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Ok this is interesting, here's my thoughts... The best hires I've seen aren't the ones who follow up the most, they're the ones who follow up with a better pitch each time. For me, persistence without iteration is just noise. What you actually want is someone who comes back smarter and uses different angles to grab your attention.

Something I tell writers about the importance of following-up with potential clients: As a business owner, I deliberately don't respond to the first email pitch anyone sends me. Not because I'm not interested—but because I want to see if they'll follow-up. It's a very easy litmus test to gauge someone's competence and persistence. If you pitch me once and give up, that tells me everything I need to know about your work ethic, how much you care, how far you'll go, etc. Whereas if you pitch me and follow-up for months in a row, that also tells me everything I need to know. Your persistence speaks volumes about your work ethic. And I'm significantly more likely to hire you.

The real differentiator here isn't features... it's the friction reduction at the entry point. Most agent frameworks were built by engineers for engineers, they assumed the user lived in a terminal. OpenClaw clearly wasn't. When a tool lets someone non-technical get to a working result in under an hour, word of mouth does the rest.

Why did OpenClaw take off? “I found it relatively easy to set up and get going… I didn’t have to spend seven hours just to do the Telegram use case and start playing with it.” "I just think it's sort of that, like just that level of accessibility to users who are maybe not living in a codebase day-to-day." "The other agent frameworks were pretty difficult to use, incredibly flaky, [I] didn't really want to spend a lot of time debugging someone else's stuff." "There's another major part of this that it can extend itself." "It's the first agent I've seen where I can say, 'I want integration with something.' And it's like: 'well, I've never seen this before, there's no package for that, but let me try to put something together.'" "There is definitely a long-running nature of it. You leave it running for a night and you're like, keep working on this until you finish." @stuffyokodraws @appenz on the AI + a16z Podcast

AI is now making surface-level analysis obsolete. What compounds now is the ability to see relationships between ideas across domains, not just within one... The experts who thrive next are the ones who read widely, think laterally, and connect things that don't obviously belong together.

The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know, it is how well you synthesize. Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition. The future belongs to those who connect dots. —Adam Grant

The line is blurrier than most engineers want to admit... Some of the best production systems started as vibe code that someone eventually took seriously. The real difference isn't the method, it's the intention and the follow-through... Vibe coding becomes a liability the moment you stop iterating on it. Engineering with agents becomes theater if nobody actually understands what the agent is doing.

There’s a massive difference between vibe coding and engineering with agents

This is the part most people miss when they talk about AI replacing creatives, the output is only as good as the judgment behind the prompt... AI makes execution almost instant, but it can’t replace the years of experience that shape what’s actually worth creating in the first place. Taste is still the scarce resource and AI just makes the gap between good taste and bad taste more obvious.

AI doesn't replace taste. It multiplies whatever taste you already have.

@atmoio Honestly, the posts that actually build trust and long-term audiences are still written by people with real skin in the game. Those aren't going away...They're just going to become rarer and more valuable. All in all, creativity and taste are still in hands of people... for now

With LLMs we’ve basically invented digital candy. LLM written content is designed to maximize engagement in a way human text will never be able to match. It’s why AI-written posts constantly go viral on here. AI will win not because it’s better but because it’s more delicious.

What's worrying is when a founder has an ambition without a real purpose because it eventually turns into guilt... You end up successful at something you never actually wanted and then feel like you wasted years building something that didn't matter. As a tip for future founders, you should always look deep inside and ask yourself if you belive in what you're building before even starting.

nothing is more destructive than an ambitious person without a mission

What’s really being sold with agents isn’t intelligence, it’s the illusion of delegation... The comparison to blockchain makes sense because the pattern is similar. The mistake is thinking that handling more tasks equals greater capability. But real work isn’t just a list of tasks. It requires context that's built over time, across relationships, and often with incomplete information.

The thinking that because LLM's can do tasks, not jobs, that the solution is AGENTS, because agents can do many tasks, is very flawed. It's sort of magical thinking, blockchain fixes this, DAO's will sort this, it will be resolved by Web3, it's just not how the world works

Taking risks isn’t the hardest part, it’s doing it when everything around you tells you to wait... The mortgage, your family, a “stable” job… all of it makes staying safe feel like the right choice. Most people don’t avoid risk because they’re cowards, they avoid it because the cost of being wrong feels immediate, while the reward feels distant and uncertain.

You either take the risk or end up working for someone who did. Worst case scenario: you learn. Best case scenario: it changes your whole life and trajectory. Playing it safe never built anything worth remembering.

@DNdomainname Here's my take... when a keyword dominates sales volume for a full quarter, it stops being speculation and starts being market consensus. i'd bet on .AI and .Agents for the following months based on industry research and on the direction techonology is heading.

According to domain sales data compiled by NamePros since the beginning of the year, "AI" is undoubtedly the most frequently occurring keyword. "AI" remains the undisputed #1 keyword across all 3 months! 🤖 Jan: AI (29) > bet/health Feb: AI (44) > social/auto Mar: AI (28) > city/health Domain investors are clearly betting big on AI-related names. What's your take? 👇

A model trained on massive amounts of data still can’t fully understand what works in your specific market, for your specific customers, right now. That limitation is real... Now, using ChatGPT to draft emails isn’t a game changer. The real advantage comes from people who combine deep knowledge of their field with the ability to use these tools effectively.

How to never lose your job to AI: Just surf the models. Frontier models outclass humans at any form of knowledge that can be written down. But people who use frontier models in their field of expertise generate new, tacit, situational expertise that the models don't yet have—because the models can't be trained on how they will be used in the future. Humans can learn to use new models faster than new models can be trained that absorb what they find out, so you can continually "surf" on top of the model's intelligence to generate new expertise. This is a fundamental limitation of LLMs because they don't learn past their training data. Even few-shot learning doesn't account for this because whatever can be codified into a few shot prompt needs to be used in the correct situation—and this will always stay uncodified in the general case. Just surf the models. Reap the benefits of a totally new world.

The problem is most people don't trust small numbers... A new variant with 3x the growth rate of the core product gets ignored because it only has 50 users. I'd say that steady growth from 5-50 users in a couple of months is very remarkable, but from an investor's standpoint they want to see huge numbers (hundreds or thousands).

Another advantage of focusing on growth rate rather than absolute numbers is that it makes it easier to switch to a new variant of the product if you discover one. It makes it easier to see tails that will eventually wag the dog.

Value isn't just about what you deliver... it's about what the other person is willing to acknowledge. The truth is, some people will never see it, not because it isn't there, but because seeing it would require them to treat you differently. That's why you have to protect yourself and build a personality that inspires confidence...

You can't force someone to see your value. but you can absolutely stop giving them discounts on your time.

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@DanielPink This is true but the problem is most people never build a system to capture those ideas... If you're a builder/founder, it's normal you wake up in middle of the night thinking of 2-3 ideas you'd like to turn into an empire and then doing nothing on the next day.

Your best ideas don’t come when you’re working. They show up: • In the shower • On walks • Half-asleep That’s not a flaw. It’s a clue. 👇

True, but most people still treat domains like an afterthought... They spend weeks on a logo and 10 minutes on a name. The domain is the one brand asset that shows up everywhere (email, URL bar, social handles). If it's hard to remember, every other impression you make looses value...

A great domain helps turn one impression into repeat recognition.

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