Ting Ting Luo

A thought I've been having lately: Stoicism drives clarity and focus, while emotion / empathy drives action and progress. A balance of both is needed to do big things.

happiness is the joy felt moving towards your potential.

men in their 40s used to have cool midlife crisis but now they just have agentic workflows

@akothari @ivanhzhao @NotionHQ Comments on docs are impossible to follow after the first few. As a result, I find collaborating very challenging.

Peter Thiel: "Do One Thing"

Yes, DNA matters, but so does the environment you build to foster it as a leader. Does your team have time for hobbies? Do they have space for diff perspectives? Do you celebrate out of box ideas? Without these elements, even a “creative” team will lose its magic

Ask marketing leaders how to cultivate creativity inside their teams, and they say things like “hire creative people.”

.@lulumeservey on how founders can break through the noise: "I looked up the literal definition of 'white noise.' It's basically: maximum intensity, at every frequency, altogether, so that it's mushed into this nothingness. That feels like the information environment that we're in." "The only way to break through the white noise is: you don't compete on being loud. And competing on temporary intensity is not it. But one, normal volume or quieter note, that is sustained for a long period of time, actually does cut through." "People love hearing the thing that they are feeling and can't express, articulated into words that they wish they could have thought of."

Big news: @Clay is now available in @ChatGPTapp! Sales teams can now access contact databases, enrichment providers, and AI research agents directly from Chat. Get verified emails, tech stacks, headcount growth, funding signals, and recent activity -- all in one conversation, grounded in the right context. Here's just some of what you can do: 1️⃣ Find the right people "Clay, find product executives who joined {company} in the last 6 months" 2️⃣ Research people and companies "Clay, tell me everything about John at {company} — career history, recent posts, and signals" 3️⃣ Draft personalized outreach "Clay, draft an email referencing their CFO's recent interviews and AI spend" Proud to be one of the first apps built specifically for business workflows directly inside ChatGPT! Try it out! 🔗👇 clay.link/QyoWJHJ

I think this is a brilliant observation from Lulu: people root for you when they think you deserve more than you've got, and root against you when it's the opposite. It captures an essential element of good comms...how can you help people think you're underrated rather than overrated? People are very motivated to correct the record in either direction, or as Lulu puts it, "We're all kind of reputational karens."

Sensing our shared humanity and the smallness of the world is one of the best feelings.

Others' Beliefs Become Your Reality This is called the Pygmalion effect. If people around you say you'll never grow, you probably never will. Surround yourself with people who believe in your potential.

have been having too much fun on tradle.net lately, and just vibe coded an art history guessing game, modeled after my college art history class final. art-time-quest.lovable.app feedback welcome

@DenisJeliazkov Winamp was amazing.

Remember Winamp lol? Every button was different. Literally 0 visual hierarchy. Gradients everywhere. Your brain had to WORK to understand it. That's why simple apps win. The best interfaces feel invisible.

Look at these 2 UIs. One of them will 100% outperform the other for one reason: Law of Prägnanz. Here's how this psychological principle works & how to use it in your products:

It only takes five minutes to break the cycle. Five minutes of exercise and you are back on the path. Five minutes of writing and the manuscript is moving forward again. Five minutes of conversation and the relationship is restored. It doesn't take much to feel good again.

@benln hayes valley, SF!

Where would you like to see the next Cursor community meetup?

@levie What's the best resource / template you've seen on prompt engineering?

The more time you spend with AI the more you realize prompt engineering isn’t going away any time soon. For most knowledge work, there’s a very wide variance of what you can get out of AI by better understanding how you prompt it. This actually is a 21st century skill.

@bran_don_gell @every I really loved this post from the Every team. Every org wants the outcomes of AI adoption, but few teams are investing in the exploration and experimentation needed to drive adoption from the bottoms up.

.@every built a 7-figure AI consulting business in less than a year. The secret? We were practitioners first, consultants second. Here's exactly how we did it and the 4 key lessons we learned along the way 👇

@Jacobsklug @lovable build

After generating $250K (last 2 months) I built a playbook for @lovable apps—and I’m giving it away. In just two months, we cracked the code to building apps with AI. I’ve distilled everything we learned into this single document. Comment "Build" and drop a follow. I’ll DM it to you. P.S. This will likely blow up, so give me some time to reply.

Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. Your entire life will change the moment you stop looking for more information and start acting on the information you already have. Get your dopamine from action.