Daniel James Scott

Nobody knows for certain what happens next. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.

Y’all, @TheBlueStones’ Camera Roll is this generations’ Iris.

@gregisenberg I'm in.

my dream is to build this so i’m putting it out there. what does an "alt business school" look like? business school is broken. case studies from the 90s, professors who’ve never shipped, debt that takes a decade to crawl out of. it doesn’t answer the real question: how do you learn to actually build and sell something in 2026? YC is incredible, but it trains you to raise venture, hire fast, and swing for unicorns. and there's only 500 companies per year. what about the other path? the indie one. the profitable one. the path where you can own a few cash-flowing apps, live comfortably, and keep your freedom. the path of jason fried, pieter levels etc what would that program look like? courses like: 1/ vibe coding: how to spin up an mvp with bolt, lovable, claude code etc. 2/distribution engineering: how to make a single tweet or tiktok drive 10k signups. content pipelines, repurposing systems, and paid amplification. 3/ short form 101: how to write scripts (hook, problem, solution, cta), film and edit that . light, sound, editing shortcuts. 4/ ai as leverage: using llms for market research, lead gen, onboarding flows, and customer support. how to run a “20-person company” with two humans. 5/ cashflow math: unit economics, churn, ltv vs cac. the difference between ramen profitable and dead. 6/ community design: turning customers into a movement. discord, circle, whatsapp groups and the subtle mechanics that make people show up every day. 7/ pricing psychology: anchoring, charm pricing, the $29 → $99 jump. how tiny tweaks change revenue curves. 8/ retention mechanics: streaks, leaderboards, habit loops. why duolingo feels addictive and your app feels forgettable. 9/ distribution through ai search (geo) and ASO: how to get your site embedded in chatgpt/perplexity/gemini answers and shown up in app store search. 10/ narrative & brand: why story is a moat. how to write copy people quote back to you. building brand assets that arescroll stopping. 11/ weekly sprints where you launch, test, kill, and double-down. you leave with a live product, with customers, not a diploma. this is the “alt business school” l i wish existed. no suits, no debt, no case studies about get in 1987. just the tools, tactics, and reps to build modern businesses that work. I know this wouldnt be the best social experience. But for people who have the drive, this would be a solid option for them. The ones who can’t sleep at night because until they make wealth and get a kick out of happy customers in a niche. I’m not sure the model, how many people, where it would be. but id like it to see it affordable, and I think there is room for thousands of companies per year from this program. why i care about this problem I know that building a bootstrapped changed my life. Instead, I moved to Silicon Valley, spent 10 years building venture-backed startups. It was super fun, but wish I got into profitable, cash-flowing software startups from the get-go. Less risk, and there’s life changing opportunity. one day i’ll build this. I believe this is the GREATEST time in history to start a company It does feel like it should exist now for that reason even though I'm not ready yet/have got my hands full. What do you think?

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I hate writing. I also hate being boring. My need for you to find me interesting typically wins over my drive to be lazy. Yet now I have a plan. You can too. And @thesamparr's email workshop will lay out the path to get there. Interested? copythat.com/?ref=zzbbcuku

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

New Anthropic research: How university students use Claude. We ran a privacy-preserving analysis of a million education-related conversations with Claude to produce our first Education Report.

Whiskey weather? Check out this whiskey sweepstakes from @DBLNeat: swee.ps/dTTaNU_RetBLb

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Excited to see @MarkTTremonti and the gents of @Creed tonight! Been with them from the beginning and will be with them to the end! Only bummer is that @Sevendust won't be joining.

Found a cheat code for getting boring work done: Spiral. It’s like hiring a mini-me to handle all the repetitive stuff. You get 20 free runs just for signing up. Give it a shot: app.spiral.computer/share/2pdWDvFA…

New trailer from @VivianKerr! @SeanceFilm coming soon! youtube.com/watch?v=QnyAOt…

Floridians, please stay safe out there this week.

Worth sharing, given the number of these I heard people attempt to state as fact this weekend. Sigh... fema.gov/disaster/curre…

Attempting to order @Metallica tickets. @Ticketmaster: Sign in. Me: Done. Ticketmaster: Connect your @Verizon account. Me: Done. Ticketmaster: Verify you are human with a code texted to you. Me: Done. Ticketmaster: You are obviously a bot and we've restricted your account.

The CIA manual on disrupting activist groups largely explains most meetings in academia.

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

Can. Not. Wait!

The ingenuity out there is amazing... cruncher.ch/blog/printing-…

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License