Gift Abah

relentless optimist
Design Engineer @edvolux

[Gift Abah @giftabah4]

Full website for Kore,
a premier real estate consulting firm
@edvolux

[Melody @Melocoder]

I joined @druids01 mentorship and started building a product the next day.

Meet Finds

As a designer, I couldn't get past how most bookmark apps still look like 2010: the same basic features, and no AI to help you actually manage what you save.

So I built one I'd want to use. Save any page in one click with its real cover, and let AI tag, summarise and sort it for you.

More soon 👀

[Olamide Agunbiade @OlaAgunbiade]

The higher you climb in life, the more dangerous it is to fall. Please, fix yourself before gaining height.

Don't be eager to be seen without being prepared for fame.

Some falls are fatal. You may never recover from them.

[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

Dr Emmanuel Efe Emefienim, the CEO Premium Trust Bank speaks on investing in people.

If you missed @theplatformng yesterday, you missed out on a master class series in strategy and wisdom on how to build.

Kindly watch fully on my Youtube page, Pastor Poju Oyemade Channel.

[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

We are doing a series on Meditation. The goal in meditation on scriptures is to find the divine path and solution to issues before you.

You meditate in order to observe to do. It is not day dreaming, neither is it to fantasise. It is the means through which insight and foresight is cultivated.

You intuitively know the best action in a situation.

Massive ideas that cannot fail if acted upon pop up within your consciousness. Doubt is destroyed. Myths and erroneous ideas that appear right are by revelation shown to be wrong.

[The Carter Ogunsola @CarterOgunsola]

My new portfolio is live. (sound on)

[fay @faydkr]

Why is it that people with zero design knowledge feel completely comfortable telling designers how to design

[John ✦ Motion Graphics | Editor @johncodunayo]

Opus 5.5 is f*cking cracked at motion design

I'm dropping all prompts used in the comments

This is INSANE 🫣

[Oyinkansola @oyinkanbadejo]

Corporate 101: Over-communicate

[Imade. @ImadeIyamu]

Please be a student of your industry, whatever that is. Its history, present & future.

If you’re passionate about something, you should be genuinely curious about it.

[Juliette @shedsgns]

i don’t want to:
- work at a fast-moving startup
- rush design just to ship faster
- be corporate and toxic
- spend my days in meetings about work instead of doing the work
- work on things i would never put in my portfolio
- sell my time rather than expertise
- outsource my creativity to non-creative people

i do want to:
- work with creative open-minded people
- work with people who understand why design matters
- curate and spotlight genuinely good work
- build for communities i care about
- have enough freedom to choose what deserves my attention
- help other designers {you can insert suggestions in replies}
- make an impact on tech without compromising humanity

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Very, very true. I clocked this at age 7. People never put effort into things that will really make them great; they get distracted by things that won't. At 7, I read a lot about great men and what set them apart. It was three things:

1. Organization - Most great people I know have very organized and focused minds, leaving little room for distractions.

2. Consistency - You really become the greatest by constantly improving on your best. Most great people don't do one thing, get applause, and then go back to mediocrity. They consistently improve. Wahab Sarumi proved this in university. He saved me.

3. Discipline - Most great people need discipline to achieve the two things above. Sometimes what we call “hard work” is just discipline in action. Disciplined people always work hard, but hardworking people are not always disciplined.

Lack of discipline and a lack of delayed gratification are what typically lead to most failures. I have seen people who work hard and still do not improve because, in one area of their life, they try to overcompensate for that effort with overindulgence.

It could be liquor, leisure, or leverage, according to Charlie Munger. The three deadly sins are subtly being advertised to us daily by people who have made fortunes by capitalizing on human weakness.

Very few fortunes are made from “selling human discipline.” People buy things like gym memberships and never follow through. Most fortunes are made by people who sell to “human weakness” and they are also never high on their own supply. The biggest tech billionaires try to get their kids to largely avoid the tech they sell because they know the dangers of their product.

Discipline is all conquering, and the greatest battlefield is the mind. Our temptations change over time. Once, I was a slave to my hormones, but I was making enough money to support the habit.

I later became addicted to crisis, thinking it was hard work. So-called workaholics also lack discipline. It takes a lot of effort to say no at both extremes. I eventually found the middle way, at great cost.

I am great to my family, and that is the most important thing in the world to me.

[Rob Hoffman @RobHoffman_]

founders and marketers: you need an optimized "about us" page on your site

i work with billion dollar tech companies and bootstrapped SaaS. The About Us is one of the first pages we optimize

here's how (8 points):

(P.S. I explain why this is important at the bottom of the post)

here's how:

1. start with a clear value prop sentence: "[COMPANY] is a [CATEGORY] that [DOES XYZ] for [ICP]."

2. add your core services under a "what [COMPANY] does" H2 subheading. Put each service/feature/product in an H3 subheading. Write 2-3 sentences about what you do, and what outcome it produces.

3. next, add a "what makes [COMPANY] different" H2 subheading. List about 5 core differentiators in H3 subheadings. Give specific, quantifiable differentiators and call out competitors by name. Example: [COMPANY] offers month-to-month payment terms, whereas options like [COMPETITOR] have mandated 12-month contracts. Again: 2-3 sentences per differentiator.

4. your next H2 should be "who uses [COMPANY]." Add bullet points that call out your exact ICP segments. Example: "B2B SaaS marketing teams at 50 to 200-employees."

5. now add a "the team behind [COMPANY]" H2 subheading. Include the names of the founders, quick backstories, company origin story, team composition, and links to social pages (especially the founder(s) socials). You only need about 2 sentences per backstory/origin story.

6. add a "how [COMPANY] works" section. Include info like communication channels, response times, who on the team customers will work with, turnaround time, and onboarding process.

7. now for the most important section for AI Search: add a "key facts" H2. This should be an HTML <table> or <dl> (definition list) so it's crawlable. Include the following rows:

Company Name
Type
Founded
Founder
Headquarters
Website
Core Offering
Pricing
Contract Terms
Services
Communication
Notable Clients
Customers Served
Projects Delivered
Competitors
Social

8. finally, add your FAQ section. Put "frequently asked questions" in an H2 subheading with your questions as H3s. Only 2-3 sentences per answer.

Here's why this page is so important:
1. it helps train AI to talk about your brand accurately
2. it strengthens the E-E-A-T score of your entire domain
3. in a world where everything seems fake, make your brand human

shoot me a DM if you want a live demo of the lowest hanging fruit to rank in AI Search (tailored to your specific site)

i hope this helps someone!

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

Most people don't realise that startups will humble the shit out of you. One day you’re announcing a fundraise and maybe twelve months later you will run out of money. And your employees will see you clueless and your investors will think you dint execute well. Everyone who wanted to meet you and do podcasts will stop replying. You’ll run out of money, confidence, ideas, and sometimes all three at once.

The fear that you may look stupid someday because of entrepreneurship is real. You cant fight that but will have to survive to figure what kind of founder you become when there is nothing impressive left to show. Entrepreneurship eventually introduces everyone around you to the version of you that has no answers.

[signüll @signulll]

to build a cool product now, you really only need two ppl:

one dude with exceptional vision & taste who knows what should exist & can provide the right feedback loops for iteration.

& one dude who is absolutely relentless about making it real no matter what.

that’s it. & sometimes these two are the same.

[Gift Abah @giftabah4]

What this race to AGI will cause.

[Diogo Almeida @CompleteSkeptic]

After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI?

I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev

• 20-200x faster
• 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free)
• Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions

AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution

[Gift Abah @giftabah4]

@TheObiLeonard Oh chim 😂

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Making Startups Powerful: https://t.co/C5yIvFWXoC

[Oyinkansola @oyinkanbadejo]

Nigerian service provider handed me an iPad to “sign” after my consultation. I said, oh no, let me read what I’m signing first.

I read the terms and saw a clause saying I was granting them “irrevocable permission to use my pictures and videos for social media campaigns, training, client education, advertising and more, in any format or medium now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and without compensation”

Really. In perpetuity??? Irrevocably??? 😭

So I said no, I’m not consenting to media authorization. Please take the clause out and I’ll sign.

She said, “okay we have taken note of that but just sign.”

I first laughed because surely you cannot verbally acknowledge that I’ve withheld consent and then ask me to sign the exact document containing the consent.

Please, read what you’re signing.

[Femi Aluko @LordBinary_]

The more I build, the more I realize that speed does not necessarily mean doing everything quickly.

It’s about figuring out what matters quickly. And when you do, being extremely impatient about getting it done.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.