Peter T. Augustin

@garrytan And file a complaint with a rep. most would be horrified how bad the customer experience got. Seen it before. “How is it possible our experience is so bad?” “well because nobody designs it, it just happened”.

Every CEO should sign up and onboard with their product or service at least once a quarter to make sure everything still works

@jasonfried Strawman. It was a designer who created that cockpit out of nothing.

Every UX designer walking into a cockpit: Clutter! Every pilot walking into a cockpit: Clarity! The word "clutter" is terribly overused in the UX/design field, commonly serving as a superficial critique of decoration while often ignoring the design's true context.

NEW: Elon Musk says the maximum amount of people who can retire from the federal government in a month is 10,000 because the paperwork is done manually at an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. The mine in question is Iron Mountain. "The speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move determines how many people can retire from the federal government." Iron Mountain is a 330,000-square-foot data center more than 200 feet deep. It uses a 35-acre underground reservoir to create a geothermal cooling system. A report from 2021 reveals how the government tried (and failed) to digitize the process for decades. $106 million later, and failing to do so, the government decided to keep the old process. "$106 million later, the OPM facility resumed functioning with the processes established back in 1977," STWserve dot com reported.

Imagine being the designer at Amazon responsible for this war crime

@andrewchmr @philkellr Pogs?

@philkellr I know their secret

What is it about Sweden? #1 startup country in Europe: Spotify, Klarna, Oatly, VOI, Northvolt Switzerland has the same population but no successful startups

@PereAyats wtf are you eating?

My Barcelona 🌞 indie hacker monthly budget: 🏠 Rent: 550€ (all included) 🌮 Food: 300€ 🏢 Office: 200€ 🥊 Gym: 30€ 🚲 Transport: Free

@0x_ale It’s promising, but aligning all countries will take so much time. We’re talking law reforms for most countries. Won’t that take like 10 years?

Game-changer alert: EU is about to pull a Delaware move across the entire continent. I've spent years wrestling with different regulations in each EU country. T The new "28th regime" will be one unified system. Same rules for corporate law, taxes, and labor - everywhere. No more playing legal hopscotch across borders. Think about it: - Single EU-wide framework - Simplified regulations (including employment Law) - Bypasses local red tape - No more conflicting interpretations This hits different because $500K seed round in the US will be like $1.5M in Southern Europe. The burn rate math finally makes sense. Been talking to other founders and operators and we're all thinking the same thing - this could be the regulatory reset button Europe's startup scene desperately needed. What do you think? Would unified EU startup rules make you more likely to launch there? Ready for 2025/26 when this drops. Reply if you want the full breakdown on what this means for founders.

@itsloukman @maria_cocu @adamstatonsmith @moneymanbubba @zachpogrob That's crazy expensive compared to Europe for the 33sqm apartment!!!

@maria_cocu @adamstatonsmith @moneymanbubba @zachpogrob I thought thats common sense 😅 who has all of these amenities and their house and I also shared a video in the next reply with the exact unit and square footage. Relax maria

Where is best place in world to go to: - live cheap - lock in - beautiful city and/or nature to go running (fine w/ either) - cool + beautiful people - safe + easy for someone who hasn't travelled much - some aspect of entrepreneurial culture/travelers

@lexfridman how much is the PRC communist party involved in the dev + censorship

I'm doing a podcast on DeepSeek and the state of AI soon. Let me know if you have questions / topic suggestions.

“Is the US losing the war in AI??” I don’t think so. DeepSeek had a few big breakthroughs, we have had hundreds of small breakthroughs. If we adopt DeepSeek’s architecture, our models will be better. Because we have more compute and more data.

My favorite thing about the AI agents is that they can help me get something done in half an hour, what used to take me less than a minute.

@stephsmithio They are still people with civic liberties and rights. You can’t just force someone to get help. Plus it doesn’t work, addiction usually has a root cause and any pressure just creates opposition in a person. If you jail them, they’ll just rot in jail.

Something I've never fully understood about the far-left take on homelessness... Leaving someone drug-addicted on the street is not compassionate. To find a compassionate solution, consider what you'd do with family. Past a certain point, you'd force them to get help – esp if they were asking for resources or hurting others. No action may actually be the least compassionate option! What am I missing?

UAP Exclusive: Never-before-seen video shows an egg-shaped craft, the same kind of UAP a whistleblower says he encountered as part of a secret retrieval program. More: trib.al/w6TkOut

The fact TikTok didn’t sell, despite having many willing buyers, is a testament that it was an agent of the CCP.

Bruh, @tiktok_us had years to secure American data or take the company public/divest — you chose to do neither Instead you’ve been caught spying on Americans and refuse to let American companies participate in your market. This is 100% your choice

@tom_doerr Agreed, most people are still hopelessly stuck at the bottom of the needs pyramid. If they have those handled, they are just consuming bc they're bored.

When I watched Her, it really bothered me that they had extremely advanced AI and society didn't seem to care. What I thought was a plot hole turns out to be spot on

@ahir_amsha @sergeantsup @SalvMattera Seriously consider both though ;)

How is this app free?

Lex moving to another level in 2024/2025.

Here's my conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy (@ZelenskyyUa). It was an intense and heartfelt conversation, my goal for which was to do my small part in pushing for peace. We spoke in a mix of 3 languages: English, Ukrainian, and Russian. It's fully dubbed in each of those 3 languages. The original (mixed-language version) is available as well. So the options are: - Audio: English, Ukrainian, Russian, Original (Mixed) - Subtitles: English, Ukrainian, Russian It's available here on X and everywhere else. On X, I'm uploading the Full English overdub version. The other versions will be available on YouTube (see comment thread). Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 3:29 - Introductory words from Lex 13:55 - Language 23:44 - World War II 40:32 - Invasion on Feb 24, 2022 47:07 - Negotiating Peace 1:07:24 - NATO and security guarantees 1:20:17 - Sitting down with Putin and Trump 1:39:47 - Compromise and leverage 1:45:15 - Putin and Russia 1:55:07 - Donald Trump 2:05:39 - Martial Law and Elections 2:17:58 - Corruption 2:26:44 - Elon Musk 2:30:47 - Trump Inauguration on Jan 20 2:33:55 - Power dynamics in Ukraine 2:37:27 - Future of Ukraine 2:42:09 - Choice of language 2:51:39 - Podcast prep and research process 3:00:04 - Travel and setup 3:05:51 - Conclusion

the only career advice i have is make every decision that moves you closer to not having to be on linkedin