Robert Richman

I dropped out of high school at 16. Was $30k in debt at 30. Got shot at in my own house. Today I run my own businesses, drive an M4 CS, and wake up excited on Mondays. I wrote the whole story down — and I'm giving it away for free. From McDonald's to Financial Freedom. erikandersonbook.com

@tomcrawshaw01 Twin

I closed my laptop last night with three agents running. One attended a webinar and sent me the notes. One called a lead, confirmed a Friday appointment, and updated my Airtable. One scraped 61 Skool communities and dumped everything into a Google Sheet. OpenClaw can do all of this. What you don't see is everything it takes to get there. Local setup, security configuration, a technical background you might not have. Most people never make it that far. @twin_labs had me running all three in 10 minutes with no complex setup required. You describe what you want, it builds and deploys the agent, and runs in the cloud with your laptop closed. When something breaks, the agent diagnoses and fixes itself. Twin raised €12M from the founders of Hugging Face and Datadog. In beta, users completed 40,000+ tasks across 9,000 applications. I hadn't heard of it until three weeks ago. Now I'm trying to see if there's anything it can't build! If you want the full step-by-step walkthrough on how to build all three of these agents yourself... Comment TWIN below and I'll DM it to you.

@twlvone @gregisenberg Brilliant.

The skill era has a problem nobody's addressing: skills are even more commoditizable than APIs. When you encode expertise into a callable function, you've made it perfectly replicable. An agent that calls your skill 1000x can learn exactly what you do. The real moat isn't the skill — it's the data flywheel underneath. Each invocation should make you smarter. Skills without proprietary learning loops are just fancy functions waiting to be cloned by the next model update. The winners won't own the best patterns. They'll own the best feedback loops.

WELCOME TO THE SKILL ERA OF THE INTERNET for the last 15 years, if you wanted to build a serious software company, you built a product and exposed an api. that was the move. you created functionality… payments, messaging, email, search, analytics… and then you let developers plug into it. the companies that won owned the pipes. stripe owned payments. twilio owned messaging. sendgrid owned email. the api was the distribution layer. once you were integrated, you were embedded. that model made sense in a world where execution was scarce. llms compress execution into a prompt. so the center of gravity shifts. in this cycle, you build expertise and package it as a skill. an api is a doorway into a function. here’s how to send an email. here’s how to process a payment. here’s how to fetch this data. it’s precise. mechanical. bounded. a skill is a doorway into judgment. here’s how to audit a landing page like a serious growth operator. here’s how to structure a legal intake so you catch the real risk. here’s how to clean and enrich messy directory data so it actually turns into revenue. you’re encoding a way of thinking. and that changes how companies are built and how they scale. in the api era, distribution meant convincing developers to integrate you. you needed docs. sdk’s. developer evangelism. you fought for a place inside someone else’s codebase. in the skill era, distribution means becoming part of someone’s agent workflow. a founder opens claude code. they type /seo-audit. your skill runs. it frames the output. it structures the analysis. it guides the decisions. your expertise lives inside the execution layer itself. you aren’t pulling users into your interface. you’re embedding your thinking into theirs. that changes company design. the old playbook looked like this: build saas design ui onboard users drive retention expand seats the new playbook looks more like this: encode a high-leverage playbook package it as a skill let agents call it thousands of times per day the interface shrinks. the leverage expands. a strong skill doesn’t serve one user at a time. it serves fleets of agents. one installation can mean your methodology is invoked across hundreds of companies automatically. the scaling curve looks less like seats and more like invocations. what’s happening underneath all of this is simple: software used to be the executor. now software is the orchestrator. next, expertise becomes infrastructure. in the api era, the winners owned the pipes. in the skill era, the winners own the patterns. patterns for closing deals. patterns for pricing. patterns for positioning. patterns for enrichment. patterns for research. many new companies will look surprisingly small on the surface. a tight repo. a handful of powerful skill files. maybe 2–5 people maintaining and improving them. but those skills will sit inside thousands of workflows, shaping decisions at scale. and it’s creating a new class of companies built less around dashboards and more around encoded judgment. THIS IS THE SKILL ERA OF THE INTERNET. welcome.

@heygurisingh claude

Most Claude “tutorials” are noise. They teach prompts. Not systems. So I built the real playbook and I’m dropping it FREE for 24 hours: Ultimate Claude Mastery Guide ~by Guri Singh • 80+ Chapters • 1000+ Tools • 2000+ Prompts Reply “Claude” and I’ll DM it. (Must follow to receive.)

@heygurisingh Free

Everyone is super hyped about Clawdbot but 90% don't know how to actually use it to replace real work. I spent 48 hours and created "The Ultimate Clawdbot Guide". 100% FREE for the next 24hrs only Just: * Like * Follow * Reply "Free" I'll DM you a link.

@thegarrettscott @doanythingapp Got the DM, but nothing else.

@robertrichman @doanythingapp Yes, just sent you a DM!

INTRODUCING: @doanythingapp Do Anything Agents are a totally new kind of agent They: - work independently for weeks/months+ - have their own email - self manage entire projects - can use almost any tool on the web Today the alpha opens to the public. Here's how they work:

@thegarrettscott @doanythingapp Are you giving more credits to the people finding the bugs for you like this?

@robertrichman @doanythingapp Am working on this super hard this week!

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Vibe coding is as frustrating as it is amazing.

Designed a board game for sales teams.

Great article tactically addressing loneliness. nytimes.com/2024/08/27/wel…

Hey @meliesapp your product looks awesome! Would love to try :) #aifilm melies.co

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The "Devil" could simply be defined as a massively disproportionate ratio of short-term gain, to long-term pain.

@alpharivelino Well peaches of course taste better. But not nearly as controversial, or friend-defining.

@robertrichman Better or worse than peaches?

I'm taking a stance. Apricots are fantastic. If you don't agree, please stop following.

2 Coaches on coaching.. smart talk on managing sideways, making transitions. @robertrichman and Alan Heymann youtu.be/lFEgmufGz6k?si…

Fear is simply a negative default response to uncertainty.