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@CasJam We’re waiting for you to teach us how to do that best. 🙂

Agent Skills aren't just about automating processes. They're how you bake brand consistency into everything you produce. Illustration skill, marketing page skill, social media skill, etc. Each one carries your brand guidelines so the output stays on-brand every time.

Starting to get tired earlier than usual as I've switched to full agentic coding. I was expecting the opposite, but I think what's happening is that before my cycle was think -> plan -> code -> improve. Now it's think -> plan -> improve. The coding stage was a break from thinking type work because I was just translating my thoughts to code. I don't have that break anymore. On top of that, what I do now is (think -> plan -> improve) * x where x is the number of features/worktrees that I'm working on simultaneously. Also, I'm more bullish on trying out new ideas an picking up new tech in my solutions which adds a lot of cognitive load. I was worried llms will atrophy my brain, but so far, I feel like the reverse is happening.

Lordy lord! 2:08 later and it had it installed and open. I'm still processing what just happened. Thanks for the tip @HamelHusain.

It's just insane the power of open source combined with ai. In one Friday afternoon, I submitted a patch to a neovim plugin for a feature that I need and wrote a couple of local plugins to support my custom setup. Even if my feature is rejected, I could easily live of off my fork and let ai back port other features until something similar to mine is merged. Go up one level and imagine doing this to an OS. It's making me consider going back to Linux. Wild times.

Current status: revamping my workflow to be agent centric. I finished a project last week completely driven by agents and the friction with my pre-agentic neovim workflow was painful. Time to fix it.

One danger of working just hard enough to get by is that you tend not to leave much margin for error when you do that. It's the effort equivalent of doing things at the last moment.

I just heard a quantum machine learning researcher, engineer, and founder say that "Restricting your speech back propagates to restricting your thoughts." and that that's why he tweets his ideas almost unrestrictively. Got me into tweeting again.

@thepatwalls I feel like this even applies more if you can stop working if you wanted to. Having the option to stop somehow underscores your devotion to your vocation.

I went to my girlfriend's grandfather's 88th birthday and his number one advice for living a long and fulfilling life? Never retire. He still works a full-time job and couldn't be happier.

@inkdrop_app I picked up Spanish recently (I live in MX) and noticed a lot of similarity b/w natural languages and programming languages. The one that stood out the most for me is how, in the beginning, practice (and making a lot of mistakes) is much more important than the theory part.

Learning a programming language for the first time is like learning a foreign language. You can never be fluent at it within 5 days. It takes time. Don't worry.

@m1guelpf I notice similar behavior when I skip a couple of workouts. Sleep and not giving a shit improve drastically with tough workouts. Maybe that could help you as well.

I have this thing where I won't be able to go to bed if I feel like I haven't gotten anything done all day so I stay up until I finally manage to force myself to do the smallest thing and go to bed. then feel too tired to do anything the next day.

@joshuavoydik I'm in a situation where my gut is saying 100% yes, but when I put it on paper, it's a sure no. Ugh. Sleeping on it.

When it comes to people, trust your gut

When you reach the end of learning material and you're now on your own must feel like how it felt like when explorers reached the end of a map. Except, you don't get to die. 😅

@arvidkahl And each level up means you're touching the lives of more people in more positive ways. Otherwise, you don't level up. Tough rules.

Being a founder is playing life on hard mode.

@itsjustamar I think the mistake is "considering firing a team member for making.". Not the actual mistake itself. Even if you're talking about yourself, this sets a bad precedent and might drive the culture towards fear of making mistakes.

Made a big mistake yesterday on support. The type of mistake I'd consider firing a team member for making. First focusing on how to resolve this for the user then will need to figure out how to make an example of myself to my team (without firing myself)

@thepatwalls Nice! Any insights worth sharing?

Nice tool I just found to get the most popular tweets from any Twitter user. I've been studying what makes great content and it's really helpful.

@VittoStack I see what you're saying, but people are not plants. If it makes you feel good to catch up with people that don't catch up with you, then why have that requirement? You're feeling good about it anyway. You win.

Let's be honest, how many people would stay in contact with you if you stopped contacting them first? Don’t water dead plants.

@agazdecki Yeah, also, another hard part is when you hit an MRR and plateaux there for a long while because it's enough for you. It might seem greedy to constantly increase it, but it also means that you're not adding value if you're not and might be taken over by someone who is.

One of the hardest parts of building a startup is just not giving up too early.

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@jasonleowsg Agree and kinda reinforces the benefit of building an audience as you build in order to get feedback and avoid the crickets. (But you might keep your hubris 😆)

There's nothing more hubris-destroying than hearing crickets and seeing zero sales on your brilliant idea of a product. Making a product is great for learning humility and personal growth, if anything.

@thepatwalls To be fair, it's not @Shopify. It's their users/store-owners right?

Buying things online in 2022: Shopify: 8 days later: "your order has been shipped" Amazon: 8 minutes later: "your order is out for delivery"