Richard Bridger

You're allowed random opinions on everything, as long as they're suggestive not final.

The first time I explained to my son about the sun going down because the earth rotates we entered a “Why?” vortex and now he knows about the Big Bang.

@DGisSERIOUS Cool. This is the pyramid outlined in Feb to my org about how you can get started within smaller confines. But now, having learned a lot about Claude Code over the last month, I just start people off with a starter kit there.

@RichardBridger Might bit you up about this after the weekend!

At this point i think a good gig would be a claude code consultant who a normal person can hire for an hour or two to explain how one can actually use it in their life and/or job. I know that it’s revolutionizing everything. I know that it’s important. I know i could probably use it to make my life easier, and I have absolutely zero clue how to do so and don’t want to invest the brain power to figure it out on my own

@lymanstoneky I’m not 100% on the show of force to deter. The executive’s behaviour towards allies recently has bordered nuts, and intentionally undermined its alliances & interests. Couldn’t it do so again?

The reason this will happen is the US will absolutely try to make a show of force to deter, i.e. move assets into the region to persuade China not to try it. The idea the executive branch just wouldn't even make a show or bother deterring is nuts. That would effectively end all U.S. alliances immediately.

I think this misunderstands the politics. In the first few hours of a war with China over Taiwan, US military personnel will be dying by the hundreds or thousands as China spams ungodly quantities of missiles at US bases. It will be a war of vengeance, not choice.

3yo last night said that when he is older like a daddy he will grow a beard, wear a watch, and have big hands.

@nc0we This link came at a good time and led me down an interesting reading pathway

One pint in 5m 38s. Personal record! You should donate blood, as often as you can. I wouldn’t be here if people hadn’t.

@jakezward Ooh yes please. Just registered for tomorrow for my saas tech company (hospiria.com)

I just built SEO strategies for beehiiv and Kleo. A ~$300M newsletter platform and my own 7-figure SaaS we launched 43 days ago. Completely different products, audiences, and business stages. But I'm using the same playbook. SaaS SEO in 2026 isn't what it was 2-3 years ago. The old playbook: - Target high volume keywords - Build comparison pages - Rank in Google and get clicks But in 2026: 1. Search is as fragmented as ever across Google, LLMs, socials, and other platforms. 2. Even if you rank, SERPs are busy with AI Overviews and ads making position #1 less valuable. 3. Zero-click searches mean AI is answering queries before any clicks to your website. 4. AI has commoditised average content and the quality bar is much higher. I'm breaking down how I built the strategies for beehiiv and Kleo in a live session tomorrow at 12PM EST. You'll see: - What 20% of SEO to focus on in 2026 - How to rank across Google AND AI platforms - The exact playbook for turning SEO into revenue Register (for free) in the replies. PS. The next 20 SaaS companies that register and reply below get a free AI visibility report from my team (normally only for our clients like beehiiv).

People hold Ukraine to some really absurd standards. Iranian material support has done enormous damage and killed countless innocent people Forcing millions to listen to your modern day stuka's trying to murder them won't earn you many friends

@bswud Earliest flights come in at 0430 but from living under the path, not many until 0530. Is that due to restrictions or a sign there isn’t so much pent up demand?

Heathrow does not land flights between midnight and 4.30am, and no flights take off between 11pm and 6am. There's a good reason for this: Britons are the least likely to want flights at these times, so they bring locals noise with the fewest benefits to British travellers. But day flights aren't the only ways we can benefit from flights. Some Britons would rather have the option to fly at night for cheaper, or if all the other flights are full, or to arrive at their destination at a more convenient time, or to leave the other location at a more convenient time on that side, or to make a connection that would otherwise be impossible. And all of these go for connecting passengers, too. There are overnight passengers who would come either to connect overnight, or to wait from a night flight, or for a night flight. These passengers benefit Britons by making more, and more different flights viable, increasing native choice. What's more, many Britons work at Heathrow, or supply Heathrow, or have jobs that depend on international access, access that such overnight flights do add to. (Or want to take domestic flights to Heathrow to connect around the world.) I wonder how much these slots would be worth. There are about 350 'prevented' flights per day, or 2,000-ish per week, so let's say 1,000 slot pairs, increasing the supply by about a tenth. The most expensive pair ever (5.30am arrival) was sold for $75 million in 2016. There are 200,000 or so households getting 54 decibels (or more) of noise from Heathrow. What would be enough that a majority of these households would be indifferent about the change? £50,000? That would require £10 billion, so the slots would need to sell for £6.7 million each.

@GergelyOrosz Have used both intensively recently. Claude in Excel is like magic, in PPT it is pretty ropey.

How did Anthropic ship a desktop app to work with Excel and PowerPoint in an agentic way before Microsoft did?? (FWIW hearing Microsoft has code red because of Claude Cowork - they know they should have shipped something like this first. Still have no response but working on it)

Actually, on closer look, it made just very different errors. Maybe PPT is unbeatable by an AI

Huge fan of Claude in Excel but Gamma just beat the shit out of Claude in Powerpoint

Interstellar is a compelling, epic story about how a father will travel across the universe and space-time to see his daughter again, but will not once ask about his son

@andymcgeady Legit reason. Dang.

🚨As of yesterday, the Islamic regime opened up the Internet at around 30% connectivity. Forced to do it for their own interests as the country was near to complete paralysis. As such, hundreds of videos have now come through on the telegram channels. I’ve seen about 10% of them. I have now stopped. We always knew what this regime was capable of. The cruelty, savagery and barbarism that I am seeing now is on a different level. It is not just the foreign militias hired by the regime from Iraq and Afghanistan to do their dirty work. It is also Iranian security forces against their fellow countrymen, unarmed civilians. The numbers being killed each day is increasing at such an alarming rate it is beyond shocking. Bodies are piled up on the streets of the major cities in black bags like garbage. Equally staggering is the silence and inaction by the international community. Hitler tried to exterminate the Jews. What we are witnessing in Iran in real time is a government trying exterminate a segment of their own population that that does not agree with them. Even if it’s the majority, there is no stopping them. What gives people in Iran hope is us not looking away. But most importantly - in the brief moments the internet allows them - to glimpse messages of support from people on here. Because it make them feel less lonely. All eyes on Iran. #R2PforIran (responsibility to protect R2P) #IranMassacre

People don’t do meal trains in the UK. This is a shame. Our oldest was born on Thanksgiving Day, and some US friends brought a whole portion of Thanksgiving dinner for my wife to the hospital as she’d been unable to eat for 24 hours. A wonderful little touch from friends

Russia is building submarines, warships, and missiles to prepare for war in Europe. Procurement order books reveal the plan. In Foreign Affairs, Jacob Parakilas and Pavlo Shkurenko from KSE Institute, explain why Europe should pay attention. 1/

This guy’s comedy is great but his real specialism is… sweating. Ever since that Chipotle one. Just one long tense sweat fest.

How it feels when I (top) am making great points to my wife in any debate