. The customer is not just buying software. They are buying a workflow they believe can produce results.

7. Reduce churn by reducing manual effort.
Manual workflows depend on customers staying motivated. If they do not get results, they churn. Automation and agent workflows can help users get to outcomes faster and with less effort.

8. Use what the market is already talking about.
Postiz leaned into agents because agents were a hot topic. That made social content easier to spread and helped create word of mouth, not just SEO traffic.

Now apply those lessons to the business named above.

Produce:

1. What you already know about the business
2. What you verified or discovered through research
3. A short summary of what the business currently sells
4. The crowded or “solved” category it may be trapped in
5. The strongest underserved audience or wedge it could own
6. The old positioning vs. a sharper new positioning
7. What outcome the business should sell instead of its features
8. Three to five repeatable customer “recipes” it could turn into marketing
9. Product or roadmap ideas that would make the new positioning true
10. A 90-day action plan
11. Five example social posts the founder/team could publish to test the new message

Be specific, practical, and opinionated. Do not give generic marketing advice. Tie every recommendation back to the business and the Postiz lessons above.

[𝐎𝐥𝐮𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐧 ✦💲🪖 @oluwaseun7g]

My pitch for an #Obsession sequel:

After Nikki gets her body back and sees the bloodbath she caused, the memories flood in.

She goes back to the shop, ignores every warning, and uses the final Willow:

“Send me back two weeks before Bear made his wish… but let me keep all my memories.”

Now she has one chance to stop the nightmare before it starts while carrying the trauma of what happened last time.

Would she be able to change her fate… or would trying to fix it only make everything worse?!
#Obsession

[Naval @naval]

New podcast with @garrytan, @farbood and Daniel Francis.

Live in the Future!

00:00 Guest Intros
02:35 Live in the Future
03:58 Will AI Outsmart us?
07:43 In the Anthropic Breadline
09:59 The Tech Genie Is Out
12:33 We Invested in COVID?!
14:25 Good Writing Is Novelty
18:50 Living Like It’s 2028
24:32 Truth dot ai
30:18 Does China have the Weights?
35:38 Everyone has AI Anxiety
39:32 Have Your Agent Talk to My Agent
42:01 What if Open Source takes the Lead?
44:03 The Sun is Setting on Google
48:00 Ride the AGI
50:46 Will There be Startups?
54:05 Defending Taiwan
1:00:05 The California Empire
1:01:26 If the U.S. Falls
1:03:11 Universal Basic Robot
1:06:01 Humans as AI Handlers

[Mrinal @Hi_Mrinal]

this was such a good read

[Thariq @trq212]

I’ve found the most important part of working with Fable is discovering my own unknowns so I can prompt it better, heres how I do that.

[ant2555.uni.eth @ant25553]

@levelsio You still buying stocks given the result of your indicator then?

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Self recommending.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

This is...a lot.

[ant2555.uni.eth @ant25553]

@BobLoukas With that in mind as a possibility are you still a buyer at the 4 year cycle lows? With full allocation or reduced?

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘HOUSE OF THE DRAGON’ Season 3 debuts with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

It is the highest rated season of the entire show.

[shmidt @shmidtqq]

CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei:

"We are near the end of the exponential."

3 things he said in 2 hours.
The third, even Dwarkesh pushed back on.

One: at Anthropic, models already do "100% of today's coding tasks."

Two: a country of geniuses in a datacenter, 90% likely within 10 years.

Three: why he won't buy more datacenters, with AGI this close.

Save it. Reread in 2028 and see who was right.

[ant2555.uni.eth @ant25553]

@Keir_Starmer Welcome to 1984 everyone. Kier you must understand why this is such an overreach

[Will @WClemente]

Almost 4 years later and getting ready to hear the obituaries once again while valuation readings enter deep value. Time is a flat circle.