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Try to develop a practice of prioritizing curiosity over status, meaning it's better to be learning than to try to appear to be the smartest [person] in the room ~ Brandon cardwel

@heismric Building in public can sometimes provide your product with early validation or criticism that accelerates its growth.

AI has made the barrier that exists with building a product to become nonexistent. The new barrier for entry has now become distribution and your defensible moat. There should be no fear with building in public, in-fact building in isolation now is like a death sentence.

@Oliver1321303 @i2luvbl @JShailine You probably need to go through a frenectomy procedure first before using the braces. With the procedure , the gap shouldn’t open again

@i2luvbl @JShailine I had the same experience. It worked well initially, but about a year after the braces were removed, the gap between my two front teeth returned almost to its original size...

Gap in your front teeth.. gone in minutes? 😱

Everyone is fighting a battle, you know nothing about. Be kind… ALWAYS

do everything that you can to increase the surface area of luck a job, a startup, a relationship whatever it is - do everything, shoot the wildest of shots, be shameless and do things with intent

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Work ethic is insane. They will out work you.

AWS What you actually end up using ☁️ 1. EC2 → Run servers 🖥️ 2. S3 → Store files 📦 3. RDS → Managed DB 🗄️ 4. Lambda → Serverless compute ⚡ 5. VPC → Private network 🌐 6. IAM → Permissions 🔐 7. CloudFront → Fast delivery 🚀 8. API Gateway → Expose APIs 🔗 9. CloudWatch → Logs & metrics 📊 10. SQS → Queue tasks 📬 11. SNS → Notifications 🔔 12. EKS → Kubernetes ☸️ 13. ECS → Containers 🐳

Cloud Engineer Roadmap 2026- Step 1: Learn Linux & Networking Basics Step 2: Understand Cloud Fundamentals Step 3: Pick a Provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) Step 4: Work with Core Services (Compute, Storage, DB) Step 5: Learn Containers (Docker) Step 6: Orchestration with Kubernetes Step 7: Monitor & Automate Infrastructure Step 8: Deploy Real Projects on Cloud Step 9: Get Certified & Apply for Roles Tip: Always track cost, security and delete unused resources to avoid unexpected charges Bookmark or repost it for future use 🙌🏻

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"First do it, then do it right, then do it better." Just start. The journey to success often begins with a single step, but that first step can be the hardest to take. It's easy to get caught up in the fear of failure or the desire for perfection, but I hope this quote I first shared in 2013 can be a reminder of the importance of simply getting started as we go into 2024. Just Start Somewhere "Start slow if you have to. Start small if you have to. Start privately if you have to. Just start." - James Clear Taking that first step doesn't require perfection or immediate mastery. The key is to overcome inertia and take action, as this action will lead to progress, learning, and (if you’re lucky and consistent) ultimately success. When you start, you allow yourself the opportunity to grow, adapt, and move forward. The Power of Starting Beginning a new project or habit often feels daunting. According to psychologists, we tend to overestimate the pain of starting and underestimate our ability to persist. However, studies show that "small starts" predict eventual success better than initial enthusiasm or early progress. This phenomenon is known as the fresh start effect - taking the first step energizes us and bolsters motivation. So focus on starting without putting pressure on perfection. Progress and course corrections will follow. First, Do It: Embrace the MVP Mindset Doing it = get the simplest MVP out. A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) represents the simplest version of a product or idea that allows you to test, gather feedback, and iterate. By embracing this mindset (just get something done - it's OK if rough, a prototype, a draft), you focus on progress over perfection, understanding that getting something out into the world is far more valuable than waiting for the perfect moment. Expand Your Comfort Zone Venturing outside one's comfort zone can elicit fears of failure. Leaning into discomfort not only builds confidence and skills, but research shows it makes us more receptive to learning. Recognize that fear is often the mind's way of urging us to grow. Don't let it stop you from progressing. Then, Do It Right: Refine and Correct Doing it right = fix correctness issues. Once you've taken that first step and put your MVP out into the world, it's time to refine and correct. This stage is about learning from feedback, identifying areas of improvement, and making adjustments accordingly. It's a chance to iterate on your idea, ensuring that it meets the needs of your audience or customers while aligning with your vision. Cultivate Curiosity and Resilience Meeting new challenges with curiosity and resilience makes venturing outside our comfort zone more sustainable and enjoyable. Cultivate curiosity about growth opportunities and your capacity to rise to them. Set mini-challenges to incrementally expand your horizons. When facing inevitable setbacks, avoid self-criticism and tap into resilience - the ability to recover, learn and continue progressing. Self-compassion, adaptability and maintaining perspective are key here. With consistent effort, you build confidence in your ability to start, stumble, learn and work toward mastery. Finally, Do It Better: Strive for Continuous Improvement "Doing it better = iterate towards an ideal end-state (e.g., make it fast)." The journey doesn't end with merely doing it right. The final step is to continuously improve, striving for excellence and growth. By iterating towards an ideal end-state, you demonstrate a commitment to progress, ensuring that your product, idea, or project remains relevant, innovative, and successful. Set New Goalposts As you improve, have a clear idea of when you are “done” or update your goalposts. Elite athletes turn small gains into competitive edges via the aggregation of marginal gains. Identify areas of potential improvement and set measurable stretch goals, from increasing efficiency to enhancing user delight. Overcoming the Greatest Barrier to Progress "The greatest barrier to progress is not lack of resources or talent, but fear of failure." Recognizing that fear of failure is the most significant obstacle in the pursuit of success allows you to confront it head-on. By acknowledging this fear, you can focus on taking that first step, knowing that once the ball starts rolling, it becomes much easier to keep it in motion. Remember that starting is more than half the battle. Don't wait until you feel ready, because the perfect moment may never come. The Bottom Line Rather than striving for perfect execution, embrace the power of starting - put forth an MVP, soft launch an initiative, or set a milestone. Progress begets motivation. By simply starting, you open the door to growth and innovation. The rest will follow. Embrace the power of starting and then iterating until you're happy.

I often joke that I have only ever had one job. What I rarely mention is that, in my early thirties, I was building two businesses simultaneously. Not long after the Unipetrol acquisition, a small group of us saw the opportunity to apply for a GSM license. From 8:00am to 8:00pm, I focused on growing the energy business. The nights, starting from 8:00pm, belonged to telecoms. Seven of us worked until 2:00am daily, refining the bid, aligning partners, and preparing for an outcome that was far from guaranteed. We won that license, launched, and later exited. Today, that telecom company is known as Airtel. What's the lesson? Youth is an execution advantage. At that stage of life, sustaining 18-hour workdays repeatedly was possible. Not only because of motivation, but because of capacity. There is a surplus of energy and tolerance for uncertainty at that stage. Over time, that edge diminishes. If you are early in your career, this is the period to use that advantage. Take the risk. Endeavour. #jatnotes #winning

I infected my iPhone with the ‘Coruna’ spyware. Here’s what I found. youtu.be/XQvZ2mLnZVI

Thanks for all the responses. It turns out that my view of cybersecurity’s future is unpopular. But here it is: - New doesn’t replace old. All the stuff that exists keeps existing. BUT it will be effectively “legacy”. Everything below is about the new. - AI detection everywhere. Audit logs, endpoint, appsec, etc. We embrace non-deterministic vibe hunting. - The whole “use stupid rules to trigger alerts that we then hand to humans” flow (SOC) disappears because that was built for a world where intelligence was expensive. - Detection, investigation, and response become one thing. - AI agent security will be super hot and attract a lot of people not in cyber today (engineering and IT). - Attacks are way less homogenous, and orgs experience way higher volume of sophisticated and targeted attacks. - GRC keeps being GRC. - A lot of existing CISOs won’t make it. Most new CISOs won’t come from traditional cyber roles.

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If you want to climb the cybersecurity career ladder, my advice is to get really good at securing AI agents. If you can provide good solutions to that problem, you’re going to have a lot of leverage.

The Anthropic CEO just said: 50% of entry-level Lawyers, Consultants, and Finance Professionals (white-collar jobs) will be completely wiped out within the next 1–5 years: x.com/theUMreal/stat…

you guys act like you’re too grown to have fun and be excited about stuff you’re supposed to commit to fun, almost as much as you commit to work

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This guy literally dropped Claude AI Full courses 5 hours (Build & Automate Anything) for Free

The CEO of a $380 billion company just went on camera and said the world is not ready for what his own technology is about to do. Not a competitor warning you and not a regulator. The man who BUILT it This is Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, company behind Claude. He just compared AI to a tsunami on the horizon. His exact words: "It's so close, we can see it. And yet people are coming up with explanations, oh, it's not actually a tsunami. It's just a trick of the light."​ He is not talking about some distant future. In January, he published a 38 page essay warning that superhuman AI could arrive by 2027. He called it potentially the single most serious national threat in a century.​ That is 18 months from now. Here is what makes this different from every other AI warning. This is not a politician looking for votes and not an academic looking for grants. This is the man whose company just erased $2 trillion from software stocks with three blog posts. He is telling you his own product terrifies him.​ When Anderson Cooper asked him on 60 Minutes, "Who elected you and Sam Altman to make these decisions?" Amodei's answer: "No one. Honestly, no one."​ A handful of people in San Francisco are building something that will reshape every industry on earth. And nobody voted for it. In the video, he says the technical work on controlling AI has gone "a little better" than expected. But societal awareness has gone "a little worse."​ Translation: The engineers are somewhat keeping up. Governments, institutions, and the public are not even close. He told Nikhil Kamath that coding, math, and scientific research are already being handled by AI systems.​ But it does not stop there. End to end automation of entire software engineering workflows not just writing code, but designing, testing, deploying "will happen soon."​ Think about what soon means from this man. In 2024, he wrote "Machines of Loving Grace", an optimistic essay about AI curing diseases and extending lifespans.​ A year later, in January 2026, he published "The Adolescence of Technology" a 38-page warning that humanity might not survive its own creation.​ The tone shift was not subtle. He laid out the risks in order. In the short term, bias and misinformation and already happening. In the medium term, AI generates harmful information using advanced scientific knowledge. In the long term, AI removes human agency entirely. Becomes too autonomous and locks humans out of systems.​ This is the product roadmap of the man building it. And here is the part that should keep you up at night. He said he is deeply uncomfortable with the concentration of power happening in AI. It happened almost overnight, almost by accident. Building the most powerful technology in human history. The stock market is just the first domino. Software was the canary in the coal mine. Legal, finance, cybersecurity, consulting, engineering. Every industry built on cognitive labor is in the blast radius.