David Fi

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@levelsio Is the work-life balance in Singapore better than in Portugal? Hapiness? Cost of living?

🇵🇹 If you have ever dealt with any Portuguese business (and I have with many in my 5 years here) you know why Portuguese in Portugal simply do not care about work, some foreigners find that refreshing, but it results in a country where you can't find anyone to do work because nobody wants to work And when they do work, the work is generally bad, like imagine stepping into a time machine back to 1970s bad, they also can't follow the spec you agreed upon beforehand, and then when it's 60% done they disappear and ghost you When we did home renovatiom, you hire ppl, they arrive late at 9am (you agreed 8am), they then drive away to get materials, come back 11am, do actual work for an hour, then at 12noon announce they go for lunch, come back around 2.30pm, walk around a bit, do some work, and then leave early at 4pm It's not just construction workers, it's almost every interaction you have here with a Portuguese business, the quality is just low, the service non-existent or customer-hostile, and it's not the language, I speak fluent Portuguese, I'm respectful and friendly which is why I never ever had this amount of issues elsewhere in the world And I know it's not just my experience, it's everyone I know here, even Portuguese complain about Portuguese! It's not completely their fault though, the hostile tax system for both people and businesses literally gives you an incentive to never ever scale your business beyond I believe around €150,000/year, because you end up in a completely different category and tax tier that decimates you with more taxes and more bookkeeping So every business tries to stay small, and doesn't want more customers (how many times have I walked into a Portuguese cafe or shop and the staff or owner *sighed* "not another customer") Add decades of socialist governments that hand out free money to 50% of the country (and even the right wing parties here are socialist btw, they have to be or they don't get votes) and you don't have any incentive to work left Why work when you don't need to work? The majority of the young smart Portuguese people with actual ambitions understandably move elsewhere, because if there's no incentive to grow a business, there's also no jobs for them, and the whole thing becomes a vicious cycle of increasing poverty Which is why I said Portuguese in Portugal at the beginning of this tweet, because Portuguese outside of Portugal are ambitious, want to work, want to improve their lives! Bringing in lots of foreigners like me by the government as a way to pump money into the system, we spend a lot and it pays for the welfare, healthcare and retirements of Portuguese now, but it's not a structural solution (and we also instantly became the scapegoat for the government's decades of mismanagement) It'd be relatively easy to fix this though if people in Portugal would put on their thinking hat: 💡 Make Portugal a great place to start and run a business, model yourself after Singapore but with extremely low taxes (maybe 5-10%) for companies/startups and make it easy for them to hire (and fire) people, the money you lose in taxes you will get back in increased economic activity over time (but it will hurt for a little bit) Because even the foreigners who move here and start businesses get caught up in the reverse incentive spiral of Portugal: Why even work?

@isaacleon_com dicho de otra manera... el mayor cuello de botella de la IA ahora mismo es... el cerebro humano que la dirige

Opino igual. Todavía me acuerdo del revuelo que hubo cuando critiqué el rediseño de la web de hacienda o S.S (no recuerdo ya). Era todo texto, no habían anclas visuales para poder entender mejor la jerarquía de los bloques, te obligaba a leer toda la web para poder “encontrar”…

@cfryant @javilopen The problem is that it feels... hyperrealistic sometimes, every frame, every shot, every angle, feels overprocessed, overdramatic... shots don't connect between each other, trying to be super eye-catching, but not natural, not reflecting the imperfection of the real world.

@javilopen Here's a particularly good one: x.com/MetaPuppet/sta…

I need an AI short film with a good story. Something that actually hits me emotionally. Still hasn't happened. Why?

Do you know other time mankind has lived under subscription model? Yes, it was called Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Slaves and peasants didn’t own anything either

everyone's drowning in AI slop so critical thinking becomes your design superpower. but at scale? brand is what actually wins. it's what makes people choose you over the noise. design filters. brand sells.

in an era of AI slop, critical thinking is king for design. everything else is noise. but differentiation? that's brand. that's what separates you when everyone has access to the same tools. design solves problems. brand makes them remember you did it.

@AntonioGoBe Dais por hecho que lo difícil son los procesos y la parte teórica y no el seguimiento y ejecución de los mismos

Acabo de caer en la cuenta de que OpenAI tiene una vía de monetizacion bastante top y bastante gitana: Vender información confidencial. Pero no de los usuarios, sino de grandes empresas. Cientos de empresas con miles de trabajadores que consultan en ChatGPT cómo optimizar procesos internos, incluso habiendo firmado acuerdos de confidencialidad porque jeje bueno chatgpt es como una calculadora no??? Con toda esa información pueden reconstruir el funcionamiento interno de una empresa con un nivel de profundidad bastante top, y luego venderlo a sus competidores. O usarlo para cualquier otra cosa, vaya. Es una tontería o tiene sentido?

Changed the offer of a client from "Book a call" to "Get your free audit" Why? "Book a call" = selling to me "Free audit" = helping me find problems Same action. Different framing. Huge difference in conversion psychology. Always lead with value, not your calendar.

@yacineMTB @yfprime @robaiapps that ranking changes like... every week, just an engadgement post, everyday almost everything is defeated

@yfprime @robaiapps right now codex and gpt5 pro

Anthropic is so, so over. Just completely defeated. Really sad, so many great people there. My advice: go to DeepMind before it's too late.

DESIGN DIDN'T DELIVER

It's a shame the design space is becoming an algorithm and popularity contest with eye-catchy but not usable designs instead of having thoughtful conversations demonstrating how we add value and we are not just pretty visuals providers!!!

@nickbakeddesign As creative exersice is nice, but... is necessary that? Mostly is distracting and the purpose of the slider is just to adjust a value easily and quickly and inform the user about the status.

WOW! all in code

Please, let me disable liquid glass :(

@WorldEverett Im starting this sci-fi shorts series DÉJÀ VU #shorts #scifistory #scifistories youtube.com/shorts/L7yDPLU…

🎬 Midjourney + Kling + Higgsfield + Seedance Pro + Veo 3.1 + Udio: "Beyond Tonight" (AI short) Projects like this are a great way to test different models: when I needed shifting focus, I used Kling 2.5, for multi-shots, Veo 3.1 felt best and Seedance Pro worked well for other shots. Whenever you can, try testing the same image across different models and see which one feels best to you! Images: Midjourney v7 and Runway Video: @Kling_ai , Seedance Pro and Veo 3.1 Fast on @higgsfield_ai Music: Udio Editing: CapCut

Anyone else creating their own universe with AI gen tools?

Creating a whole scifi universe with @midjourney #AIGenerativeArt

Creating a whole scifi universe using @midjourney #AIGenerativeArt

@Salmaaboukarr @mkurman88 How we can use it through API easily? It seems it has a cheaper price per generation, thanks

@mkurman88 Thanks! Veo 3.1 via api!

finally got round to testing veo 3.1.... and the new frame to frame and extend feature is insane!

@felixleezd Make design great again

Design needs to be joyful, not just functional. Bring back joy in design.

amazing, there's an entire world of visual communication possible through motion graphics