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@JohnWizardRobb @kodjima33 @hhpriestess @jiyeonstoppable @omidotme @trycloudy @ShopCider Aww you are too kind John! TYSM again for getting the group together 🙏🔥

Brought the 40 brightest people in NYC to hang: @kodjima33 went from $200/mo to $80 million with his startup Omi using AI. @thisisno79 took Cider from $0 to $1 billion in 2 years by cracking Gen Z reach. @hhpriestess grew 4 million followers & manifested her app Stella to top rankings. @jiyeonstoppable educated millions to improve their health with the right choices. & 30+ other inspiring entrepreneurs, creators, & technologists creating billions in value. The common thread? Everyone shows up! Community is everything when you’re on a journey to achieve the impossible! 👇 who wants to come to the next one?

I can’t help but think (and feel) that the world is generally very sad right now. Injured really. Yesterday I was in Utah with family. Three generations. We played sports, enjoyed good food, saw friends, and just messed around all day. One of the best days in recent memory for all of us. This is where I grew up. It took me back to my childhood. Allowing me to embody those psychological states and feel the comparative difference between then and now. The hollowing and sadness of the modern world seems to stem in part from our phones, social media, and the ferocious need to be seen and relevant in every moment. We have mistakenly idolized a specific kind of dysfunction: a manic, sleepless hyper-vigilance that needs to be omnipresent. Everyone I know who’s unplugged for a week, returns reporting life-changing levels of improved life satisfaction. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t return feeling spry and vibrant and clear-eyed about the corrosive nature of current social culture. The science supports them feeling that way. They were in a dopamine deficit from the hyper-stimulated state of the world so everything felt gray.  So why don’t we unplug more and more often? We’re all kind of trapped in a prisoner's dilemma. Most want to move to the mountains and be relieved of it all but are terrified that if they unplug, they’ll be invisible. Real life consequences of reduced power and status. So we stay plugged in and drink the poison. This hypervigilant state keeps us in chronic fight or flight (anxiety). Simultaneously, our addiction creates a dopamine deficit (the emptiness/grayness feeling) and a background hum of anxiety. Mammals are biologically hardwired to co-regulate: physical touch, eye contact, proximity and in-person vibes. Things which release oxytocin and activate the vagal nerve's parasympathetic system. Screens eliminate all of this goodness. There are small wins to be had here. More in-person time. A day off technology per week. A block of 4 hours. One hour before bedtime.  I hope that there’s a collective awakening that we’re all being mined for engagement. Then we get trapped. And then trap each other.

@mikefutia Banana

Nano Banana + n8n is legitimately insane 🤯 Google's Nano Banana creates studio-quality static ads. But manually generating variations one-by-one takes forever. This n8n automation generates 1,000+ ad variations in minutes. Fully automated. Perfect for DTC brands & media buyers who need fresh creative for testing without hiring designers. Here's the problem: You need 50+ ad variations to test angles, but Nano Banana only outputs one image at a time. Manually uploading and tweaking prompts for each variation kills hours. This n8n automation solves it: → Upload ONE product image via n8n form → OpenAI Vision analyzes your product automatically → AI generates custom image prompts (you choose quantity: 50, 100, 1000+) → Nano Banana creates static ad images in bulk → All images auto-stored in Box for instant access No manual prompting. No designer bottlenecks. No waiting on agencies. What you get: → Hundreds of unique ad variations from one upload → Different angles, backgrounds, compositions → Production-ready static ads → Perfect for testing creative on Meta/TikTok Built 100% in n8n. Want the complete n8n template? > Comment "BANANA" > Like this post And I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)

Revisiting this gem today… Daft Punk Random Access Memories Full Album Piano Medley youtu.be/bqdkuNxALwM?si… 🤖🤖

Building in public in 2025? instagram.com/reel/DKIwhwhNC…

@spenserskates definitely feeling special to have Anne in our corner! 🥰

Anne's super power is to find special founders when they are early, raw, and have a kernel of greatness that others don't recognize. I have met so many founders that deeply appreciate how she was the first investor to believe in what they do and helped them to pull the greatness out of themselves. Congratulations on the launch of Parable!

@awilkinson I think the problem is most men don’t care. 🫠 They won’t invest in this much effort to upload pictures. Even most women don’t do this.

Men: you dress like shit. Seriously, most of you look like dopes. I'm not any better. For years, I'd wear the same uniform: hoodie, Patagonia jacket, and some dorky but comfortable shoes. After getting divorced though, I knew I needed to get my shit together. I hired a "Personal Stylist" (actually not that expensive) and had her send me a whole bunch of outfits. And I started getting compliments daily! It felt amazing! Because after all: the outfit makes the man. We think we need to get ripped. But honestly, wearing a well-layered and color coordinated outfit and nice shoes is 90% of the battle. Women care way more about what you wear than whether or not you have a six pack. It was awesome, but kind of annoying having to depend on this woman to not look like a schmoe. But then something crazy happened: I started just asking ChatGPT instead. Every day, I'd upload a photo of whatever pants I was wearing and say "complete this outfit". I was amazed by how good it was. And it got better over time, as I trained a custom GPT on my wardrobe. Suddenly I didn't need my personal stylist—I had an AI one. But my ChatGPT based system was kind of fiddly. It required prompting and uploading lots of photos and messing with instructions to produce something good. So, I saw an opportunity. I called up my friend @humza_j and told him I wanted to turn this into a thin wrapper app. That was about 4 months ago, and now we have a beta that uses @OpenAI and a few other APIs to achieve the same thing in a beautiful app. TLDR: it's called Vibe and here's how it works: 1. Take photos of all your key wardrobe items (t-shirts, pants, overskirts, jackets, watches, etc). 2. Tell it what kind of outfits you need (date, work, etc) as well as the season (summer, winter, etc). 3. It generates beautifully layered and coloured coordinated outfits utilizing your wardrobe items and then renders an image of what that outfit looks like. It's really cool. We have a beta live on the iOS App Store called (Vibe - AI Stylist) . It's still kind of rough, but you can see where it's going and play with it. But I have a problem: I don't know what to do with it. I don't know the first thing about scaling an app like this. I need someone to take it over, go raise some money for it, and turn it into something. I actually think it's a great idea and a really well built app, but now I need someone young and hungry to turn it into a real business. I'm down to give someone 50%+ of the equity. Who should run it?

We no longer live in a society

some great and terrible fears about the future as it exists today, re: thought rot from AI

@AngelicVendette Congratulations Angelic! 🙌👏🍾 So excited for you

Vogue Business 100 Innovators: Class of 2023 I'm deeply honored to be named in the Vogue Business 100 Innovators, alongside a dynamic and inspiring group of leaders, innovators, and activists who are defining and reshaping the fashion industry from the inside out. To all those reimagining the future of fashion and pioneering new ways in the business and technology realms, our journey has only just begun. 🌟 #VogueBusiness100 #FashionInnovation

MVDream: Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation paper page: huggingface.co/papers/2308.16… propose MVDream, a multi-view diffusion model that is able to generate geometrically consistent multi-view images from a given text prompt. By leveraging image diffusion models pre-trained on large-scale web datasets and a multi-view dataset rendered from 3D assets, the resulting multi-view diffusion model can achieve both the generalizability of 2D diffusion and the consistency of 3D data. Such a model can thus be applied as a multi-view prior for 3D generation via Score Distillation Sampling, where it greatly improves the stability of existing 2D-lifting methods by solving the 3D consistency problem. Finally, we show that the multi-view diffusion model can also be fine-tuned under a few shot setting for personalized 3D generation, i.e. DreamBooth3D application, where the consistency can be maintained after learning the subject identity.

Slide decks hide can shallow thinking. Narratively structured memos are harder to write because they require better thinking. It’s worth it.

Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold paper page: huggingface.co/papers/2305.10…

OMG it finally works!! 🚀🚀🚀 I got @OpenAI to draft emails 📧 for me in the background 🤯 This christmas I built an email assistant (EmailTriager.com) that automatically drafts email replies behind the scenes no chrome extension necessary, here's the story 👇

POV: You're a Senior Data Engineer at Twitter. Elon asks what you've done this week. You've done nothing. Frantically, you open ChatGPT.

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Filters work on pets too! hehe 😜

Cider X WonderPals shop is opening today! 🤩 Shop link: hicider.com/ciderwonderpals

@8sianmom @ShopCider @8sianNFT @MrHikeArt Ahhh I'm fangirling rn 😍 @8sianmom

GM @ShopCider 🌸 #web2vsweb3me

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