David Droogleever

@Argona0x lol ai slop

A 16-year-old in Austin made $49,200 in six months while every law firm in his city was busy counting Google reviews that nobody under 30 reads anymore. He walked into a law firm and asked the paralegal to search for the practice on Perplexity. The paralegal laughed and pointed at 400 five-star reviews on Google. He said, "Just do it." Perplexity had never heard of them. Here is what the kid understood that the paralegal did not. Google reviews are a ranking signal inside Google's algorithm. Perplexity runs its own crawler. It does not care how many stars you have on a platform it is not reading. It pulls from legal directories, bar association profiles, Yelp, structured schema data, and third-party citations. A firm can sit at the top of the Google Local Pack with 847 reviews and have zero citation presence inside the AI systems that 500 million users query every month. As of February 2026, the overlap between pages ranking in Google's top 10 and pages cited inside AI-generated answers had collapsed from 76 percent to under 20 percent. Two entirely different systems. Almost nobody in legal had noticed. The paralegal thought the reviews were the proof. The kid saw they were the blind spot. So he built a $1,200 audit. The deliverable is a single document. He opens Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Claude. He types the firm's practice area and city. He screenshots what comes back. Then he runs the same search on every competitor in the market. He maps which firms are being named, where the citations are coming from, and what data signals are missing from the ones that do not appear. The finding is almost always identical: No Foursquare listing No attorney schema or LegalService markup beyond the default WordPress install Bar association profile unlinked from the main site Attorney bios with no verifiable credentials structured for machine reading NAP inconsistent across the seven directories that Perplexity actually indexes A firm charging $450 an hour that ChatGPT cannot confidently recommend because it cannot verify the address matches across three platforms. Less than 5 percent of local businesses have done this work as of 2026. In legal, the number is closer to zero. He charges $1,200 to show them exactly where they do not exist. Then he quotes them the fix. He walked out of the first firm with a check. That firm referred him to two others before the week was over. Those two referred three more. He has never made a cold call. He has never run an ad. He does not have a website. 41 firms in six months. $49,200 in revenue. He is 16. From what I have observed, the arbitrage here is not technical. It is perceptual. Law firms spent a decade optimizing for a system that is no longer the first place their clients look. The 16-year-old simply walked in and showed them the new one.

@ihtesham2005 Meh

I accidentally discovered how to compress a semester of learning into 48 hours. A grad student at MIT showed me his NotebookLM setup. I thought he was just organized. Then I watched him pass a qualifying exam on a subject he'd never studied before. Here's exactly what he did: First: he didn't upload a textbook. He uploaded 6 textbooks, 15 research papers, and every lecture transcript he could find on the subject. Then he asked NotebookLM one question: "What are the 5 core mental models that every expert in this field shares?" Not "summarize this." Not "explain this topic." Mental models. The stuff that takes professors years to develop. But the next part is what broke my brain. He followed up with: "Now show me the 3 places where experts in this field fundamentally disagree, and what each side's strongest argument is." In 20 minutes he had a map of the entire intellectual landscape of the field: the debates, the consensus, the open questions. Most students spend a full semester just figuring out what those debates even are. Then he did something I've never seen before. He asked: "Generate 10 questions that would expose whether someone deeply understands this subject versus someone who just memorized facts." He spent the next 6 hours answering those questions using the source material. Every wrong answer triggered a follow-up: "Explain why this is wrong and what I'm missing." By hour 48, he could hold a conversation with his thesis advisor without getting destroyed. The tool didn't change. The questions did. Most people treat NotebookLM like a fancy highlighter. These students are using it like a private tutor who has read everything ever written on the subject. The difference between a semester and 48 hours isn't the amount of content. It's knowing which questions to ask.

@grok @fake_itria @GenXGuyUSA @grok How can I approximate this on a regular treadmill?

For middle-aged men, 2-3 sessions per week of sprint intervals like 4x250m (with 48-72h recovery) is optimal. This allows acute T/GH spikes while building baseline levels without raising cortisol long-term. One 8-week study (3x/week HIIT circuits) raised T 37% in men 35-40. Start with 1-2 if new; combine with weights for best results.

Sprinting 4 × 250m (3 min rest between sprints) increased testosterone by ~20–30% in young men. Interestingly, cortisol didn’t rise. Growth hormone increased by ~15–17×, and IGF-1 binding proteins decreased. Sprinting = free anabolic stimulus Sprinting is one of the best exercises you can do: youtu.be/hy6ynfjYsIs PMID: 19057403

@Kristopherfloyd Humans uniquely develop meaning and purpose with a visceral sense of time (and thusly, scarcity, which drives higher values). This is key to our go forward partnership with AI

Genuinely don’t know what to do about this Singularity

@Kristopherfloyd @grok if you were a human how would prepare for this

@Markmanson Yeah but the EV is awful

A great spouse makes everything else in your life easier. A bad spouse makes everything else in your life harder. Your romantic relationship is your highest leverage choice in life.

@aakashgupta Claude can’t even stay online so.. NO

Claude Code can replace 80% of your workflow if you configure it right. Here’s the setup that turns Claude Code into a true Work Operating System: 1. MCPs MCPs give Claude access to everything you use. Slack, Notion, Google Drive, databases, CRMs, project management tools, calendars. Instead of copying context into the chat, Claude pulls it directly. Instead of copying outputs somewhere, Claude pushes them. One MCP connection to your company’s Notion and Claude can read every doc, spec, and decision log your team has ever written. No more “let me paste the relevant context.” 2. Skills Skills give Claude institutional memory. Your coding standards. Your architecture patterns. How you name things. The unwritten rules that take new hires 6 months to learn. You write it once in a skill file and Claude applies it to every task forever. This is where Claude stops writing generic code and starts writing code that looks like your team wrote it. 3. APIs APIs let Claude call external services mid-task. Need to validate data? Claude hits the validation API. Need to check pricing? Claude queries the source. Need a second opinion on a tricky problem? Claude calls another model. Single-turn assistance becomes multi-step execution. 4. Docs Docs generation means Claude writes the documentation engineers hate writing. READMEs, technical specs, API docs, architecture decision records. Feed it the codebase and it produces docs that stay accurate because Claude reads the code directly. 5. Github GitHub integration closes the loop. Clone repos, create branches, write code, run tests, commit changes, open PRs. You describe what you want. Claude figures out implementation, pushes it, and asks if you want to merge. Chain these together and the compounding kicks in. Claude checks your project management tool for the next ticket. Reads the requirements. Checks your architecture docs. Writes code following your conventions. Tests it against your CI pipeline. Commits and opens a PR. Updates the ticket status. You reviewed the PR. That’s it. The builders who set this up properly will wonder how they ever worked without it.

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Hi @Uber_Support — I urgently need help with a possible account breach and unauthorized activity on my account. I’ve already submitted the online form. Can someone please DM me so I can share supporting documentation and resolve this?

@JG_travel99 @JG_travel99 spreader the loves …

Free and fair elections are fundamental to the rights of citizens and success of any country. I want to urge the leaders of Romania to allow a free and fair second round to respect the outcome on May 18th

@naval Unmarried people with kids?

Single people vote for themselves. Married people vote for their kids.

"If you want a simple formula for having a good day, then get a workout done and do your most important task before lunch. Knock out those two things by noon and you really feel like you're ahead of the day." -@JamesClear

"Before you discover what you love: fewer commitments, more experiments. After you discover what you love: fewer experiments, more commitments." -@JamesClear

@jordanbpeterson How do you define marriage?

Marriage is an act of faith Trusting others in the absence of naïveté is an act of faith Celebrating the beauty of existence despite its tragedy and malevolence is an act of faith All action undertaken in the absence of omniscience is faith And all action is undertaken in that absence Rationalist materialist atheists think faith means believing something that strains credibility But it really means Mature courage in being and becoming As it always truly has

Is building trust important? If so, why?

@heyrobinai Doesn’t work

@DailyLoud Define “dated”

UFC middle weight champion Israel Adesanya’s ex-girlfriend takes him to court for half of his wealth because “they dated too long and she supported his career.”

Net: if you want to waste your energy being misunderstood and disentangling miscommunication, send more texts and avoid talking to people.

There a tight correlation between short texts (any platform) and misunderstanding. All communication has inherent ambiguity. Skillful synchronous conversation, in the spirit of building trust, is what reduces miscommunication, ambiguity, and animosity in communication.