Dave Schools

a few weeks ago someone called work without AI “tradwork” and i can’t stop thinking about it

@ronsterd89 AI

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you see this photo?

@davidsenra @pmarca Great men of history were introspective enough to not waste time on introspection. FTFY

Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.

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@theericcarlson @grok how much funding did Icon raise?

I’ve seen a lot of hate for Icon. And I just don’t get it. Did the product achieve PMF? Not really. Did it deliver on its promises? No. But the founder took a shot. He was extremely responsive to feedback. Seemed to be always online. And this is the second business he rapidly built. Not all shots on goal are going to make it. But at least he took the shot. And I wouldn’t be surprised if we see him again.

@MostlyQuality @yacineMTB Last line should've just been "Because you are"

I think it's genuinely over for all of us

I was just googling this the other day trying to find out what happened to this company. I remember when this first launched. It was an insanely successful launch - viral product video, founder brand, social influencers posting, press coverage, sizzling website/domain. I remember thinking, wow these guys nailed it. They are going to crush it. As another founder, I couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed because our launch didn't get anywhere near as much hype. And I worked in PR. But we're the ones still in business. Still building, still growing. Turns out serving customers well and reliably over time makes a business successful in the end. Not the hype.

@JoshuaBarzon @grok what is the sad news?

There is too much sad news today. Here is a timeline cleanse. I’m dying laughing at these chiropractor videos 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@gregisenberg We’re doing this with Singulate for enterprise marketing ops

build startups for agents over the next 10 years, you'll have a market of billions of customers (agents) with millions of wallets that want to use your services go look at every saas tool you use. notion, slack, stripe etc now ask: "what's the version of this that's built purely for agents?" agent-native payments, agent-native communication, agent-native memory etc every single category gets rebuilt (for agents) we're entering the machine-to-machine economy and almost nobody is building for it yet.

The attendees and consumers of goods and services are paying the creators and organizers of experiences (I.e., uses of time) just as they do in today’s economy. Supply and demand work the same way, it just shifts what the work and value in the economy looks like. Just because it doesn’t look the same way we’re used to, doesn’t mean it’s going to collapse. Economies, just like organisms, evolve to adapt to new environments.

@DaveSchoools Who's paying ? What are they paying for ?

The more work that is produced and automated by AI, the more humans can be paid to … be human.

stripe's CEO explains how to move fast

Here is the breakdown of Earth's acreage: Total Surface Area: ~126.016 billion acres. Total Land Area: ~36.8 billion acres. Habitable Land Area: ~15.77 billion acres, after accounting for uninhabitable terrain like high mountains and glaciers. The moon has 9.38 billion acres of inhabitable land. This is the size of ~60% of the earth's inhabitable land. This is the size of the Americas continental land mass. This is the size of major nations combined: The United States, China, Europe, Brazil, and South Africa. What does this mean? If Elon opens up a transportation system between earth and the "8th continent" of the moon, it could become a self-governed, self-growing nation, and a large one at that. Just need to find the people (and the humanoids) to live there.

The highest-paying job in tech will soon be marketing.

@BrittanyinTexas Fake. Look at the two tripping over each other on the right side

Funniest thing I’ve seen all day… 😂😂 x.com/OunkaOnX/statu…

Building in public works for solopreneurs, bootstrapped startups, and service companies / indie hackers attracting other solopreneurs, boostrappers, etc. It does not work for hyperscaling venture-backed startups. Because growth eventually slows and sh*t eventually hits the fan, and then what? You stop building in public, eroding all the "trust" you built. It works in fair weather times not in famine. There's a middle ground called "marketing" - check that out. It let's you control the narrative more than being beholden to raw transparency at all times.

@creation247 @nateliason How??

@nateliason yes it is brother

Did you know SALT FAT ACID HEAT is not just a book, but an email copywriting formula: SALT - lead with some strong flavor that gets attention FAT - satisfy with yummy filling info, feels good. ACID - excite with a wild citrusy zip, facts that pucker HEAT - close with energy, transformation, and timing

Door to door sales is about to have a whole new meaning...