Tyler Westerhoff
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These ideas are originally from the Huberman Lab podcast:
youtube.com/watch?v=xmhsWA…

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# on shortification of "learning"
There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.
Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.
I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.
So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.
And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.
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The future of building startups:
- MVP speed (1x per month)
- AI-accelerated
- Superniche is the new niche
- Community 1st, software 2nd
- No-code 1st, some code 2nd
- 10x more automated
- Global teams, localized products
- 95% dominated by solopreneurs and microentrepreneurs (teams less than 12)
- Pop-up digital experiences (apps that only work on certain times)
- Needs the marketing holy-trinity to hit escape velocity: 1. product/market fit, 2. content/market fit and 3. community/market fit
- Team is half robots 🤖, half humans 👨🦰 (cc @youneedarobot)
- Accelerated by "boring marketing" (cc @boringmarketer)
- Multiple revenue streams
- Design matters. The bar is high
- Partnered w/ creators (creators are the distribution)
- Feels like a game (levels, status, badges, in-app currency, challenges, collectibles/items)
- Purpose-driven moonshots: societal impact matters
- Productized agencies to generate cashflow (ex design agency @DispatchDesign)
- Product studios become the norm
- 99% of MVPs won't need VC
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@kasescenarios Oh no I missed it 😮💨 Any chance the code could be extended?
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@ravennevarmore I am a PM and just started with learning OSINT too! I would love to team up for a Trace Labs CTF
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Starting on my #OSINT journey, and recording it for posterity. Check out the initial post on the pivot I'm taking here: buff.ly/3EdFRju

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Do you think you could help? Thanks :)

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@xlfoley @bayer_julia What were your steps? Here were mine:
1) google lens yellow building
2) found this site that said the building was in El Born, Barcelona
poblesdecatalunya.cat/element.php?e=…
3) Google earthed El Born and found the courtyard
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It’s @quiztime and it’s time for the #MondayQuiz
📸 Where exactly is it?
Bonus: Circle in 20 hints you find to determine the location 🎨
📮reply just to me with an answer
🤝 reply to all for collaboration
🌈have fun

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@bayer_julia @quiztime @LarsWienand @kollege @twone2 @trbrtc @Sector035 @fiete_stegers @dondude @mahrko @MCantow @nixintel @globograma @Tokyo_v2 @loegli @osintbear @post_fact @JudyMionki @__SpYdR__ @MeKassab @Johanna_Wild @OSINTtechniques is it possible to geolocate a pic of the sky?
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@bayer_julia @quiztime El Born, Barcelona.
(41.3853992, 2.1835699)
Google Lens of the yellow building pictured in the middle yielded this result:
poblesdecatalunya.cat/element.php?e=…
Then, I went to Google Earth, searched El Born for a grey courtyard and found the exact coordinates.


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@trbrtc @quiztime Courtyard in Sloviansk, Ukraine. Coordinates: (48.8521078, 37.6058813)
1) Snipped the two churches, then ran snip into Google Lens
2) Matched this: wikimapia.org/18263410/Churc…
3) Looked up church coordinates on Google Earth
4) Used GEarth to pick approx. coordinates of courtyard
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Time for @quiztime’s #ThursdayQuiz: where was this photo taken? Please tell how you found and confirmed the location.

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@gjonesbass @eprombeats Thank you for such a great event G. We were in the front row and gave all the energy we had for you❤️. I was the guy with an octopus on his finger.
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3) Retweet
4) Have a splendid day

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@jj_redick Love you JJ - #4 is my favorite number because of you
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@conymaniac Can you clarify why it's not direct access?
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