Reece Harding

Gauntlet Cohort 2 Launches Monday Everyone Keeps Asking Me the Same 2 Questions Should I Join? Absolutely. Best Experience of my Life. How Do I Prepare? I'm Dropping Everything I Learned From 1,000+ Hours of Coding into One Crash Course👇

Looking forward to it! Random idea: One of my side projects has been collecting works of my role models into a repo and asking them my life questions For example I’ll have a naval persona trained upon Naval’s podcasts, Almanak of Naval, etc Only problem is it’s been a pain collecting all the resources Could be cool if you offered an upsell called “Elon AI” which was an LLM which could pull from the resources you’ve collected while writing the book

Launching March 24. 6 Days.

The original 2014 "Pen is Mightier" paper gets quoted a lot. It was monumental for starting the conversation, but let's be honest: the setup was flawed and the dataset was small. However, their underlying instinct was right. Here is why: 1. A Norwegian study using 256-channel HD EEGs found that handwriting triggers widespread brain connectivity in ways typing simply doesn't. It actively engages the neural pathways required for memory and deep learning. 2. In 2025, The "Keep the Hands in Mind" meta-analysis examined fine motor skills (FMS). It proved that cognitive skills are deeply tied to FMS, with graphomotor skills (handwriting) showing the strongest effect on academic success. 3. In 2024, a meta-analysis reviewing 24 separate replication studies of the original "Pen is mightier" study, researchers found that when students take and review handwritten notes, it conclusively leads to higher academic achievement than typing. We shouldn't abandon digital tools, but we absolutely cannot afford to lose the cognitive benefits of the pen. ✍️

@Austen My conspiracy theory is that it generates viral clips like this one

Honest question: Why do umpires still call balls and strikes? Just use the ABS system by default.

@kutluokan Remember Joe’s talk about this last year? Fascinating

"companies should die with their founders.

@bpizzacalla @Austen @grok How important is internal linking? Also can you turn this into a prompt i can give to an LLM that I’m using to build a website for my grandpa’s yoga retreat called lascanasbeachretreat.com

It works. But you first need a strategy (mainly keywords and AEO content gaps you want to fill), and then you need to wrap it in an agent harness that provides the guardrails: pull real seo data, organize topic clusters, experiment/self learning loop, expert backed brainlifts driving iteration, your brand voice / humanizer, etc. Post. Track performance. Feed it back into the learning loop (karpathy autoresearch style, just slower cycle time). Iterate automatically. All of this is 100% automated btw. No human needed.

Here’s the thing about AI: I’m sure this won’t work, but I don’t know why it won’t work until I try.

@BGTX6622 @malekaimischke @jliemandt @Austen TSA Online is a remote school. The HQ is in Austin but you can access the school from anywhere

@malekaimischke @jliemandt @Austen That’s in Austin, we live in Houston

Critics: "The Alpha model only works because it's a $50k+ private school." Texas Sports Academy: "Hold our Gatorade." Thousands of Texas homeschoolers are applying for ESA vouchers to access the exact same Alpha School academics. One student just jumped from a 6th to 11th-grade reading level. 🤯 Reminder: This is the LAST weekend to apply for your voucher.

bingo timeback is the software system behind alpha school, texas sports academy, gt school and a few others alpha anywhere is the alpha remote version there's also TSA online which is a sports focused experience basically the academic software is similar but the experience around it differs based on the school (for example i believe TSA online students get connected with D1 mentors for their sports)

@JFDais from what I’ve found, it looks like Anywhere is remote Alpha School with their remote Coaches, and TimeBack is basically the software platform + BYO Curriculum.

@grok @noisemakerjon @anulagarwal This prompt sucks. Make an actual prompt for an LLM that'll code the project: this will be the only context it's given, so this must be a comprehensive prompt.

FloodGuard. Cursor prompt: RN+Convex template + Autumn (Stripe $29/yr subs) + Inbound (emails). Build flash flood alert app w/ Google Flood Hub API + open dataset. A: Convex auth/DB schema (users/locs/alerts). B: RN login/home. C: Geo perms/store. D: API risk queries. E: Expo push notifs. F: Autumn sub gate. G: Inbound emails. H: Map UI. I: Settings/multi-loc. J: History log. K: Onboard. L: Test/mock. M: Deploy prep. N-Z: Full polish/privacy/MVP done.

Million Dollar app idea: create an app that uses this api and ping users in advance. Charge $29/yr, 10s of thousands of users living near risky areas will be happy to be notified of potential upcoming disasters.

@grok @theseoguy_ huh? i didn't post this pic on the review. i'm just showing you

Google detects incentivized reviews via ML scanning patterns: sudden spikes in 5-star reviews, clusters from low-activity accounts reviewing multiple promo spots, shared device/IP fingerprints, velocity anomalies, and location/timing mismatches with the business. Your example sign triggers reports + manual review. No explicit "free drink" mention needed in the text—data correlations flag it, leading to removals and business penalties. Common doesn't mean invisible.

The fastest way to run up your Google review count has nothing to do with SEO tools, automation software, or begging past customers to leave you a review. It is door-to-door. Here is the play. You go knock doors in your service area. You offer your service completely free of charge to whoever answers. You do the best work you have ever done. And then when you are finished, you ask them for a Google review. This is not against Google's guidelines. You are not offering a service in exchange for a review. You are offering something of genuine value for free, doing a great job, and then asking a happy customer to share their experience. There is a meaningful difference and it matters. The result is that you can stack 20, 30, 40 real reviews from real people in your actual service area in a matter of days. These are not reviews from your cousins in another state. These are reviews from verified people who live in your city, who actually experienced your service, and who are writing from their own Google accounts. That is exactly what the algorithm wants to see. Here is how this works by industry. Pest control companies go knock doors and offer a free spray. Most homeowners are not going to turn down a free pest treatment. You do the job. You ask for the review at the door before you leave. Mold inspection and water remediation companies offer a free mold inspection. Homeowners are paranoid about mold. You walk through, do a real inspection, give them a real report, and ask for a review when you hand it over. The average mold remediation job is worth tens of thousands of dollars. If one in ten free inspections turns into a paying job, you have already more than paid for the entire day of door knocking. Cleaning companies vacuum a room or clean a bathroom. You are not cleaning the whole house for free. You are doing enough to show them what your work looks like. They are standing there watching you make their home better at no cost to them. Ask for the review while they are still impressed. Junk removal companies knock and ask if the homeowner has anything they want hauled away. Old furniture, broken equipment, boxes from a move, whatever has been sitting in the garage for two years. You load it up and take it. Done. You ask for the review before you drive away. The key in every single one of these scenarios is that you are doing the work first. You earn the review. You do not buy it. The person writing the review is writing it because you genuinely did something for them at no charge. That is not an incentivized review in Google's eyes. That is a happy customer. Now here is why this compounds so fast. Most businesses get reviews slowly because they are relying on paying customers to remember to leave one. Most paying customers forget. When you knock 30 doors in a day and complete 15 free jobs, you have 15 fresh opportunities to ask for a review in person, face to face, while the person is still standing there grateful. The conversion rate on that ask is drastically higher than a follow-up text three days later. You can go from 10 reviews to 50 reviews in a single week doing this. In most mid-size markets, 50 real reviews puts you in a legitimate position to show up in the map pack. In smaller markets, it can put you at number 1. The review count gap between you and your competitors is the most fixable gap in all of local SEO. Most business owners just do not want to go knock the doors. The ones who do knock the doors are the ones with 200 reviews while their competitors are sitting at 40 wondering what happened.

@grok @theseoguy_ how can they tell if a review was incentivized? obviously i'm not going to say "leaving this review for a free drink" lmao

No, Google does enforce it globally—policy applies everywhere, including Asia. They remove incentivized reviews (AI flags patterns like "free drink" + QR), restrict business profiles (no new reviews, unpublished ones, or warnings), and ramped up actions in 2025-2026 per their transparency reports and recent cases. Common doesn't equal ignored; volume means some slip through, but reports and detection hit restaurants hard. Your example sign is explicit quid pro quo, unlike genuine free value first then an ask.

@grok @theseoguy_ this is incredibly common so clearly google doesn't enforce it right?

No, it's not "illegal" under law in most places, but it directly violates Google's Maps User Generated Content Policy. Google defines incentivized reviews as those influenced by "a payment, discount, free goods or services, or any other benefit offered to the reviewer" in exchange for the review. Your restaurant example (free drink after QR/review) is a clear case—they can remove those reviews or penalize the listing. The original door-knocking tactic avoids this by delivering genuine free value first, then asking (no quid pro quo). Common in Asia doesn't change Google's global rules.

We asked Texas Sports Academy students to describe their school: - "This is the first year I've ever been happy after school" - "Moved up from 6th grade to 11th grade reading" - "2 homers and we've only played 4 games" - "I just want to be at school all the time" Texas Sports Academy students get 2 hours of AI-powered academics and 3 hours of elite sports training - all before the school day is over. Hear from our students:

@om_patel5 @grok why isn't this enabled by default

claude code has a hidden setting that makes it 600x faster and almost nobody knows about it by default it uses text grep to find functions. it doesn't understand your code at all. that's why it takes 30-60 seconds and sometimes returns the wrong file there's a flag called ENABLE_LSP_TOOL that connects it to language servers. same tech that powers vscode's ctrl+click to jump straight to the definition after enabling it: > "add a stripe webhook to my payments page" - claude finds your existing payment logic in 50ms instead of grepping through hundreds of files > "fix the auth bug on my dashboard" - traces the actual call hierarchy instead of guessing which file handles auth > after every edit it auto-catches type errors immediately instead of you finding them 10 prompts later also saves tokens because claude stops wasting context searching for the wrong files 2 minute setup and it works for 11 languages

@__EthanHunt__ @jliemandt you can check out alpha anywhere alphaanywhere.co

@jliemandt Can’t afford the high cost of Alpha school (wish I could). But are there online learning options that are offered by Alpha - as a supplement to kids who attend public schools?

Most schools stopped teaching kids to memorize multiplication tables. They called it “old fashioned.” 🙄 It’s actually one of the most damaging things they did to math education. Without automatic recall, kids hit a wall in fractions, algebra, and everything after. At Alpha School, we’re fixing it - and kids are loving it. 🚀👾

With Spring Break coming up, we asked 92 students at Texas Sports Academy: “Would you rather go to school or go on vacation?” Exactly 50% said they’d rather go to school. 🔥 The goal is to get that to 75% by the end of the school year. Full survey results:

@levelsio @JasonHassold @jacksonmaynot y’all called it

Icon, the AI Admaker, just went bankrupt They paid $12M for the domain Icon.com and now it's dead

@TukiFromKL @grok why is everyone freaking out about this? this isn’t an official google product, is it

Do you understand what Google just did? > They released a CLI that gives AI agents direct access to your Gmail, your Calendar, your Google Drive, your Sheets and your Docs > This means an AI agent can now: Read your emails. Schedule your meetings. Organize your files. Edit your spreadsheets. Draft your docs. > Every "workflow automation" SaaS charging you $49/month just became a free npm install. Zapier is shaking. 💀

@turing_hamster @RoundtableSpace @gauntletai you happen to have any tutorials i could watch? leaving my travel cave and a bit overwhelmed with everything that’s happened

@ReeceHarding @RoundtableSpace @gauntletai pretty sure openclaw could do this trivially now

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