@mluggy@zaiatsm הם מספקים כי היום כולם מציעים את אותו המוצר. בשיחוב עם בנקאות פתוחה יכול להיות שיקרה שינוי
מצד שני בתרבות בארץ באמת יש מעט בנקים לכל אדם ביחס לאירופה וארהב
sf is insane man
met a founder with 18 employees
all 18 of them live in his apartment with him (2 bedroom place)
they work 6-11-7 (6am to 11pm, 7 days a week)
they have to get his permission to do anything besides work or sleep
he also didn't want them wasting time dating people outside the company, so he matched them up internally (80% of employees are guys so a few of them now have to be gay)
sf startup culture is wild man
@liadagmon מנגד נראה שAI דוחף במקרים רבים ממשקים גרפיים להפוך לממשקי צ׳אט. בשילוב עם טכנולגיה כמו silent speech אני רואה איך המכשיר הזה הופך להיות תחליף אייפד ביצירת תוכן, או אפילו בקידוד on the go עם קלוד
this with a filter on the room size beats all the mainstream booking sites
also funny how on booking sites every hotel has 50 pictures where most of them are complete slop
Airbnb deletes negative reviews so everything is always 4.7
Google Maps removes negative reviews in many countries as defamation so everything is always a 4.7
Booking sites want you to book so will also happily remove negative reviews for their hotels so everything is always a 4.7
I made a site called https://t.co/4p4dzTDVN6 (or https://t.co/A1nzVE5AlD whatever you prefer, I have both!)
It gets ratings from all booking platforms, normalizes them to show the actual score (eg a booking site where most hotels are always between 4 and 4.7 means you can normalize that to a 0 and 5)
It also uses AI vision models to rate hotels based on how they look
And it browses the internet for actual experiences (think blogs and Reddit posts) to get the real opinion about them outside reviews
And it's starting to work, I just stayed in this beautiful boutique apartment hotel called Woo Suites in Athens for $400/night. Clean, nice minimalist interior, working cold AC, central, excellent staff, great healthy breakfast, and we found it through Hotelist!
It's free, I don't make any money on it (actually I lose thousands per month on it to collect data via APIs and web scrapers) and there's no affiliate money bs like other booking sites (they will increase ranking of hotels if they pay sites a higher commission!)
https://t.co/4p4dzTDVN6
Tell your friends please!!!!!! 🙏
such in important take, also true to tech workers in the upper middle class that micro optimize everything and lose their mind when they encounter friction
Removing friction is how rich people end up losing agency and human IQ
It starts with Uber-everywhere, grocery delivery, all-inclusive holidays, then private driver, chef, assistant etc… without noticing you’re also removing exposure to reality
I see this in London with young ambitious professionals aka HENRYs (High Earners Not Rich Yet) trying to remove every tiny friction from life so they can focus on work + gym + sleep + money, while forgetting that a lot of the “inefficient” shit they’re deleting (cooking, walking somewhere, random talks etc) is also just… being a human in your 20s/30s
The thing is you’re not only saving time, you’re removing thousands of tiny reps of dealing with the world. Finding the place, fixing the booking, working out what to do when the train gets cancelled, asking someone for help, improvising because the plan is fucked. None of these makes you smarter on its own, but remove basically all of them for 10 years and I’d be surprised if it has zero effect. You can become incredibly high-agency at work while weirdly low-agency at normal life
It’s why so many high-agency rich people are deliberately paying to add friction back into their lives (difficult travel, long treks, sailing, marathons, remote places, silent retreats, climbing mountains, etc). They’ve understood that once comfort is abundant, difficulty becomes scarce. The luxury good eventually becomes optional hardship. The distinction is agency. Being forced to walk 10km because your car broke down sucks. Choosing to hike 20km in Patagonia feels meaningful
The way I think about it personally is just aggressively remove boring / repetitive friction, while keeping a decent amount of unpredictable friction. I’ll happily pay more for the direct flight, live centrally to kill a commute, outsource cleaning/admin, take the Uber if it genuinely saves 40 mins. A 15-min annoyance x300 a year is actually expensive. There is absolutely no hidden life lesson in doing your laundry for the 800th time or spending 2h getting somewhere you could reach in 30 mins
Think the objective of wealth shouldn’t be zero friction, but simply choosing your friction. Basically removing all the boring shit so you can expose yourself to more of the interesting stuff