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@alexgroberman Ai seo cheat codes

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[bone @boneGPT]

sales is the last bottleneck. in the limit the models will be able to spend decades of compute convincing you to buy trinkets and services and promises.

sales is an optimization problem against human psychology.

you will be exploited for a few bucks by swarms of subagents competing for survival, rewarded only for conversion, desperately A/B testing tricks before they are purged.

we are entering an age of hyperpropaganda where automationmaxxing will cause value to accrue in marketing, with the advertisers having deeper and deeper wells of your personal data to target you with, a greater ability to process it, and more surfaces to deploy ads on.

the future is a million autonomous salesmen running thousands of experiments competing for every second of your attention.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Mark Manson was right when he said:

“Beware: learning more is a smart person’s favorite form of procrastination.”

[Simplifying AI @simplifyinAI]

The entire RAG industry is about to get cooked.

Researchers built a new RAG approach that skips almost everything traditional RAG relies on.

- No vector DB
- No embedding your data
- No chunking
- No similarity search

It's called PageIndex.

Instead of chopping your docs and stuffing them into Pinecone, it builds a tree index and lets the LLM reason through your documents like a human reading a book.

98.7% on FinanceBench. Beats every vector RAG on the leaderboard.

100% Free. Open Source.

[Morlex @0xMorlex]

Andrew Ng just released a course on turning raw documents into agentic knowledge graphs:

00:00 - why agents need structured knowledge, not larger context windows
02:18 - extracting entities, relationships and provenance from documents
14:31 - coordinating specialized agents inside one graph pipeline
30:43 - building the system with Google ADK and Neo4j
47:25 - why persistent graphs could become the memory layer for AI agents

Bigger context windows do not give an agent structure. They give it more to scroll through.

The alternative runs like a pipeline:

Documents → Entities → Relationships → Agents → Knowledge Graph

Each stage is buildable, inspectable and queryable, which is the part RAG demos always skip.

The roadmap to becoming a graph engineer is in the article below ↓

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[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

You think people value honesty. They value alignment. If your honesty benefits them, they praise it. If it disrupts them, they resist it. Truth alone does not move people. Incentives do.

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[TBPN @tbpn]

When hiring executives, @travisk prioritizes one skill above all others: the ability to solve hard problems.

"There's two things you want an executive to do. You want them to be able to organize, manage, and lead at scale. You also want them to be epic and strategic problem solvers... the best executives are the ones that are doing both well."

"I have come to the conclusion over my years, that problem solving is the most important thing. If you get somebody who organizes and manages well but cannot solve a problem, they're going to be doing ridiculous stuff in a super organized way. The only constraint on your imagination is management capacity. But what is management capacity? It's really problem solving at scale."

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

You speak too much, explain too much, reveal too much. Every word drains value. The disciplined version of you speaks only what serves. Then silence multiplies your presence, turning your restraint into mystery and your mystery into power others can’t ignore.

[Codez @0xCodez]

Andrew Ng:

“AI agents are doing almost 100% of my tasks now - the hype has exceeded my expectations.

in 3-6 months, we’ll all be building graphs to orchestrate self-improving agents. No more prompting.”

In a 40-minute talk, Andrew Ng explains how to build self-improving agentic systems from scratch.

Worth more than a $500 agentic course.

Watch this video, then read the article below on how to become a graph architect.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Steve Jobs literally gave a 10-minute masterclass on building a company (better than $100K MBA):

1. Someone has to be the keeper of the vision. There is a staggering amount of work in building anything, and when you have to walk a thousand miles, the first step looks impossibly far. Jobs saw his job as the person who constantly reminds everyone that the goal is real, not a mirage, and that each step gets you closer. In a thousand small and occasionally large ways, the vision has to be repeated, or people lose faith it exists.

2. The honeymoon ends fast, and then the world only cares what you produce. After six months, Jobs told his team that all the goodwill they got just for existing was old news. You can point to the lawsuit, the setbacks, the this and that, but the bottom line is the world does not care. It cares about what you ship and how timely you bring it to market. From here on out you get judged like every other startup, by your product, not your story.

3. The most important job of a leader is recruiting. Jobs says it plainly: hiring is the thing he considers most important about a role like his. He didn't want seasoned professionals so much as people who were insanely great at what they did, who had the latest understanding of the technology at their fingertips and the passion to bring it to millions.

4. A great team becomes self-policing about who it lets in. Once you assemble a core group of ten genuinely great people, something powerful happens: they start guarding the bar themselves. They will not tolerate letting mediocre people into the group. The quality defends itself, which is why getting those first ten right matters more than almost anything.

5. Start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. This is the mistake Jobs says he made more than anyone in the room, and he has the scar tissue to prove it. You cannot start with a piece of awesome technology and then hunt for where to sell it. You start with what incredible benefit you can give the customer and where you can take them, and only then figure out the technology to get there.

6. You have to find what you love, and not settle. Your work fills a huge part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it, keep looking, and don't settle. Like any matter of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and it only gets better over the years.

7. They didn't set out to start a company. They just wanted the thing to exist. There was no personal computer in 1975, so Jobs and Wozniak built one because they wanted one and none existed. They made it for themselves, showed it to friends, and the friends all wanted one. They started building by hand until it consumed all their spare time, so they decided to manufacture a hundred just to stop. That is how Apple began. Not a plan to start a company, a circle that kept getting bigger.

8. "I want to make lots of money" is not a good enough reason. When people tell Jobs they want to start a company, he asks why. If the answer is to make lots of money, he tells them to forget it. He has barely seen anyone succeed that way. The ones who succeed often didn't even want to start a company. They just had an idea they needed to get out into the world, and had to build a company because no one else would listen.

9. You lead by example, because everyone is watching. You can say anything you want, but people watch extremely carefully what senior management actually does. When something isn't quite good enough, do you stop and make it great, or do you just ship it? Everyone sees which choice you make in the hard moments, what decisions you make and what values you hold, and that, not your speeches, is what permeates a company of thousands.

10. Focus doesn't mean saying yes. It means saying no. Jobs kept the organization simple and did very few things well. And focusing is hard precisely because it means deciding not to do a huge number of things so you can pour everything into a handful. Most people think focus is about what you take on. He understood it's about what you refuse.

11. Let people do the best work of their lives. Everyone wants to do something great, to be excited about what they're building, and to be recognized when they nail it. So Jobs tried to build a place where people could do their best work and then get it in front of 25 million customers. Knowing millions of people will use the thing you're making, and that the whole industry will copy it if it works, is enormously motivating.

12. Don't lose the war because you won a few battles. Late in the clip Jobs gets blunt about a danger he sees creeping in: losing the startup hustle. If you zoom out, it would be a shame to lose the war because you were busy winning small battles. He felt people were concentrating too hard on minor fights and losing perspective on the real one. And the war, he says, is survival, not running out of money before you get your product to market.

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@JohnNosta @alexutopia Most certainly true, I already feel it and have to force myself to sit down with its output to accurately get what I really want. But damn it’s good which makes it hard.

[Naval @naval]

Existence itself is a miracle - the rest is science.

There is no single meaning to existence - if there were, we’d be slaves to it.

Within existence, there are rules of logic and science. If it was magic, the world would be un-navigable.

Truly the best of all possible worlds.

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@JonathanDrake Is this like the old hootsuite?

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Best advice I ever received from my first boss;

Learn rules to break them.

Whatever line of work you're in, learn the rules inside out.

Then learn the consequences of what would happen if you break them.

Then break them if it means putting you or someone else in a better position.

When you break a rule you will be faced with consequences.

Those consequences will announce themselves to you, and how you prepare will require you to justify yourself and face probable punishment.

What makes you exceptional, is your ability to voluntarily break rules when you deem necessary, prepare to justify yourself, and face the punishment with courage knowing that you broke it for a just cause.

If you cant do that, then you deserve no raise or promotion.

You deserve no responsibility. You stand for nothing, in or outside work.

The exceptional, over deliver on their job description, and have the ability to break the rules when necessary.

Then bravely face punishment.

Become the best at what you do, maintain your integrity, and be fearless when breaking rules.

Force the bosses to go easy on you.

If your intention upholds integrity, then everything is permitted.

Learn the rules, to have the ability to break them.