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[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

And then the monkeys would starve because they’d realize there weren’t actually 1 trillion bananas, but only the promise of 1 trillion bananas that could be produced by a special banana tree that only the dead monkey knew how to grow.

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

“Superior distribution can compensate for inferior product, but a superior product
will not sell itself with poor distribution.” — Peter Thiel

Most important part of building is now the distribution.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

You are far more dangerous to your startup than competitors are. A hundred times more startups die from poor execution by their founders than are killed by competitors.

[james hawkins @james406]

you need to be promptmaxxing. sorry, you need to stop prompting. you need to write loops. your loops need to be agentic. your agents need to be prompting your loops. you need recursive loops within your agentic workflows. you need to design while loops that constantly generate new agentic workflows from first principles. you need to migrate from human-first tokenmaxxing to agent-first loopmaxxing. you need to be a loop-pilled tokenmaxxed agentcore vibe coder. you are now in your loop era. be in your loop era. be loopy

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Logically how this ends is you will have 3 groups being successful in startups:

1) VC funded startups with money can still get distribution by ads/UGC and all their money will go there (because building is cheap with AI)

2) influencers will become more important, which is why you see famous people being investors in startups now, they get free equity in startups in return for pushing it to their audience

3) you still get a few creative geniuses who can hack going viral with super original ideas and execution, or ideas that tap really well into the zeitgeist (like that Indo girl with her app she started cause of a TikTok trend), the issue here is everyone thinks they're original and they're not, and also that everyone thinks they understand the zeitgeist and they usually don't, the more you're a normie the less you'll be able to do this, normie is opposite of zeitgeist

[GURGAVIN @gurgavin]

BUSINESSES ARE NOW USING PREDICTION MARKETS TO HEDGE PROMOTIONS LOL

A BAR IN NYC HAD A PROMO IF THE KNICKS WIN, THEY COVER EVERYONE’S DRINKS FOR THE NIGHT

THE BAR PLACED A $5K HEDGE ON KALSHI THAT PAYS OUT IF THE KNICKS WIN

THE BAR WINS EITHER WAY

[Sick @sickdotdev]

Don’t make it so complex

[Marc Lou @marclou]

10 years as an entrepreneur and 1 takeaway:

Don't you dare give up.

[Gabriel @gabriell_lab]

Since Opus 4.8 is out and more and more designers are getting into Design Engineering, I thought I’d share some of the interaction patterns I use most often:

Use proximity, not just hover. When the cursor gets close, nearby elements can subtly scale and darken based on distance.

It makes interfaces feel more responsive, less binary, and way more alive

onpointermove = e =>
document.querySelectorAll(".dock>*").forEach(el => {
const r = el.getBoundingClientRect();
const t = Math.max(0, 1 - Math.abs(e.clientX - r.x - r.width/2) / 120);
el. style.scale = 1 + t * .5;
});

[Drug Dealer Chic @SonOfThaKulture]

Real flight catchers know you wear the same outfit to the destination on the way back home

[signüll @signulll]

the golden rule is that you should rarely if ever try to change anyone’s mind.

this is a fool’s errand cuz it rarely works, & even when it does the belief you installed is way weaker, the person becomes resentful, & everything dynamic from then on becomes borrowed instead of owned.

you can only gently probe until you understand why they arrived at that conclusion. then you must move on like it never happened. this is true for any type of relationship including professional but esp true in romantic dynamics.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

it’s funny because this is genuinely the best approach

Simply not thinking about stressful situations makes you less stressed

[@jason @Jason]

They updated the most legendary chart on twitter

What stands out?

[Paul Graham @paulg]

There is nothing more powerful than well-informed optimism. It has to be well-informed though. The "everything will be fine" type of optimism may also be somewhat useful, but it's not as useful as the "Hmm, what if we tried x?" kind.

[George Mack @george__mack]

The high agency triangle

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Very interesting data:

- Cold bedroom AC confirmed to be great for sleep (esp for men)
- Seperate blankets from bf/gf great for sleep (esp for men)
- Sleeping alone is great for men but bad for women
- Fasting 3h before bed is great for both!

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

I remind myself of this quite often.

[Matt Epstein @mattepstein]

And claude kills 9 billion dollar startup Harvey

If your not building real infrastructure your next

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

We’re using all the energy on Earth to create a man made digital God which we get everyone reliant on so we can have perfect prediction powers and control the outcome of every event in history by controlling the context of information people receive with perfect accuracy. Actual unironic man made horrors beyond comprehension. Prison planet. The end of free will if it even ever existed in the first place.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

We’re reimagining a 50-year-old interface - the mouse pointer - with AI. 🖱️

These experimental demos show how people can intuitively direct Gemini on their screens using motion, speech, and natural shorthand to get things done 🧵