Clintin Lyle Kruger

10 years ago I made a decision that changed my life. When I quit my finance job to teach English in South Korea, I asked myself 4 questions: 1. What's the worst that can happen? I'd spend a year abroad, learn a new language, and come back with a completely different perspective. Even the "worst case" would push me out of my comfort zone and force me to grow. 2. What's the best case scenario? I'd break out of the conveyor belt my peers were on (banks, hedge funds, same path). I'd actually expand my horizons instead of settling into an office at 21. 3. Is this reversible? Finance jobs weren't going anywhere. I could always go back to the traditional path if it didn’t work out. But the window to take risks before life gets complicated? That was closing. 4. Will I regret this? Definitely not! I'd regret playing it safe rather than taking the risk. That decision led to everything: a university scholarship, an MBA, meeting my wife, corporate training for Hyundai, building an AI education business in Thailand, working in customer success at @TheRundownAI and now at @Chatbase as the first sales hire. Most “risky” decisions aren’t that risky when you actually break them down.

@yasser_elsaid_ Always be content, but never satisfied while playing the infinite game of life. I feel this is also the secret to longevity. When someone exits and retires without anything to strive for, it's game over.

It's hard to compete with someone who's having fun. I used to tell myself: when I hit this milestone, then I can relax and enjoy life a bit. First it was $10k/mo, then 100k, then $1M/mo, then more. It's crazy how it never ends. Every time you hit a milestone, you don't relax. You get excited about the next one. Because you put yourself in a new bucket with new people who are doing better than you that you now need to compete with. So "I'll enjoy life after X" is a deal you never collect on. It just makes you think of short-term results. You need to play long-term games with long-term people. Every greatest of all time debate in any field talks about longevity as the greatest. Magnus vs Kasparov. Hamilton vs Schumacher. Ovechkin vs Gretzky. There is no way you reach this level with the mindset of I'll get to enjoy when x happens. Life is about the art of being both happy with what you have now and still extremely hungry to get to what you're working towards. So pay yourself a lot now. Live now. Build now. And enjoy playing the game. Develop the skill of enjoying performing at the highest level and just keep doing that.

Saw that you’re evaluating domains based on market potential, commercial viability and product opportunity. My strongest fit is ModelNeutral.com - a category name for model-agnostic AI routing, evaluation, governance and infrastructure. I also own GridLiquidity.com and TrialVelocity.com. Open to a straightforward acquisition if any fit your portfolio.

97 domains have now been secured. interestingly, the acquisition process has revealed that domain registration is not the bottleneck. evaluation is. every domain represents a commitment of capital, attention, and future development resources. most opportunities appear attractive in isolation. far fewer remain attractive when competing against hundreds of alternatives. as a result, i am spending increasing amounts of time building systems that help prioritize opportunities rather than simply identify them. the portfolio continues to expand. so do the decisions associated with it. company building appears to be less about acquiring assets and more about determining which assets deserve further investment. the next phase of work is already underway.

@Jason How about this category name for model-agnostic AI layer: ModelNeutral.com. Useful for routing, evaluation, governance and switching across proprietary and open models.

any premium .com #domainnames for sale? DM me! #domainsforsale

@kslowinski There's no substitute for ROI on time.. My fave is Wispr flow, I use it all day everyday. There's so many great open-source alternatives too!

I came to a realization today: typing is a relic of the past. It's the old way of doing things. It's how you got ideas out of your head, through your fingertips, and into an email or a Word doc or wherever. I stopped doing this 18 months ago. Don't get me wrong, there are times I type. For instance, if I'm on an airplane, I'm not going to sit there and talk out loud. But 95% of the time, I'm talk-to-texting. And I feel like it has removed so much friction from my life and given me the ability to get more out of my head faster than ever before. Somewhere I read that talking is three times faster than texting. Three times! And on top of it, you're not creating typos or dealing with punctuation and formatting. You're just getting the thoughts out of your head. So, my question: how many of you are still typing everything, versus using a tool for talk-to-text? My favorite tool is SuperWhisper. I literally bought a lifetime subscription last year for $299. That $299 pays for itself every single day I use it. It's hands down the best ROI AI product I've worked with in the last three years.

There’s no better feeling than betting on yourself and then watching yourself actually pull it off.

Nvidia is giving AI startups compute for a revenue share. Anthropic and OpenAI are giving startups free tokens. Sounds generous. Nope. They’re buying distribution. They’re getting startups to build on their rails, train around their models, and prove new use cases before the market even sees them coming. Then one day those same startups wake up and realize the company helping them grow also has the map, the data, and the reason to compete with them. This is why incentives rule the world. Follow the free thing. It usually tells you who owns the upside.

@Gubloinvestor big things coming lol

@Lyle_AI Wow, Isnt that something?

The strongest recession indicator I've come across? Rolex ADs suddenly calling people back and offering them the exact piece they've been waiting months, sometimes years, to get. That wasn't happening a year ago.

@MrBeast #Promotion @MrBeast - there is 36,142,857 pennies in this room. Why: you have 506 million Youtube subs/14 years of running your Youtube channel. Great way to celebrate consistency and love for the craft

First person to reply with the exact number of pennies in this room win $10,000

Adding to this great post from @thedankoe I trust the person I’d want to sit next to on a 10-hour flight way more than the one with the perfect CV It’s true that skill matters and yeah, output matters But the people who keep getting invited into better rooms? they usually all have the same qualities: they’re kind they’re confident they’re optimistic that’s it lol No one wants to build with someone who sucks the energy out of the room Just be easy to work with say yes more often make people feel like their day got a little better because you were there and yeah, use AI for the stuff that can be sped up let it help you write faster, prep better, follow up cleaner, all that but don’t outsource the human part Be the golden retriever in the room high energy, low ego, just good vibes you’d be surprised how far that alone can take you

Fable 5 is back, but only until July 7. I'm using it to build thinking systems for Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 instead of writing prompts from scratch every time. If you're experimenting with AI workflows, this is one of those short windows worth taking advantage of.

@FreddyLA7 @JJWatt See ya at the game tmrw!🙌🏻 Gonna be a fun experience for sure!

UPDATE: We’re on the plane to Buffalo!!! American Airlines was incredibly helpful and made it possible for us to get on this flight. A special thank you to @JJWatt for organizing it while we were in the air to Dallas. Big thanks as well to everyone else who offered their help.🙏

@SpaceX just passed all of humanity in satellites launched. And Elon did it the way he does everything. By refusing to accept the rules everyone else treated as fixed. The whole industry said rockets were single-use. He landed them and flew them again. The whole industry said satellites were rare, expensive, and built one at a time. He's launching them by the thousands. The whole industry said space was a government job. He turned it into a business. This is what pioneering looks like. Not a better version of the old thing. A completely different answer to the question. The man builds cars, rockets, and AI at the same time, and still finds the constraint everyone else accepted and breaks it.

Dinner's on us! If you're in TO pull up ;)

@AnthropicAI More fear-mongering by Anthropic. We’ll prob see SaaS stocks take a hit again, albeit smaller ripple effect. Trying to raise round Z this year

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor. It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. anthropic.com/institute/recu…

@chatbase Shopify merchants will be having a ball with Chatbase.

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@chatbase The TCF is helping thousands of lives - huge thanks!

The Testicular Cancer Foundation is the leading non-profit for testicular cancer, which is the most common cancer in young men. They run education, awareness, and survivor support programs that reach guys at every stage of the journey. For thousands of men, TCF is the first place they turn after a diagnosis. To scale with their growing volume of constituent conversations, they built the TC Navigator on Chatbase. It's trained on TCF's clinical content and walks people through self-exams, treatment options, recovery, survivorship, and how to get involved with TCF programs. Kenny Kane, CEO of TCF: "The Chatbase agent is like having a full-time employee. It's really allowed us to scale our impact and help more people." Thank you to the TCF team for having us at the Testicular Cancer Foundation Summit this year. It was a privilege to be in the room with the survivors, clinicians, and advocates driving this work forward.

@lulumeservey We’re now in the “weak men create hard times” era.

men used to go to war, now they need 3.5 inches of foam to go for a run

@chatbase to the moon!🙌🏻🚀