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founding eng @loreobsessed, internet diver

[Sid @sid_chava]

@nathansnonsense can i come

[Sid @sid_chava]

@theesabina is this the sign to start using google photos

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

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[Sid @sid_chava]

very true for tennis. if u don’t have it mentally all of your training can go out the window. can attribute all of my career wins to mental toughness, which was a direct result of competing on the junior tennis circuit.

- every match affects your rating (playing bad sets you back)
- little outside help during a match that can last sometimes up to 3 hours
- no one to blame when losing or carry you out of a bad performance
- score based (can’t win by running out the clock, you have to close the opponent out)
-always better players to play against, if you keep winning there are no restrictions on how high level of a tournament you can play

If you don’t want your kid to be soft, put them in tennis. competitive tennis will teach them how to deal with losing like no other sport. no amount of money, effort, natural talent, or athleticism can take you all the way if you aren’t mentally strong enough.

[Aporia @aporia9n]

Notice how they gravitate towards endurance sports that basically only require grind/discipline (marathons, cycling, lifting, Ironmans) vs skill-based ones (golf, tennis, sailing, etc)

They want a clean effort → outcome relationship. If you train consistently, your 10k time, deadlift or HYROX time will usually improve linearly.

Golf and tennis are much more psychologically tough. You can practise for years and suddenly play worse. Progress is nonlinear, technique-sensitive, and often exposed directly against another person. You can’t simply brute-force your way into feeling competent.

Same for the modern high-agency / ambitious professionals looking for achievement outside work. As their careers become increasingly nonlinear and probabilistic (working twice as hard won’t guarantee you the promotion, building twice as good a product won’t guarantee anyone buys it), they increasingly pick sports where progress is linear-ish, quantifiable and attributable to effort. Basically the meritocracy they thought their career would be.

[Sid @sid_chava]

@ProbyShandilya congrats proby! keeping crushing it beast

[Sid @sid_chava]

echoing this last paragraph heavy

movies should not be catered towards one palate. consumer entitlement has gone quite far in recent years and I hope it does not squeeze the diversity out of cinema

[Evan @EvanJSantiago]

cheeseburger philosophy applied to 2026 argue with the wall

[Sid @sid_chava]

@nathanleexyz w builder arc

[Sid @sid_chava]

some of the biggest winners of this world cup were all the ai video video gen startups. every video of the ai world cup anime with dictator mbappe, viking haaland and the rest were doing hundreds of thousands of views per video

[Sid @sid_chava]

the internet's archivist @itsjessyin

[jess yin @itsjessyin]

i compiled 300+ internet artifacts and turned them into collectible cards. go collect them all @loreobsessed

[Sid @sid_chava]

@itsjessyin @loreobsessed internet archaeology at its finest

[Sid @sid_chava]

I agree these are important! but comms with driver can definitely happen via direct message and call (calls already happen outside the app). I also have seen imessage agents send dropped pins to show me a place, so i think there’s a solution out there for pickup drop off / live locations.

[Sid @sid_chava]

need uber and lyft to get on this, rideshare doesn't need a UI

imagine hosting a pregame and telling @tomo or @interaction, i need to get 10 people from x to y and we want to leave by 10:30, and the agent books the cars, texts u when to get ready, and go outside

[Andy Fang @andyfang]

Today we're opening up the DoorDash CLI in limited beta.

`dd-cli` lets you order DoorDash directly from your agent: search stores, find the best deals, check out, and more.

Early access for US/Canadian macOS developers by waitlist. Excited to see what folks build!

[Sid @sid_chava]

@immike_wing insane pull lmfao. just had a visceral flashback

[Sid @sid_chava]

@isaaccyn micro sites > youtube explainers

[Sid @sid_chava]

@zehranaqvi has he done it again

[Sid @sid_chava]

@flawedaxioms group projects, doing homework, and studying for exams together were all pretty helpful in knowing where other students were in terms of skill. all though if your exams are all online the incentive to study together might not even be there

[Sid @sid_chava]

@itsjessyin

[Sid @sid_chava]

cant speak for other majors, but in at least in cs and finance, min maxing classes was the norm. On the finance side, good students would have their IB offers by sophomore spring, and would subsequently stop gaf about anything academic. instead they would frequently travel and socialize pretty much as much as possible. Part of it is they know what type of grind they are getting themselves into, but i think they need to rapidly become more interesting (helps to move up the finance ladder)

CS felt a bit different because I think that it was clear that just doing well in classes wasn't going to get us our first swe job. Many of us spent countless hours on building projects, going to hackathons, prepping leetcode etc but there were so many things outside of class that were moving the needle.

in either circumstance the time spent grinding for classes is pretty much the least useful thing you can do and you are simply putting yourself behind both socially and professionally

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.

[Sid @sid_chava]

@itsjessyin i am lore's last lunch defender

[Sid @sid_chava]

@itsjessyin i learned about fashion houses by asking lore to explain them in terms of european soccer clubs