Peter Armstrong

Founder of Leanpub. Paid over $15M in royalties to authors. Write in Markdown, publish an ebook and course with 1 click.

[Peter Armstrong @peterarmstrong]

So @leanpub launched in 2010, and we've been generating PDF and EPUB ebooks from Markdown for over a decade.

Authors can click one button and we publish their book in PDF and EPUB. We take this for granted now, even though it's news to most of the world.

What's new? 🧵

[Peter Armstrong @peterarmstrong]

@CryptoMaster_70 "Criticism is my love language" 😂❤️

[Brandon Carl @brandonjcarl]

Earnings Before Tokens

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Ferrari Luce, explained

[The AI Investor @The_AI_Investor]

Lol, so Jensen is still angry about the Dwarkesh podcast.

[Peter Armstrong @peterarmstrong]

@itsalexvacca ADS

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

[Leanpub @leanpub]

In the age of AI, the best way to stand out is to write a book.

A real book.

Learn how in this FREE 3-hour Leanpub founder-led workshop on Zoom on May 16.

Publish in-progress with one click and earn 80% royalties.

[Leanpub @leanpub]

If you can use TextEdit or Notepad, or if you've ever used a typewriter, you can write and publish a book on Leanpub.

It's just that easy.

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[Peter Armstrong @peterarmstrong]

@IamJeffMorton @garrytan That's because it's genuinely helpful to so many things

[Peter Armstrong @peterarmstrong]

@tobi But that doesn't get the multiplayer live interaction you've achieved, etc.

[Peter Armstrong @peterarmstrong]

@tobi Makes sense. Thinking about how I could adapt this if I had Claude Code crosspost every interaction somewhere, or share all the chat logs publicly. I know I have tons of interactions w/ Claude Code (regular and with gstack) which would be super useful for my team.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

https://t.co/5MJ7u1VHwf

[Leanpub @leanpub]

If you write in Markdown, you should be writing a book in Markdown too.

Learn how in this FREE 3-hour Leanpub founder-led workshop on Zoom on May 16.

https://t.co/G296Hlcg5w

Publish in-progress with one click and earn 80% royalties.

[Leanpub @leanpub]

In the age of AI, the best way to stand out is to write a book.

A real book.

Learn how in this FREE 3-hour Leanpub founder-led workshop on Zoom on May 16.

https://t.co/G296Hlcg5w

Publish in-progress with one click and earn 80% royalties.

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

When NBA Hires Just One Guitarist for a Halftime Show.

[Peter Armstrong @peterarmstrong]

@IterIntellectus @claudeai @SpaceX The enemy of my enemy...

[Peter Armstrong @peterarmstrong]

@dogamsi Most dangerous...