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Courtney Dauwalter won a 240 mile ultramarathon by TEN HOURS in 2017

How? By using 4 evidence-based mindset shifts that supercharge endurance

I broke down the full details in a new article for @every but here's a TLDR on how Courtney's tactics can make you mentally stronger:
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A little prompt that’s helping me improve my storytelling.

When I see a boring description of something, I ask Claude - how might different specific legendary writers tackle this sentence?

Seeing the examples helps you rapidly attune to a more interesting style.

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We pray for the weather to hold, for everyone to show up, for the technology to work.

But these hopes are in vein.

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Write something agents want to read.

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@kayvz @Macroscope I need a check run agent that asks the teams behind every product I use to install Macroscope.

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Creating great work is only the first step.

The second step, getting the world to embrace it, can take just as long, hurt just as much, and require every bit as much persistence.

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@kayvz @Macroscope @moderncto_io Agent obsession mode should be studied

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@TheHunterBohm @beehiiv +1

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@cifilter @perplexity_ai @comet @annuskabarta @scspeier Few appreciate how much work goes into this level of quality.

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In 1935, third grader John Boyd was doodling futuristic planes in class.

He would grow up to become the best fighter pilot in the world with an undefeated record and influence the design of the F-15 and F-16.

Wild how early in life our destinies call to us.

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@antinertia Cooked 🍳

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@kayvz with all the studies showing that the productivity gains of AI generated code is offset by the corresponding increased burden of review, this seems like a much needed solution

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"A growing number of PRs won’t require human review.

And this orchestration will happen continuously, automatically, and by default without requiring human attention."

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Sometimes the most powerful strategies are the simplest. The question is: are you actually doing it?

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@rork 🙌

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@businessbarista Claude

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Something I will now do for every new project:

Ask the smartest reasoning model available to run a premortem

“Fast forward 3 months and imagine this project has failed miserably, brainstorm the top causes of failure”

Great for exposing blind spots, plan to mitigate accordingly