In 2023, Stanford professor Graham Weaver gave his last lecture on how to destroy fear & live a wildly ambitious life.
His frameworks:
- Suffering is inevitable
- Signup for "10 years" test
- "Not me" & "Not now" traps
13 lessons on how to build an asymmetric life:
🚨 SOMEONE JUST KILLED THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY
A guy scanned an entire house with his phone. Uploaded it.
Now anyone on Earth can walk through it in a browser tab. No app. No VR. No agent. No appointment.
Click → you’re inside. Every room. Every angle. Every shadow. Photoreal.
The numbers are insane:
* Agent fee on a $500k home: $15,000
* Cost to make this scan: ~$200
* Time to “tour” 50 houses: one evening
* File size: smaller than a TikTok
The science is wild too:
It’s called 3D Gaussian Splatting instead of polygons (how games render), it uses millions of tiny glowing “splats” of color and depth.
AI reconstructs reality from your photos. The result loads on a phone and looks like you’re THERE.
The grift opportunity is even wilder:
Freelancers are already charging $300–$800 per scan for realtors, Airbnbs, venues, car dealers, museums.
One person + one phone + one weekend = a business.
100% Open source. Built on PlayCanvas.
The new project I designed arrives today - the Dynamic Island.
Its goal is to feel like a living, elastic bubble that can fluidly shape shift into different alerts and experiences.
This is just the start, but I’m excited to see it begin its life!
Elon runs Tesla on 3-sentence emails:
- what's the problem
- what's the root cause
- what's your proposed solution
that's it
the theory: a CEO's most precious commodity is information processing time. if you can save them that, you become invaluable
I stole this idea and now use it with every single employee.
It’s the best illustration I’ve seen of teaching someone to be high agency.
It says there are 5 levels of work:
Level 1: “There is a problem.”
Level 2: “There is a problem, and I’ve found some causes.”
Level 3: “Here’s the problem, here are some possible causes, and here are some possible solutions.”
Level 4: “Here’s the problem, here’s what I think caused it, here are some possible solutions, and here’s the one I think we should pick.”
Level 5: “I identified a problem, figured out what caused it, researched how to fix it, and I fixed it. Just wanted to keep you in the loop.”
Using this framework, here’s what I say to every new employee…
You will live at Level 4 from Day 1 and as we build trust you will rise to Level 5.
Being high agency doesn’t just mean tackling problems in this way. It means your entire way of working should be oriented to being a Level 4+ employee.
Plz feel free to steal it as well.
And ty @stephsmithio for the framework!
Took https://t.co/oVJPZyPku1 for a spin and generated a baby between me and… Brad Pitt. 🍼😅
10/10 chaos. Would co-parent the algorithm.
Try “celebrity mode” → https://t.co/oVJPZyPku1 #buildinpublic#AI#justforfun#ProductDesign#24appsin1week
I’m building 24 apps in 7 days.
Not for perfection. For momentum.
Day 1: ✅ https://t.co/KVlCFzZDvC
Day 2: ✅ https://t.co/QyeBNlFR5D
Day 3: ✅ https://t.co/GoTrTA6IPC
Follow the chaos → https://t.co/F8HIr6lnjG #24AppsInAWeek#buildinpublic
New month, tick tok
Funding Breakthrough Lab ends Oct 31. Deadline here
Use https://t.co/y1ATmegGKs to track daily, monthly, etc
If you’re on a deadline too, join me: https://t.co/GoTrTA6IPC
Let’s finish October with receipts.
#product#ai#productivity#startups#builderinpublic
I don’t fully understand why my boyfriend talks about fantasy football 24/7… so I built a way to relate. 😂
Meet Cardify — turn a selfie into a personalized fantasy football trading card in seconds.
Try it: https://t.co/oAwzLwJgZF
#ai#productdesign#startup#fantasyfootball
7 hours and 29 minutes of deep work in the books.
Texturing in Cinema4d, feels like I'm breaking through the iceberg. Feels like progress, going to keep pushing through.