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[Tuncay @orwllianv5]

Kitap okumayı bıraktığınızda ilk kaybettiğiniz şey bilgi değil, zihninizin inceliğidir. Kelimeler azalır, düşünceler sıradanlaşır, hayal gücü daralır. İnsan fark etmeden kendi dünyasını küçültür. Okumak, zihni diri tutmanın yazılı olmayan kuralıdır.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

YouTube going nearly two decades without a serious rival is the most insane level of dominance we’ve ever seen on the internet.

[Radhika Dagar @_Radhikadagar]

met a woman learning to swim at 56. i hope i'm always cool enough to keep being a beginner at something

[alexei @alexeixbt]

what doesn't kill you introduces you to carl jung, marcus aurelius, epictetus, friedrich nietzsche, james baldwin, bell hooks, audre lorde, frantz fanon, paulo freire, joseph campbell, alan watts, ram dass, gary zukav, brene brown, gabor mate, shadow work, attachment theory, nervous-system regulation, ancestral trauma, existentialism, stoicism, meditation, emotional intelligence, neuroplasticity, metacognition, pattern recognition, game theory, delusional optimism, boundaries and discernment.

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

Major green flags in a founder:

1/ relentless, doesn't know how to quit
2/ built something before asking for money
3/ always shipping, always learning something new
4/ can go deep on the tech
5/ zero interest in playing founder
6/ talks to users every single week
7/ tries weird marketing channels others ignore
8/ actually cares about the problem, not the title
9/ owns every failure, blames nothing
10/ has a graveyard of side projects
11/ ideas never stop coming
12/ knows every number without checking
13/ ignores hype, follows what's true
14/ tells a story that makes hires, investors and customers say yes
15/ explains the whole company in one sentence

If you hit most of these, tell me what you're building 👇

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

This guy coaches Sam Altman.

He also works with leaders at Anthropic, Google, Apple, and SpaceX.

I sat down with him to learn how he coaches billion dollar businesses.

Here are Joe Hudson’s 7 operating rules:

1. Kill your 1:1s
These meetings lead individuals to solve problems instead of the team. Much better to bring problems to the whole team so everyone feels responsible for solving them. I agree, haven’t done them for years...

2. Rotate who runs recurring meetings
When the same person always leads, people focus on pleasing or rebelling against them. Spreading the authority makes everyone accountable to the team instead.

3. Give anyone the power to change a bad meeting
Everyone already knows when a meeting isn’t working (and usually why). Giving people permission to say it makes meetings more effective.

4. Make every employee run at least 5 experiments a quarter on their own job
It makes the team more productive, keeps people interested, and helps retain smart employees who would otherwise get bored.

5. Ask your team to push back on your ideas
If you try to sell them on the idea, they may nod in the room and do nothing afterward. Asking for objections tests the idea + gets everyone aligned before you commit to it.

6. Start by building the part you understand the least
If you leave the confusing part until the end you might find out it doesn’t fit and have to rebuild everything around it.

7. End every email with an action needed
Name the person responsible, the action they need to take, and the deadline. Joe says this rule increased productivity in his business by 35 to 40%.

Thanks for coming on @FU_joehudson and sharing how you run your business.

Search “BigDeal pod” on youtube.

[shipra @shipranotes]

Seneca once said:
"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

We do this with our minds every single day. We open ten tabs, skim twenty threads, listen to podcasts at 2x speed, and jump from one thought to the next. We think we are acquiring wisdom, but we are just collecting digital hospitality. A shallow acquaintance with a thousand ideas, but no deep intimacy with any of them.

If you want to build a mind that actually stands for something, you have to stop traveling through information and start staying in one place long enough to understand it. Read one heavy book until it changes you. Sit with one difficult thought until it makes sense. Write one page until your real opinion comes out. Depth requires stillness. Drop anchor.

[shipra @shipranotes]

People obsessed with books, reading, journaling, poetry, storytelling, classical literature, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Camus, Nietzsche, Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Viktor Frankl, world history, ancient civilizations, archaeological discoveries, archival research, macroeconomics, game theory, geopolitics, political theory, global governance, diplomacy, physical geography, cartography, earth sciences, urban planning, art history, fine arts, sketching, watercolor, paper crafts, sculpture, dark academia vibes, light academia, vintage aesthetics, vinyl, 90s nostalgia, film photography, cinematography, color grading, minimalism, branding, iced coffee, quiet cafés, notebooks full of ideas, architecture, brutalism, modernism, music, hip hop, indie films, auteur cinema, psychology, dark psychology, cognitive biases, human behavior, neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy, existentialism, absurdism, stoicism, phenomenology, ethics, logic, mathematics, physics, astronomy, quantum theory, astrophysics, cosmology, Artificial Intelligence, AGI, neural networks, futurism, high agency thinking, original research, overthinking reality, deep conversations, changing the world with weird ideas, authority bias, emotional regulation, chaos theory, antifragile theory, entropy, dopamine systems, hedonism, nihilism, body language, emotional intelligence, neuroplasticity, cognitive dissonance, metacognition, cybernetics, systems thinking, semiotics, epistemology, evolutionary psychology, behavioral economics, linguistics, micro-expressions, shadow work, money, financial literacy, wealth creation, compounding, capital allocation, value investing, decision theory, and financial psychology automatically become my friends.

[Tommi Pedruzzi @TommiPedruzzi]

It's completely legal to:

• Go on google trends
• Find problem people are struggling with
• Turn those problems into digital assets
• Without revealing your name
• Without showing your face

I made $65k last month doing it.

Here's exactly how it works:

[Divya Kukreti @div_yahan]

Some of the best essays I read on Substack last week 🪶

[27. @dimvji]

doomscrolling on twitter instead of ig and tiktok so at least i’m wasting my time intellectually

[sarah guo @saranormous]

please stop sending me your ai-generated decks. they smell like total lack of thought

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

This article should have 100M views.

[Claude @claudedonze]

When I started in venture, I read @eladgil's High Growth Handbook

Picked it up again after 7+ years in VC, and it's still the best single resource on how startups actually work

https://t.co/k9EAiTzGt5

[gabrielle @legitimatetiger]

The attack on attention is the dark magic of our age, and most of the population is too deep into the trance to realize it.

I don't think people understand that their attention is pure money. Cash, going directly into these apps' pockets, because you cannot opt out of the ads they've sold for you to see. Do you understand that they're selling your attention without your direct consent every second of every day? Do you get that they've gotten so good at ensuring you stay within that manufactured braindead trance-like state, that they are counting on you being an easy cash out at this point? Because they are. They're counting on the dollars they can bank off of your descent into degenerate illiteracy. And you need to prove them wrong out of spite.

Your attention is much more valuable than you could possibly conceive of. It's the one thing on earth actually worth money by the minute in a capitalistic system that is failing to extract more profit from an already enslaved society. The only way they can secure more is by enslaving your mind in the hours you spend outside of the work that already demands your body and time as sacrifice. There is no vital energy left for you in this plan.

Infinite scrolling is a spell with no natural end. Traditional media had a beginning and an end, while this is designed not to. There are no boundaries to how much of your energy it can harvest... it's like tapping into an infinite source, because you ARE infinite energy. A trance is characterized by absence, not being fully present in the moment even though your attention is occupied. When you come out of a trance, you do not feel energized, you feel drained, disoriented, like you've just lost time without meaning to. That is the very signature of their energy harvesting technique.

Yes, these apps started as technology built by human engineers, but they've been fed so much collective attention that they have become their own egregore: a non-physical, autonomous group entity created by the collective thoughts, shared emotions, and sustained focus of a large group of people. It doesn't need its creators' intent to run dark magic on you; it can be leveraged and manipulated by darker entities that wish to keep this planet in the cycle of survival-based consciousness.

The most sinister aspect of all this is that the time you're giving up is the one thing you cannot buy back. This keeps humans benefitting from capitalism happy, but it also satisfies the darker entities. The more time you lose from this lifetime, the less likely you are to make any meaningful impact on this planet and help it ascend into a higher state by simply existing and having a mind of your own.

They are stripping you of your most valuable resource and you're just accepting it because it feels good to give in, but you are paying with your life every second that you do. With 6 hours of daily screentime, most people are gonna spend 17 years of their lives behind a screen. 4 hours of screentime per day gives these companies 2 entire months off your entire year. It is so much worse than you've convinced yourself it is. Stop normalizing this in your head and get serious about fighting this off, every second of every day if you need to.

Be incredibly stingy with your attention and your ability to synthesize knowledge and preserve critical thinking. Expose yourself to different theories, ideas, and opposing points of view. Allow yourself to be challenged daily and most of all, steer clear of the black magic rectangle as often as possible. Read. Watch long movies. Spend time outside. Perform artsy, handsy crafts to keep your brain engaged and in a state of neuroplasticity. Be stubborn about living your life and claiming every second as yours, claiming your most precious resource as your own: your attention. I fully believe each soul alive at this moment in time is infinitely stronger than all of this and more than capable of overcoming it.

[𓆃 @Jhanakaruna]

may you always have somewhere gentle to return to.

[Principal⭐️ @OkadikeOnyeisi]

You gotta be obsessed with upgrading your life. Not chasing people, not proving yourself, Upgrading yourself. Pray, grind, heal, learn, unlearn, and elevate. Cut off what drains you, tighten your circle, and stay locked in on the vision. Growth isn't optional if you want more.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

How the highest performers sustain a massive workload:

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

22 platforms where founders actually hang out:

1/ X ➝ build in public, hiring, fundraising signal
2/ Indie Hackers ➝ revenue screenshots + honest metrics
3/ Product Hunt ➝ launch day + maker traffic
4/ Hacker News ➝ technical founders + Show HN
5/ YC Startup School ➝ free founder network + curriculum
6/ MicroConf ➝ bootstrapped SaaS owners
7/ DEV ➝ indie makers publishing in public
8/ Hashnode ➝ long-form founder writing
9/ Makerlog ➝ daily progress streaks
10/ BetaList ➝ early waitlists + soft launches
11/ Tiny Startups ➝ small IT / bootstrap shops
12/ FounderPass ➝ startup perk deals
13/ RevGenius ➝ B2B SaaS GTM community
14/ SEO Wins ➝ SEO marketers swapping wins
15/ HubSpot Trends ➝ startup / marketing trend drops
16/ GrowthHackers ➝ growth experiments
17/ Designer Hangout ➝ product designers
18/ r/startups ➝ founder war stories + advice
19/ r/SaaS ➝ SaaS pricing, churn, stack talk
20/ r/SideProject ➝ feedback before you launch
21/ Failory ➝ post-mortems and founder lessons
22/ Founder Cafe ➝ founder networking

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Next time someone asks “where do founders hang out?” send this.