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Blurry selfies. Cropped vacation pics.
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Okay this is super cool...
I can now casually read @paulg in my target language for extra practice, directly inside X.
I plan to ship this new @uselangbot feature very soon... today for sure!
π¨ Do you understand what happened in the last 24 hours?
> Zuckerberg killed the Metaverse after burning $80 billion on cartoon avatars nobody used
> Sam Altman took $13 billion from Microsoft then sold OpenAI's cloud to Amazon for $50 billion.. Microsoft just found out they funded their own competition
> Anthropic made an AI that takes orders from your phone and does your work while you sleep..
> X dropped a dislike button AND a mute-entire-countries button in the same week..
> YouTube asking you to flag AI slop is just Google getting 2 billion people to train their next model for free
> 93% of US jobs can now be partly done by AI.. Same week companies started giving the weakest raises since 2008
> Apple started rejecting vibe-coded apps from the App Store
> xAI is paying Wall Street bankers $100/hour to teach Grok how to replace Wall Street bankers.. They're taking the money..
> A mystery AI model appeared on benchmarks beating everything.. Developers think DeepSeek is quietly testing their next weapon
> Bloomberg asked "Is the AI bubble about to burst" the same day Nvidia said the chip market will hit $1 trillion.. One of them is dead wrong..
> The UK government backed down on AI copyright after artists revolted.. First government to flinch
> The Fed said rate hikes are back on the table and blamed AI data centers for making inflation worse
And it's only Wednesday. See you tomorrow. It'll be worse.
If you're not following me you're finding out about this stuff 48 hours late from someone who read my post
If there's one thing that contributes most to my success and well-being...
It's people.
Whether a company, community or carefully-curated group of friends, it has always been super important to me to choose who I'm spending my time around.
Because you become the people you're around.
It's important to make sure your inner circle helps you be who you want to be, and that you can reciprocate that, by:
β Supporting one another
β Staying accountable to each other
β Being able to to be vulnerable and honest
β Being around people who want you to succeed
After two years of traveling around Southeast Asia, I realised I had many good examples of individuals that share these traits, and that they'd be perfect together.
And I needed a place I could be, full of people like this.
So I created Build Mode.
Build Mode is an online community where good people come together to help each other, make friends, and build businesses. An alternative to the lonely solopreneur path.
We're a community of 9, and we've been helping each other daily for the past six months.
We cowork, we help each other with business dilemmas, we share skills and knowledge, and most importantly, inspire each other.
And after six amazing months, it's time to open the door again.
We have a cohesive group, a core set of sessions and routines that work, and we know there are more people like us out there.
People working on their own things, but way too alone, with way too little shared experience, help, support, meaning.
So, come join Build Mode.
Applications are open for the next 2 weeks, or until we fill a small number of spaces (5 max).
OH...
And you can skip the application process entirely if you're smart enough to find the secret door on the website :)
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