Dickson Pua

I`m the guy that goes by the saying: ''Do not judge a book by its cover'' Different. Inside Out.

[Sam Hogan @imsamhogan]

Your SEO agency sucks.

“Research agents”

Rank #1 in Google AI Overviews

Rank #3 for overall page rank

@origamiagents website is less than 3 months old.

[Denislav Jeliazkov @DenisJeliazkov]

I've built 60+ apps in my career.

Most designers take 3+ months to complete an app—but I built & shipped this golf app just in 28 DAYS.

Here's my exact process that breaks every UX design rule (and what startups & founders can steal from it):

[Aadit Sheth @aaditsh]

This guy literally breaks down every AI coding rule in under 15 minutes. Save this.

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

A ton of great progress made in AI and Robotics this week.

So I summarized everything announced by Microsoft, Figure, H Company, OpenAI, Perplexity, MIT, Arc Research, Mistral, and Google.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

My rules for being a founder (after selling 3 companies):

- Pay your invoices fast. People appreciate it
- Recurring meetings are mostly useless
- Your best internet ideas come when you are off the internet
- Create products no one asks for but everyone wants
- Really interesting people apply for Chief of Staff roles
- You need 1000 bad ideas to get to 1 good idea

- Social posts are MVP V1, group chats are MVP V2, products is mvp v3

- Avoid VC unless it's a competitive advantage or you're building deeptech, cleantech, AI chips etc

- Be a rifle not a shotgun. Rifles are targeted, shotguns aren't. The internet rewards targeted products

- Products are like airbnbs. The ones that get booked up the most are the unique experienced ones

- Be a community billionaire. Meaning, create value with many micro-communities

-Buy the ticket, take the chance. My best opportunities came from hopping on a plane to meet someone

- Build communities to avoid reliance on ads

- We’re all in the trust business. Do things that make people trust you

- 100% passive income from startups doesn’t exist.

- Multiple products, multiple revenue streams in case something dries up

- Be the creator or partner with the creator but always have a creator involved

- Freedom from venture, freedom from ads makes me happy. No bosses or micro-bosses

- Do things to put you in the zone to come up with the ideas

- Celebrate all wins, little and big

- Everyone with an internet connection can build an empire

- Be proud or what you're doing or don't do it

- The best ideas are capital light, defendable, have network effects & increased demand

- Dividends > exits

- You can take over your world not the world. Gotta start somewhere niche

- If you can turn your jealousy of others into inspiration of others, you instantly become more productive

- Don’t lose money monthly, make cash flow

- Never call GMV ARR when it's GMV

- Brands: people like brands. Community-based brands: people love brands

- Google Trends/Reddit is a goldmine for startup ideas

- Work with people who will be fun to work with

- Be on time, send cal invites, do the little things

- Whoever is latest to the meeting pays for the coffee, food, drinks.

- Create the things you wish existed

- The most important decision you can make on any given day to be productive: ignore the noise

- "You can get what you want - if you help enough other people get what they want.”

- Every sale has some urgency. No urgency, no sale

- Never care what others think unless it's a loved one

- Sometimes you need to overdose on caffeine, put some headphones on and ship your heart out

- Every startup you start ask yourself what's your unfair advantage. You'll need one

- Checking your email isn't working. People go in these "infinite loops" from app to app checking only to realize the day is over.

- The best products don't necessarily win, the best brand does

- I find all my business partners from either people I grew up with or people I find fascinating on the internet, and nothing in between.

- Find true fans. “10 people who yell make more noise than 10,000 people who are silent”

- My retirement plan. Pick niche. Build community. Create product. Dominate niche. Hire operators. Don't raise venture capital.

- You’d be surprised how many startups spend millions of dollars a year of other people’s money trying to scale a business without an offer that resonates.

- TikTok reviewers are the new search engines.

- Reality is the ultimate "virtual reality”

- Every company is made out of thin air. Anything is possible.

- Find cheerleaders. People above you, people below you, people on your level

- Underspend on material pocessions, overspend on people, experiences, that move you faster

- Some unfair advantages: internet audiences, being "nerdy", spy software, being early

- Create products that reinforce the identity. Those outperform.

- On creating content: the post brings the people, the replies bring the gold

I hope this got you thinking. Reply if it did.

You can follow me @gregisenberg for more.

[Santiago @svpino]

AI transcribing 1 hour of audio in less than 30 seconds!

Think about that!

That's lightning-fast, especially when it can do that with very few mistakes.

The team @DeepgramAI released their new Nova 2 model. It's another leap forward:

• 36% more accurate than OpenAI Whisper
• 5-40x faster than every other alternative
• 30% fewer errors than the competitors in real-time transcriptions

I like to travel and can't wait for headphones with integrated live transcription and translation. We are getting close!

By the way, this is the cheapest transcription service out in the market now (if you discount Whisper, which is open-source.) It costs $0.0043 to transcribe a minute of audio.

When you sign up to access their API, you get $200 of credit for free, which will let you transcribe around 45,000 minutes of audio!

Here is the link: https://t.co/QeG2NueaZi

I wanted to record a quick video showing their live transcription in Spanish and English. You can see it attached here.

This post was sponsored by @DeepgramAI.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year.

Today, they went a step further with a tool that shows the $$$ cost of holding meetings.

I spoke to @nejatian (Shopify's COO) about meeting bloat and protecting craft time.

Here are 6 spicy takes from our interview 👇

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

🚨 Google's new Quantum Computer completes the task in 6 seconds that would have taken one of the world's best computers 47 years.

Quantum computers can change what we can build and how we understand the world.

Here's everything you need to know:

[Ali Abdaal @AliAbdaal]

What productivity tip do you find genuinely works?

I’ll start: making it fun.

[Alex Brogan @_alexbrogan]

Most companies suck at setting goals.

But Google, Amazon, and Microsoft figured it out ages ago.

Here’s their simple but powerful goal-setting framework (that you can use personally too):

[Carol | Video Editing 🐥 @carolvaljaots]

You are limiting yourself by using ONLY canva!

Don't get me wrong, I use it on a daily basis because it's simple and convenient.

But what if I told you that you can catch double amount of people with 5 simple online alternatives? 👇🧵

(PS: All of them are for free!)

[Stepan Hlinka @stepanhlinka]

The most valuable skill you’ve never been taught?

Marketing

10 dead-simple tips to become a dangerous marketer:

[Ashraf El Zarka @aelzarka]

Keep your back straight with simple 3 exercises, do it daily! https://t.co/qYKWwlYT1t #Dubai #UAE #BurjKhalifa

[Stepan Hlinka @stepanhlinka]

This took me 5 years to learn.

I'll teach it to you in 2 minutes

Here are 42 sentences that'll make you more money than a $131,600 business degree:

[Ashraf El Zarka @aelzarka]

Shoulders and Neck basic massage as per Chinese recipe https://t.co/8iEnEEPlSB

[Dickson Pua @dicksonpua95]

So much can be done to motivate the people to switch from driving on the street to commuting using public transport.

[Dickson Pua @dicksonpua95]

Seriously Malaysia has the WORST BUS Transport ever!
Waited for a good 40mins for the bus & THE BUS SKIPPED the station!!
Called @MyRapidKL & had to explain where I am when I clearly gave the Bus Station Code, and in the end justify by saying we are a PUBLIC TRANSPORT.

[Dickson Pua @dicksonpua95]

Provide GeoLocation tracking of the bus publicly available so the commuters are aware of the wait time!