Grant Singleton

my tips from la tech week for founders building AI powered marketplaces

@catalinmpit stop eating completely 3 hours before bedtime.

Not being able to sleep and rest properly is the worst torture. No matter when or how much I sleep, I wake up tired and can barely function during the day. It started around 2017/2018, and since then I’ve been overly tired 90% of the time. I don’t know what to do to wake up feeling rested. I've tried: - having different temperatures in the bedroom - vitamins - mattresses - sleep tracking - keeping the bedroom well-ventilated - melatonin - blood tests This thing has limited my potential and held me back professionally so much. I can't focus properly most of the time. To understand, it's like you're trying to learn something difficult after a long day of work. That's how I feel in 90% of the time. It also makes me a very sour person because I'm in a bad mood, and I don't like that. Did anyone go through this and can help me?

@jackfriks salaries for a team of 10 is about 80-100k

would you rather make $100,000 a month with a team of 10 or $30,000 solo? i would and have chosen the second option but curious if others who follow me feel differently

@lennysan shottr over clean shot

What are your lesser-known, heavily used, and loved products?

A few lesser-known products I love and use a ton: 1. cleanshot.com for screenshots 2. supercut.ai replaced Loom for me, so clean 3. textexpander.com for frequent snippets 4. matthewpalmer.net/rocket/ for emojis 5. brain.fm for focus

@ryancarson everyone’s running this today 😆

Please, pretty please, *actually* test restoring from your db backup (which, for the love of god, should be from an offsite location).

@PetuniaByte @simonw 🤖

@_grantsing @simonw pitr is amazing for when the database actually dies, but it doesnt help when the database is perfectly healthy but the logic inside it has been subtly corrupted by an agent. its the difference between a crash and a slow-motion derailment

the 'just use backups' argument is such a 2010s way of thinking lol. backups fix crashes, but they don't fix silent agentic corruption. the real nightmare isn't the db being gone, its the agent spending 6 hours subtly rewriting your production logic into a hallucination before you even realize there's a problem

@jackfriks just use point in time recovery on your database

i still copy and paste SQL queries from my AI agents cause no way am i giving anyone but myself the power the nuke my production database by accident

@simonw @PetuniaByte Just use point in time recovery

@PetuniaByte Backups fix that too. If the agent spent six hours rewriting your production logic good backups will let you roll back those six hours, of both data changes AND code changes

@simonw PIT recovery helps as well

The conclusions here feel wrong to me. The two lessons I see are: 1. Don't run agents anywhere they might be able to access production environment credentials - it's on you to know which credentials those are 2. Keep tested backups that are independent from your production host

@gabriel__xyz you just have to get through the newborn phase. it’s hard. they get easier

Dadpreneurs! How do you do it!??? As a new dad, im in the newborn trenches tbh feel like a walking zombie and i literally dont have time to work on my projects. What does/did your schedule look like in those first few months?? Any advice would be awesome! You guys are amazing

@jamonholmgren you nailed it man. i’ve got 4 and do not spend every waking hour with them. they play on their own

I genuinely do not get why kids take up 100% of their parents’ time these days. My dad and mom raised us 9 kids and didn’t spend every waking moment with us. I raised 4 of my own and didn’t spend every waking moment with them. And yet every reply is telling this burned out dad that he is doing the right thing, or even to go harder. Super weird to me.

@ProjectGokuu if ppl only understood that the lightbulb in your house is “radiation” not all radiation is dangerous

Dr. Jack Kruse just said AirPods are the stupidest thing people willingly wear today. Kruse is a neurosurgeon who says wireless earbuds deliver RF radiation directly into your ear canal, inches from your brain. Danny Jones said he switched to wired earphones because he knew this. Kruse told him that's not much better. "That's not good because you're still getting jump conduction into your ear." He says the science on the dangers of this has existed since 1977. Dr. Robert Becker, a scientist twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, went on 60 Minutes and told the world that all wireless technology has biological effects. He was cancelled for it. "All of this has biologic effects. I don't care what it is." Kruse says non-native EMF—wireless technology, blue light screens, RF microwaves—destroys your dopamine reward pathways and degrades your biology from the inside out. And yet, 280 million Americans wear wireless earbuds. Most of them have never been told what it's doing to the tissue inches from their brain. — Dr. Jack Kruse (@DrJackKruse) on the Danny Jones (@JonesDanny) podcast PS: If interested in more unconventional health content just like this, follow me.

@bcherny the final blow to openclaw. to be fair the claude sub stopped working for openclaw about a week ago. API rate limit reached was the response.

Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.

@GordonGekko it’s april 1

If what I’m hearing about Trumps address to the nation is true…. You might want to buckle up 🤯

@jackfriks @postbridge_ april fools 😂

i sold my company @postbridge_ for $4,206,969 i cant believe it, but i just closed the final documents and got the wire into my account this morning.

@BIBlBIB yes it is

is project hail mary worth rushing out at 9pm to make it to its last imax screening

@andrewchen it was amazing 👎👎

watched project hail mary last night after re-reading the book earlier in the week. Loved Always love to see our scientists and engineers as heroes on the big screen - we should have more!

@awealthofcs 100% yes 👎👎

Project Hail Mary is the kind of movie that reminds you why you love going to the movies

@AnnieJacobsen 👎👎

Project Hail Mary is a great ride👏

@MatthewBerman never enough compute

Too much demand...or not enough compute?

@trq212 do we pay less?

To manage growing demand for Claude we're adjusting our 5 hour session limits for free/Pro/Max subs during peak hours. Your weekly limits remain unchanged. During weekdays between 5am–11am PT / 1pm–7pm GMT, you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before.