Thomas Tobin

industrializing creativity one sentence at a time. building to bring generative ai to the sales process

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@shcallaway See also:
Use bars, have the bar height unrelated to the values
Use bars, but truncate /scale the axis
Show the difference in value as the y axis

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A couple of times I’ve tried to get sparklines in a product, where a small way of getting historical context makes sense. Then an a PM you get arguments over charting libraries, developer time, and get a compromise. Now, the PM drives the agent until it’s done.

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I am low key convinced MCP was a plot to drive up token usage in LLMs by 50x

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@thuddwhirr The bridge itself isn’t in green… just SF and Marin.

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@mrp @medinism @paid_ai @jasparcjack @Artisan @manojganapathy @WorldBizBuz @ifs @lightspeedvp What did they say?

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@levie Do you think this ends the “scientist pm” who tests and moves in small experiments to optimize their way to success? Can you succeed like that faced with the many possible variables in how to do a job or task plus what to deliver as context and the ways this could impact the AI?

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@shcallaway Exposure Package™ (for your LinkedIn)
Title: “Founder” (title case); Cap table status: not that.
LinkedIn polish: We provide a monthly founder-thought-leadership prompt
Auto-endorsements: “Product Strategy,” “Zero-to-One,” and “Founder Energy” from at least three board members.

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@shcallaway Isn't it:
- 1970s: Single Terminal
- 1980s: Multiple Terminals
- 2000s: Terminal with 5 buttons
- 2010s: Multiple flying Terminals
- 2025: Single Terminal

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@thuddwhirr https://t.co/6MZ9sL7uFU

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@shitshowdotinfo @ESYudkowsky However, on average women do better than men at higher temperatures: https://t.co/tDwxekH3Hl

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@simonmxtthews @DJSnM And venting something continuously?

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@DefenderOfBasic @KevinF_26 You need https://t.co/zNH2gnDvpY to spin up the magic of a public IP and port forwarding.

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@wingod @DJSnM @timoelliott your meme is still going!

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@petergyang Google and outlook both have this built in now: https://t.co/iHk0AxXJOS - but some edge cases are missing like group events

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@Kellblog Does this work the other way around? When doing European expansion do US founders and operators feel there’s no experience ?

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@Kazanjy Segment by Twilio?

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@LuizaJarovsky Can you show your prompt to it?

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@Kellblog Two other milestones:
Google using page links as the way to rank page content: 1996
OpenAI giving up on links and using Reddit posts with >3 karma for link quality: 2019 (noted in https://t.co/oqXDZo6apj)

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@Kellblog But #goodie !

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@lilianedwards Reddit says this but their content is polluted with works that appear copyrighted: e.g. https://t.co/ECPZ4UQQmq . Posts are owned by the poster, so Reddit can both license use and disclaim ownership.