collin waldoch

@buccocapital @dollarsanddata This was me with twofergoofer.com -- the forced act of writing the puzzle every . single . day . was so helpful for discipline and creativity and focus.

@dollarsanddata Hell yeah

Some various thoughts on how it's been going to try to write more: 1. The other day someone said to me that you need to have a side hustle in the AI era because it's a forcing function to go really deep on AI. So far I have found that to be true, and an absolute blast to really dig into how I can automate my workflow AROUND writing so I can spend more time on the writing itself. I'd imagine at some point, if I can stick with this, I'll want to build a proper website, too. That will be way more tool heavy and half the incentive to do it. 2. Man. Twitter really, really, really, really doesn't want you to move your audience off this platform 3. Almost every single person who reached out to me said you need to make it a habit. So...I'm forcing myself to make this a habit. Every Tuesday a post goes up. So far I'm 3/3. We'll see how long I can keep it up. 4. I used to write a lot more. Twitter, and technology in general, has atrophied this skill. I can think of a cluster of really important skills that have atrophied due to technology. I read less when I am using screens too much. My attention is worse. I am less patient. Something to think about. I'm starting with writing more, but there are other habits that I really care about that I aught to correct. 5. Writing is a muscle, and a craft. The first article was like pulling teeth. It's getting easier, and I can feel the words starting to flow more smoothly. 6. People in general have been really kind. Reaching out to provide feedback, to share ideas, and to propose future topics in areas they are personally wrestling to understand. That's actually been the most rewarding part of building in public - it's starting to deepen some of the relationships I've built on here. 7. I have found that my thinking is a bit sharper. When you dash off a tweet you don't really have to think twice about it. It's a totally different part of your brain. I've enjoyed the process, and the risk (I don't really know what other word to use) of having to expose my thinking to a lot more people. 8. There are days I don't want to do it. But I force myself to write for just 5 minutes. If I can write for just 5 minutes every day I will get a little bit better. I usually end up writing for more than 5 minutes. One of my favorite ideas is the aggregation of marginal gains. That's the game I am trying to plan. Just get a little bit better every single day. 9. My conviction in this experiment is growing every single day. I am watching everyone around me lean into becoming an absolute slop cannon as they outsource their critical thinking to AI. I am growing more confident that thinking deeply and communicating with rigorous logic will be a massive differentiator in the future.

@NoTechBen At least it has Bon Iver playing?

I would have accepted “Sconnies”

I have never referred to Wisconsin as Wisco.

@dwr stravaforcooking.com 👀

Strava for cooking. Finally!

@patio11 Easy way to retract your SSN and other key details? Or do you trust the LLM enough to not worry about it?

Cannot underline this enough: send your human-prepared return to an LLM for review prior to signing it. The closest thing to free money. It isn't even necessarily on the complex or hard bits, either. The first thing it surfaced me was an IL credit for elementary school tuition.

Reminder that it’s still pretty much legal to murder someone with a car in America

At long last, have built a new app. Still testing it out. Strava for Cooking: 👨‍🔬 Try it out! testflight.apple.com/join/tfAvdPPQ 🎥 2.5 min walkthrough: loom.com/share/c63d8243…

Trying @Replit agent 4 for next app idea instead of going straight Claude Code. messed up formatting/design in upper right of page FYI @amasad

They executed him on his knees in the street. I cannot believe what is happening to my country. I say this not as a Democrat, or a Republican, but as an American. They are boiling us like frogs, trying to acclimate us to the destruction of our nation.

A statement from the family of Alex Pretti, obtained by CNN: "We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

This video shows Alex Pretti trying protect a protestor who is being assaulted, then he gets viciously beaten by federal agents, then he's disarmed by a CBP goon and only after that is he summarily executed with 10 bullets. This is murder.

This is absolutely shameful. Agents of a federal agency unnecessarily escalating, and then executing a defenseless citizen whose offense appears to be using his cell phone camera. Every person regardless of political affiliation should be denouncing this.

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.

@emilymbadger @emilymbadger is it possible to get an update on this chart? would be very curious how it changed in past 20 months

Before the pandemic, few mortgage holders ever held fixed rates a full point or lower than what they could get on a new loan. By Q4 2023, nearly 70% of U.S. mortgage holders were locked in *three points or more* below what the market was offering. nytimes.com/2024/04/15/ups…

@BryceM88 lotta overlap - two best recent shows I saw in Durham were florry and Brian dunne, worth checking them too. “First it was a movie….” And “rockland county” respectively as the tracks

@cowllin ok—overlap w/ dehd, liquid mike, ratboys, snow ellet. i'll def check out eades—kind of feel too late for bcnr to register.

2k25 Jams is updated ft. ugly ozo, ELIO, PROM, Slew, Tiga, Varsity Star, et al. open.spotify.com/playlist/2DHqJ…

@BryceM88 dehd - "light on", liquid mike - "mouse trap", ratboys - "morning zoo", eades - "present in the moment", snow ellet - "to some i'm genius", black country new road - "good will hunting" is a platter of my faves

@cowllin thanks for rec // i'll take this as opp to tap in // will report back // other past-5-years band favs? // doesn't have to align w/ Geese at all—direct recs are where I look at this point for bands I haven't given time to/don't know of

@BryceM88 let's do.... "taxes"... lead single on newest album. but man, choosing just one really is a challenge. "long island city..." is a grower, "100 horses" choogles, if either of those compels ya more for deigning a listen

@cowllin wow—have been dreading needing 2 have a take on the Geese &/or Goose hype wave(s) // have never heard a single second of Geese // seems like they're doing well enough // but I will acknowledge the weight a 2k2x Jams add carries—I do not make my decisions lightly // send fav song

This doesn’t get nearly enough attention:

@levelsio Agree: started Water Cooler Trivia as side project . Only went full-time when biz fundamentals were strong. Sold when I knew it was time. Started Twofer Goofer as side project while at (diff) full-time gig. Never made enough $ to justify full-time, so sold it.

Most people I know who became successful had a main job going and then they made one or many side projects Then one took off and when that side project made more money than the main job and was stable (like 6 months) they quit the main job I've only once seen anyone succeed on savings with limited runway and that was @AndreyAzimov but he's the most hardcore guy I know and Ukrainian, so a different breed You're probably not like him so don't quit your main job You won't "have more time", the fact you think "I don't have enoug time" is just procrastination for you not shipping, time is just about setting priorities, there's always a few minutes spread over the day you can ship No excuses!