Monklie
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Hot take: There is a limited window of time, like any new industry, where a new tool appears and people don't understand it fully yet, and it's powerful enough to change your entire life, but not so powerful it's been completely taken over by corporate interests yet. And when this tool appears you have two choices: use it to skyrocket your life and take advantage of this TEMPORARY moment, or resist/hate/be angry/complain/, do nothing, and the moment is gone forever.
These brief moments in time are when shifts in the game board happen. It happened with Crypto, its happening with AI, it happens with any NEW thing. These shifts in the game board allow people who came/come from nothing, to elevate, using nothing but DEMOCRATIZED tools, moving first, their creativity, and execution.
Our take is that instead of poo poo-ing the tool, USE the tool, improve your life, try applying the tool to the industries/things you know best, get creative, and catapault your way into a new class. You'll fine the sense of fulfillment you get as you're building, growing, expanding, learning, elevating your life, to FAR OUTWEIGH any feelings of superiority you get by hating and rejecting the tool.
If you don't use this time, VERY likely chance in the future, whether 5 years, 10 years, when you are older, have more family, more weight/responsibility, and the realities of life are much more tangible, you'll wish you had acted more during this time. You don't want to be filled with regret because you chose to hate/dismiss, instead of build/grow, which ONLY helps you and the ones you love.
TLDR? Instead of hating/dismissing a new tool, use this BRIEF WINDOW of time to elevate/improve your life. The window is temporary and if you don't use it because you want to please a small niche of people who don't really care about your success anyways, you may very highly regret that decision.
Disclaimer: Post written with care and consideration and in a good spirit. Please don't be hateful for no reason. This is to benefit those who these words get through to.
Polymarket@Polymarket
NEW: Barnes & Noble CEO says the company has “no problem” selling AI-written books as long as they’re clearly labeled.
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No investor has any right to push you to get acquired if you don't want to. The company is your project, not theirs.
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@pleometric What is that TT feature called? I want to pay for my song to go viral.
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tiktok straight up pays you to use songs artists have allocated a budget to go viral. Organic traffic in social media belongs mostly to low effort, inscrutable content like brainrot, which is mostly produced by so-called content farms. People don't care that the feed is fake.
New York Magazine@NYMag
Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients. The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show. In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views. “On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown. “Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.” Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: nymag.visitlink.me/w6Bu9N
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@centinel_io @joshu Awesome. Thanks for the explanation. Making it quantum-resistant is important for the near future. Will send a DM.
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replied to a cold pitch asking for the deck. no response. fascinating
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@joshu @centinel_io Exactly, sometimes people close to me say that I use words that are too plain to describe my startup. But it's important to me that everyone can understand and visualize it instantly.
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@monkllie @centinel_io so many startups will give long explanations of their background and other details and never offer a concise explanation of what they do. i don’t dig into these.
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@centinel_io @joshu Not a VC, but can you pitch your startup in a couple of sentences? Please explain it as simple as possible.
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I'm overdosed by AI.
I'm tired of keeping up with every new tool that comes out on a seemingly daily basis.
The information overload is crazy, the legitimacy of the content you see daily is already questionable, the entry bar is lowest it's ever been and it's only going to get worse.
Most things I see these days are the copies of a copy of another copy. Lifeless, sloppy, low quality work that does not spark interest or emotion. It's just dull.
I acknowledge the insane value and potential that AI brings to the table. I myself use AI in my work and outside of my work as well, as an accompanying tool. It's another means to make work more efficient. Just like we went from analogue to digital, from Photoshop to Sketch, Sketch to Figma, etc. AI is just another new step we are taking.
But like with any tool, it must not define the craftsman. I want to see more people use their head genuinely, innovatively, creatively and bring what they've got to show to the table instead of relying on machines to do everything for them.
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This is so cool
Instead of grass, this neighborhood uses black artificial turf
No water needed
Looks sleek
Perfectly blends into the desert landscape of Arizona
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Well it looks like @cluely finally copied their ex employee's @elamri and @benaratame's Methods app. I guess the overlay failed and they're fully pivoting to being a UGC marketing platform.
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@jappleby I think people shouldn't underestimate BeReal owner Voodoo. Their DAUs are probably through the roof right now. They are the best performance marketers in the world. With Wish(shopping app) taking the second place historically. And can get the app to 200m DAUs in a finger snap.
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In my LinkedIn post about the Vine Reboot, a senior staffer at BeReal tried to insert BeReal into the conversation.
I get that working for a tech company that’s failing is an awkward position, but if you drink the Kool Aid this hard, you’re just asking to be dunked on.
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Reply to this post and I'll make an ad for your account. First 10 repliers only
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@nlevnaut @pleometric We are like the 12th and 13th astronauts on the moon. People only worship the first one. Penguin should make an ad honoring us forgotten space travelers.
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@startupoppa @peterthiel @naval @elonmusk Please go to end of Chapter 2 in Zero To One. Immediately after your quote he says: 'And yet the opposite principles are probably more correct: 4. Sales matters just as much as product'
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re: product vs distribution argument
“If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it’s not good enough: technology is primarily about product development, not distribution.”
- @peterthiel
in addition, if @naval @elonmusk are also on the same page, wtf are people still arguing for?
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Looking forward to starting the conversation on some important social topics. Happy to hear your thoughts and learn about your perspectives
@DavidBaszucki @itsElenaWalker @CarlFlamingo @akashrnigam
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Check out this wonderful story about unicorn startups based in Los Angeles California! Includes Snapchat, and a new LA startup. Also featured are BuzzFeed, Pixar, Roblox and Meta.
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