Daniel Trostli

My favorite @elonmusk quote that I often send friends: Do not fear losing. “You will lose,” Musk says. “It will hurt the first fifty times. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion.” You will be more fearless, take more risks.

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@steijnpelle Wow! My man Steijn 👏 great video and congrats on the raise 🥳

Today, we're introducing Lassie and $47M in funding led by a16z. We're building AI that runs small businesses, starting with doctors' offices. Lassie is already trusted by 700+ practices across the country, working autonomously to provide them with 30 hours of labor per month. To get here, we first had to leave Robinhood and Superhuman to work in offices ourselves. Here's how that went.

This is one of my favorite free Synth VSTs: DEXED; and I'll show you why. Find out about the rest on our new Youtube video 🎥🎵 #plugins #vst #free #fm #synth #freevst #sounddesign

This is how you create melodic percussions with Resonators in Ableton 🪇🎵 #edm #sounddesign #synth #sample #ableton #musicproduction

8 highlights from our full interview with rising Brazilian DJ/producer Jackson 🇧🇷 We talked creativity, Brazil’s electronic music scene, Tomorrowland Brasil, finding your sound, and building a real career as an artist.

Tired of your synth sounds? Add a vocal sample and turn it into something else! 🎹🔥 #synth #serum2 #sounddesign #abletontips #ableton

Human artists won’t beat AI by becoming predictable. Jackson’s take: once people can put you in a box, you start competing with prompts. The future of human art might be staying impossible to define.

Soulmates. Watch until the end.

The Internet Is Gonna End Us (Again!) (and it's still okay!)

This is magnificent. Hollywood really is done for. It’s over. We’re going to continue to get such new creative stories and visions from the minds of outsiders who previously would have never even allowed to or had the means to create. Colossally exciting. No more gatekeepers.

Using Cursor with Opus 4.6 writing my tests and then getting them to pass, all while watching Terminator 2 feels pretty appropriate 💀 🆘

@kylefox End of an era

I read this as: "The bad news is we are not accepting new customers. But the good news is Heroku is becoming abandonware." heroku.com/blog/an-update…

@jackfriks I don’t think this makes any difference to the end user, in terms of getting their money back

anytime i get a dispute now i wait the full 40 days to accept it if you just email me i refund in 24 hours btw...

Spent the weekend redesigning the Sign Up page of @samplefocus . What do you think? #BuildInPublic

@RetroTechDreams Such a good game

Caesar III (1998)

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@hosseeb @X Great post Haseeb!

With @X’s CT algos back in the discourse, here’s the boring, repeatable way I’ve built an audience here. A lot of founders overthink this. Not necessarily right for everyone, but this is what's worked for me: • Tweet at least once a day, 5 days a week. Twice a day is bonus points. The algorithm rewards consistency, and it punishes volume for its own sake. TBH, if you’re tweeting more than twice a day, you’re probably procrastinating on your actual work. • When I'm struggling to find something to tweet, I pull from a few easy buckets: - React to news, especially stuff that’s already viral on X. Usually should be QTs, as that injects yourself into the conversation. - Give advice. Even very basic advice. (Like this!) Even if they've heard it a million times, people like hearing advice about the core things they care about. And you never know, you might just hit them at the exact right time to have an impact. - Tell vulnerable / embarrassing stories about yourself. These almost always land. - Say the thing most people are thinking but won’t say out loud. - If something makes you mad, that's often a sign you should tweet about it. - Recommend other content: books, podcasts, other people on X to follow. • A lot of my tweet ideas come straight out of conversations. If someone is like "oh that's a really interesting point," I'll mentally bookmark that. The best tweets have the candor of listening in on a conversation you weren't invited to. • Mostly outbound tweets. Replies are fine, but reply-guying won't build an audience. • Be consistent. Pick a niche. Stick to it. Easiest way to build an audience is being known for something. The more specific, the better. • Shilling: keep it to 4:1 ratio, 3:1 max. If you're mostly shilling, your audience will tune out. Shills are earned. • Shitposting can sometimes mean easy engagement, but it's not a good way to build an audience. If you're shitposting, you're only as good as your last zinger. Some people build a brand that way, but it's seldom a useful brand. Always keep in mind the difference between attention and useful attention (in whatever way that lands for you). The best brands are built by consistently providing value to your audience. • If none of the above works, pick a fight. Fights are entertaining. They are dangerous though, because you might lose. Or worse, get ignored. Exercise caution. • Timing: optimize for weekdays, earlier in the day if you can. • Keep a notes app with tweet ideas. Don’t post all your best stuff at once. Spread it out. Consistency, consistency, consistency. • Multimodal. Mix formats. Video does unreasonably well if you can do it occasionally. If you’re doxxed, showing your face makes it easier for people to remember you. • Tools: you don't need much, to be honest. I use basically nothing. Something to see what's trending, and somewhere to write down my ideas. That's pretty much it. X has its own scheduling functionality now too. Don't use the drafts on here though, they suck and will sometimes swallow drafts. • Motivation: I go through stretches where I don't want to tweet. I see many founders struggle with this as well. My best advice is to get an accountability buddy. The rule is: if you miss a tweet that day, you owe your buddy $50. If you miss again the next day, it doubles to $100. This works disturbingly well, and is surprisingly cheap. I promise you won't pay out more than once. • Lastly, take it seriously! Most people I know who want to build a brand just procrastinate and don't treat it as a part of their career. In the age of social media, owning your audience is a lot more powerful than getting on TV or into MSM. A spot in prestige media might get you hundreds or thousands of views, but if you dial in your social media, you can get consistently get an audience in the tens of thousands—and that audience will actually be selected to follow you over the course of your career. Godspeed!

If you love what you do, and status/money is just a side-effect, this question becomes irrelevant

Try these metallic percussions on Ableton Live by using Grain Delay if you're tired of plain hi-hats 🔥 #ableton #abletonlive #producertips #sounddesign #hyperpop #edm #electronicmusic