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@gregisenberg @boringmarketer marketing going forward IS AI engineering

@boringmarketer nice. let's get you on the pod within the next 45 days

The best thing ANY engineer/programmer can do right now is learn how to become a top 1% marketer For 20 years, the engineer was the most important person in the room. They had the rarest skill. They could build the thing. Everyone else had to wait for them. Claude Mythos and the models coming after it are ending that era The new scarcity is the person who can look at a human being and understand exactly what they need to hear to take action. What makes someone click buy at 11pm. What makes someone tell a friend. What makes a stranger feel like a product was built specifically for them That is a completely different muscle than writing code or architecting systems Study why TBPN built a brand silicon valley is obsessed with. Learn why the headline is 80 cents of every dollar. Figure out why one subject line gets 40% open rates and the next one gets ignored Most engineers have never trained this muscle. They are world class at clearly defined problems. Marketing is the opposite. Fuzzy. Emotional. Irrational. The engineer who trains it becomes the most dangerous person in any room The CTO/CMO combo is the most valuable human in tech right now and almost nobody has both Computer Science school in 2026 should basically be part technical knowledge/part marketing knowledge I really think that... The best thing any engineer can do right now is learn how to become a top 1% marketer

think you’re missing one important piece - I think its CTO + CMO + Sales. and not in a salesy “I studied this sales guru” type shit repeating scripts and other nonsense …. but actually being able to connect with another human being. listen to them, and care about that person with genuine empathy. This trait is becoming increasingly rare in modern society and its disappearance will only accelerate the the more humans integrate with technology & AI. Those who thrive with communication skills on top of the CTO + CMO stack online and in real life will set themselves apart.

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@codyschneider I’m in

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Great episode!

Kobe Bryant: "Failure doesn't exist, it's a figment of your imagination" An interviewer asks: "Are you someone who loves to win or hates to lose?" Kobe responds: "I'm neither. I play to figure things out. I play to learn something. Because if you play with a fear of failure or you play with the will to win that supersedes fear, I think it's a weakness either way. If you play with fear of failing, you'll capitulate to that fear. If you play with the sense of 'I want to win, I want to win,' then you have the fear of what happens if you don't. But if you find common ground in the center, you're unfazed by either. That enables you to stay in the moment and not feel anything other than what's in front of you." The interviewer asks: "How did you become someone who doesn't seem afraid of failing?" Kobe responds: "What does failure mean? It doesn't exist. It's a figment of your imagination." He explains with an analogy: "Let's use happy endings. Everybody wants a happy ending, right? Snow White finds her prince and lives happily ever after. Well, I call BS on that because two months later, they had an argument and he's sleeping on the couch. The point is: the story continues. So if you fail on Monday, the only way it's a failure is if you decide to not progress from that. If I fail today, I'm going to learn something from that failure and try again on Tuesday. That's why failure doesn't exist." The interviewer asks: "If you finished your career without a championship, would you have looked at that as a failure?" Kobe: "No. I would look at it as being extremely disappointed, because I had a dream and goals I wanted to accomplish. If I didn't accomplish those goals, I'd have to ask myself why. Poor leadership? Failure to communicate with my teammates? Lack of preparation? Those would be reasons why I didn't win. So I'd have to analyze that. And as I evolved post-basketball into business, those same weaknesses would reveal themselves there too. If I don't learn from that, I'm going to struggle again." He concludes: "I can take those situations and learn from them and have them make me a better person later in life. But if I don't take that stuff and apply it someplace else, that's failing. The worst possible thing you can ever do is to stop. It's to not learn."

@LibertyLockPod Starting?

Iran is 100% militarily degraded but they are lighting Israel up like a Christmas tree. I'm starting to think that maybe Trump doesn't have a fkn clue what he's doing.

@Stevie_658jjh @RealProductGirl Competitor to Rork?

@RealProductGirl Let's connect @RealProductGirl I am building BuildSpeedy which can help to build the mobile app faster, it cheap and help you ship faster

I NEED my feed full of builders. What are you working on right now? I don't care if it's a startup or a weekend side project. If you're building something, I want you on my timeline. Reply and let's connect. 👇

@laysteeven Congrats brother 👊🏽

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SHOCKING: 99% of people using LinkedIn are barely scratching the surface. Right now, the entire internet is screaming "LinkedIn, LinkedIn, LinkedIn"... But here's the truth: just posting randomly won't build pipeline. To unlock its real power, you need to master: - Writing posts that stop the scroll and drive comments - Building a posting strategy that compounds over time - Optimising your profile to convert visitors into leads I spent 100+ hours building and training the most complete LinkedIn GPT for 2026 and compiled every framework, template, and strategy into one tool. I'll give it to only 4,500 people. To get it: 1. Follow me MUST (so I can DM) 2. Comment "GPT" 3. I'll DM you the tool If you don't follow or comment, you won't receive it.

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SHOCKING: 99% of GTM engineers using Claude are barely scratching the surface. Right now, the entire internet is screaming "Claude, Claude, Claude"... But here's the truth: just prompting it won't build GTM infrastructure. To unlock its real power, you need to master: - Claude Code deployment with the WAT framework and CLAUDE. md self-improvement loop - MCP connections, sub-agents, and automations running 24/7 without you - Pre-built prompt systems covering every GTM function you actually run I spent 100+ hours building and documenting the most complete Claude GTM Engineering Bible and compiled every prompt, workflow, build sequence, and deployment guide into one resource. I'll give it to only 500 people. To get it: 1. Follow me MUST (so I can DM) 2. Comment "CLAUDE" 3. I'll DM you the bible If you don't follow or comment, you won't receive it.

@daniel_dhawan Would love to chat man, trying to make Rork work right now but having issues - congrats on your success! Hope we can grab a drink soon at the winner tables!

My first 6 years as a startup founder: - Started by building AI mobile apps at 20yo - Failed with 4+ startups - Ran out of money multiple times - Was rejected by Y Combinator 8 times - Had a $15k credit card debt - Got 200+ rejections from investors My last year as a startup founder: - Moved to SF - Launch Rork, AI mobile app builder, to make my year 1 self happy - Got into a16z speedrun and raised $3M+ - Scaled Rork to millions in ARR in under a year - Became the #1 AI mobile app builder in the world The average journey to a $1B company takes 10 years. I’m on year 7. Keep building.

19 years here …. production Intern graduated UCLA 09 …. mailroom … agency … development … etc … you know the path. One thing that goes alongside the downfall if the industry as a whole that needs to be taken into account is the rapid death of independent film and independent film companies. I transitioned from mainstream Hollywood to independent motion picture production in 2017 or so - raised capital in 2019 and was finally ready to go at my own company. At the same time streamers began to really compete for eyeballs and scale, quality in parallel accelerated to the lowest common denominator slop …. volume and control of distribution already pulling A LOT of independent production companies attention market away …. Then Covid hit and it compounded the problem …. The runway capital of companies like mine was eaten alive as we had to pay ourselves and employees to stay alive feed their families etc …. … and as everything came to a hault for 2-3 years maybe when the industry needed creativity the most …. movie lovers at the same time stopped going to the theatres, not just from the pandemic, but because quality then really ceased to exist …. And since has continued to get worse and worse as corporate and now tech Hollywood shoots more and more for the “sure thing” while independent film really is pretty much dead already now …. Add to that the woke craziness and the fact that independents (typically where most or at least a lot of of your out of the box thinking came from) imo at least …. Are gone …. and you now have the current state of the industry …. Just truly sad. From a guy who grew up going to the theatres a ton and truly loved film, it’s like the art of cinema evaporated over a 10 year period. and as attention is so hijacked and splintered via socials, politics, AI, economy, fucking war and scandal, division …. people just really don’t seem to give a shit about the death of the art and a major American industry …. and who can really blame them? especially when the industry has done it to themselves …. just a sad state of affairs all around cheers to 90’s & 00’s cinema which I think was the true golden age of Hollywood 🥂 as I am right there with you man, coming back? prolly not

I put in 25 years. It would be 26 but I haven't worked yet this year and I'm not sure I'll ever work in entertainment again. The writing has been on the wall for quite some time. But it's a sad thing--especially since the collapse of Hollywood is (mostly) self inflicted. Outsiders like to blame the unions and burdensome regulations. That's not exactly wrong, but the big reason is that Hollywood stopped making a product that people wanted to consume. Film is a funny thing. On one hand it's art. But on the other it's a mass consumer product--like a car, or a soft drink. But unlike a typical consumer product, it was something we consumed together. We went to a special place, and sat with strangers, and watched stories. And those stories infected us. They entered our minds and our souls and they implanted things. Deep things. Ancient things. Timeless things. Things like heroism and beauty and love and fear and sex and death and adventure and tragedy and pain and injustice and all the things that make up our dreams. There's a thing we call "cinematic language". It's how we tell a story with images. (And BTW if you want to learn more about the language of visual media, read Scott McCloud's excellent book Understanding Comics.) An odd thing about cinematic language is that it's the same language as dreams. There's a scene in Christopher Nolan's Inception where Leonardo DiCaprio is explains to (the tragic) Ellen Page how dreams work. But what he's really describing is cinematic language. Inception is really a movie about movies BTW. While it's far from my favorite film, I think it's the perfect film. Because the suspension of disbelief is perfect. You believe the plot about dreams because you're familiar with how movies work--maybe not consciously--but you know. Everyone knows. Maybe not everyone has seen a movie, but everyone has dreams. Another odd thing about film: you don't "watch" a movie, you look into it. And you put yourself inside it. Now you're in the dream. And you're hypnotized. Because movies do that too. The motion--the moving images--they hack your brain. We're programed to pay attention to moving things. Even when the things aren't real. Even when they're just light reflected off a screen. So we'd go to these special places--these movie theaters--these temples--and we'd sit, and we'd "watch" and we'd enter the dream. And we did it together. And after the movie was over--and the lights came on, and we'd file out over the sound of popcorn crunching under our feet--we were different. We had become transformed. Sometimes we were changed in minor ways. But sometimes not. Sometimes we were changed in profound ways. And we did it together. Before the movie we were a room full of strangers. But after--on the way out the door--we all had something in common. Because we shared an experience. We'd shared the dream. And we'd all become transformed. And then tech got involved... Streaming turned movies from a communal experience to a personal experience. And that's an issue, but they did something else too. They started developing movies as if they were tech products. But you can't apply a KPI to a dream. At least, not successfully anyway. Because dreams don't work like that--nor does any sort of art. And that's a funny thing about making movies. You try to make the best film you can, but at the end of the day you have no idea if it's good or if it's going to be successful. You just have to hope the audience likes it. Now, you can design a movie that will appeal to a preexisting audience. Marvel movies are like this. There's a large group of fanboy nerds that will see every single one. You can count on them every time. Just like you can count on the Gay Oscar Bait crowd (for example). But those movies are slop. But Hollywood became specialists in slop. Because slop is safe. Because you could apply KPI style metrics to slop. As a result they lost the audience. And the audience is probably never coming back. I wrote a book in 2024 (that was published in 2025). While writing, I thought of it as my farewell to the industry. But looking back, what I was actually writing was a eulogy for Hollywood--the place where dreams were made. And so it goes...

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*** PLEASE SHARE THIS MESSAGE WILL ALL YOUR HOBBY FRIENDS *** My phone has been ringing. I HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THIS WEEK HAS NEWS COMING THAT WILL SHAKE THE HOBBY. If this is true (and I believe it is), SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. No need to panic or worry, many will find this news to be long overdue. If true, it will be one of the most talked about hobby "moments" in the history of the industry. Get ya' popcorn ready, but it is not a feel good film.

@emilysavesusa What about Santa Monica - Brentwood - Westwood - 😭 so fucking sad

Okay if you live in LA we can all agree starting at Melrose Place (skip Larchmont it’s great) all the way until like Los Feliz should be literally demolished and rebuilt. Such amazing real estate and it’s so ghetto. No more weed stores. Sneaker stores. Tattoo shops. Melrose should be fancy and good for families to walk around for food and shopping.

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