sno wes

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

@tabflows Don't spend so much time thinking about how people think about you

We're all going to die

Who gives a fuck

[Agus Mulyadi @AgusMagelangan]

Sekitar dua tahun setelah lulus SMA, saya pernah nganggur berat, cari kerjaan susah betul. Tiap pekan sudah rutin beli koran KR sabtu khusus buat cari lowongan kerja, tetep ga dapet-dapet. Susah tembus. Sekalinya dapet ternyata kena tipu (Daftar jadi admin tapi tesnya disuruh jual tuxedo).

Ga enak sama orang tua, akhirnya saya ngekos di daerah Jalan Godean. Cari indekos yang paling murah. Sengaja ngekos biar nggak tinggal di rumah.

Saya terpaksa bohong sama orang tua, bilang kalau saya sudah kerja, padahal belum. Sekadar buat ngayem-ayemi bapak dan ibu.

Selama ngekos, ongkos hidup ditanggung dari hasil nge-dropship jualan kaos online yang hasilnya tidak tentu. Kadang sehari dapat pembeli satu, kadang nggak dapat sama sekali.

Nggak punya laptop, jualan full dari browsing di warnet deket kos, sengaja pilih happy hour pukul 01.00 sampai subuh biar murah.

Hidup harus ngirit setengah mati, sehari cuma makan dua bungkus nasi kucing dan dua potong tempe goreng, beli dari angkringan. Hidup benar-benar penuh dengan kepayahan.

Satu-satunya hiburan cuma nonton tayangan Upin-Ipin di tivi portabel hitam putih yang dulu saya bawa buat hiburan di kos.

Nangis? Tentu saja sering. Kelewat sering. Air mataku api.

Dan karena pengalaman itu, saya tak pernah berani ngecengin pengangguran, sebab saya tak tahu, ikhtiar apa saja yang sudah mereka lakukan agar tidak nganggur.

[Thariq @trq212]

Lots of people asked how I used Fable to edit its own launch video so I made a video about that!

TLDR it wrote a lot of code & tool calls to use transcription services, ffmpeg, do colorgrading, use the figma mcp, make remotion UI and render it.

I didn't touch a video editor.

[Diana @sdianahu]

2/8

generic benchmarks (MMLU, etc) tell you nothing about whether you’re product works

a model can ace HLE and still fail the one thing your customer pays for

the benchmark measures "is it smart." you need to measure "did it do the job”

those are different questions

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

[Teddy Blank @teddypowday]

Your CEO should be strong.

Your CTO should be wise.

Your COO should be wicked, cunning, of mysterious origins, fluent in the dark arts, blurry in pictures,

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

GBrain is the agentic swiss army knife for retrieval and memory

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/R6exTuF7P8

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The startups from the spring YC batch that I did office hours with today have some of the biggest ideas I've ever encountered. There is so much more going on now than just "AI for x". Just as there was more going on during the microcomputer revolution than "software for x".

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The most important component of writing clearly is simply to have high standards for clarity. Then if you write something unclear, you notice, and ask: what did I mean to say? You can just keep doing this over and over. And if you have high standards for clarity, you will.

[Sam Stoffel @sam_stoffel]

the ones working against you actually believe in you the most

[Sam Altman @sama]

one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day:

"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom"

Ecclesiastes 9:10

[Earth @earthcurated]

🇪🇬 Egypt is home to the only remaining Wonder of the Ancient World.

[Bhavy☄️ @Bhavani_00007]

Ronny Chieng told Harvard grads their mission is to destroy AI 🗿

[ikhwānuddīn 🔍 @ikhwanuddin]

Untuk selesaikan masalah Fisika, Isaac Newton di abad 17 membuat “bahasanya” sendiri bernama Kalkulus.

Mungkin udah saatnya muncul Newton baru yang bikin “new Math” untuk selesaikan masalah Physical AI.

Weh sangar iki.

[The OpenAI Foundation @FoundationOAI]

AI is advancing quickly. Society’s ability to manage its risks must advance just as fast.

Today we’re sharing our vision for AI Resilience, with more than $130M in initial grants underway across bio-resilience, cyber-resilience, AI model safety, and AI’s impact on young people: https://t.co/mXwqzIYAPm

[Evis Drenova @evisdrenova]

idk who created this website, but it's awesome and i love it.

https://t.co/gktjwcY1Gj

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

"As the cost of writing software drops to zero, I find myself valuing ambition above all else. Unreasonable, unrelenting ambition."

[Noorie lova @noorielova]

Finally cracked the code on this cafe filter!

🍎iphone14pm
•Exposure: -13
•Vibrance: +8
•Highlights: -10
•Shadows: -18
•Brightness: +6
•Black Point: +5
•Sharpness: +28
•Clarity: +18

[Nicolas Dessaigne @dessaigne]

Everyone says: hire people better than you, then get out of the way.

One of my biggest mistakes at Algolia was taking that literally.

Yes, hire people better than you. But don’t confuse seniority with earned trust.

Stay close at first. Inspect the work. Pressure-test the judgment. If you’re still micromanaging after 3 months, you hired the wrong person.

And trust your gut.

As a founder, you are the most fine-tuned model in the world on your own company. If something feels off, it probably is, even when the exec says, “Trust me, I’ve done this for 20 years.”