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Here are 50 books every child should read before age 12. virtueandwonder.com/p/fifty-books-…

really fucking good

Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, just explained how to write prompts that actually work CLAUDE.md files, memory shortcuts, parallel sessions, and prompting patterns all in one video and completely free

Where will AI be in 1, 2 or 3 years?

I wasn’t fully convinced until a few months ago when we hired a 27-year-old analyst who’s on Claude all day. Our 7-person company is now functioning like a 15-person company, and we’re just scratching the surface. Every single task he works on starts with Claude. If you’re not there, you’re in for a shock. If you are, you’re already in shock at how fast the world just changed.

🇺🇸 Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said it out loud: Your kids will work 3.5 days a week. Live to 100. AI is going to cure cancer, stop car crashes, make new materials, save lives. "Life will be better." He's not a tech bro dreaming out loud. This man runs the money. Video: @clashreport

/grill-me is my most popular skill ever. I get 5-10 messages a day about how it’s changed people’s workflows for the better But… I’ve stopped using it for code. Here’s the improved version:

Notion wtf this is incredible

many of you have been asking what software we use for project management. clickup is the best! so much better than trello, notion, and anything we've used in the past. trust me, try it!

The Pokémon market is going absolutely parabolic right now. It would be criminal NOT to use AI to spot money-making opportunities during this crazy bull market. This Reddit user created a Pokémon database using AI - and I can't believe more people aren't doing the same. It tracks your portfolio in real time, hunts local card-buying opportunities, sends you automatic price alerts & much more. Should I make a dedicated YouTube video on how to build something similar? Let me know, and I'll deliver!

The One Warning Every Parent Wants Their Kids to Hear "We have to shape the mindset of our kids. That you're one bad friend, one bad party, one bad situation away from destroying your life. There's plenty of guys on TikTok and Instagram that are telling the other part. It's not a big deal... I know how to control my liquor. I know how to control my drugs." "Sometimes you gotta scare the crap out of your kids to know what's possible if you don't make some good choices. You make some bad choices, you can destroy your life."

This is the most complete setup I've seen yet to turn Claude Code into your personal OS. Here's my new episode with @moritzkremb where he shared the system that runs his email, content, and even grocery shopping. We talked about: → The 4 layers: folders, tools, skills, routines → Memory: Set up a nightly "dreaming" job → Tools: The best CLIs and MCPs to use → Skills: Video edits, planning, and more → Routines: When to use local vs. remote 📌 Watch now: youtu.be/ACRd0Ikg_KI Thanks to our sponsors: @WisprFlow: Don't type, just speak ref.wisprflow.ai/peteryang @linear: The AI agent platform for modern teams linear.app/behind-the-cra…

How to get your kids in the top 10% (of test scores)

One of your most important parenting jobs is done by age 4.

What is the coolest personal website you’ve ever seen? One that’s optimized both for web and mobile?

I did a 50-min podcast with @gregisenberg on how I use Google's DESIGN.md + custom skills to give AI a real design system

This Chinese guy created 13 agents in Claude Code for Shopify stores and single-handedly serves 200 dropshippers a month, taking $800 from each. He sits at one desk in front of a wall-mounted LG monitor split into a 3x2 grid of 6 Claude windows, another identical grid runs on a vertical display next to it, plus 1 window on the MacBook within arm's reach, totaling 13 agents simultaneously building Shopify stores, each busy with its own part. No team, no managers, no support, just him, the monitor, and the API counter ticking in the header of every window. He is not on a subscription but on an API rate billed by tokens, and he figures 13 parallel agents pay for themselves from the very first client, because every finished store goes for $800, and all 13 windows together consume less than $80 a day. In the first window he set that system prompt which immediately closes the "assistant or employee" debate: "you are my new founder-engineer" So the model knows at what level it was hired: not to hint, not to advise, not to supplement, but to own the result, because for this Chinese guy Claude is no longer a helper in an IDE, it is a partner in his small factory, billed by tokens and never leaving for lunch. And the other 12 agents he spread across the layers of the store, so each one sits in its own context and does not interfere with the neighbor: "build a catalog of 80 products and rewrite the descriptions" "lay out the homepage for the niche of the client" "set up the cart, payment, and shipping by country" "generate 30 email chains for warming up" "design 50 banners and a logo for the brand" "set up analytics and A/B tests on the homepage" In a regular agency each task like this would take one designer or developer a full 2 days, because they would first collect the brief, then wait for revisions, then get on a call, whereas this Chinese guy has all 13 agents working in parallel in their windows, and while one writes descriptions, the second is already laying out the homepage, and the third is designing banners. In the end on the wall it looks like a factory: 13 identical Claude robots writing into one project, and the Chinese guy himself in the chair in front of them decides only 2 questions, which client to hand the finished store to and who to take next, and beyond that he does nothing. And economically it is still cheaper than keeping a team of 5: one operator like this closes 6 to 7 finished stores per day at $800 each, while a traditional design agency charges $3,500 for the same store and builds it over a full 2 weeks, whereas this guy spends less than $80 a day across all 13 windows. Wires hanging out, the monitor bolted to a stand, no office and no employees, just 1 desk, 13 robots, and a queue of dropshippers who send new orders every morning. In my opinion, this is the most efficient solo Shopify factory I have seen this year, and it is already running right now, while traditional agencies are still debating whether AI will take jobs from designers.

This Chinese guy created agents in Claude Code for landing pages and single-handedly serves 47 small businesses a month, taking $400 from each. He built a system of 7 agents on Claude Sonnet 4.6 that analyzes Google Maps in small towns, finds small businesses without websites there, and over 1 weekend takes each one to a finished mockup with video and cold message. No assistant, no sales team, no SDR. Just him, a MacBook, an iPhone, and 1 API key. And traditional web design agencies keep teams of 8 people on salary for the same order flow, while his expenses are only tokens and subscriptions to Lovable, Higgsfield, and Calendly. 7 agents work through 1 orchestrator on Claude Code Router. Usage is about 3 million tokens a day, the average API bill is about $480 a month. All 7 go through MCP servers and write shared state to the file system, without shared state in memory and without race conditions, and 1 of them lives right in the iPhone and picks up positive replies from the subway, a taxi, or on walks. And here is the system prompt he put into the orchestrator before launch: "You are the orchestrator of a solo agency that sells ready-made websites to local businesses. You delegate read-only tasks to 6 sub-agents and own all writes. sub-agents: // Scout (walks through Google Maps in selected cities, looks for narrow niches: 5+ years on the map, fewer than 50 reviews, no website or a website from 2014, but high ratings) // Diagnoser (for each lead writes a 50-word diagnosis, hero angle, tone matched to the industry, and a cold message under 70 words) // Builder (generates a landing page mockup in Lovable through MCP only for the top 5 leads per day, with the sharpest diagnoses and the biggest gap) // Filmer (pulls 5 screenshots of the mockup and through Higgsfield renders a 10-second vertical video 1080x1920 with a soft zoom) // Pitcher (sends a personalized cold message through the right channel for the niche: email to roofers, SMS to tradesmen, IG DM to salons, LinkedIn to realtors) // Checker (runs every message through evals for personalization, absence of AI markers and buzzwords before sending) // Mobile (lives in the iPhone, handles positive replies in real time, books Zoom calls in Calendly through MCP while the owner is on the go). You never let 2 sub-agents touch 1 lead. You stop and request approval from the human only when a deal exceeds $3,000 or the reply rate in a niche for the day drops below 12%." Meaning the system knows what it is and within what boundaries it is allowed to act. It knows it is supposed to find leads on its own. It knows it is supposed to take each one to a mockup, video, and cold message without intervention. It knows the human only steps in when a deal goes above $3,000 or the reply rate stops converging. → The system runs 24 hours a day → Scout goes through about 220 local businesses on Google Maps per day and leaves 30 new leads in the queue → Diagnoser outputs 30 structured diagnoses + briefs + cold messages per day → Builder assembles 3 to 5 finished landing pages in Lovable for the sharpest leads → Filmer renders a 10-second vertical video in Higgsfield for each one → Pitcher sends 30 personalized messages per day across 4 channels with a reply rate of about 14% → Checker runs every message through evals before sending And only when a deal breaks $3,000 or the reply rate for the day drops below 12% does the orchestrator wake the owner. And when the owner at that moment is sitting in the subway or a taxi, the Mobile agent in his iPhone picks up 1 move on its own: replies to a fresh positive reply from a dentist, books a Zoom through Calendly synced to the local time of the client, and puts the lead back in the queue. The owner only has to tap "approve" and in just 10 minutes join the call. Here is what the system writes in his log during 1 of the Saturdays: "scout report: 218 businesses checked in Austin, Denver, and Miami, 34 without a website, 19 with a website from 2014, 6 with an active redesign request in reviews. passing top 30 to diagnoser." "pitcher: 30 cold messages sent across 4 channels, 14 replies, 5 positive, 3 Zoom calls booked for Sunday. passing to closer." "builder: landing page for Westside Cosmetic Dentistry built in Lovable, 5 sections, mobile, soft beige. URL placed at /Users/dev/maps-agency/clients/westside/v1. filmer launching Higgsfield." "eval flag: deal with The Lotus Salon at $3,400 exceeds the approved limit of $3,000. sending for manual review." He has no server of his own and no separate backend. Just a local file sandbox at /Users/dev/maps-agency, an MCP router, 1 API key to Claude, and the same key forwarded to Claude Code on his iPhone. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the cleanest one-person agency for selling websites to small businesses: $480 a month on the API, about $18,800 into the account, and between them 7 prompts, 1 file system, and 1 phone in the pocket.

Banger pod.

This is an email I sent earlier today to all employees at Coinbase: Team, Today I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%. I want to walk you through why we're doing this now, what it means for those affected, and how this positions us for the future. Why now Two forces are converging at the same time. We need to be front footed to respond to both. First, the market. Coinbase is well-capitalized, has diversified revenue streams, and is well-positioned to weather any storm. Crypto is also on the verge of the next wave of adoption, with stablecoins, prediction markets, tokenization, and more taking off. However, our business is still volatile from quarter to quarter. While we've managed through that cyclicality many times before and come out stronger on the other side, we’re currently in a down market and need to adjust our cost structure now so that we emerge from this period leaner, faster, and more efficient for our next phase of growth. Second, AI is changing how we work. Over the past year, I’ve watched engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks. Non-technical teams are now shipping production code and many of our workflows are being automated. The pace of what's possible with a small, focused team has changed dramatically, and it's accelerating every day. All of this has led us to an inflection point, not just for Coinbase, but for every company. The biggest risk now is not taking action. We are adjusting early and deliberately to rebuild Coinbase to be lean, fast, and AI-native. We need to return to the speed and focus of our startup founding, with AI at our core. What this means To get there, we are not just reducing headcount and cutting costs, we’re fundamentally changing how we operate: rebuilding Coinbase as an intelligence, with humans around the edge aligning it. What does this mean in practice? - Fewer layers, faster decisions: We are flattening our org structure to 5 layers max below CEO/COO. Layers slow things down and create coordination tax. The future is small, high context teams that can move quickly. Leaders will own much more, with as many as 15+ direct reports. Fewer layers also means a leaner cost structure that is built to perform through all market cycles. - No pure managers: Every leader at Coinbase must also be a strong and active individual contributor. Managers should be like player-coaches, getting their hands dirty alongside their teams. - AI-native pods: We’ll be concentrating around AI-native talent who can manage fleets of agents to drive outsized impact. We’ll also be experimenting with reduced pod sizes, including “one person teams” with engineers, designers, and product managers all in one role. In short: AI is bringing a profound shift in how companies operate, and we’re reshaping Coinbase to lead in this new era. This is a new way of working, and we need to leverage AI across every facet of our jobs. To those who are affected I know there are real people behind these decisions — talented colleagues who have poured themselves into this company and our mission. To those of you who will be leaving: thank you. You’ve helped build Coinbase into what it is today, and I am sincerely grateful for everything you've done. All impacted team members will receive an email to their personal account in the next hour with more information, and an invitation to meet with an HRBP and a senior leader in your organization. Coinbase system access has been removed today. I know this feels sudden and harsh, but it is the only responsible choice given our duty to protect customer information. To those affected, we will be providing a comprehensive package to support you through this transition. US employees will receive a minimum of 16 weeks base pay (plus 2 weeks per year worked), their next equity vest, and 6 months of COBRA. Employees on a work visa will get extra transition support. Those outside of the US will receive similar support, based on local factors and subject to any consultation requirements. Coinbase prides itself on talent density. Our employees are among the most talented people in the world, and I have no doubt that your skills and experience will be highly sought after as you pursue your next chapters. How we move forward To the team that is staying, I know this is a difficult day. We’re saying goodbye to colleagues and friends you've been in the trenches with. But here’s what I want you to know as we move forward together: Over the past 13 years, we have weathered four crypto winters, gone public, and built the most trusted platform in our industry. We’ve made it this far by making hard decisions and by always staying focused on our mission. This time will be no different – nothing has changed about the long term outlook of our company or industry. And most importantly, our mission has never been more important for the world. Increasing economic freedom requires a new financial system, and we’re building it. The Coinbase that emerges from this will be more capable than ever to achieve our mission. Brian