Nick Stevens |❤️| towards a better future

"Intention not Reinvention" - Most companies think doing good means reinventing everything. It doesn't. We already know how to build great businesses. The only thing wrong with most of them is their intention. 🧵

@nduwaflorent @ttunguz AI data centers in space.

@ttunguz Hard to see the connection between SpaceX’s space business and the AI side right now. Although Elon somehow always delivers in the end. At the moment, still feels like a long stretch to fully see how the two connect together.

SpaceX filed its S-1 yesterday after 24 years private. The filing reveals an AI-era conglomerate : Space, Starlink & AI. Three businesses with vastly different economics. 🧵

@rorysutherland Sir - have you seen dontwordle.com

Nine of these sixteen things are things no Brit or Australian or Indian have ever heard of. One category is completely incomprehensible even when you have the answer. I accept that the NYT is a US publication, but today's Connections is just toss. Puzzle #1075 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟨🟨

@GerBaron Congrats!

Om de rechtervleugel ik m’n tijdslijn het leven gemakkelijk te maken ga ik per 1 juli werken voor het COA. Net als bij de gemeente Amsterdam ben ik daar verantwoordelijk voor en aanspreekbaar op alles dat misgaat. 24/7.

@valsopi High praise but quick churn suggests that these people were too far left on the adoption curve. These people aren't loyal and always keen to try the next big thing.

One thing I can't quite decipher: Some customers who come with full enthusiasm and praise, and who are extremely happy, churn after 3–4 months. Which is extremely different from customers who never write in and stay as customers for years. Does anyone know why this happens?

@TrevorLongino Feels very odd that the side columns are grabbing attention instead of the content. Honestly wish I could hide the right column entirely.

@Clogish It's the same headline as the "What's Happening?" and, I guess, the font is in use already. They just changed it from a much lighter weight. I guess I'm getting an A/B test.

Yo Twitter, what the hell did you do to your sidebar? Is that actually Inter Black?

@danielbrottman Vision is the destination you want to reach, mission is the work to make it happen, carefree, fun, whimsy, are how you do the work.

hey how do u guys balance being "on mission" with being carefree, having fun, whimsy etc

@majamediaco @sarahdrinkwater thought you'd appreciate this.

lately thinking about companies by ambition and craft some have taste without chasing scale (local cafe). some are optimisation machines. most are in the default zone the rarer type is high craft + high ambition, where taste and growth reinforce each other who belongs there?

@x1m_martijn Science fiction becomes science fact.

thought I had a fever dream, all my content on X is in Dutch because of automatic translation 🥲

@katiewav a small part is that sitting too close together can cause mic bleed. i.e. where each person is being captured by both mics. Hard to solve with cheap gear, so more space is a free sound quality upgrade.

content itself aside, i genuinely want to understand the reasoning behind the marina abramović-ification of these podcast sets + sparse staging + a sort of ritualized distance/stillness + aestheticized intelligence + a provocative thumbnail why?

@signulll @levelsio @WHOOP The Nike+ Fuelband was just too early.

@levelsio @WHOOP i would love something more discrete that doesn’t look like an actual wearable at all. but the oura.

Every brand discovered we don't want a bright screen on our wrist after @WHOOP's success

@andreasklinger @TaliaRinger That's a butterfly, no?

@TaliaRinger Schmetterling basically "Smash-ling" schmettern is the kind of smash that a maul or morning star would do

Why does ladybug have such interesting names in so many languages? Ladybug, Moses' cow, the lord's beast, red taxi. Is literally any language normal about ladybugs?

@dannypostma Happy to hear you're good, and congrats from grunn!

Hey Twitter. Been a while. Thanks to everyone who's reached out to check in, I haven't died, promise Just wanted to share where I've been the last 5 months. It started in November. Some personal stuff came up that meant I couldn't share what I was working on anymore and honestly sharing was the whole reason I enjoyed Twitter. The building in public, the conversations, meeting people. Without that, it kind of took the fun out of it for me. Then January came around, and the world kind of lost its mind. I was doomscrolling 5+ hours a day, cranky and angry, short with the people around me. And what really got me was that even when I wasn't on the app, I was still scrolling, just in my head. My wife mentioned Id been off lately, "what are you even doing?", and that's when it hit me: this is a vicious circle. I needed to stop. So I quit cold turkey. Decided it was basically an addiction, and it wasn't giving me anything back. 5 months in honestly it's been one of the best things I've done for myself in years. Not spending 5 hours a day on the app feels amazing. In the mornings especially, Twitter used to dictate what I'd think about all day. Whatever was trending, that's where my head went. I didn't even realize it was happening. Without it, you remember how much is actually going on in real life. You don't have to be scrolling. You can just be there, with your wife, your dog, your friends. Read a book. Read an actual news site. Sit with your own thoughts. That last part has been the biggest one. When your mind has space again, you start *thinking*. About your life. About decisions you've been putting off. I've been head-down running the company for years, always managing, always growing, and suddenly I had room to ask: am I doing what I want to be doing? That alone made the whole thing worth it. Some things that have changed: - Made some dramatic work changes - Working on side projects again - Enjoying coding for fun - Less stressed, way less reactive - My relationships with everyone are better - Been working out, eating healthier, and lost 7kg - Got married - Just happier I've opened the app a few times since. Scrolled for a bit. And honestly, it just doesn't bring me joy anymore. But I do miss things. I miss sharing what I'm building. I miss the people, the conversations, the small connections that come from posting and replying. That's the part I haven't found anywhere else. I'll come back one day, in some form. Probably something custom, a way to share what I'm working on and interact with people without seeing the feed. For now I'm just enjoying being off the grid. If you want to chat, send me an email or a message, Id love that. Thanks for checking in 🙏

@sivers I feel this. People ask me if I ever go visit "home", but it's a place I left 21 years ago. It doesn't exist any more.

@adamlisagor That's exactly what I was hoping to hear. Thanks for making this!

@Clogish It makes sense. You put Keynote in Present mode but select “In Window” instead of “In Fullscreen” in Keynote’s Play menu. Then your presentation works in Hovercraft perfectly.

Hovercraft is how I always wanted to share my slides. So I made it. It’s a virtual camera for the Mac. No more disembodied voice. No more “can you see my screen?” Just me, tossing around my windows like it’s 2027.

@adamlisagor I mean, does it mean I need a second screen (for the full screen app to run), or is Hovercraft the second screen? Does that make sense?

@Clogish You can still share the full window in presenter mode. Try it out, if something’s breaking for you, let me know and I’ll patch it up.

@Lucasbfranco @signulll @Skye Why do you assume speed is a goal?

@signulll @Skye what's the one thing slowing you down most?

1k+ beta users of @skye! we are letting in ~100 every day. great feedback so far. we are early & we have a fuck ton of work to do but god damn it is so much fun. i have never had more fun than building + telling ppl why we even bother to do what we do. we don’t focus on outcomes, just refine our process. we are going to push a lot of boundaries on what it means to be ai native software that continuously runs & just works. we are only bottlenecked by time.

@visakanv Congrats!

A thing I remember wanting to think about when I was caring for newborn #1 was “how do be more productive on my phone” and I never quite figured it out. Seems like it would be prudent to think about it now before #2 shows up…

@valsopi @Reddit might you have signed up with your Google/FB/whatever credentials?

Anyone have any clue how to recover a reddit account that you don't know the email you signed up with OR can't remember the password / a 12y old account 🥹 I know this is probably impossible and a long shot but do I know anyone in my network at @Reddit 🤞