Oscar Gonzalez

@bluewmist Having integrity - doing what you say you’re going to do, even if you don’t feel like it.

People who exercise even when they don't feel like it, what's your trick?

@elizarose159630 Yes, closed mouths don’t get fed.

Many authors struggle because they expect the book to sell itself. Although algorithms provide a brief initial boost, overcoming the 'discovery' challenge requires consistent, intentional marketing.

@__Talley__ Adobe is alot more than just Photoshop my friens, and no, Adobe is not going anywhere.

Is this the beginning of the end for Adobe? Cavalry is one of the main alternatives to After Effects… & now it’s free. I have always wanted to learn how to use this - now I don’t have an excuse. Time to go binge watch 100+ YouTube tutorials

@KWBussard_ amazon.com/Whispering-Eye…

@michaelblhssn @Apple All it takes is two ingredients: courage and presence.

@OGonzalezTV @Apple Easier said than done.

IQ is dead. Intelligence has been commoditized. I spent 5 years designing iPhones at @Apple most recently the iPhone 17 Pro enclosure. I learned what it means to be obsessive about every detail, leave no stone unturned, and still ship 100 million devices a year. Then I walked away. For the last decade I've been obsessed with one question: can human emotion be scientifically understood and measured? We're living in the noisiest era in history. Understanding what you feel, and why, has never been harder or more valuable. Here's what most people miss: we regulate through each other. We connect to feel, and we feel to create. The future belongs to those who are emotionally intelligent. I'm going all in on technology that makes self-awareness tangible and uses it as a stepping stone for humans reconnecting. Just joined @ycombinator P26. Coming out of stealth soon. Some will think it's crazy. Some will feel it immediately. If you see it too and you're in SF, let's talk?

@brianeskow The first mass sighting will probably be accompanied by some kind of global awakening in people.

If and when disclosure is made that extraterrestrials are here on Earth, I wonder what it’s going to be like going to bed the first night and waking up the first morning with that knowledge. I wonder what the long-term impact of that knowledge will be. I wonder if life will continue on as it did before we knew.

@mitchellvii Some people just want to see everything burn to the ground. Maybe that’s what some want.

I can't think of a single damn reason why anybody would vote for a Democrat this November. They have exposed themselves as being against everything and anything that is good for America. Give me one idea of the Democrats have right now that will make America better for Americans?

@QTarantino_ Fimmaking is my 9-5.

Who has “retired” from working a 9-5 to pursue filmmaking, writing or acting? I’m thinking about it.

@JBay_AllTheWay This is a ridiculous list. Pubic Enemy and Franz Ferdinand? WT actual F?

@ItsKieranDrew I had that exact moment, which is why it took two years to write. Even at the end, part of me wanted to keep making improvements, but every artist needs to know when to put it down.

Writing a book is one of the craziest challenges you can take on. You will spend hundreds of hours on it, then realise that there is a structural improvement that requires almost a full rewrite. At this point, you have a choice: accept "good enough" or dive in and push for excellence. Starting to understand why most books fail. It is relentless.

@505Cali2 I’m pretty sure the forest Ross was referring to is in Southern Claifornia. That’s all I’ll say.

Portals

@ZyMazza Your mistake is thinking there was a problem to be solved.

Full code below github.com/zymazza/consic…

After multiple days of many hour long sessions with GPT 5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 (thinking and extended respectively) I can confidently say I have SOLVED the hard problem of consciousness. You might think that I'm suffering from LLM psychosis, but all of my code is public and you can see it for yourself. Chat GPT 5.4 after 9 hours of extended thinking in pro mode could not find a single flaw anywhere. I have just collapsed thousands of years of futile philosophical debate into an elegant solution in one of today's leading programming languages, hailed for its compatibility with LLM driven research. We are expanding the frontier of knowledge!

@FelixIThorn amazon.com/Whispering-Eye…

Indie authors!!! I want to read your book! Drop me some links please! Any genre! 😊

@NickDiFabio1 KDP

Screw it. I wanna give back. I'm giving away my FULL system for self-publishing books on Amazon that's made me over $1,000,000. (Including how to use AI to do the majority of the work) All packed into an in-depth Guide. • Like this • Comment "KDP" & I'll DM you the full thing. *Must Follow*

😡You saw that FILTH!!! California just showed you exactly how power protects itself. AB 2624… pushed through the Assembly Judiciary Committee 11–2… is being sold as “privacy protection.” That’s not what it is. This is a direct response to exposure. Independent journalist Nick Shirley filmed taxpayer-funded facilities… daycares… hospice operations… Locations that appeared empty… While billing continued. That’s the allegation. That’s the trigger. And instead of immediate audits… prosecutions… and recovery of funds… Sacramento moved to restrict the camera. Led by Mia Bonta… AB 2624 introduces real enforcement mechanisms: Minimum $4,000 civil penalties… tripled damages possible… Legal pathways to sue individuals for filming and posting… The truth. Multi-year injunctions blocking publication of footage… Criminal exposure tied to sharing images or information if it’s interpreted as leading to harm. Understand what that means in practice… You film a publicly funded facility… You publish what you see… And now you can be financially crushed or legally restrained. All while those same facilities continue receiving taxpayer money. Now ask the only question that matters: Why is the response aimed at the person documenting… Instead of the activity being documented? Because California already has a documented history of fraud exposure across public systems… Billions lost through unemployment fraud… Healthcare system abuse… Program-level leakage that’s been acknowledged in audits. That’s not opinion. That’s recorded loss. And now the state is moving to limit visibility into similar patterns. The conflict concern is real. Rob Bonta oversees enforcement… While legislation tied to shielding exposure emerges from the same political structure. That demands scrutiny. This is not about immigrants… It’s not about safety… Real threats are already illegal under existing law. This is about control of information flow. If you can’t film it… You can’t prove it. If you can’t prove it… It doesn’t get prosecuted. That’s how systems protect themselves. To every taxpayer watching this unfold: Demand forensic audits… Demand transaction-level tracing… Demand verification of services billed versus services delivered. Because once the ability to document reality is restricted… Accountability doesn’t just weaken… It disappears. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

@AuthorGoodwin My hope is to turn my stories into television and film projects and make a living from that.

Do you hope to make a living out of your writing some day? Or is it just a hobby? #writingcommunity

@lady_valor_07 I have a few: Britney Spears, Will Smith, Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Method Man, Beyonce, Fred Durst, Pink… pretty much a lot of music stars and actors from the early 2000’s.

Who’s the most famous person you’ve ever spoken to? Not “seen from far away” — actually talked to, even for a minute. A quick hello, a handshake, a normal conversation… and you still remember it. Who was it?

@gabriel__xyz As as a newborn dad, don’t worry about your projects. Soak in every moment with your baby because it goes fast. If you have a little time here and there, cool, if not, your projects will still be there in a few months.

Dadpreneurs! How do you do it!??? As a new dad, im in the newborn trenches tbh feel like a walking zombie and i literally dont have time to work on my projects. What does/did your schedule look like in those first few months?? Any advice would be awesome! You guys are amazing

🚨BREAKING: CA Legislature Passes Bill to Criminalize Nick Shirley Style Fraud Exposés. The Assembly Judiciary Committee voted 11-2 to make investigative journalism illegal. Their bill would impose civil sanctions of $4,000 minimum if an immigrant services fraudster wants to be off camera and takes the issue to court. The fraudster can also pursue an injunction disallowing them from being exposed on camera by a journalist for up to four years. If the journalist refuses to take the initial video in which the fraudster was exposed down, they may face up to three times the amount of the initial civil penalty: $12,000. The bill protects “immigrant service centers” like fake Somali daycares or Los Angeles hospice centers from legitimate journalists by classifying them as “harassers.” In the worst case, if the Journalist is accused of doxxing a fraudster or posing an “imminent threat,” they can get criminal charges and $10,000 in fines. If this bill passes fully, and, Nick or anyone else were brave enough to film more ghost-client daycares or hospices, they’d be under severe financial and legal scrutiny. What a shame!