Tom K. 🤘🔥

There's a difference between your intuition guiding you and your trauma misleading you.

@AlexHormozi Alex is on fire this morning! 🔥🫶

"Follow your passion and you'll never work a day in your life." False. Reality: Follow your passion and you'll work every day of your life and mediocre people will tell you you're wrong everyday for not living your life the mediocre way they do.

@AlexHormozi Yuuuup. The struggle is real.

My greatest frustration is spending my day reading other people’s AI slop and translating it back into the bullets they probably submitted to write it.

@nomadinvest @AnthropicAI I would guess yes.

@AnthropicAI Does this imply that other model providers already complied?

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War. anthropic.com/news/statement…

@AlexHormozi On a level 1-10, how annoying are the AI Slop replies to your posts? 😅

I had a young man stop me in the street when I was walking who said he followed my advice made $80,000 in sales but stopped because it wasn’t his passion. He asked me “what should I do with my life?” I didn’t have time to answer him then so I’ll say this: Most people think following your passion means doing something you love, but that’s not true. It means loving the outcome enough that you were willing to endure suffering in order to achieve it. And it’s usually because people don’t understand what the word passion means. Passion comes from the Latin root of passio, which means suffering and endurance. Ex: the Passion of Christ (his crucifixion story). So of course the young man who stopped me didn’t love taking sales calls all day. Almost no one does. But no matter what your “passion “is you’re going to have to do way more stuff that you hate in order to pursue it. So thinking about the percentage of your day you dedicate to doing things you love is a very poor measure of whether or not you are pursuing your passion. And I think simply clarifying that for people who are on their search for what they want to do with their life might make all the difference between picking a goal worth suffering for vs jumping from fleeting interest to fleeting interest until the work becomes hard and never really making progress. If you aren’t willing to suffer for it, your love is weak.

🚨 EDWARD SNOWDEN’S CHILLING WARNING IS NOW UNFOLDING IN REAL TIME What China built… is exactly what Western governments are quietly preparing for. Snowden is crystal clear: Every photo, every purchase, every message, every movement — all of it is being fed into algorithms that decide your future. In China, AI “city brains” now track: Where you live Who you visit How you dispose of your rubbish Every step you take in public Whether you “follow rules” or not Break a rule? A camera catches you from three angles. Your score drops. Your life collapses. Snowden’s warning: “If any of your activities differ from what the government wants, you won’t get on a train. You won’t board a plane. You won’t get a job. An algorithm will decide your fate. And what they are selling… is us.” This is not a future threat. It is happening now — in Shanghai, in Beijing… and creeping into the West through digital ID, AI policing, and “misinformation scoring.” China built the prototype. Our governments are importing the blueprint. Stay informed. Stay alert. Do not let this system take root.

@fuzzychimpcom @threadreaderapp unroll

I think you get the point. If you think Donald Trump is Hitler or a fascist, you're either a liar or an idiot - probably both.

🧵 Donald Adolf Hitler Trump throughout the years. Hitler, circa 1994, staring menacingly at a black man.

@nomadinvest This implies there's a line somewhere? Between right and wrong side? Historically, those lines are drawn when the dust settles and history is written.

The World is self-correcting. A new Earth is being born. A new consciousness arising. Creation is never void of destruction. The dominos are falling. Those on the wrong side of history will have only themselves to blame.

@joenatoli Some people enjoy design, while some are hell bent on doing design accounting. 🙄

Pay attention to the SECOND paragraph in particular: "Driven by a desire from businesses to turn #design into a process-heavy, measurable function, we’re filling our time with checklists instead of focusing on the very thing that makes designers relevant: our ability to propose new points of view and delight users with meaningful experiences. These core competences that were inherited from graphic design have been replaced with a poor man’s version of an anthropology major where the act of design is mostly based on averaging user opinions." If there's a better argument to support my relentless insistence that we DO AWAY WITH DOGMA, this article is it. Not to mention my insistence that the skills that made so many graphic designers excellent at their craft (me included) are also what make them UX and Product Designers who consistently get amazing results for the users and customers they serve. We are so completely LOST in structure and processes and procedures and trying to quantify what we do (and the ridiculous "ROI of #UX) that we're only ever operating at 30% of our true capability. As if designing ANYTHING properly was a nice, ordered, structured process where the fact that we did research gives us all the answers, ensures all our bets are safe, there are no surprises and nothing ever changes. As if software — Figma, I'm looking at you — actually did anything to make anyone better at this. Or improve the quality or relevance or usefulness or value of the finished product. As if Lean, Agile, Scrum, SAFe or any such bullshit was the answer to anything. Or actually ever worked. It's why I haven't done ANY of that shit for the last 20+ years of my career. Why I won't. Why I never will. We can do better. And we SHOULD. designsystems.international/ideas/product-…

@thatguybg @cyantist Witnessing someone close dying a slow death. Meditating on life. Death. Time. And gratefulness for it all. Dreams get WILD.

@cyantist life and whatever comes before and after is pretty miraculous how can people come to these beautiful revelations without a near death experience?

If death is not immediate, but on the horizon, you start to have incredible dreams. You also, on some level, know you are about to die. You go through a grieving process. You evaluate where you spent your life. What you could have done differently, what you will do differently if you survive and when you do survive, the first thing you are thankful for is… air, then the sun, then your senses, then your life and then other people’s lives. It’s a remarkable journey. All of it. One we shouldn’t fear but regard with wonder. The first dream I remember, I was on an alien planet where the aliens were made of “not meat”. Like a porcelain substance. I was kept in a bird like cage with one of their little ones who kept pulling strange tags out of the air and telling me how beautiful the gross things on earth are. Like cracks in the ground, worms, shadows, compost, etc. I asked her, she felt like a her, why I was in there, and she said I was too fragile to leave and they were protecting me. They didn’t know what to do with my flesh. It was a conundrum. This dream was so realistic and so powerful, that it stays with me to this day. We are indeed fragile, but we are also incredibly dangerous two sided creatures. But in the end, this fragility is just dirt for the worms. Our strength is pure energy and it NEVER dies.

Rarely are scars on your heart caused by your enemies.

When you meet your enemies, know you are going in the right direction.

@andrewglynch @nomadinvest @ttkalec

Reddit is delivering the goods today

@dumbuffalo @teej_dv

This is Monty Python/Andy Kaufman level of content. It's either mad or genius :D @teej_dv reading docs for 10 hours. youtube.com/watch?v=rT-fbL…

@charlierward 100% Imagine being offended by a Meetup "brand". LOL. Zero use of those types of people on this planet.

For example, people tell me I should rename our community from 'IndieBeers' to something else. As it might offend people who don't drink or like beer. We have active members who don't drink alcohol or like beer - but brands don't have to be taken completely literally. It's more about gathering in an informal setting to talk about building and growing bootstrapped tech products. So changing the name may please some people. But we also have longtime members who love IndieBeers - the community, the name, the logo, what it stands for. What about them? There isn't always a right answer - there's always a tradeoff. In my view - you're lucky to create one brand in your lifetime that people connect with, so it feels unnecessary to rip that up for the sake of a few detractors here. But who knows, maybe I'll change my mind on this someday, I've changed my mind before many times. Let me know what you think!

A common misconception I see is that communities should try and cater to everyone. It's a fine line. Yes you should try and be inclusive. But being everything to everyone means having a large amount of members who think of you as a nice to have. Better to have a smaller number of members who *love* what you do. Which often means niching down.

@nomadinvest Food is a topic of conversation only for the hungry 99%. The well-fed 1%, and especially the obese of the 1% never indulges in such vulgar things as food speech. .... seems to work :)))

Money is a topic of conversation only for the bottom 99%. The rest of 1%, and especially the 1% of the 1% never indulges in such vulgar things as money speech.

When the pilot says those beautiful four words: "Cabin crew - boarding complete" and I have a free sit next to me! Small morning win. 🖖🫠

Facts.

@Wealth_Pill @MegatrendGlobal

@MegatrendGlobal Is building a loving family not part of every man's dream?

@Zlatty I zoom out on Z axis measuring sanity.

Am I the only one simultaneously living in 2008, 2018 and 2024?