Dan

GTM Engineer. Talking outbound, pipeline, automation, attribution + some armchair psychology. 5y sales, 4y marketing, 0 patience for dashboards nobody reads.

[Dan @daniel_polozhy]

Confession: I've been meditating since 2021. Not regularly. It started like a gym habit, but the routine didn't last.

I came to it as a hardcore achiever. If I'm going to do this, then guides, a couple of books, guided sessions from the #1 app on the App Store (pick the best, move efficiently toward the goal!), and of course a strict training plan.

That version of me now seems... cute.

The first real shift was feeling the practice in my body instead of my head. There's no "correct" meditation, and it's wider than a lotus pose on the couch with ocean sounds. Walking with all my attention in my feet, feeling every step. Scanning sensation from scalp to heels in full silence. Holding the image of energy moving through the body, tracing how it connects to a thought.

A lot changed after that. What it led to: meditation and life stopped being separate.

This isn't "I'm a buddha-level master." It's a state of mind. It just happens, not always consciously, and it's really just the pause you can hold between an impulse and acting on it. Free inside, so you create your own world around you.

That's the core magic of life for me. Anything else just feels "not beautiful" to me. And not worth living.

[Dan @daniel_polozhy]

Work with AI doesn't feel lighter to me. It feels denser.

Here's the logic. AI doesn't take over your whole workflow. It takes the boring parts, the ones with a clear blueprint: reports, formatting, first drafts, cleanup. The stuff you could do without much thought.

What's left is the part with no blueprint. Creative decisions, risk, taste. That was always the most exciting and heaviest part of the job.

"AI frees up your time" undersells what it frees you up for.

[Dan @daniel_polozhy]

Showed my friends a couple of projects I built with AI. Took me a few hours each. They were surprised as if I'd shown them how to drive a spaceship.

The tools are available to everyone. But the understanding of what you can actually do with them is insanely uneven.

[Dan @daniel_polozhy]

My main constraint with AI isn't raw capability. It's how much I'm willing to delegate.

As models get better, over-scripting a task mostly caps the output below what the model would've produced on its own.

I'm still finding out how much I can hand off. The ceiling has moved up every time I checked.

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@MlakarLuka @webflow Checklist

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@Alexan6z Send

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@dshkurski We might be at the beginning but we don't know how soon exactly humanity is going to die on this road 😄

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@linaisberlina Lol

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@Sofi_Shvets We should have a coffee!

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@Sofi_Shvets Bateman got some weight 😄

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@AntonBelyayev1

[James Clear @JamesClear]

If you'd like to do something bold with your life, you will have to choose to do something bold on a specific day.

There is no perfect day. There is no right time. For the trajectory to change, there has to be one day when you simply make the choice.

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

A student lowered his camera 93 meters into the ground in Antarctica while collecting ice that's estimated to be over two million years old. https://t.co/BI3Ycq63VP

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@dshkurski Yep, coz it usually means you’re more likely to find what you are looking for

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@waitbutwhy I find this a great guide for not only picking a partner but friends too. None of the points from part 2 contradict with what I expect from a good friendship.

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@GuillaumeMbh Byron Sharp’s study he describes in “How Brands Grow” says companies grow by attracting new customers. So that means the opposite strategy - retaining existing ones - is weaker.

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@marllizabeth

[Chantelle @ccmarce_writes]

There are 100s of marketing courses.

The truth is only a few are actually worth your money.

Here are the top 10 courses to help you level up at marketing, chosen by the Twitter community.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

1. See failure as a beginning.
2. Never stop learning.
3. Assume nothing, question everything.
4. Teach others what you know.
5. Analyze objectively.
6. Practice humility.
7. Respect constructive criticism.
8. Take initiative.
9. Give credit where it's due.
10. Love what you do.