Christian

🥐 NYer in Paris 🛠 Building. He/him

[Christian @christpetron]

@JasonrShuman You would love OpenTrack dot co

[Christian @christpetron]

@twin_labs Hey looks cool :) fyi you have a typo in your hero, should be "Prospecting"

[Christian @christpetron]

Great to see a free, open-source version of a product category that is genuinely useful. Will give it a try!

[Brian Casel @CasJam]

Introducing Design OS—the missing design process between your idea and codebase.

Step 1: Set your product vision
Step 2: Design your screens
Step 3: Export production-ready components

Not mockups. Real components. Ready to build.

Free & open source: https://t.co/zglY1ToeME

[Christian @christpetron]

@zanehengsperger lol tell us how to visit factories, I would sign up

[Christian @christpetron]

Don’t just generate it and forget it

Write it first, then ask an LLM for feedback

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Yes.

Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.

Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

[Christian @christpetron]

Power law, any time there’s an accelerating or diminishing return to scale

Basically anything can be scaled

Understand whether each specific thing has diminishing returns or accelerating returns

If it has accelerating returns to scale, double down on it

[Christian @christpetron]

Thinking from first principles helps you make good strategy. Good strategy is what makes you win

What are first principles?

Physics.

Some physics principles that help you win:

[Christian @christpetron]

Diffusion, flow is proportional to the size of the gradient and the medium’s permeability

Gradient = how much particles want to move from A to B

Permeability = how hard is it to move from A to B

So increase value and reduce friction and watch conversion flow increase

[Christian @christpetron]

Phase transitions, matter snaps into a new arrangement once its energy crosses a threshold

Many products have the property that before some activation point they stagnate, after it they self-propagate

If your product can self-propagate, do everything to get it to that point

[Christian @christpetron]

Resonance, a system excited at its natural frequency produces outsized feedback

Don’t fight natural rhythms, use them

Understand the cadence of your audience’s attention and match it

Look for patterns in how your market fluctuates and align with them

[Christian @christpetron]

Inertia, first law of thermodynamics

A body in motion (or at rest) stays that way unless external force is applied

Protect momentum by blocking distractions

When you’re stuck, do whatever it takes to force any motion. Then acceleration will be easier

[Christian @christpetron]

Entropy, second law of thermodynamics

Chaos grows unless you burn energy to control it

So yes, try just deleting the feature. Try deleting requirements, code, process

If you’re not forced to add things back some of the time, then you’re not deleting enough

[Christian @christpetron]

@JsonBasedman @AllanatrixQ All kids are, the trick is not smothering it

[Christian @christpetron]

@VictorTaelin Energy-based transformers. Models today are bad at understanding which problems are harder and thus require more effort & more forward passes. Because they aren’t rewarded for doing that, only for pleasing the human

[Christian @christpetron]

@WillManidis The Box!

[Deedy @deedydas]

🚨 This was the BEST Google I/O that I can remember.

Google launched over 12 different insane things.

Here is every single one of the launches and the best tweets about them:

1/12

[Christian @christpetron]

@kattrisen @buildthekeyw Go Katt go! 😸😸

[Christian @christpetron]

Request for product:

A chatbot that connects to notion, JIRA, intercom, slack, etc and gives me daily summaries of how each project is doing, writes up stuff, answers questions for me, helps me think through problems,+

Product people please tell me you have something for this

[Elad Gil @eladgil]

Why AI based tutors are going to be such a big deal

1:1 tutoring = 2 sigma improvement in learning achievement

Image from "The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-toOne Tutoring" by Benjamin S. Bloom

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

When I was CEOing at Twitch one of the thing I’d do every batch of interns was a very short presentation on the origins of the company and then a Q&A. One of the questions was always, “Where should I work and what job should I get, or should I start a company?”