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Couldn’t finish it the first time because of medical reasons. But I’m back ..... and officially a certified @Safaryclub Web3 Marketer 🦁 Grateful for the patience it took to restart and the people who make this space worth learning for.

Going from 3 to 10 engineers breaks most startups. Not because of hiring. Because of what happens after. 🧵

i've been sitting with this for a while. a lot of what gets called community right now is theater. private dinners, curated summits, AI meetups with free food and free swag. some of it is real. a lot of it isn't. and the difference is worth knowing. watch the move. someone in your feed starts handing things out. food, coffee, swag, late-night dinners, weekend trips. cute caption. cute name for the gesture. somewhere in the post, a brand gets tagged. supporting the scene, backing the builders, fueling something or other. read it twice. a lot of the time it isn't generosity, it's a campaign wearing a personal face. someone funds it. the host gets credit for kindness. the receiver gets a small thing in hand. and in return, the host quietly collects every tag, every photo, every team name, every thank-you. the gratitude turns into content. the kindness turns into inventory. most cities in this scene have someone running the same play now. the wrapper changes, the structure doesn't. find something cheap to hand out. dress it up as community. line up a sponsor. harvest the attention. compound it into a personal brand. once the brand is loud enough, you don't need a sponsor anymore. you are the sponsor. the real ones, the people actually showing up for builders, do the opposite. their help arrives without a post. without a tag. without a hashtag. without a name for the gesture. without the photo dump a few days later. the move always announces itself first. that's how you tell them apart. now look at the room itself. a lot of the people in there don't want to see you grow faster than them. they'll smile, they'll hug, they'll post the pictures. then they go home and quietly hope you stay roughly where you are. most of them walk in with a list. they know what they want from you and not much beyond it. for many, the goal isn't connection, it's positioning. become a name. become a face. get a label. let the room start calling you guru, founder, tastemaker, visionary, whatever sticks. and the crowd plays along, because they want their turn next. so be careful with the ones getting crowned. and more careful with the ones doing the crowning. naval said it years ago. go do something great and your network will instantly emerge. that's the whole thing. build the work. the right people find you on their own. most of the rest is hunger pretending to be generosity. so don't worship what shows up on your timeline. don't fall for the show in the name of community, free food, swag, founder dinners, whatever the wrapper is this week. believe in yourself first. keep the wrong people out of your life. out of your office. out of your head. distance is the cleanest gift you can give yourself.

@nikitabier 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this was my first thought

For my account, it’s opened the door to a mental hospital

The value of an X account can be measured by what doors it opens for you in real life.

i'm building a creative intelligence lab on the side, and after 6+ years working with 10+ teams and co-founding 2 companies, I'm searching for a full-time role and figuring out what's next. open to relocate/remote. help me w/ leads or dm me if you're hiring :) read the full announcement ↘︎ 12 May 2026. tuesday. mark it. from a small room with a closed door, to whatever this is about to become. MainArc launches soon. and i'm not gonna pretend this was easy. the last few months have been a full rollercoaster. ups, downs, self-doubt loud enough to drown the screen, days where nothing felt like it was working and i questioned everything i was building. i kept going anyway. focused. prayed. meditated. then went back to the keyboard and shipped one more thing. locked in. lights on at weird hours. phone face down. just grinding. while the timeline argued about ai killing design, killing creativity, killing taste, or somehow saving all of it... i was somewhere else entirely. late night calls. half-broken builds at 3am. errors i had no business solving but solved anyway. weeks of researching, reading, dm'ing strangers, learning patterns, then unlearning them the next week. reviewing ai work with extreme taste, judgment, and care. that's the part nobody talks about. you don't just learn with ai. you unlearn. unlearn how you used to work. unlearn how you used to think. unlearn what design even meant to you a year ago. so what is MainArc? not a studio. a creative intelligence layer for modern companies. MainArc researches ai-native creativity and turns it into how teams actually think, design, and build. i've already dropped 3 reports under the MainArc name. those were just the surface. there's a lot more i've quietly built that hasn't made it out yet. so i'm refining the whole thing. what MainArc actually is now. how it started. where it's headed. all of it, right here, soon. MainArc is solely run by me and my ai agent. no team. no investors. no office. just me, a screen, an agent, and a stupid amount of conviction. and here's the part i actually want you to hear. i gave this 100%. not the linkedin kind. the real kind. every pixel, every line, every decision ran through human taste, human judgment, and a real amount of care. ai helped me move. it didn't get to drive. i'm not chasing virality. i'm not chasing the algorithm. i'm not building this to win the week. i'm building it to solve real problems, bring clarity, and actually help people and teams who are tired of the noise. i'm not here to argue. not here to debate. not here to reply to every spicy take in the quotes. i'm here to build. that's the whole job. also, small disclaimer for the lazy readers in the back. everything you've seen from MainArc so far, and everything you're about to see, came from real experience, real work, and a real obsession with design, tech, and creativity. it took human hours. it took human hard work. it took rough patches with my mental health, weeks of creative block, life punching me in the face on random tuesdays, and me showing up anyway. this isn't a one-shot prompt with a logo slapped on top. this isn't ai slop with good fonts. nothing here came easy, without a base, or in a single sitting. you can feel the difference. that's the whole point. quick truth before we go further. humans make mistakes. ai makes mistakes. nobody in this room is perfect, including me. if something here doesn't land for you, doesn't feel useful, or reads like ai slop in your eyes, that's fine. just close the tab and keep walking. don't dump hate on the way out. i genuinely don't care what you think. i'm doing what i'm doing. respect your own boundaries, your own limits, and your own words. that's all i ask. so here's the date on the wall. MainArc. tuesday, 12 may 2026. set the reminder. show up. you'll see what i mean. one rule though. hate, trolling, drive-by takes don't belong here. good vibes only. dms open. show me what you're working on, i'll show you mine.

@0xDragoonLab This guy is the real deal. Anyone who takes him into their team would would be blown away

@justin_m_guerra That is exactly right.

Three questions I ask before building any AI workflow. What is the human actually doing today, specifically? Not "marketing" or "content" but the exact task, exact input, the thing they're handing off. If you can't describe it in one sentence, you're not ready to build. Where does context get lost between sessions? Every workflow breaks at a handoff. Name it before you build or you'll find out the hard way. What's the cost when it gets it wrong? That answer tells you what oversight needs to look like. Every broken workflow I've seen skipped question two or three.

@0xDragoonLab Indeed. This is super real. Its comparatively easy to do the work and hitting publish has such a overthinking loop that can be a stuck

quick honest one. The last 48 hours, I've been editing, deleting, rewriting, debugging, and second-guessing everything I'm about to put out on Thursday. this is what shipping actually looks like. nobody talks about this part.

@weareuplers I am no engineer but i think the approach with a cto and a founding engineer should be the same. And the designation doesn’t matter when you’re that early.

@danielrachlin But 49 days for 1 person is also too slow. Dont you think?

@0xRubin 2 weeks is fast. Quality and culture fit beat pure speed when you're building a team.

This is a good read, for anyone hiring. might be useful.

@kashvii Love this team btw

@kashvii If you really are…. Finally some good news in the market

"nobody is hiring marketers, sentiment is at an all time low, the industry is dead, it is so over" meanwhile, us:

@imukulmunjal @weareuplers Exactly. And thats why hiring is broken

@weareuplers screening 20 to get to 3 is the problem. the 17 should never reach the founder in the first place

Founder-led interviews are a tax, not a filter. Every 30-min founder interview = 30 min not spent on your product. Do the math on 20 candidates. (17 not so relevant, 3 are) That's 10 hours a week, every week, for a role you won't close for another month. The fix isn't "founder skips interviews." It's "founder interviews 3, not 20."

@0xDragoonLab So does this also make claude design better?

#75 AI agents produce the statistical average of everything they've seen. the average of everything is mediocre. i built a system that gives agents something resembling taste. anti-slop rules, design critique agents, writing quality hooks. one install. github.com/Dragoon0x/ever…

So wholesome

dropping thursday ↘︎ phantom won by making wallets pretty. @Rabby_io @DeBankDeFi won by making wallets honest. different thesis. both work. breaking down how rabby thinks about design for power users. explore more in the meantime ↘︎ designprotocol.substack.com

@WorkflowWhisper Antigravity

antigravity is quietly becoming the most dangerous tool in automation. i've been testing it for 2 weeks and here's what nobody's talking about: you can build entire n8n workflows without ever opening n8n. not drag and drop. not templates. not watching a 45-minute youtube tutorial from some course seller. you describe what you want. antigravity builds it. here's what i shipped this week from a single antigravity session: → restaurant reservation no-show recovery system (texts customer, offers reschedule, logs to CRM) - 8 min → real estate lead scoring pipeline (scrapes zillow inquiries, scores by budget, routes to agents) - 12 min → fitness studio class waitlist + auto-fill (cancellation triggers SMS to next 3 on list) - 6 min → HVAC seasonal maintenance reminder engine (customer history → personalized outreach → booking link) - 9 min → auto-invoice generator that fires the moment a job is marked complete - 4 min 5 workflows. 39 minutes total. zero nodes dragged. consultants would quote $12K-$25K for this package and deliver it in 6-8 weeks. the entire game just shifted and most people building automations haven't noticed yet. i put together a free PDF breaking down exactly how to set this up: → antigravity → n8n deployment pipeline (step by step) → all 5 prompts above (copy-paste ready) → 4 advanced prompts for multi-system workflows → how to connect it to synta MCP for self-healing → pricing guide for selling these to local businesses comment "ANTIGRAVITY" and i'll send it. (must be following for DM)

The New Status i've been noticing something quietly shifting in the world. not in a loud, headline kind of way. but in the way conversations feel different, opportunities show up differently, and people signal who they are. the old signs of status just don't land anymore. nobody is impressed by titles. nobody cares where you studied. nobody is stunned by a salary number. those signals feel like relics from a world where the gatekeepers still mattered. that world is gone. ai leveled the field so brutally and so quickly that the expert advantage evaporated. what actually stands out now isn't what you know. it's how you move. the people who hold the power today aren't the ones with the longest cv. they're the ones who spot openings before others see them. who place bets without waiting for instructions. who build their own momentum. who turn resources into outcomes. who risk being wrong in pursuit of something real. it took me a while to understand this. for years, i thought the game was about being the most skilled in the room. now i see. skill gets you in the room. but judgment decides what you do once you're there. the people who really stand out today have an energy you can't fake. they walk around with this sense of i'm steering my own ship, and you feel it immediately. not arrogance. not bravado. just a quiet, grounded confidence that comes from choosing their path instead of inheriting it. you can't replicate that by climbing a ladder. you earn it by placing chips on your own decisions. by caring where things are going instead of where things are supposed to be. by being willing to hold risk with your bare hands while others keep theirs clean. ask someone ten years ago, what do you do. they'd answer with a job title. ask someone with real momentum today, and they answer with a direction. a thesis. a build. a bet. the world is shifting toward people who are willing to act as if the future belongs to them. because in many ways, it does. we're leaving the era of credentials and entering the era of conviction. and the people who thrive in this era aren't measured by their tasks. they're measured by their ability to shape the world around them. that's the new status. and honestly, it feels a lot more real.

This guy is making a great tool everuday… and i am so obsessed

@coldemailchris Playbook

I just filmed a 19-minute video covering the exact GTM playbook we used to generate 176 leads in October for our B2B agency. Here's what I cover in this video: > How We Created a No-Brainer Offer > Our Proprietary B2B Content Strategy > Twitter (X) Growth & Lead Capture > LinkedIn Authority & Lead Capture > Intent-Signal Tracking Workflows > Multi-Source Data Acquisition > Enrichment & Validation Waterfall > Outbound Channels Execution > CRM & Data Infrastructure > Lead Management & Follow-Up > Meetings, Discovery & Closing Like + Comment "PLAYBOOK" so I can DM you the video personally. (Must be following to receive)