Chicken Little

Take a moment to understand this. Once you internalise this, your investment returns will follow suit. $tsla $pltr

Something new I learned today. I controlled my PC from my phone. Not a remote desktop. Not screen sharing. A mobile app sending real tasks to my PC — and my PC doing the work. While I was outside, my computer was generating documents and files. I got back to finished work. This is what "working while away from your desk" actually looks like. Not checking emails. Actual output. The gap between "at my desk" and "productive" just got smaller.

Getting my hand wet (using AI) . Literally.

@alexxphoon 👍

@Chicky_Think I think for Messi’s case it’s really talent hahaha. But for C.Ronaldo, yes agree with the hundreds of thousands of repetition.

Messi made soccer to be so easy to play. It isn't. What you see is a man receiving the ball with space already calculated, a touch already decided, a passing lane already mapped. What you don't see: thousands of repetitions drilling the same three-touch sequence until it becomes automatic. The ease is built on specificity, not talent. Most players chase "playing well." Messi chased mastery of a single problem: how to move a ball through defenders with minimal wasted motion. He solved it. That's why it looks like he's barely trying.

The great lie is that society is divided between rich and poor. The great truth, as David Friedberg puts it, is makers vs takers. Makers build, create, and deliver real value: houses, software, art, businesses, and everything that moves civilization forward. Takers watch, criticize, analyze, and politic. They push the lie that the rich hoard unfairly so the poor must seize it… all while positioning themselves to rule the chaos. As @friedberg tells his kids: “At the end of the day, if you made something and someone else valued it, you were a maker. That was an amazing achievement. That is a great day.” Takers thrive on division. Makers drive progress. Time to choose your side.

Cool. My agent running multiple agents to assist. Delegation to the max. Lol.

You don't get this from a YouTube tutorial. You try editing a PowerPoint in Claude Design. It doesn't work natively in PPT. It outputs HTML first. Formatting breaks. Things shift. Claude Cowork is different — it generates a .pptx directly. But layout quirks still creep in. It's not HTML, but it's not perfect either. Then you find the Claude connector inside PowerPoint. Cleaner handoff. But it doesn't read context as well. You lose some intelligence for better fidelity. Neither is perfect. Both teach you something the docs don't say. That's the real curriculum — shipping small things, hitting friction, figuring it out.

@Jacqueline_Goh 👍

@Chicky_Think I definitely resonate with this! So very accurate

Been advising a close friend to use Claude with a custom project for her accounting work. Specific instructions. FRS standards baked in. Consistent, reliable output. She said no need. Weeks later she's complaining — Claude giving random answers, ignoring FRS standards, outputs she can't trust. I reminded her what I said earlier. This time she listened. This time she asked for help. Same advice. Completely different reception. That's when it hit me — unsolicited help, even when correct, rarely lands. People need to feel the problem before they want the solution. The wall teaches better than I ever could. My job isn't to give the full answer upfront. Plant the seed early. Let reality do the rest. Help given after the wall is help that sticks.

@paulsputer Great analogy!

@Chicky_Think Haha yup, perfect example of marketing vs sales marketing plants the seed, sales gets them over the line once they feel the problem

@laien1_ Unsure. I am using max 5 so far OK.

@Chicky_Think imo, claude token get used up too fast thou, had pro acct and kept hitting limits with a few prompts. has it improved nowadays?

Getting hands dirty with AI beats reading about it. Two months in. Claude AI, Claude Code, Cowork, Claude Design. Not dabbling — building. Real use cases. Built for his life. Each tool solving something specific. Cowork edits files directly. No iteration loop. Fewer tokens. Faster output. That's the shift most people miss. AI isn't one tool — it's a stack, and you have to learn each layer. Still experimenting. Some things will break. That's the point. You don't learn what AI can do by watching demos. You learn by getting your hands dirty.

AI isn't multiplying your output by 10x? You're not using it correctly. You're not using it enough. Go learn what it can actually do. Because the gap doesn't wait for you to catch up. This isn't new. Microsoft Office arrived. The Internet arrived. The non-adaptors didn't just fall behind — they got left permanently. I watched it happen. I won't be the one to disappear next. The world didn't get cruel. It just kept moving.

Andrew Ross Sorkin on Elon Musk: “He is a demonstrable force for good. He’s a genius. I admire so much about what he’s created; If I look at the totality of this man, 100-200 years from now, he’s the person we’ll be writing the history books about."

@WuMPraTT That's true. Hahaha

@Chicky_Think It's not surprising...There are people who, till this day still don't know how to Google shit. Let alone ask them to pick up AI.

They watched me do it twice. Still didn't try it themselves. First time, I showed two colleagues how to use AI to work faster. They were impressed. Moved on. A month later, same demo. Same awe. Someone asked how I finish documentation so fast. That's when it clicked. Most people hear about AI. Some even see it in action. Almost none of them actually sit down and try. The gap isn't access. It isn't knowledge. It's execution. I stopped explaining and just kept building. Everyone noticed the output. Few asked about the process. Fewer still went home and practiced. Watching someone else use a tool well is not the same as picking it up yourself. The ones who get their hands dirty will quietly pull ahead — and most won't even notice until the gap is too wide to close.

@shiftcmdd I see. Thanks for sharing!

@Chicky_Think aoostar.com I got a mini PC here, WTR Max. You can check out the Pro version which is within your budget. I’m just not certain Raspberry Pi has the power for local AI, if that’s your objective.

Thinking to buy a raspberry pi to continue build my second brain or a 3D printer to explore. Roughly same cost. Any suggestions?

@shiftcmdd I want to start small, less than $500.

@Chicky_Think What’s your budget? I built my own home lab under $2000. It runs about twenty apps at the moment

@xcelon82 I am still figuring out but sure, will share more as I go along. What are you trying to build? Share too!

@Chicky_Think Sounds like me. XD I’m only at setting up workflow and autonomous agent. Able to guide me on resources to expand my knowledge and direction? 🫡