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@clairevo @msurguy @jessegenet @openclaw Could I get an in to the channel too?

@msurguy @jessegenet @openclaw come hang in the "live laugh claw" slack channel! DM me and i'll send the link

Moms will keep innovating whether people like it or not… If you are @openclaw curious for your families needs and don’t know where to start this is a great guide 💕

@chrisman I know high school is out of this stated target, but if a student has a math question at that level, can the tutor work? Can the high schooler ask a question and work through explanations with the tutor?

We’re going to solve Bloom’s for K-5 math by Christmas. Unless you’re an engineer by trade, it is likely your kids will understand math better than you.

@masaccio60 Thanks for the lesson. Will dive in more

@hungryburro They weren’t all there at the same time. Several thousand were used as forced labour to build the road, but they kept getting killed in avalanches or freezing/starving to death so were replaced with new prisoners. Exact numbers are unknown, but best guess is 10,000 dead.

More Isitt family Type 2 Fun…a ride up the old WW1 road over the Vršič pass (built by Russian POWs) to see the Russian chapel. It’s estimated that as many as 10,000 Russians died during the construction of this road. It might be considered Slovenia’s Road of Bones.

@realEstateTrent Prep food during the day for the following day (or week). An ‘hour’ spent meal planning really pays off. Clean up as you cook. Bathe kids before nanny leaves and instead spend time reading with them or playing games.

Been chatting with my wife about an issue I want to solve, but am a bit stumped -- so thought I would ask the question here, and maybe get some ideas: We both work full-time, and have two young kids at home. Our nanny leaves at 5pm, and then I get home a bit after that. We play with the kids for about an hour (while my wife makes them dinner), have dinner, and then we each give one of them a bath, and help put them to bed. By then it's around 7pm, we're both completely exhausted. We would like nothing more than to enjoy some downtime the rest of the night after a long day, but the work is just beginning. The kitchen and dining areas are now a mess from dinner, the dishes need to be done, and food needs to be prepared for the kids for the next day. By the time all of it is done, it's after 9pm, we are beyond exhausted, and the day is essentially over. We have a cleaner that comes to the house twice a week, but of course wraps up well before 6pm. What do other people do to solve this issue? How do you win back your free time after the kids go do bed, without leaving a mess overnight and ensuring they have food ready for the next day?

@justinskycak The time to recover has to be incorporated too. If you are jello after 30 minutes of intensity, you have to account for the time needed to de-jellify. It might not be until the next day!

30 minutes of fully focused deliberate practice 4 days per week can have you making serious progress towards most learning or fitness goals. But it has to be fully focused -- a "full-assed" effort -- and you have to be continually upping the level of challenge as your capabilities increase. You have to work intensely enough that you come out of each session seriously winded. Meaning that either your brain feels like mush or your body feels like jell-o. When someone fails to make decent progress towards their learning or fitness goals and cites lack of time as the issue, they're often wrong. It's often not lack of time but rather lack of willingness to put forth a full-assed effort under a continually increasing level of challenge. If you put in a half-assed effort then you get a quarter of the results at most. That's what causes the purported lack of time. To get the equivalent of 30 min full-assed, you have to put in at least 2h half-assed, which you quite reasonably might not have time for. Or you put in 30 min half-assed and get the equivalent of 7.5 min full-assed, which doesn't move the needle fast enough on your progress for you to reach your goal in a reasonable timeframe. The magic you're looking for is in the full-assed effort you're avoiding.

@tombennett71 What does restricting other kids from bugging the challenging ones look like? Ignoring them? Or is it just to be accepted that the challenging ones take the oxygen and the other ones figure out how to cope?

@tombennett71 Do you think it's possible for challenging kids to be motivated by the social contract? Or how do you address their needs while not letting them rule the environment?

Exactly this. And the idea that they’ll ’buy into’ these rules because they ‘own them’ is solid gold madness. The challenging kids won’t agree to be bound by the terms of the social contract, because they are children, not the Founding Fathers or the authors of Magna Carta.

@justinskycak is math academy a tailored solution to address gaps? I am about to purchase your program and what I am most interested in is a system that identifies gaps and focuses attention on mastering those gaps prior to moving forward.

When people age, they accumulate biological damage that eventually reaches a tipping point and leads to a cascade of catastrophic health issues. The same thing happens to students learning mathematics. Students accumulate knowledge gaps as they progress through math, and they stop taking math classes once the number of gaps reaches a tipping point and spirals out of control. Knowledge gaps can form in a variety of ways. To name a few: • A student may get stuck on foundational topics yet still be required to complete homework on more advanced topics, leading them to scrape by without really understanding the subject matter. Even a grade of B+ or A- means that there are things in the course that the student never completely grasped, much less mastered. • Students typically do not review material learned in previous years (unless it just happens to be practiced implicitly while attempting to learn new content), and they often do not even review material from their current year unless they are preparing for a test. This leads them to forget what they’ve learned -- often so severely that they need to re-learn it from scratch when it shows up again in the future. • Gaps can also be created if a student takes a course that is watered down or otherwise not comprehensive. When a future course assumes prior knowledge that the student never actually learned, that’s a gap. Now here’s the real kicker: gaps beget more gaps. Once you have a gap, you are unable to fully understand any new information further down that learning path. The gap proliferates. Consequently, once a student amasses a critical number of gaps, things spiral out of control and a vicious cycle kicks off. 1. The cycle begins with a student trying to imitate procedures cookbook-style, without really understanding what’s going on, because they can’t intuitively grasp any of the new material that they’re being taught. 2. Soon after that, they find themselves unable to solve any problems that involve critical thinking or many steps. 3. Finally, they stop taking math classes because they feel it’s impossible to succeed no matter how hard they try. The student may interpret this situation as "I'm not smart enough to learn more math" -- when in fact, their mathematical lifespan could have been extended simply by having their knowledge gaps detected and repaired.

@frankdotlee @ycombinator @paulg How did you do your research? Want to read what you pulled together!

i loved @ycombinator's recent video on @paulg's famous "do things that don’t scale" essay. i was looking for a repo of examples and couldn’t find one, so I put one together! here’s almost 100 instances of startups doing things that didn’t scale. ➡️ comment below and I’ll dm you the full sheet. ➡️ reach out to @useinari and i’ll personally figure out how to improve your product. 1. provide a personalized and “insanely” delightful experience 💕 provide "insanely" high-touch, personalized service by manually onboarding users and giving extremely quick support and product velocity (ex: stripe, algolia, warp, liquifi) have an exact person in mind you’re building for and make your product experience perfect for them (ex: substack) create a low-volume of exactly personalized demos (ex: commandbar, behance) send handwritten thank-you notes to early users (ex: wufoo, reddit) 2. go directly to wherever your customers are ✈️ share and refine your product by physically going to places your customers exist and onboard + activate them there (ex: airbnb, tinder, pinterest, hipcamp, uber, blue Moon, rent the runway) earnestly engage and embed yourself within communities and events where your users exist (ex: pinterest, behance, etsy, github, netflix) 3. validate the problem manually and punt scale for later 🛠️ manually fulfill orders yourself or hack an existing product before building something scalable (ex: doordash, instacart, lugg, vanta, airbnb, groupon, zappos, starbucks, producthunt) manually assemble your initial product instead of being blocked on external partners (ex: cruise, pebble, meraki) choose a scrappy tech stack that works for the stage you’re at instead of building everything scalable (ex: gmail, facebook, levels) manually label or curate data to deeply understand a workflow and product requirements (ex: pandora, andrej karpathy) 4. start a deliberately contained fire 🔥 deliberately constrain the initial user base geographically or demographically (ex: facebook, tinder, farcaster, buildspace) focus intensely on a tiny niche and iterate on product until there’s fit (ex: tbh, bitcoin) 5. be relentlessly resourceful and creative 💡 surprise users by doing unscalable and unexpected campaigns (ex: airbnb, antimetal, brex) find workarounds and temporary hacks for tech limitations (ex: facebook, twitch) 6. consult while building the product 🤝 provide consulting services in the domain you’re building to deeply understand customer needs then build product (ex: looker, vanta) use your product on your customer’s behalf to speed up product development and onboarding (ex: viaweb) 7. ask for help and referrals 🙏🏼 beg friends, ex-colleagues, and your network for initial users and incentivize them to refer others (ex: linkedIn, quora, yelp, facebook, producthunt) ask for intros and referrals from investors, other founders, and related communities (ex: lyft, substack)

@harleyf @Shopify @CNBC There's still so much friction in purchases across the EU. Eg a german shop that "can't " sell to italy; a Dutch shop that "can't" sell to poland. Does shopify resolve this problem for shops?

Europe is our second largest region at @shopify. In Q1 2024, our GMV in Europe grew over 36%, which is the 3rd consecutive quarter of over 35% growth. There is huge opportunity in Europe Today on @CNBC in Paris 🇫🇷

He inadvertently created an icon of one of the biggest deceptions in our lifetime. I wish it weren’t true. Recycling was invented by the plastic industry as a way to transfer responsibility for waste to the individual. There are little to no economics in recycling. Of the plastic waste produced between 1950 and 2015, only 9 percent was recycled. Research on your own and you might also realize we’ve been tricked into feeling good about something that fundamentally doesn’t work…and never did. Some starting places: npr.org/2020/09/11/897… #how-much-of-global-plastic-is-recycled" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ourworldindata.org/faq-on-plastic… youtu.be/9jkUPahh7to theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m…

@GrammarHippy Better stories on forums

Here’s a marketing exercise for you: I did a launch. 350 people bought. I expected more. But the ones who bought? LOVED the product. Exercise: What should I do next to get MORE buyers for this product? Consider the fact that those who bought loved it. Go.

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@studentvieworg @bellingcat @PSHEassociation @EMIF_Fund Open to participants outside UK?

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This has to be, by far, the strangest commercial I have *ever* seen.

@mashable Melanistic panthera are actually dominant in their gene pool..just not as frequently spotted

Black panthers...don't exist?

@DrEricLevi Didn't have enough characters to give more detail but have seen several md's and not solving. Any chance you'd be willing to toss me a few bones to chew on? Reasons to consider are very welcome. 🙏🏻

@hungryburro I’d recommend seeing your local specialist. I can already think of a few reasons for his condition.

@jmj It kills me to hear dads calling their kids bud, where's the respect and connection

Is there anything more condescending than calling someone “bud”?