🔻#9737👤• 🥷🏿The Degen Apollyon🔱

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[🔻#9737👤• 🥷🏿The Degen Apollyon🔱 @unknwnpnk]

It’s looking more like a Casino Royale in this crypto space every day

[Meng To @MengTo]

I recorded a 50-min tutorial on prompting top-tier landing pages with Gemini 3

[Naval @naval]

Good Products are Opinionated.

“Every great founder I’ve seen up close, or even from afar, is highly opinionated and they’re almost dictatorial in how they run things.

Also, early-stage teams are opinionated. And the products they build are opinionated. Opinionated means they have a strong vision for what it should and should not do.

If you don’t have a strong vision of what it should and should not do, then you end up with a giant mess of competing features.

@Jack Dorsey has a great phrase: “Limit the number of details and make every detail perfect.” And that’s especially important in consumer products. You have to be extremely opinionated. All the best products in consumer-land get there through simplicity.

You could argue the recent success of ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots is because they’re even simpler than Google.

Google looked like the simplest product you could possibly build. It was just a box. But even that box had limitations in what you could do.

You were trained not to talk to it conversationally. You would enter keywords and you had to be careful with those keywords. You couldn’t just ask a question outright and get a sensible answer. It wouldn’t do proper synonym matching, and then it would spit you back a whole bunch of results. That was complicated. You’d have to sift through and figure out which ones were ads, which ones were real, were they sorted correctly, and then you’d have to click through and read it.

ChatGPT and the chatbot simplified that even further. You just talk to it like a human—use your voice or you type and it gives you back a straight answer.
It might not always be right, but it’s good enough, and it gives you back a straight answer in text or voice or images or whatever you prefer.

So it simplifies what we looked at as the simplest product on the Internet, which was formerly Google, and makes it even simpler. And you just cannot make a product that’s simple enough.

To be simple, you have to be extremely opinionated. You have to remove everything that doesn’t match your opinion of what the product should be doing. You have to meticulously remove every single click, every single extra button, every single setting.

In fact, things in the settings menu are an indication that you’ve abdicated your responsibility to the user. Choices for the user are an abdication of your responsibility. Maybe for legal or important reasons, you can have a few of these, but you should struggle and resist against every single choice the user has to make.

In the age of TikTok and ChatGPT, that’s more obvious than ever. People don’t want to make choices. They don’t want the cognitive load. They want you to figure out what the right defaults are and what they should be doing and looking at, and they want you to present it to them.”

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

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[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Tim Ferriss just revealed his exact system for learning ANYTHING faster than 99.9% of people on Diary of a CEO.

After mastering languages in weeks and advising Uber, he broke down the DSSS framework.

Here's how it works + 8 other principles for superhuman performance he revealed:

The DSSS Framework:

Deconstruction - Break goals into parts
Selection - Pick the 20% that gives 80%
Sequencing - Right order matters
Stakes - Create incentives

"If more information were the answer, we'd all be billionaires with six pack abs."

His language hack is wild:

Spanish has hundreds of thousands of words.

Tim reached fluency in 8-12 weeks using just the 500 most frequently used words.

Stop learning random vocabulary. Learn frequency lists.

Tim's career planning rule:

He's NEVER had a 5-10 year plan.

"If you have a reliable 5-10 year plan, you're playing so safely you're selling yourself short."

Instead? 6-12 month projects with 2-4 week experiments inside.

How he picks projects:

Two criteria ONLY:
1. Relationships (new or deepening)
2. Skills that transcend the project

Example: StumbleUpon advisor → friends with founder → years later founder texts about "taxi problem" → becomes Uber advisor.

The "mini retirement" rule:

Once a year, disappear for 4 weeks.

No laptop. No phone (except Maps/Uber).

Forces you to:
- Build systems that run without you
- Test if your business needs you constantly

"If you panic, that's your wakeup call."

His relationship rule from annual reviews:

"Did I spend enough time with my top 5-10 people last year?"

If NO → Reinvest in them FIRST

Only overflow goes to new relationships.

He's had the same annual reunion for 25+ years.

Why most quit before winning:

"People expect linear progress. It doesn't work that way."

There WILL be plateaus.
There WILL be dips.

If you know they're coming, you weather them.

If you don't, you quit right before the breakthrough.

Tim's ONE optimization rule:

Energy over passion.

"Passion is imprecise."

Energy is simple:
- More awake or sleepy?
- Can you do this 5 more hours?
- Want to stop in 15 minutes?

Optimize for biological energy, not philosophy.

His sequencing secret:

Learning swimming? Forget breathing first.

Learn gliding. Kicking. Get comfortable underwater.

THEN add breathing.

Most try everything at once.

Tim asks: What's the FIRST domino that unlocks everything else?

My key takeaway?

Stop treating subjects as silos.

Swimming, Spanish, startups—same principles.

Master the FRAMEWORK once.

Apply it to anything.

"Develop ONE framework you apply to ANY subject."

Bottom line:

Pick the right 20%.
Sequence properly.
Create forcing functions.

Compound over 6-12 month projects for YEARS.

That's how you go from suicidal college dropout to world-class performer.

[NOBLE @nobledabeast]

This is the part nobody wants to admit out loud: AI didn’t just “change the job market.” It napalmed the entire on-ramp to the middle class. And everyone pretending otherwise is selling hopium. The lie for 40 years was: go to college → get a stable white-collar job → climb the ladder. AI said “nah,” deleted the ladder, and made half the degree paths feel like betting slips from a casino that burned down. You’re watching entry-level jobs evaporate before people even get the chance to compete for them. Companies aren’t replacing junior devs with AI — they’re skipping hiring juniors entirely. They’re letting AI write the boilerplate work that used to justify those salaries. They’re nuking entire layers of the org chart because why hire five analysts when a model does 70% of the workload instantly and never asks for PTO? That’s the real horror: not replacement… erasure. And the education system? Still marching kids into $80,000 degrees for jobs that don’t exist. Career offices are printing résumé tips like it’s 2014. Politicians are babbling about “upskilling” like that word means anything when half the new AI jobs require credentials normal people will never afford. And you can already feel the social crack forming: the people who get left out of this shift aren’t a tiny unlucky group — it’s millions. A whole generation staring at a future that doesn’t have space for them in the workforce their taxes are funding. Universities won’t fix it. Companies don’t care. Governments are asleep. And AI isn’t slowing down to make anyone comfortable. This is the first economic revolution where the elevator isn’t broken — it’s been removed.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

THE AI JOB MASSACRE NOBODY'S TALKING ABOUT: YOUR COLLEGE DEGREE JUST BECAME TOILET PAPER

Let's cut through the BS: AI has eliminated 77,999 jobs in 2025 across 342 tech companies.

37% of companies using AI say the technology replaced workers in 2023 because "they were no longer needed."

And in 2024, 44% using or planning to use AI say employees will "definitely" or "probably" be laid off.

But here's what makes this different from every other tech revolution: major tech firms reduced new graduate hiring by 25% in 2024 compared to 2023.

These aren't positions getting automated - these are jobs that no longer exist.

The con everyone's selling: "AI will create new jobs!"

Sure. While 85 million jobs are projected to be displaced by 2025, 97 million new roles may emerge. Sounds great until you read the fine print:

77% of new AI-related jobs require master's degrees, and 18% require doctoral degrees. Your four-year degree? Worthless. The new entry point is a PhD most people can’t afford.

What's actually happening: A major tech CEO revealed that 30% of company code is now AI-written. At the same time, over 40% of recent layoffs targeted software engineers.

Companies are dissolving copywriting divisions and replacing substantial portions of their coding staff. More than 80% of digital marketers already fear AI will replace content writers - and they're right.

Occupations at highest risk: computer programmers, accountants, auditors, legal and administrative assistants, customer service reps, telemarketers, proofreaders, credit analysts.

Notice a pattern? White-collar, college-educated, once-stable careers - the exact jobs your parents told you were "safe."

The demographic timebomb: 79% of employed women in the U.S. work in jobs at high risk of automation, compared to 58% of men.

Globally, 4.7% of women’s jobs face severe disruption from AI versus 2.4% for men.

In high-income countries? Nearly 10% of women’s jobs are at highest risk compared to just over 3% for men. This isn't just job loss - it's systematic wealth destruction along gender lines.

The prediction nobody wants to make: Leading AI executives warn that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within 5 years.

Other global tech leaders back this projection, forecasting potential impact to half the global workforce by 2027.

We're not talking about a gradual transition. We're talking about 14% of workers already displaced by automation or AI, with estimates that AI could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs worldwide.

January 2025 saw the lowest job openings in professional services since 2013 - a 20% year-over-year drop. 40% of white-collar job seekers in 2024 failed to secure even an interview.

You're seeing the early days of something unprecedented: an entire generation locked out of the careers they trained for, watching AI do their jobs better, faster, and for pennies on the dollar.

The social contract was "get educated, work hard, build a career." AI just voided that contract.

And nobody - not universities, not politicians, not companies - has a plan for what comes next.

Sources: FinalRoundAI, AIPRM, SSRN, Fox Business, Goldman Sachs, National University, AIMultiple, WORK ON PEAK, Nexford University

[🔻#9737👤• 🥷🏿The Degen Apollyon🔱 @unknwnpnk]

The AI Safety Expert: These Are The Only 5 Jobs That Will Remain In 2030... https://t.co/OMMU6qaQXA

[🔻#9737👤• 🥷🏿The Degen Apollyon🔱 @unknwnpnk]

AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start P... https://t.co/M1IONgIXXf

[🔻#9737👤• 🥷🏿The Degen Apollyon🔱 @unknwnpnk]

They are close but not perfect,’makes my skin crawl

[🔻#9737👤• 🥷🏿The Degen Apollyon🔱 @unknwnpnk]

I’m finding these Al ADs Eerie…

[Eli Scheinman @eli_schein]

Random thought:

Do most things with no mind.

Do a very small number of things with total and complete mind.

You’ll enjoy life a lot more and execute on the things that matter more effectively.

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

1100 mg of caffeine, 90’s ambient playlist on, 7.5% abv hard kombucha, and 16 hour work days would hit so hard here,

[Ale (pikacodes) @pikacodes]

you may think no one is there for you, but there’s a backlog. the backlog is always there for you.

[Aadit Sheth @aaditsh]

This guy literally dropped 15 rules to master vibe coding with AI

[Paul William Harmon @TheHarmonX]

Sir Demis Hassabis is the most dangerous CEO alive:

• Chess prodigy at age 4
• Knighted in 2023 for services to AI
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024

He now leads Google's DeepMind AI

His vision of the next 10 years will terrify you 🧵

[Matty McTech @setupspawn]

The future of the Internet?

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

I see what you did there 🤣

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

This short video will make you RETHINK your entire life ‼️‼️

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇮🇱 Microsoft $MSFT terminates Israeli military's access to its technology after uncovering mass civilian surveillance system, violating its terms.

[🔻#9737👤• 🥷🏿The Degen Apollyon🔱 @unknwnpnk]

Needed this as a reminder of the mission we on… https://t.co/6zdbzfSpFb