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I can confidently say that I have my goals set for the next couple of years: • Make a professional impact • Earn a boatload of money • Be fit as fuck • Build a great relationship & be a solid partner • Make even an average Tuesday enjoyable

One of the things I love about having a home in a specific neighbourhood is that you develop your routes. Same streets, same corners, same everything. Until one day something new just appears. Like this little ice cream shop. No idea when it opened, but the locals clearly love it already.

I think @claudeai is now paying for its incredible success in the last few months. People on max plans are hitting limits with simple prompts. New features are being churned out without any QA and are half-cooked and always come with issues. Also Leaked source code. A bit frustrating; it almost makes me want @OpenAI to release codex code.

My new favorite thing with any LLM: after getting a response, ask it to play devil's advocate. Removes fake AI positivity and often brings additional insights that I could have missed otherwise

Yeah, the data looks similar, and I don't understand why @WHOOP is so inaccurate on the wristband. Apple Watch can do it; why can't Whoop? No, I don't want a biceps band or to put it in my underwear or anything like that. If they solved this, I'd be loyal to Whoop. Right now I use Whoop and like it, but I'll switch the moment there's a decent screenless device that is more accurate

Update on this. @WHOOP sent me a free bicep band. Ran 16 miles with it today. Garmin chest strap: 112 bpm avg. WHOOP bicep band: 107 bpm avg. 99% zone 1. The wrist band had me in zone 4 and 5 for 80% of the same type of run. The bicep band had me in zone 1 for 99%. 3+ years of bad data and the fix was moving it a foot up my arm. Credit to WHOOP for reaching out and making it right. I just wish the wrist band worked. Not sold on wearing a bicep band 24/7 or switching bands every run, but maybe it grows on me.

Halfway through and I have to say this book is amazing. I've always heard about The Great Depression but never really paid attention to what actually caused it, who the key players were, etc. Funny enough, most crypto pump and dump schemes basically originated in the 1920s — same playbook, different century.

It seems it's a final step before IPO. Hope it doesn't mean higher prices and worse service in the future, but so far so good 🤞

I take back anything good I ever said about @airBaltic. First, the stupid 8 kg limit on carry-on personal items. Today I saw them literally weighing everyone's luggage and personal items. The moment it was over 8 kg they charged €30. What kind of fucking limit is 8 kg? It doesn't make any sense. Even @Ryanair is better in this regard. Maybe a size limit? 8 kg? Fuck me. Nearly every passenger had to pay. Secondly, it turns out Starlink is not available on all flights. The productive time I could have spent – the one thing I liked about them – is not even available everywhere. Plus airBaltic is basically a state-owned company that looses money, so if you can’t even provide great experience… what’s the point?

@elonmusk Haven't tried Grok 4.2 but what's the long-term vision for the Grok right now? It seems it's stuck in between two other LLMs. ChatGPT is still probably the number one consumer option while Claude is the number one option for enterprise so Grok is sort of in the middle.

What are your initial impressions of Grok 4.20? Major upgrades are still landing every week.

Beyond fucking excited

But I feel like I'm still just scratching the surface. The real sh*t will be when CC will work WITH me - a sidekick across both personal and work areas. ... positive ROI will be easy measure

Creating basic automations: Workwise: extracting meeting notes from Granola via MCP, pulling key opportunities from meetings. Auto-posting those meeting notes to Slack. Even HubSpot integration For personal: syncing workouts and health data from WHOOP and Hevy. Even analysing my blood test and supplement list

For last 3-4 weeks I've gotten pretty good at making Claude Code work for me. Mainly focusing on areas I already know - optimising my Obsidian vault so content is easily used for work and personal.

@yazins Ohh interesting

Introducing: OpenGranola 🔥 I built an open source meeting copilot for macOS. It transcribes both sides of your call on-device, searches your own notes in real time, and hands you talking points right when the conversation needs them. No audio leaves your Mac. Point it at a folder of markdown files, pick any LLM through OpenRouter (Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, Llama), and it just works. It's invisible to screen share too — nobody knows you have it. The whole thing is open source. Link below

@SahilBloom I actually like my phone in grayscale and now want to use it even more. 😑

I broke my phone addiction in 30 days. • Screen Time down ~70% • Phone pickups down ~50% I reclaimed 4 hours 30 minutes per day. That's 1,635 hours across a full year. 68 days of life from a single behavior change. Here's exactly what I did (save this): 1. Grayscale Mode Put your phone on Grayscale Mode for the entire day. Grayscale Mode removes the colors to make your phone immediately less appealing and addicting. It takes 30 seconds to set up. If you have an iPhone, follow these steps: • Settings • Accessibility • Display & Text Size • Color Filters -> On • Grayscale Next, create a simple shortcut: • Settings • Accessibility • Accessibility Shortcut • Color Filters Now, if you triple-click the side button, you'll be able to toggle it on and off. For non-iPhone users, you can find instructions​ with a simple search. I kept my phone on Grayscale at all times and only removed it for specific reasons (like posting something that required me to see the color, looking at photos, etc.). It made me less interested in grabbing my phone for the random "just checks" during the day. 2. No-Phone Zones Set specific locations, times, and events where you won't have your phone on you. I called them No-Phone Zones: • Downstairs (kitchen, living room) • Creative flow time (from ~5-8am) • Family flow time (from ~5-7pm) • Family gatherings During these windows, my phone would be in a lock box or in a drawer in my office. If we were out at a family gathering, I would leave it in the car or in my wife's bag where I couldn't feel it. Specifically listing out these No-Phone Zones had the benefit of making it a clear rule that I could cement in my mind. Create your list of No-Phone Zones. Write it down if you need to. 3. Strategic Friction Even with the Grayscale Mode and No-Phone Zones, my phone addiction intervention would have been difficult to execute without this final piece of the puzzle. Motivation and discipline are never enough when you're trying to crack a deeply entrenched behavior. There's a theory in cognitive science called Choice Architecture, which is the idea that you can design your environment to make good choices easier and bad choices harder. Basically, I wanted to add strategic friction to make it much easier to adhere to my rules (and much more difficult to break them). Three primary ways I did that: 1. I locked my phone in a ​lock box​ during my morning creative flow (5-8am) and evening family flow (5-7pm). It was a timed lock so I couldn’t get it without emailing the company. 2. I left my phone far away from where I was going to be working. If I wanted to get it, I'd have to walk to the other side of the house or down a few flights of stairs to get it. 3. I added really low screen time restrictions to social apps. If I wanted to overuse them, I'd have to keep approving more time, which felt like letting myself down when I did it. Breaking the addiction is going to be difficult at first. Create strategic friction that helps you stick to the change. Make it difficult to make a bad choice. The Life Impact I'm not going to sugarcoat it at all: This was the single most powerful behavior change I've ever made in terms of the tangible impact and ripple effects on my life. That is not an exaggeration. I was more present, less stressed, and able to connect on an entirely different level. In short, I showed up more aligned with how my ideal self would. My capacity for deep work expanded significantly from simply placing my phone in another room or a lock box. I got more done, faster, at a higher quality bar. It was like the holy trinity of productivity improvement, with no fancy productivity tool required. Reviewing the research, this isn't surprising: There is clear ​scientific evidence​ that even having your phone in your pocket or on your desk reduces your cognitive capacity. I felt happier and less stressed immediately upon making the change. So, just keeping score... This was a single, zero cost behavior change that had the net effect of: • Improving my relationships • Improving my work • Improving my happiness To be completely transparent, just a few days in, the only negative thought I had related to the intervention was simple: Why didn't I do this sooner? I hope this is the push you need to make this change in your life. Start small and stick to it. Aim for a 10-20% screen time reduction week-over-week. Keep yourself accountable with a friend. Having now gone through it, I can guarantee you'll see and feel the positive impact immediately. Onward and upward.

@levelsio I'm not sure about Brazilians, but I've met plenty of Argentinians in Europe who want nothing to do with Italy, just its passport.

Funniest part of it that this was mostly Brazilians with Italian heritage getting passports A demographic that's high educated and high income and culturally aligned with Italy and Europe, I mean they're genetically Italian! Instead they'll now give away passports to low educated welfare seekers without income from cultures that hate them It seems European governments enemy is immigrants that are a net positive addition to their culture while wanting to bring in more people that want to destroy their societies

@TfTHacker What’s the advantage of using task notes (each task is a note) instead of just writing tasks in each page?

@sircalebhammer Out of curiosity, how come low housing prices are not scaring away developers?

Austin tried to pass rent control, but the state didn’t allow it. Instead, we allowed developers to build. Now it’s cheaper to rent in Austin as a % of income than in decades. Move to states and cities that build things instead of having virtue signaling policies that don’t help

@odd_joel @telegram Nice, I'll check it out. For me, where Telegram wins is in display, since I do not code but rather need to retrieve information from notes/CRM.

terminal on phone is rough, especially with Tailscale + plain SSH. what made it click for me was mosh protocol (survives sleep/network switches so you never reconnect) plus voice-to-terminal to skip the tiny keyboard. been using Moshi for this — made running Claude Code from my phone actually usable

Finally had to embrace @Telegram, but not to talk with people. I needed a way to access Claude code on the go so I could easily pull insights from my notes and other sources. Tried Tailscale, but using terminal on phone just sucks. Turns out all I needed was a Telegram bot.

Surprised it's free without limits. Knowing airlines, I doubt it's out of the goodness of their hearts. What do Starlink commercials look like? Is there a clause (you can't charge passangers for time, can’t limit access)? Anyone know?

Very surprised seeing this on @airBaltic flight. Gotta say starlink is amazing