M. Austin James 📈

Figuring it out.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 Big shift incoming: Young men are now more likely than young women to say religion is “very important” in their lives.

Gen Z guys are waking up and chasing real truth through Jesus.

22-year-old beast Bryce Crawford (10M followers) nails it: Men lead with strength, courage, and example. 

Get married young, lay your life down, reflect Christ. Commitment is cool again.

Women follow strong men. Bible was right all along.

While the left pushes degeneracy, young dudes are rebuilding on faith and family. Hope rising. 🙏

[David Senra @davidsenra]

The mind is a powerful place and what you feed it can affect you in a powerful way.

Tobi Lutke @tobi on how you can literally change the way you think and act:

“I was terrified of public speaking until I sat down for a week and every day I spent 10 minutes just writing that I like public speaking. And now I love public speaking.”

“If you write something down 100 times about yourself, your brain will start reconciling you to that.”

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

POV: claude traveled 6 months into the future and told you exactly how your next move failed.

it's called a premortem.

daniel kahneman (nobel prize-winning psychologist behind "thinking fast and slow") called it his single most valuable decision-making technique.

google, goldman sachs, and procter & gamble all use it before major launches.

here's the problem it solves.

when you ask claude "is this a good plan?" it finds all the reasons to say yes.

that's what it was trained to do. so you walk away feeling confident.

you execute, and spend weeks / months building on top of that plan.

then it blows up.

and you realize the problem was obvious in hindsight, you just never stress-tested it because claude told you it was solid.

a premortem fixes this by flipping the frame.

instead of asking "what could go wrong?" you tell claude "it's 6 months from now and this is already dead. tell me how it died."

that shift turns off claude's optimism because there's nothing to be optimistic about. the premise already says it failed.

so claude stops looking for reasons your plan will work and starts explaining how it fell apart.

claude comes back with every way your plan could die, each one with a full failure story and the early warning signs to watch for.

then a synthesis pulls it all together:

> which failure is most likely
> which failure is most dangerous
> the single biggest hidden assumption you're making (often the most valuable part)
> a revised version of your plan with the gaps closed

you say "premortem this" and give it your plan. the skill handles the rest.

[M. Austin James 📈 @AustinJames]

The power of @openclaw as an orchestration of orchestrators continues to impress. Nice job @TommyStarkX

[Tommy Stark 𝕏 @TommyStarkX]

I recorded a 20-minute walkthrough of NovaStation — my personal AI operating system.

This isn’t a chatbot window. It’s a live command center for my whole world:

🦊 Nova / Mission Control
The home base. It tracks active systems, agent lanes, health checks, memory, alerts, drafts, approvals, and what needs my attention next.
📈 Market Swarm
A multi-agent market intelligence layer watching MAG7, AI infra, metals, product trends, and crossover signals — filtering noise down into actionable themes.

🐕 iSpeakDog + Dog Director
My dog training/media automation wing. It handles content pipelines, Trello/Zapier routing, image generation, post review, and platform-specific publishing workflows.
🌳 Dee Dog Park / Charlie
A dedicated Gemini-powered lane for Dee Dog Park operations: calendar, email, reservations, customer signals, and business support.

🏗️ iNovaVation / Builder OS
A product-build dashboard for new ideas, internal tools, websites, experiments, and business lanes — including nightly build tracking.
🧠 NovaForget
A memory and knowledge-base system that lets agents retain context, handoffs, decisions, lane history, and operational state across sessions.

🖥️ Skip / Dell Node
A remote workhorse machine connected over Tailscale through OpenClaw Node, giving NovaStation access to another computer as part of the operating system.
🏛️ Boardroom / R&D Lab
A place for agent debate, planning, research, strategy, and structured decision-making.

📬 Gmail / Calendar / Mail Room / Alerts
Live operational panels pulling the boring-but-critical stuff into one place so I don’t have to chase ten apps.
The wild part is that most of this is not mocked. These are real workflows, real agents, real automations, real APIs, real memory, real dashboards, and real businesses being wired together.

The goal isn’t “AI assistant.”
The goal is an AI-native command center where agents, tools, memory, automations, products, content, markets, and operations all live in one interface.

NovaStation is becoming the dashboard I always wished existed. 🦊
20-minute screen record below.
This is what it looks like when AI stops being a tab and starts becoming an operating system.

[M. Austin James 📈 @AustinJames]

Ripping it out of everything agentic feels like a chapter turned. Sad.

[M. Austin James 📈 @AustinJames]

RIP @claudeai

[Steven Tey @steventey]

Biggest takeaway from this: 3rd-party Google OAuth Apps that request scopes beyond the basic info (name/user/profile pic) is a dangerous attack vector.

To safeguard your org from attacks like this, highly recommend asking your Google workspace admin to restrict "unconfigured third-party apps" to only be able to request basic info needed 👇

Here's the direct link to access that settings page: https://t.co/rmkazEcai7

h/t @matid for the pro-tip!

[Sahil @sahill_og]

Linus Torvalds created Linux at 21 without Claude or any other AI.

- He didn't have a co-founder.
- No VC funding. No office.
- No team.
- Just a personal project

he posted to a mailing list:

"I'm doing a free OS."

33 years later,

it runs 97% of the world's servers, all smartphones, and the International Space Station.

The most important software in history started as someone's side project.

Absolute legend.

[0xMarioNawfal @RoundtableSpace]

Send this article to your agent and thank me later

https://t.co/mHc2hDCYEK

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

I turned The Minimalist Entrepreneur into 9 Claude Code skills.

/find-community — find your people
/validate-idea — test before you build
/mvp — ship in a weekend
/first-customers — sell to 100 people
/pricing — charge something
/marketing-plan — make fans, not headlines
/grow-sustainably — spend less than you make
/company-values — define your culture
/minimalist-review — gut-check any decision

https://t.co/TqtCR7HWe4

[Trenton Riggs 🇺🇸 @riggs_trenton]

@RayDalio For those not reading all of that: https://t.co/hyYHbXUUVe

[M. Austin James 📈 @AustinJames]

The grift is coming from inside the house

[Beaver 🦁 @beaverd]

https://t.co/0mqTgVZtNd

[Sosa | Mental Strategist @MetaMorpehus]

@thedankoe “Creativity is just connecting things.”

— Steve Jobs

[Shruti @ShruPosts]

Instagram's latest nav change is a classic example of data-driven UX.
Explaining the why in the thread ↓

[M. Austin James 📈 @AustinJames]

Why does the @RobinhoodApp credit card take so long to clear payments? Feels like a big miss on the utility curve.

[Rachel Cruze @RachelCruze]

Culture feeds us a steady diet of what it believes is important. If we're not careful, we can spend years working toward something that ends up meaning nothing to us.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This bodes ill. Readers used to outnumber non-readers 2 to 1. Now non-readers outnumber readers 3 to 1.

It's hard to imagine a change of that magnitude not having significant effects.

[M. Austin James 📈 @AustinJames]

Ironically, reading this instead of sleeping

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Circadian rhythm dysfunction is highly prevalent in ADHD

Up to ~75% of patients have delayed sleep and wake timing, and shifting the clock earlier is linked to symptom improvement

I just published a paper on what this means for treatment. Here’s what we found 🧵1/12

[Mark Valorian @markvalorian]

Let’s play a game.

One guy rents. One guy buys.

Whoever pays less per month gets to invest the difference in SPX.

Who ends up richer?

Let’s get deep in the data. More charts + detailed analysis below 🧵

Key Assumptions:

Both parties must pay for shelter; only the monthly cost gap is investable and it flows to whichever option is cheaper that month.

Buyer net worth = Home equity (price − loan) + invested savings
Renter net worth = invested savings (credited with buyer’s down + closing on day 0)

Inputs for attached chart:
- $500k home
- 20% down
- 30-yr fixed 6%
- HPA 4%
- rent = $3k, rising at 3%/yr
- T/I/M 1.2% / 0.3% / 1.0% of home value, closing 2.5%
- investment = 7%/yr (nominal, monthly compounding)

Crossovers with these inputs:
- Buyer overtakes renter net worth in ~15 months
- Buyer’s monthly cost becomes cheaper than rent in month 101 (~8 years, 5 months)

I ignored individual tax effects (interest/SALT caps, capital-gains exclusion, dividend taxes) for simplicity. Including them would typically strengthen the buyer case regardless.