Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich

A startup is not a company: it's an experiment to see if a company deserves to exist. Until p/m-fit, speed of hypothesis testing trumps everything. Startups die when they spend faster than they learn.

@morganlinton I moved so many static sites from Webflow to Cloudflare pages earlier this year with Claude’s help, including yanda.com. It’s so good and fast.

Trying CloudFlare pages for the first time, I like it. I could see this quickly becoming my new fav for static web hosting. First site I'm putting on it, PresidioHeights(.)com, a domain I own because it happens to be my absolutely favorite neighborhood in SF.

@mattarderne @nickcammarata @WisprFlow Works great for me but there are a couple other contenders you can try: @aquavoice @usemonologue.

@yanda @nickcammarata @WisprFlow The app was kinda buggy for me? Didn’t feel like it was viable for a keyboard level integration

anthropic please fix your awful ios transcription my workflow rn while walking is is talking to chatgpt for its whisper model and copying and pasting to claude and i want to be freed from this

@l2k Every startup is a Schrödinger startup these days, one announcement away from being dead or alive, and back again. 🧐

All the people saying Cursor is dead clearly have not used the product recently - it’s gotten incredibly good

@perplexity_ai been using it for a few minutes... it's awesome. 🥰

Comet is now available for iOS. Download on the App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/comet-a…

Really wish the M5 MacBook came in cosmic orange. Thanks to @dbrand for a cool alternative.

@HenkPoley @tanayj @nickcammarata @WisprFlow 144/year totally worth it imo. You could probably vibecode an alternative, but Wispr just works and @tankots and team are hyper responsive.

@tanayj @yanda @nickcammarata @WisprFlow Ah doh. I meant to write €144 per year.

Axiom Math founder @carinalhong on why math is the path to general superintelligence: “Math is the sandbox for reality. You very quickly see verifiable rewards because in math, there’s an absolute right or wrong.” “And especially when you have Lean, you can check the proof or solution step by step. You’ll be able to apply reinforcement learning in a much more efficient way.” “We have currently scaled from winning a Putnam perfect score to solving a batch of research problems that professional mathematicians find really challenging. And we also see this transfer to code verification.”

@nickcammarata @OshanJarow I want to try this 🥰

@OshanJarow this is so cool!

Interesting results here. Cooper & Northoff '22 found that beginner meditators start out in a period of positive correlation between the default mode & central executive networks before proceeding into the intermediate state of anti-correlation between them. New SEMA lab paper found that ultrasound stimulation basically helped beginners ~skip the first phase and get right to decoupling DMN and CEN activity.

Ok this is hilarious: translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=Li… Translate English to LinkedIn Speak, from @KagiHQ 😆

I’d love to name custom emojis so they show up in autocorrect when I type the word. 🙏 @Apple

I get an insane amount of push notification spam from @Microsoft Authenticator, asking for 2FA for an account that doesn’t exist. 🤷‍♂️

@bryan_johnson Wizzy and Sequel say: Aussies!

I'm thinking about getting two dogs. What breeds should I consider?

@morganlinton Ignore the haters: they love to hate. 🥰

I guess saying that you like Perplexity Personal Computer means you get accused of being a paid partner? I’ve also said I really like GPT-5.3-Codex, and Claude, and Cloudflare Code Mode. I’m the CTO of a startup, I love engineering and ai coding tools. I shouldn’t be attacked for sharing what I think is cool or interesting. Right @nikitabier?

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Okay, screw it, just decided to stop writing in so many places and going to mostly focus on writing here on X, and in my newsletter, that now has a shiny new domain. And because I get mistaken for an expert wayyyy too much, just had to put it in the tagline. My newsletter is not a serial entrepreneur or 10x founder sharing advice. Instead, just a founder and engineer, learning, making plenty of mistakes, and sharing along the way. If that sounds interesting to you, hard to forget this domain name right??

@morganlinton Better yet, don’t; instead bring @perplexity_ai Computer as your +1 to things. Best part of having it on mobile 🥰

Cancel your weekend plans.

Congratulations @dojideon @SamiGhoche and the whole @forethought_ai team! It's been an honor to be along for the journey so far, and excited for the combined @Zendesk & @forethought_ai future. 🚀 🥰

@DrRivlin What body? What client? 🥰🤣

@yanda Time to go into the body. You are the client profile I'm looking for. Have achieved. Are awakening. Are maturing. Are beginning to notice that there is contraction in certain circumstances. Do these circumstances involve relating to self or others?

I'm mildly peeved at consciousness: I can have a clear & prolonged seeing of no-self, feel the ease & effortlessness that comes from that state, and then my mind still “decides” to revert back to the contracted “self inside the world” illusion. Wtf universe.

Thrilled for @CarinaLHong and the @axiommathai team! Excited to deepen our partnership with @MenloVentures and welcome Matt Kraning to the board. Most importantly, fundraises are fuel for tech, product, and GTM achievements; Axiom is 🚀🚀 on those fronts! 🥰

@TylerAlterman Yes, why I’m only mildly peeved. Still seems ridiculous that the no-self view isn’t a stable attractor state.

I think this is just the game of existing and it’s good to have fun with it