Luke Peng

vp @paramountco, mentor @techstars. ex- @tiktok_us, @wish, @tickpick, @paypal & @ebay. #smb, #advertising & #product

[Rohit @ai_rohitt]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.

This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.

Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

Anthropic engineers finally showed how they actually use Claude Code internally

31 minutes of internal workflow that most Claude users will never see on their own

here's what they cover:
> how to set up project context files the right way
> custom commands that save hours of repeated work
> hooks that make Claude behave exactly how you need
> subagents and how to actually spec them properly

"your agent isn't the problem, your spec is"

the people who understand how Claude Code actually works inside Anthropic are shipping things everyone else thinks requires a whole team

that's exactly why I put together a breakdown of Claude features most people have never discovered

you can find it below

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

BREAKING: AI can now analyze stocks like Wall Street analysts (for free).

Here are 10 insane Claude prompts that replace $2,000/month Bloomberg terminals (Save for later)

[Luke Peng @lukiesky]

@Jaxweah @grok DONE

[UFC @ufc]

UFC has a new home this January

[Luke Peng @lukiesky]

I completed the August challenge faster than 86.6% of all learners on Duolingo!

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Steve showed us that the future isn’t something you wait for—it’s something you build. His memory lives on in the hearts of innovators and dreamers everywhere—at Apple and beyond.

[Blake Emal @heyblake]

Cheatsheet of cognitive biases

(Steal this)

[Luke Peng @lukiesky]

No time to waste.

[Sam Altman @sama]

feeling good about this prediction! what a difference 27 months makes...

[Luke Peng @lukiesky]

Freedom comes from within.

[Simon Sinek @simonsinek]

Relationships are the foundation of accomplishment.

[George Mack @george__mack]

10 thoughts on incentives:

1. Don't ask your barber if you need a haircut.

2. "I can fix the $32 trillion US debt problem in 5 minutes. You pass a law that when there’s a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members congress are ineligible for re-election” - Warren Buffett

3. 33% of British criminals were dying en route to Australia in the 1700s.

Britain switched from paying sea captains for every passenger who walked on the ship to paying them for every passenger who walked off.

Immediately, the survival rate shot up to 99%.

4. “Never attribute to conspiracy what is more easily explained by incentives and incompetence.” - @naval

5. “If you reward profits alone, it’s the dumbest thing you could do. Employees will quit advertising and start shrinking the business” - Buffett

6. If video games teach us one thing: If you want to motivate humans, frequent rewards are more addicting than one-off rewards.

7. “I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it. And never a year passes but I get some surprise that pushes my limit a little farther." - Munger

8. If the person tells you why their city, relationship, or job is great - take it with a pinch of salt.

If they tell you why it's terrible - take it like a handful of gold.

If someone swims upstream against their identity or incentives, it probably holds some deep truth to it.

9. "Incentives are like magnets. An invisible but powerful pull." - @awilkinson

10. Skinner's Law:

If procrastinating, 2 ways to solve it:

Option 1 - Make the pain of inaction > Pain of action

Option 2 - Make the pleasure of action > Pleasure of inaction

The person with a gun to their head or crack cocaine at the finish line doesn't need motivation.

[George Mack @george__mack]

The most useful razors and rules I've found:

1. Bragging Razor - If someone brags about their success or happiness, assume it’s half what they claim

If someone downplays their success or happiness, assume it’s double what they claim

2. High Agency Razor - If unsure who to work with, pick the person that has the best chances of breaking you out of a 3rd world prison.

3. The Early-Late Razor - If it's a talking point on Reddit, you might be early. If it's a talking point on LinkedIn, you're definitely late.

4. Luck Razor - If stuck with 2 equal options, pick the one that feels like it will produce the most luck later down the line.

I used this razor to go for drinks with a stranger rather than watch Netflix. In hindsight, it was the highest ROI decision I've ever made.

5. Buffett's Law - "The value of every business is 100% subject to government interest rates" - Warren Buffett

6. The 7-Figure Razor - If someone brags about "7 figures" -- assume it's closer to $1 million than $9 million.

7. Mack's Rule - Break down the investments your parents made in you: Time, Love, Energy, and Money.

If they are still alive, aim to hit a positive ROI (or at least break even.)

8. Instagram Razor - When you see a photo of an influencer looking attractive on Instagram -- assume there are 99 worse variations of that photo you haven't seen.

They just picked the best one.

9. Narcissism Razor - If worried about people's opinions, remember they are too busy worrying about other people's opinions of them. 99% of the time you're an extra in someone else's movie

10. Everyday Razor - If you go from doing a task weekly to daily, you achieve 7 years of output in 1 year. If you apply a 1% compound interest each time, you achieve 54 years of output in 1 year.

11. Bezos Razor - If unsure what action to pick, let your 90-year-old self on death bed choose it.

12. Creativity Razor - If struggling to think creatively about a subject, transform it:

• Turn a thought into a written idea.
• A written idea into a drawing.
• A drawing into an equation.
• An equation into a conversation.

In the process of transforming it, you begin to spot new creative connections.

13. The Roman Empire Razor - Historians now recognize the Roman Empire fell in 476 - but it wasn't acknowledged by Roman society until many generations later.

If you wait for the media to inform you, you'll either be wrong or too late.

14. Physics Razor - If it doesn't deny the law of physics, then assume it's possible. Do not confuse society's current lack of knowledge -- with this knowledge being impossible to attain.

E.g. The smartphone seems impossible to someone from the 1800s -- but it was possible, they just had a lack of knowledge.

15. Skinner's Law - If procrastinating, you have 2 ways to solve it:

• Make the pain of inaction > Pain of action
• Make the pleasure of action > Pleasure of inaction

16. Network Razor - If you have 2 quality people that would benefit from an intro to one another, always do it.

Networks don't divide as you share them, they multiply.

17. Gell-Mann Razor - Assume every media article contains a % of false information.

Sandbox the article from your worldview until you've:

• Seen primary sources
• Spoken to 3 domain experts

18. Taleb's Surgeon - If presented with two equal candidates for a role, pick the one with the least amount of charisma.

The uncharismatic one has got there despite their lack of charisma. The charismatic one has got there with the aid of their charisma.

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

This is what building a startup feels like.

[Luke Peng @lukiesky]

Fair competition is good for users. Threads is a reminder for Twitter to do better.

[Naval @naval]

We write things down, both to help us remember, and to help us forget.

[Jason Vana | The Sassy Brander @jasonvana]

What's one piece of business advice you wish you knew when you started?

I'll go first.

Document everything!

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Direction is much more important than speed.

[Good Work @goodworkmb]

Zoom calls in the Northeast rn

via @dhtoomey