Glen Carlson 🇦🇺

@steipete sadly mate lots of people are in deep pain and fear. that’s all that is. you rock. 🤘

So much of this, every day. You really have to develop thick skin (exoskeleton?) when working on successful open source. (The Chrome extension has been removed since Google added native access in 144+, which is simpler, but yes, it does require a one-time setting change)

@THArrowOfApollo CODE

Clay’s new pricing is probably my fault. We were paying $314 a month, but using (based on their new model) $214,087.50 worth of Clay a WEEK. Here’s the story: A year ago Clay's head of product hopped on a call with me. I told him we were hitting their platform 17.3 million times per week. Almost all custom events (i.e. HTTPs) I remember his response being something close to "Holy shit, I think you are the largest user of Clay" I said yeah that doesn't surprise me. But then it also came up that we were only paying $3,769 a year. We talked about HTTPs, custom integrations, how we were basically using Clay as a giant API orchestration layer. I knew his wheels were turning. If you saw my last post, you know we eventually replaced Clay entirely with a $200/mo Claude Code subscription. 272,000 leads per second vs Clay's 27 hours for the same volume. But before we left, we were the perfect case study for why Clay's old pricing was broken. $314/mo for 17.3 million weekly, for what they now call ‘actions’. Run the math. We were paying $0.00001815 per action. Clay announced their new pricing structure. They split everything into Data Credits and ‘Actions.’ Actions are HTTPs, custom integrations, API calls. The exact things we were doing 17.3 million times a week. The new price per action credit works out to about 1.24 cents each. A 681% price increase for us I know you might say, "But Clay is letting people stay on the old pricing if they want," and I hear you but I also don't know how it makes me feel that someone brand new would have to pay $856,350 per month to get the same advantages I had when I was starting out only 3 years ago. I'm not saying that one call caused the entire restructuring. But I am saying their head of product learned that day that someone was running 17 million HTTPs a week for the price of a nice dinner. And now every HTTP costs 1.24 cents. anyways For the last year, we've been trying to figure out how to get off of our dependency on Clay. That was until Cursor / Claude Code / Codex came out My VP of Growth, @James, who doesnt know how to write a single line of code, touched Claude Code for the first time And three weeks later he replaced Clay for us We could process 272k rows per second now for the cost of a Claude Code sub My last post was about that system Then after that post, Clay announces new pricing that specifically monetizes the exact thing we were doing at a massive scale. Coincidence? Maybe. But I may owe everyone using Clay an apology If your Clay bill just went up, you can probably blame me for that one. Sorry! I put together a system blueprint of what I did to replace Clay for myself -- every tool, the tech stack, a Clay vs custom comparison, and a 6-step playbook for building your own. Plus a video walkthrough where I show you the live system and how each tool actually works. Reply CODE below and I'll DM it to you.

@thedennis HOOKS

The hook is 80% of your ad's performance. But most brands spend 80% of their time on everything else. I compiled a bank of 100+ hook frameworks we've tested across 250+ brands. Organized by: → Awareness level → Emotional trigger → Product category → Format type Like & comment "HOOKS" and I'll send you access for free.

@MichLieben claude code 🦞

We spent hundreds of hours building Claude Code skills for our $7M ARR GTM agency (and we're giving them away for free) - ICP research - signal scoring - cold email writing - sales intelligence - campaign intelligence. These run inside every system we build for 70+ B2B clients. Reply "Claude Code" and I'll send you the Github repo with everything.

@jasonlk @askOkara ooof.

@askOkara I tried!

Today we're introducing the world's first AI CMO. Enter your website and it deploys a team of agents to help you get traffic and users. Try it now at okara.ai/cmo

@TheMattBerman @openclaw @vishalojha_me @Meta ADS 💪

I run my meta ads with @openclaw for $0/month 😱 here's the system that runs autonomously: step 1: daily health check → social-cli (major shoutout to @vishalojha_me) wraps @Meta's marketing API (token refresh, pagination, rate limits all handled) → am I on track? what's running? who's winning? who's bleeding? any fatigue? → the same 5 questions I asked Ads Manager every morning for 20 years step 2: catch dying ads before CPA spikes → @OpenClaw pulls daily frequency by ad → frequency > 3.5 = audience is cooked, CTR is about to drop → this one signal saves more money than any dashboard step 3: auto-pause bleeders + shift budget to winners → CPA > 2.5x target for 48hrs? auto-pause. no hesitation. → ranks every campaign by efficiency. recommends shifting spend. → last fri it paused an $87 CPA campaign at 3am and scaled my best performer 30% step 4: write new ad copy from your winners → agent analyzes what's working (hooks, angles, CTAs) → generates variations based on the patterns in YOUR top performers → copy modeled on what already converts in your account. step 5: upload ads directly to your account → new creative + copy → live in @Meta Ads Manager → no more downloading, formatting, clicking through the upload flow → agent handles the entire publish cycle step 6: content concepts + morning brief → spots patterns across winners and suggests what to test next → delivers everything to Telegram, Slack, wherever you want it → 90 seconds to read. reply "approved." done. input: your ad account + your target CPA output: an AI that monitors, kills, scales, writes, AND uploads your ads dozens of hours in ad manager → 1 text message I packaged the entire system as the Meta Ads Kit. 5 @OpenClaw skills: - meta-ads (daily checks + auto-pause) - ad-creative-monitor (fatigue detection) - budget-optimizer (efficiency scoring + shift recs) - ad-copy-generator (writes variations from your winners) - ad-upload (publishes creative directly to your account) giving it away free. comment ADS + like + follow (must follow so i can DM)

@brucefenton Patient.

We need a new term for Low Time Preference.  It’s a very important term but the phrase is a bit counterintuitive, non descriptive and doesn’t roll off the tongue.  What do you think?

Australia's longest serving foreign minister ever was Alexander Downer. Mr Downer has written in The Australian: Why Javier Milei is today’s most exciting politician 'The most interesting world leader today is President Javier Milei of Argentina. For years Argentina ran what was called the Peronist economic model ... familiar to many Australians because we are increasingly applying it ourselves. It involves ever-increasing government expenditure on welfare, massive budget deficits, the empowerment of a select few trade union leaders, propping up loss-making industries, and increased taxes especially on industrious, creative entrepreneurs who produce goods and services people really want. As always, the results were catastrophic. Then came Javier Milei, a congressman and candidate for the La Libertad Avanza alliance. He promised a radical, economically rational program to restore the country. The public believed he was genuine and full of conviction. They took a punt on him. He promised big cuts to government spending, sweeping deregulation, and the slashing of power from vested interests in unions and large corporate stakeholders. He promised the most fascinating liberal economic experiment the world had seen in a long time. Now, just under two years later, we can see the results. First, Milei reduced government expenditure by roughly 30 per cent in year one Subsidies for energy and transport were phased out; ministries abolished; public service employment reduced; some salary cuts implemented. Argentina is now on track for a budget surplus. Second, the spending cuts drove inflation down from roughly 25 per cent per month in 2023 to just over two per cent by mid-2025. That dramatic drop came as the central bank stopped printing money. The Milei government also wielded what it called the “chainsaw” on regulation—scrapping some 300 rules; liberalising labour laws; simplifying the tax system; privatising state enterprises; liberalising agricultural exports; encouraging extraction of energy and minerals. Those reforms delivered growth of between six and seven per cent this year. Investment surged back, the government can issue bonds again internationally, and living standards are rebounding. Poverty remains high—but it has declined from about 57 per cent at end 2023 to around 40 per cent and continues downward. After dismantling the Peronist economic model, President Milei now enjoys surprisingly strong approval ratings. The lesson: economic liberalism lies at the heart of growth, prosperity and national success. Australia has been well governed over the past century, but we are drifting toward Peronism—state control, union power, endless spending, deficits, public debt. We must heed Milei." @JMilei @AlexanderDowner theaustralian.com.au/world/why-javi…

This guy.

@sweatystartup bad take. this kid just learned there is no spoon.

Can you imagine being a lower / middle class kid who is convinced by everyone around you to spend more money than your family has ever seen on a dog? Instead of, you know, just getting a new dog? Stupidity at scale.

So painful to watch. First Gary describes the fact that ALL asset prices in the world have inflated in value. He even says that the prices of all commodities have gone up too. And also the price of holidays. He’s describing inflation. Textbook inflation. So we are all on same page at this point … I’m watching the video thinking “damn, Gary’s finally twigged!” And then he says “it’s obvious what’s causing it… when you give rich people money they go out and buy assts” Ah! Rich people!!! … it’s not the governments of the world printing money and making unproductive investments. Gary says “Rich people have passive income and they use that passive income to buy assets”. This point somehow explains the rise in coffee, holidays and the cost of literally everything. So just to be clear - an LSE and Oxford Graduate is telling you the mechanism for causing world wide inflation of the cost of all assets and goods is “rich people using their passive income to buy more assets”. When you go into Tesco and notice that cat food is now 10% more expensive, it’s because rich people have used their passive income to buy assets. Elon snuck in early and bid the price up. When you see the cost of an EasyJet flight is higher, it’s because rich people have passive income and bought assets. Got it? Every other economist will tell you that government spending and debt stimulus would be the cause of widespread inflation. And the numbers certainly look correlated to that. Why does Gary have to do these mental gymnastics? Because he hates people who are successful and he wants to punish them with insanely high taxes. If Gary admits the truth - that government stimulus causes inflation- then he has a serious problem on his hands. Higher taxes would be used to service higher debt and more spending. If the government is the problem, then giving them more money would compound the problem. He knows this which is why he can never acknowledge that government spending is a problem. Gary is like an economic flat-earther coming up with wild theories about why the world is actually flat despite all evidence. As soon as “rich people” aren’t the problem his whole worldview falls apart. Rich people who own assets are the beneficiaries of government caused inflation but they didn’t cause the problem and you can’t solve the problem unless you address the real cause. Ironically, Gary’s approach will lead to more widespread poverty. Only when the governments stop their insane spending and let markets function will we see a return to widespread affluence.

@bowtiedstocks as long as the printer is set to brrrrrrrr, property prices will go up.

Why are people in Australia so comfortable shelling out $1m+ for a basic house and taking on eye watering levels of debt? There is only one reason And that is because they have been conditioned to believe prices can only go up And that they cannot fall

🔥 from Dan

@rationalaussie hard money is a dangerous conspiracy :)

Most of the mainstream Australian economists on this platform have blocked me because they don't like me pointing out that their entire life's work was wrong.

@GreenTyler27 @GemmaNoiosi @purplepingers Socialism. Equally poor.

@purplepingers Socialism appeals to those who don’t understand economics, incentives, or human nature. It promises equality but delivers poverty, inefficiency, and authoritarianism. The idea that you can endlessly take from producers to fund non-producers ignores basic logic: when no one is rewarded for working harder, innovation and effort vanish. History shows clearly that socialism always ends in shortages, corruption, and widespread misery. It flatters envy and entitlement but punishes productivity. Only the naïve or willfully ignorant still believe centralized planning outperforms free markets. In reality, socialism is a utopia for fools, sounding noble but collapsing wherever it’s tried. Smart people learn from history. Others repeat it. Hard money is the cure for government overspending.

Yay, just what NSW needs…. The “Socialist Party”… 🤢 Sadly I can’t tag Purple Pingers… he blocked me… what’s more sad is that young woke fools vote for this party.

@BrianSchmidt9 @DanielPriestley yup. but it’s a surprisingly hard thing for people to get their head round. slowly then…

@DanielPriestley Bitcoin is trickle up economics. The problem is infinite money printing. Bitcoin Fixes This.

There is no such thing as trickle down economics. It’s a lie to say that just giving rich people more money will make poor people materially better off. If there’s any truth to it, the “trickle” bit is the clue in the name … they certainly didn’t call it flood down economics. By the same token, it’s a lie to say that socialism or communism puts wealth in the hands of the workers. Socialism puts wealth in the hands of the government and once again workers are waiting a long time for it to trickle down to them (and it never does). Socialists are the biggest believers in trickle down economics. They honestly think more tax revenue to a bigger government will make their lives better. Believing that requires a total blindness to history. So what does work?? Elevation up. It is the responsibility of each person and each family to elevate. Every one of us must study the world and find something of value to do within it. The issue we have now is that digital technology changed the game. Prior to digital, being a skilled individual meant you could charge a high premium for your time and rise to the TOP of society. Then digital technology arrived and added more levels to the game. Being highly skilled only gets you to the MIDDLE now. To get to the top, you now need to develop and use intellectual property, media, code and finance. It totally sucks but that is the truth. It shouldn’t be like that but it is. It’s not enough to climb to the top of the 1990s ladder. You now have to climb to the top of the 2025 ladder … and soon the 2030 (ai) ladder! The game has expanded. Theres no trickle down. Neither governments nor rich people think about regular people at all. I know people who are wildly successful and people in government - they think about their own success most of the time. Sad but true. No one is coming to save you. Capitalism will at least give you an opportunity to succeed - some win and some don’t (sad but true). Socialism just rigs the game against everyone other than the government - everyone loses. Elevating yourself is the only way forward. No one is coming to save you. As much as it feels nice to imagine a government that helps you to be comfortable, it’s a fantasy. And as much as it feels nice to imagine a rich society magically trickling down riches onto you, it’s also a fantasy.

@ChromeYellow23 @DanielPriestley entrepreneurship > bitcoin > :)

@DanielPriestley Cut short: FREE market capitalism works. It created the greatest surge in the middle class from ww2 until the early 2000s. What we have now is crony capitalism and money printing

@CryptoC00853893 @DanielPriestley the idea that Dan came from class or has it now makes me giggle.

@DanielPriestley Rich people like you should just come out and say guys, this is the system, we built it this way to benefit our class, overtime you will get poorer & there’s nothing you can do about it. So become a tech bro, start a business cause that’s how the world is.

someone needs to explain UBI to me like I’m 10. The government putting cash directly into to people’s hands is the definition of inflationary - If everyone was on $500 a week, that stimulus would just dilute the value of the currency by the same amount - I can’t get my head around how that’s even an option.

@wimdows The clue is in the name - basic. They’ll give people enough to not tear the place apart. You’ll be seen as the “feeder” class who exists to consume some stuff. Do not plan your life around it.

@Breedlove22 willful ignorance.

Name a meta-problem that’s more meta than corrupt money (aka central banking).