Sally Cole

Bitcoin | AI | Freedom | Homeschooling | Early Literacy

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

So many moms are “not into tech.” That’s as lame as not being into cooking. Every mom should have:
- password keeper
- domain name
- catch-all email inbox
- desktop or laptop
- Hermes agent
- favorite AI model
- gtd system
- https://t.co/4XJqhslAmO login
- organized web bookmarks
- organized computer files
What would you add?

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

Single earner families have a major advantage when the mom has high agency. She isn’t “just a stay-at-home mom.” She is an expert in nutrition, childcare, organization, scheduling, financial planning, gardening, vendor relations, elder care and so much more. She can be and do anything without a 9-to-5 boss telling her what to do.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

Jeff Bezos just bet $12 billion that you'll be able to support your whole family on a single paycheck again.

his reasoning: AI will let companies make more stuff with fewer people and less money.

and when something gets cheaper and easier to produce, and lots of companies can do it, they compete and the price drops.

it's why a flatscreen TV that cost $2,000 a decade ago is $300 today.

bezos thinks AI will do that to almost everything you buy.

in his words, it raises "the basket of goods people can afford."

your paycheck buys more without anyone handing you a raise.

the problem: look at which prices have actually dropped.

so far, AI has only made *digital* things cheap, like code and content.

but the stuff that really eats your paycheck is *physical*.

rent, cars, medicine. cheaper code doesn't lower your rent.

that's exactly what bezos just spent $12B on.

Prometheus, his new company, is building AI tools that help engineers design and manufacture physical products faster

things like cars, machines, and medicine.

the goal is to make building physical things as fast and cheap as writing software.

if it works, 1 income starts covering what used to take 2.

which is when his prediction kicks in:

"perhaps one of those earners will choose not to be in the job market, so they'll become a one-earner household." or "some people who are working overtime will stop working overtime, because they don't want to."

one paycheck covering a whole family again, like the 1950s.

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

This is a really intriguing claim where Mr. Beast says he could start a new faceless YouTube channel and hit 20 million subscribers in six months because of the knowledge he has. I dove a little deeper into the interview and the knowledge he refers to comes from a process of constant improvement. I think this is broadly applicable to everything. Choose something you do and make it better in just one small way. Keep that up throughout life.

[Third @thirdmetax]

Mr Beast says he could start a faceless channel tomorrow and hit 20 million subscribers in six months

“I could start a new channel tomorrow not using my face or my voice without ever promoting it and in six months have 20 million subscribers”

“It’s purely knowledge if you knew what I knew you could get 10 million views a video and 10 million subscribers no matter where you are right now within 6 months”

“It really is just knowledge”

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

@ThomasEWoods @chiefclanker Thank you! I just added The Preparation to my Kindle. Looking forward to reading it!

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

Some favorite education books so far, in no particular order:

- Unschooling Rules
- The School Revolution
- The Well-Trained Mind
- The Story-Killers
- Guerrilla Learning
- Passion-Driven Education
- A Thomas Jefferson Education
- The Core

What would you add?

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

This is so true: “whoever does the work does the learning.” It’s also why homeschools where mom reading aloud counts as schoolwork might not be as effective as they could be. I love a read aloud, but there’s a balance to strike with expecting students to read a lot themselves.

[Josiah Wittrock @JosiahWittrock]

I'd never taught math before.

I mostly teach game-based group classes. But one principle carries across everything: whoever does the work does the learning.

My whole job is getting him to do the work.

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

Sure, ask away. For our family, it’s a big win to outsource core academics. Alpha Anywhere covers what I would have covered, just more efficiently, and in a way that gives me more time. We still have all the world’s info to play with. Just we do it while asking my youngest to do five 25-minute study blocks in the Alpha Anywhere apps each weekday. We’ll probably drop down to two 25-minute blocks for the summer.

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

@Jessworldview LOTR finds good company on the Appendix N list of books that informed the creation of Dungeons and Dragons https://t.co/VbIdorQehO

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

When kids switch from a brick and mortar school to Alpha Anywhere, they get their time back. When homeschool kids switch to Alpha Anywhere, it’s the homeschooling parent that gets their time back. My youngest does Alpha Anywhere and outsourcing core academics feels amazing.

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

It’s my favorite right now because I can work with it from computer or phone over Discord, it supports profiles with different models, it has a built-in kanban board for delegating work to those other profiles, and it writes its own skills. Cursor is great. But Hermes is great x 10.

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

@meimakes My youngest likes to voice record her memories of dreams and convert them into songs using https://t.co/hWg1HGjUCh.

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

Hmm. I may really be able to declutter my house with the ebay cli.

[Matt Van Horn @mvanhorn]

Asked my agent, hey check out the @ppressdev - what CLI's should you install?

[Yiran - edu/acc @yiran__c]

Check out the apps used at Alpha School!

Our cursive handwriting app is rolling out to Alpha Schools right now.

Would you be interested in trying it out?

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

The best AI stack right now for casual users that just want some optimizations in their daily lives is Hermes with the $100 per month Chat GPT option.

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

@nwilliams030 My favorite life hack with kids those ages was to attach the baby to me in the Baby Bjorn carrier and do chores with the toddler very slowly but surely. After 1 hour, you can have the dishes done, the laundry in motion, and clutter off the floors and counters.

[Sally Cole @lolfuture]

I just figured out something about the X algorithm. It tailors your feed off what you post as a signal. Maybe y’all already knew that. Main takeaway: post about the topics you want to read about.

[kamilė @kamilelukosiute]

claude helped me make a personalized anti-ai-slop magazine. (the irony is not lost on me.)

i was in a cafe reading the terrible very-ai-written vanity fair article (cough cough you know which one) and thought: journalism is going down the drain, i am wasting my time reading this AI-written garbage. the only good thing about this is that its on physical paper.

yet there IS good writing out there, it's just online. it's written by real humans, many of whom i know personally, and i would love to spend more time deeply and calmly engaging with their work. just. i don't want to do that on my phone and stare at another screen.

i want it in print.

lo, a large number of claude code tokens and 10 days later: a personalized magazine, assembled from my personal subscriptions. includes a section of fashion photos as palette cleanser (my personal interest). shout out daniel roseberry at schiaparalli.

it's a few weeks old now, since printing and shipping takes time, but that's fine: the good posts are evergreen. this issue includes writing from Sasha Chapin, @ajeya_cotra, @_brianpotter, and @NatalieRCargill

claude in particular is obsessed with Natalie's writing. it tried to print nearly every piece she's written for Inkhaven lol. (to be fair: i'm obsessed with Natalie's writing too)

i gave claude some liberties in choosing a cover photo, a name for the series, and then some freedom in choosing the articles (though i did intervene somewhat due to some curation taste).

honestly this was so fun. when i was a kid, i made a coloring book as a christmas gift for a friend, using Microsoft Publisher (!!! i bought the software in a box) and got it printed at Staples. my friend loved it.

this felt like that but on steroids. claude code opens up a world of creative projects to me previously totally inaccessible. this felt so fun and joyful.

second issue already ordered. they're $11 each and shipping is $18 so not cheap, but i WILL keep doing this. catch me at the mill, not on my phone.