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@iuditg Voice

I'm giving away $50,000 in Voice infrastructure API If you are over paying for Elevenlabs, Sarvam, AssemblyAI, Cartasia, etc. then drop a comment "voice" Interested to see what you guys are building and help you in your journey. X, please help me connect with developers, indie hackers, founders, etc.. building in voice AI space.

@sidharth_raja the pebble ring repebble.com/index

What's the best wearable tech that I could buy *today* that has the best UX for whispering and dictating stuff into. Am open to different form factors on this Basically looking to capture ad-hoc thoughts through the day.

tried a multiplayer game where you literally talk to play no buttons. no menus. just voice + AI agents doing things for you this is either the future of gaming… or everything made by @kwindla and @pipecat_ai

It’s official, Gemini Live 2.5 voice agent is the best It’s smart, it’s fast, it has large enough context Coming to GBrain Voice shortly

Making something people love is mostly making something you love and hoping the overlap is real

@paraschopra Agreed, first 21 days are the hardest, then it becomes easy

One of the highest ROI activities you can do in your life is to deeply internalize that building good habits is a short term investment that compounds to lifelong gains. Any new good habit requires overcoming initial friction, but techniques like habit stacking and starting small help. The trick is to realise that after a while, habit becomes effortless. So it’s just that initial dip you have to overcome. After that, all what you’re trying to do becomes automatic (that’s why it’s called a habit). So if you’ve been sitting on reading, programming, exercising, dieting or anything else, know that mastering the meta-skill of habit building will probably change your life forever.

One day you’ll show a kid a Pixar movie and say, “They used computers but it’s not AI,” and they won’t understand what you mean.

@Rahul_J_Mathur @ponnappa 2 real

The equivalent BLR Group Chat is more focused on requesting for PDF versions of paywalled articles👍

@shivsakhuja Let’s goose

Introducing Gooseworks — AI coworkers that can do real GTM work. Over the last few months, we've been obsessed with turning AI into actual coworkers for our team. And it's working. Goose is now our most valuable teammate – it finds high-intent leads, runs outbound campaigns, coordinates with influencers, tracks SEO / AEO and a ton more. Today we're launching this publicly so everyone can create their own AI coworkers. Each coworker (or Goose) has its own computer, filesystem, mailbox, memory, and tools. Goose can work autonomously for hours, communicates over Slack, iMessage, WhatsApp or email, and gets smarter as you give it more context. It's not just a personal assistant — your whole team can talk to Goose from anywhere, and schedule it to run on autopilot. And here's the best part – we've already given Goose 100+ skills and data APIs for GTM work: – map your TAM – search people databases with natural language – find leads from X and LinkedIn posts – monitor intent signals from your ICPs – update your CRM and generate reports – find influencers and run outreach campaigns – track visibility in search and answer engines – connect to all the SaaS tools your business runs on +++ lots more. We also open-sourced every skill as a toolkit you can install directly in Claude Code. Comment "Goose" and follow and I'll send you the install link.

The first rule of career planning: Do not plan your career. pmarchive.com/guide_to_caree…

@TheChowdhary Just applied

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This is historic: Don’t fly home after YC India Startup School! We’re excited to announce that Crustdata has partnered with Y Combinator to help bring the next generation of Indian founders one step closer to YC Together, we’re hosting the first-ever YC hackathon in Bangalore that will offer YC office hours to the winners: ContextCon, on April 19 And it’s none other than legendary YC Partner Jon Xu who will be meeting the winners. Jon is a YC Partner and the co-founder of FutureAdvisor. He has advised hundreds of companies on how to go from a hack to a billion-dollar exit You will get 6 hours to build a product powered by Crustdata’s APIs that must be demo-able by the end of the day. The top 3 winners will get guaranteed office hours to talk about their idea, product, or startup, something usually only YC startups have access to, plus prizes worth $20k Sign up link in comments!

@ankitkr0 at this point codex pro is better than claude max plan. I have both, gpt 5.4 is at par if not better than opus 4.6

cancelling my claude max feels like buying a ticket to permanent underclass

@paraschopra focus on logical reasoning and strong memory, develop love of reading and get into craftsmanship of some kind.

What advice should one give to kids to prepare for the future? I used to think mastering basics of physics, math, cs is the way to go but now I’ve updated my belief as these fields will get automated soon. What we need kids to learn is personality traits like grit, resourcefulness, optimism, resilience, etc.

OpenClaw is amazing until it does something funny like alter its own config file because you asked to try the new dream mode and then it can’t restart because of invalid config with the wrong version. This happened to me yesterday morning. I had to go ssh in with Claude Code to get it fixed. But the sheer fact all of these can happen shows you we are at Apple I stage: assemble your own motherboard stage. But the Apple II personal computer moment (where anyone can go to the store and buy a PC and it works) is coming for OpenClaw We are so early and this is the worst it will ever be

People don’t pay for outcomes. They pay for visible effort. If it looks easy, it feels cheap. If it looks hard, it feels valuable. Classic Effort Heuristic at play.

@iamgaurangdesai lfg

ok doing a small thingy in blr if you are around - do check out luma.com/1z82q3s9

Conor Neill: "18 years of school trained you to ruin conversations" "You finish your pitch and the customer says, 'Your product is too expensive!' You arrive home a few minutes late, your partner says, 'You are always late.' There's a dirty plate left on the table 'You never wash the dishes.' What do you say in this moment?" Neill explains the problem: "Most of you, me included, went through 14 years of school where we were taught one way to respond to questions. Teacher asks, 'How do you spell cats?' Student: 'C-A-T.' Teacher asks, 'What is osmosis?' Student explains in detail. For 14 years, you've been taught to give answers to questions. If you went to university, you probably had another 3 or 4 years of giving answers to questions." Here's what that does to you: "In real life in persuasion, in getting to what the other person is really about, what their needs really are, the worst thing you can do is give an answer to a question." He gives examples: "If someone says, 'Your product is too expensive,' and you say, 'No it's not! It's only €1,000'; you've lost every chance to understand what else is behind their reasoning. If you get home and your partner says, 'You're always late!' and you say, 'No, no, no, Tuesday I was definitely here on time', you're gonna have a crap weekend." Neill explains why this happens: "When your partner says, 'You're always late,' emotion goes up. And what happens? The thinking part disconnects. The way to make someone stupider is to insult them, object to them, tell them they are wrong. When you're asked a question, there's an emotional reaction, and the higher emotion goes, the lower thinking goes." He continues: "If you don't practice this response, you're not going to be able to do it in the moment. If you don't practice repeatedly how you'll respond to 'You're always late,' 'You never wash the dishes,' 'Your product is too expensive,' 'Your competitor is better,' 'You failed us 3 years ago,' 'I don't trust your company', you're not going to be able to do it in the heat of the moment." Here's what to do instead: "When you are asked a question or given an objection, I want you to say: 'I understand.' And repeat in your words what they're saying. Then give an open question back." He demonstrates: "'Your product is too expensive!' → 'I understand that money is an important factor for you. What other criteria will be used in making this decision?'" Neill calls this "Conversation Aikido": "Martial arts are about using the energy and force of the opponent against them. In Judo, if someone punches you, you pull their arm and allow the energy to keep flowing. In Aikido, the concept is you go toward the punch. You go toward the energy. If someone punches you, if someone asks you a question, if someone objects, the Aikido method is to go toward them and see the world from their view." He explains how to practice: "'You're always late!' → 'I understand you feel frustrated.' 'I understand you feel let down.' You'll have to work on this quite a few times over the next 10 years to find the set of words that captures what the other person feels, what's behind it. Then ask: 'What can we do now?' 'What happened during the day?' 'What would you like to talk about?'" Neill shares what happens when you don't do this: "When a client says 'You're too expensive' and you say 'No, we're not!' you learn nothing about who else they're considering, what other criteria are important, what process they've gone through, who else is involved in the decision." He closes with a guarantee: "By giving the answer, we shut down the possibility of hearing what's really going on in the other person's mind. But if you say 'I understand,' accept the energy coming from the other person, and give back an open question, I guarantee that if you do it 4 times, the answer to your 4th open question begins to be the real underlying need, issue, or interest of the person you're listening to."

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

The default mode of life is the never-ending tumbling and fumbling from one thing to another. Normalcy is actually an exception (that doesn’t last long) The sooner one realises that life never settles, the more at peace one can be with the incessant chaos we all have in our days