📚 David Kadavy, author

📘 Finish What Matters (fall '26)
📗 Mind Management, Not Time Management
📕 Heart to Start
📓 Digital Zettelkasten
📔 Design for Hackers

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Feeling cute and might delete, but if you want to read my short book, How to Write a Book, you can get it free over here. https://t.co/BGWtNrVcG5

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@p_millerd Wow, you need to sell all these creations to creators

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@iamtexture That's what I thought until Claude informed me 1/10,000 odds attempted 10,000 times is only 63%

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I’ve accumulated a few avocado pits. Don’t know what to do with them because in compost they grow into trees.

Any ideas? Wrong answers accepted.

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Slop has been around since way before AI because most people will accept formulaic crap no matter who/what created it.

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@bmyrickusa The idea of growing a ton of avocado trees and seeing if I discover any good new varieties is actually kind of appealing. If only I had the land for it.

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@theoptivert Yep. I do that, too. Also hard to reach interface elements on the edges of the screen when it's recessed into the body.

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Ever promise yourself a reward for finishing a project?

I wanted a new Kindle and thought about just buying one. Instead I promised myself I’d get one once I finished writing my book.

It feels good!

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@iamtexture Hehe, so I did. Man that would be a messy forest.

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@iamtexture I hear the edibility ration for avocados is 1/10,000 (for apples 1/80,000). Just grafted a hass.

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@theoptivert Ah yes I sometimes feel within my memory that satisfying click, reach for a button, then weep

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I didn’t die, so you might as well preorder my book on Amazon.

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I'm going under for a procedure tomorrow so it seemed like a good time to update my dead-man's draft.

If I die this blog post will publish on September 1st and everyone will get my book for free. (Don't get any ideas.)

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@AI__Angelo I hadn’t considered they didn’t care. I just assumed they didn’t notice – which would be more worrying.

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There’s this one New York Times bestselling author of a new book and all their social content is very clearly AI, much of their book is very clearly written by AI. And it all does very well and that’s horrifying.

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@porlando Whoa, this is extensive! Very cool.

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It's been 30 years since the internet went mainstream with AOL.

Do you think we're better off?

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@iamtexture Already have enough avocado trees

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@porlando @wonder_city_ In my experience ones with higher variance also sell better. Not many data points and confounding factors.

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@porlando Anti-tech Luddite research? Are you writing about this?

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@porlando @wonder_city_ Actually now that you mention it, if I saw say, a dentist had thousands of positive reviews, that would be a negative signal for me. Probably applies to other situations, too.

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@HalscionRose @owenbroadcast Oh boy have you read American Psycho? Waaaay crazier than the movie.

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AI is helping people recognize they always hated their jobs but were too busy to notice

[Tobias van Schneider @vanschneider]

Spoke with many friends recently, designers and engineers, all people who've been doing it for 20 years or more and had a lot of success doing it.

And they all say the same thing. The AI stuff is genuinely useful right now. It's fast and things that used to take a week take an afternoon. Things you never even attempted because there was no time, now you can just do them. It's the biggest enabler ever.

But in the same breath, every single one also says that it's the least fun they've ever had in their entire career. They also mention it makes no sense to do it the old way. They're all in.

It's a strange paradox which I feel myself. Everything is possible now and I've never cared less about any of it. Both things true at once.

Not sure if thats just the feeling of the current moment, or if I just talked to people who're tired of the computer (since all of them been doing it for a long time).

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@jotterbluejess It’s frustrating when you feel like you’re screaming into the void, but if you get it right, the positive feedback is that much more gratifying

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When I overthink a project it's usually because I'm stuck in follower mentality, and I forget we're in the feed reality.

Follower mentality used to be real: People would follow you then see everything you made.

That was a lot of pressure to get it right. You end up like Leonardo da Vinci, trying to construct massive molds and secure seventy tons of bronze to cast the giant horse you'll never complete.

Creators complain about the feed reality: You can have 100,000 followers and get 300 views.

But the feed reality means you can stop overthinking your ideas. You can put out three variations on the same thing, or keep iterating.

If you're in follower mentality, you think, No that will annoy my followers, or That's cringe, everyone will see!

Few will see or notice your multiple attempts. Nobody sees it in the feed reality unless you earn it.

In the feed reality you should ship regularly and often, and keep repeating yourself until you're worth listening to.