Sol Fuchs

Our interaction with knowledge nowadays is mostly watching YouTube videos and listening to podcasts while working out We never engage in deep learning So I built Thinker. You add knowledge you consume Thinker creates daily modules that break down key ideas and challenges you to explain them, which it then analyzes and scores your understanding Waitlist thinkerapp.io

@YoniSmolyar I just have one question yoni, I'm genuinely curious. do you currently feel like you achieved your dream or is it a constant chase?

I had a 9-5 job paying more than $400k and quit 6 months ago because it incrementally made my life boring and uninspired and degraded my quality of life and mental health I always dreamed that one day I would be a full time founder and not rely on a biweekly paycheck. I had a voice in my head telling me to do something more exciting and with more impact than just maxing out 401k contributions and having 20 days of paid vacation per year in a “chill job”. I wanted to build something that was truly mine, that could financially support and intellectually satisfy me And not because I wanted to have a bunch of money and be “rich”. Because I wanted to be in charge of my life, my vacations, my 10am on Tuesday and my 3pm on Thursday. I wanted to go to the gym in the middle of the day and generally spend my time as I see fit But I was risk averse. I didn’t quit my job, instead I was a chronic side hustler / wantrepreneur. Built all sorts of small internet businesses that would make a little revenue but never enough to unchain from a stable salary. Dozens of these little businesses over the last 10 years. I knew (hoped) that one day, one of these projects would get traction or show disproportionate opportunity. Something will offer me escape velocity if I keep trying Eventually I started posting daily videos online telling the story of a wantrepreneur, made some mobile apps, and began to earn a strong enough income outside of my 9-5 to finally take the bet on myself and leave my job. “golden handcuffs” is an accurate term. how can a 28yo walk away from his high income and low stress job? must be an idiot Strangers on the internet insist you’re an idiot. Your parents and friends question your decision or reasoning. All conventional wisdom suggests to suck it up, keep your head down, hold onto that W2 income as long as you can, never let go, fill up your retirement 401k and Roth IRA for as long as possible and collect your RSUs and 2.7% annual raise every year until you can’t anymore. Everyone is different. Don’t listen to other people projecting their risk aversion onto you. Be brave. Life is short. Don’t be a little bitch. Don’t give up and don’t settle. It’s your life we’re talking about. Romanticize it and chase your dreams. Don’t be a little bitch!

@YoniSmolyar I keep coming back to re read this. So Good♥️

@YoniSmolyar Welcome to New York

wrapping up my time in san diego, four terrific years. my life has changed dramatically over these years for the better all furniture on fb marketplace, sold or gave away all of my material possessions minus a couple suitcases of clothes a few takeaways 1. sd is truly a spectacular corner of america. very special thing going on over here 2. the grass is greener where you water it. I could have made more of my time in sd. don’t wait for someone to invite you out, be the one inviting others. your social life is your responsibility 3. old friends are hard to make. most of my friends are on the east coast/nyc, it’s night and day my social scene between the two cities. excited for my next chapter on the east coast 4. there is a window of opportunity for many things in life and the window often closes. it may make a lot of sense for you to live in nyc in your 20s but may not make sense anymore in your 40s. try not to let windows close without giving them a chance 5. opportunities and aren’t equally distributed (geographically). sd is a very special place with many talented entrepreneurs, but manhattan prob has 10,000x higher talent density. this may or may not be important to you but it is true 6. where you live is important and often takes a few years to correct/re-evaluate so think it through in advance. if you’re moving in search of opportunity/lifestyle/dating/other, identify your motivations and evaluate your options onwards!

@antepeov No expenses?

I'm in Japan, cycling intensively for 3 weeks. Not working, not scrolling. My RHR and stress levels are record low. Life is good

@cormachayden_ sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1

software engineers before vs after agents

@hazel_bron saas

@sol_fuchs Is it like a ecommerce brand??

Looking for a killer Brand Designer. budget $5-$10k DM your best work

@kuhusingh6 @PSingh0705 Thanks will check them out

@PSingh0705 @sol_fuchs She’s quite good, worked on my brands initial branding etc

@rileybrown anthropic should hire the codex designers immediately

This is exactly what i was hoping for... - Full permissions - no "cowork" like feature which limits agent abilities - Just codex... If you ask for coding task it writes code and gives you a preview. If you ask for a presentation or doc it gives you a presentation or doc. Organized by project on the left side bar. Easy to create skills, easy to @ mention skills / plugins Btw my Readwise automation is insane. Every morning it codex sends me a deck of all my x bookmarks organized by topic. And i highly recommend using the excaladraw skill to render diagrams into docs.

@claudeai anthropic please hire the codex designers

We've redesigned Claude Code on desktop. You can now run multiple Claude sessions side by side from one window, with a new sidebar to manage them all.

@OpenAI can anthropic please hire the codex designers

Codex for (almost) everything. It can now use apps on your Mac, connect to more of your tools, create images, learn from previous actions, remember how you like to work, and take on ongoing and repeatable tasks.

Friendly reminder: around 90% of the world are stil not actively using AI. ChatGPT = most popular ai app with 800 million users. that's still under 10% of the total population. You're not behind!

@naval a programmer used to be a job title

A “computer” used to be a job title. Then a computer became a thing humans used. Now a computer is becoming a thing computers use.

no matter how cool the claude terminal is, working with multiple agents is way easier with a solid ui like codex's app

Building thinker: you add all knowldge you read, watch, and listen to. app creates daily walkthrough modules — breakdowns, summaries, quizzes — designed to help you understand and internalize what you consume on a deep level.

@theo its just makes people feel superior

Had to hop back into Claude Code for some UI changes. I have no idea how y'all deal with CLIs for working with agents. This is awful compared to a real GUI.

Every great company exists because they saw through a layer of abstraction — in the problem and the solution — that the rest of the world was blind to.

@hunterjisaacson So true. The mere fact that I couldn’t pull off to launch my app yet. keeps me hopeful while building

App people on the timeline: “it’s so over, everyone can make an app now” Except they won’t because the average mongoloid is stuck on a dopamine treadmill eating seed oils and withering away Don’t stress about these tools Just use them to move faster

People don't know that AI agents can view videos