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The Holy Spirit is a genius. You will look like a genius if you listen to and act on His ideas. Bruh!

this could have been a generational Batman and Catwoman

You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️

The learnings on how to be a good designer vs how to run a design studio are lightyears apart. It's completely ridiculous how different and unrelated they are.

Almost 10,000 downloads, with paying customers in 10 countries and 7 new features, just by building what we believe should exist. Thank you all for supporting Pewbeam. Wishing you a happy Easter celebration. We have more under the hood. Pewbeam to the ends of the Earth!

Curiosity wan wound me.

What a day!

Backend Engineers are after my life right now.

REAL

All these apps that promise to help you build the next big idea/app/business with AI feel eerily similar to forex traders selling courses on trading. Your successful business is THE tool that builds a successful business for me. Ok. They oversimplify to sell. Ridiculous.

You cannot build a business in 183 seconds. Stop being ridiculous!

@allenakinkunle All these apps that promise to help you build the next big idea/app/business with AI feel eerily similar to forex traders selling courses on trading. Your successful business is THE tool that builds a successful business for me. Ok. They oversimplify to sell. Ridiculous.

Aren't we tired of a "Chat box" as the interface for AI products? Been feeling this way for almost a year now. Surely, this isn't just me.

was it @leyeConnect that said this and people held his neck for days here? 😅 or maybe another person? -- how i try to combat this is to be intentionally obsessive with things people might not be intentional about. I'll tweak the pressed state of a button 30 times so its perfect. The ease in animation should be perfect. Layout and everything, balanced, etc etc. Things that I'd normally do in figma, now done in code. It's not a different process. It's the same thing just in a different medium. Its easy to skip processes just because you might be delegating to an agent or smthn.

I think coding is slowly killing my design taste. ever since I started spending more time inside IDEs, something’s shifted in my brain. earlier, my default mode was pure design, obsessing over spacing, micro-interactions, tiny details that no one notices but everyone feels. now I start with constraints. scalability, edge cases, timelines, dev effort. “can we build this?” shows up way before “does this feel right?” and the weird part is I still see everything. I know when something feels off, when it could be pushed further, when it lacks that sharpness. I just… don’t go there anymore. I cut iterations faster. I compromise earlier. I settle for “this works” instead of “this feels right.” I think being close to code rewires you. you start filtering ideas through feasibility, and slowly, taste takes a backseat to practicality. craft gets replaced by closure. and it’s such a silent shift you don’t even realise it’s happening. is this growth or is this how designers slowly lose their edge without even noticing it ?

There’s a story about all the animals being summoned to a meeting. As they converged at the public square early in the morning, one of them, the fowl, was spotted by his neighbours going in the opposite direction. They said to him, “How is it that you are going away from the public square? Did you not hear the town crier’s summons last night?” “I did hear it,” said the fowl, “and I should certainly have gone to the meeting if a certain personal matter had not cropped up which I must attend to. I am truly sorry, but I hope you will make my sincere apologies to the meeting. Tell them that though absent in body I will be there with you in spirit in all your deliberations. Needless to say that whatever you decide will receive my whole-hearted support.” The question before the assembled animals was what to do in the face of a new threat posed by man’s frequent slaughtering of animals to placate his gods. After a stormy but surprisingly brief debate, it was decided to present to man one of their number as his regular sacrificial animal if he would leave the rest in peace. And it was unanimously agreed that the fowl should be offered to man to mediate between him and his gods. And it has been so ever since. I read this story in Achebe’s Hopes and Impediments. You see, the danger of the self-imposed absence is twofold. Not only do you get to deprive the world of your voice, you also get to suffer at the hands of those who lent theirs. This disarmingly simple parable has vast implications. The fowl’s absence is emblematic of the human tendency to abdicate participation by retreating into private preoccupations while public life unfolds elsewhere. And when the council of the living gathers, the silent are always represented, but rarely in ways that favour them.

people are going to get tired of the LLM search interface being everywhere real quick

@DaraaBabyy Loool honestly. Before I used to jump and pass but now I am glad I have a gif I can use express how I feel about some things.