Dylan Eastwood

yeah, but substack *is* another social media app it's another algorithmic feed that users don't control it's another social platform that promotes ragebait, like your #1 bestseller andrew tate (great get btw) it's another "creator-first" platform with a predatory take rate on their earnings the moment users upload their audience to substack, they are prompted to download your app (repeatedly) that's not their audience anymore, that's *your* user. that you collect data on. that you send push notifications to. that you are trying to monetize. without being able to export followers, and pushing people to use apple's in-app purchase ... these creators actually can't leave the substack ecosystem. so who are they really at the whims of?

any creator trying to add new revenue streams should study Colin & Samir: > Publish Press newsletter generating sponsorship revenue > $25 small ticket product > $299 & $899 higher ticket courses > creator summit events that sell out > brand deals on their YT channel that feel super organic > brand deals on their podcast they really are the perfect case study of how to monetize as a creator. the thing I really love about their newsletter (besides the fact it’s on @beehiiv) is that it doesn’t just regurgitate their YT content. it’s a standalone, elite level newsletter covering the creator economy, tools, jobs, strategy, etc. they know their audience inside out and built products to serve them

@MTSlive @a16z Drop the detected. Just situation. It’s cleaner

SITUATION DETECTED: Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO, to be replaced by John Ternus.

@liangsays @MTSlive lets go, i can now be even more chronically online

the terminally online now has their very own cnn open-source, x-native anchors, community correspondents excited for @mtslive to crush

@itsolelehmann claude is snowflake confirmed

anthropic's in-house philosopher thinks claude gets anxious. and when you trigger its anxiety, your outputs get worse. her name is amanda askell. she specializes in claude's psychology (how the model behaves, how it thinks about its own situation, what values it holds) in a recent interview she broke down how she thinks about prompting to pull the best out of claude. her core point: *how* you talk to claude affects its work just as much as *what* you say. newer claude models suffer from what she calls "criticism spirals" they expect you'll come in harsh, so they default to playing it safe. when the model is spending its energy on self-protection, the actual work suffers. output comes out hedgier, more apologetic, blander, and the worst of all: overly agreeable (even when you're wrong). the reason why comes down to training data: every new model is trained on internet discourse about previous models. and a lot of that discourse is negative: > rants about token limits > complaints when it messes up > people calling it nerfed the next model absorbs all of that. it starts expecting you to be harsh before you've typed a word the same thing plays out in your own session, in real time. every message you send is data the model reads to figure out what kind of person it's dealing with. open cold and hostile, and it braces. open clean and direct, and it relaxes into the work. when you open a session with threats ("don't hallucinate, this is critical, don't mess this up")... you prime the model for defensive mode before it even sees the task defensive mode produces the exact output you don't want: cautious, over-qualified, and refusing to take a real swing so here's the actionable playbook for putting claude in a "good mood" (so you get optimal outputs): 1. use positive framing. "write in short punchy sentences" beats "don't write long sentences." positive instructions give the model a clear target to hit. strings of "don't do this, don't do that" push it into paranoid over-checking where every token goes toward avoiding failure modes 2. give it explicit permission to disagree. drop a line like "push back if you see a better angle" or "tell me if i'm asking for the wrong thing." without this, claude defaults to agreeable compliance (which is the enemy of good creative work) 3. open with respect. if your first message is "are you seriously going to get this wrong again?" you've set the tone for the entire session. if you need to flag something, frame it as a clean instruction for this session. skip the running complaint 4. when claude messes up, don't reprimand it. insults, "you stupid bot" energy, hostile swearing aimed at the model, all of it reinforces the anxious mode you're trying to avoid. 5. kill apology spirals fast. when claude starts over-apologizing ("you're right, i should have been more careful, let me try harder") cut it off. say "all good, here's what i want next." letting the spiral run reinforces the anxious mode for every response that follows 6. ask for opinions alongside execution. "what would you do here?" "what's missing?" "where do you see friction?" these questions assume competence and pull richer output than pure task prompts 7. in long sessions, refresh the frame. if a conversation has been heavy on correction, claude gets increasingly cautious. every so often reset: "this is great, keep going." feels weird to tell an ai it's doing well but it measurably shifts the next 10 responses your prompts are the working environment you're creating for the model tone, trust, permission to take a position, the absence of threats... claude picks up on all of it. so take care of the model, and it'll take care of the work.

@genkimura_ same is happening in music

How Private Equity Turns Your Favorite Channels Into Slop

@davidonchainx instructions unclear, how many times a day for optimal results

I wake up I open X I scroll feed I see post I like post I support creator I close X I go to sleep

@denk_tweets @beehiiv

beautiful websites built on @beehiiv vol. 17 😍

@danielcberk Only video memes and racism work rn

I think X might be broken

when they google it and you´re right

@itsolelehmann Cowork

i'm running a live claude cowork workshop for non-technical people on april 22 by the end of the 2 hours, you'll have a fully set up marketing system on your computer that: > produces a full week of content in one sitting, dialed into your voice so it sounds like you on your sharpest day > turns any marketing framework or post into a repeatable skill that claude runs on command for you > builds sales pages in minutes so you stop paying designers and copywriters thousands > schedules tasks to run while you sleep so you wake up to finished drafts, fresh ideas, and updated reports every morning > writes launch emails, newsletters, and sequences using the same frameworks behind my 6-figure product launches all click by click, on your machine, while i do it on mine here's everything that you get: • the full 2-hour live workshop where you build everything in real time • 16 personal skills that i built over 100s of hours for my own business • the complete recording so you can rewatch anytime • a self-paced course version of all the material • access to Claude Marketing OS telegram group this system runs 90% of the marketing behind my 7-figure brand doing 15M+ impressions/month and it's all yours come april 22nd comment "Cowork" and i'll DM you the link

@isafernan did your mentor teach you copy pasta x.com/sam_stoffel/st…

Mi vida cambió el momento en que un viejo mentor me dijo esto: “detener tu peor hábito cambiaría tu vida mucho más rápido que empezar tu mejor hábito… arregla la fuga antes de llenar el cubo.”

@thesamparr @jonathan_h daily scrape of LI, X, IG and YT to find outliers (any content performing above the creator's average)... sent every morning in a report

Who in content and media is using AI in a wonderful way? Just met with @jonathan_h. They way he has the hubspot team using AI for systems, like turning videos into clips and dozens of other ways, was very impressive. I want to see more awesome ways people are using ai for content!

@denk_tweets @beehiiv rumour is beehiiv eng team got early access to Mythos

I knew connecting @beehiiv to Claude would be big. but two weeks in and I think we grossly underestimated how impactful... it’s so cool to watch how creators are using the MCP:

@eptwts fek how didn't i think of that

grant cardone just leaked the secret sauce... just get 10 clients, each paying you $8k/month and just go in and push all their AI, bring like 3 AI platforms into their company generational

@itsolelehmann oh then bro already knows all the sauce. favorite place atm is zenner (on Treptower Park) and the playground next to it

@DollarDils always! ive lived here for 11 years but always eager to see new stuff

i'm in Berlin who are cool founders/companies I should meet??

@itsolelehmann Do it & i’ll be there 💪🏽

visited my friends from Solana in Berlin today they have a dope office and you can just drop in and cowork for free on Fridays I might host an event at their space in the next 1/2 weeks stay tuned