Tim Conley

I've been eliminating my digital addictions. On Monday, I quit playing a mobile game I've played almost every day for 8.5 years. It's embarrassing to write how much of my life went into it. The sad part was it stopped being fun 2 years ago, but I couldn't quit it.

@micsolana @anna_questions Owner probably left it there because it died and wouldn’t start again.

@anna_questions wait I genuinely thought you meant because it was a beautiful car

Stopped me in my tracks this morning. Effortless.

@michael_kove The smartest thing an employee can do is get really good at AI systems and then black box their job. When bosses tell you to teach it to your coworkers make the training overly complicated.

"AI is going to make us more productive .....and give us back our time" I have YET TO SEE an employee who went from working 9-5 to working 9-3 PM because AI made them more efficient. Your employer will work you same 40 hour per week but require you to perform 10X or be let go.

@itsolelehmann This could have been a good post had you trimmed out the AI slop. Ai written content always gives you filler sentences instead of details. I skimmed the bullets as they had the only actual content in the post.

this is insane AI design alpha from google: google's lead stitch designer just showed how he turns a 1-line prompt into a site that looks like an actual design agency built it. he walked through every decision, from the first vague prompt to a finished design with real content, real layout, real direction. here's his full process: the problem is most people open stitch and type something like "a road running race listing page." stitch gives them a generic dark layout. it works, but it doesn't feel like anything. it's effectively AI slop his approach starts somewhere most people skip entirely. 1. he starts with empathy. before touching any tool, he asks: > who is this site for? > how should they feel when they land on it? say he's building a community marathon site. these are historic races in world-class cities. the site should feel prestigious, like standing in the jefferson memorial. so now he knows the feeling he's going for. but stitch can't build from "prestigious." it needs design language. 2. he asks gemini to translate that feeling into words stitch can actually use. instead of vague words like "sporty" or "athletic," gemini comes back with phrases like "architectural limestone," "ink on paper," "clay on an old track." he feeds those into stitch and the output jumps immediately. real structure, real intent, something you could actually work with. so now the direction is set. but the default colors and fonts stitch picked don't match the feeling yet. 3. he dials in the design system (the set of colors, fonts, and components that keep every screen consistent). he doesn't think of colors as a matching palette. he thinks of them as a hierarchy. each one has a job: > neutral is the canvas. ~80-90% of the screen. he sets it to warm architectural limestone > primary is the ink. headings, body text. he drops it to dark asphalt > secondary is more subdued so primary text keeps focus > tertiary is the accent. loudest color, used least. he sets it to a clay red that pulls your eye straight to the call to action for fonts he picks public sans. official but friendly. like a prestigious journal you'd actually want to read. so now the colors and type feel right. but the layout is still generic. 4. he fixes layout by thinking about physical objects. "if my website was a book, what kind of book would it be?" his answer: a coffee table book. full-page imagery, dense info, editorial headings. he uses variants (a stitch feature that generates multiple layout directions at once) to explore editorial lookbook layouts with large typographic headings. like a luxury travel magazine. so now the layout, colors, and typography all feel dialed in. but scrolling through, something still feels off. 5. the content. the headings say things like "the elite calendar." the aesthetic is there but the words are generic. it doesn't feel like a real site yet. so he installs a copywriting skill (an agent instruction file with expertise in writing web copy) and feeds it all his context plus the design .md (the creative brief stitch auto-generated from his prompts). the skill drafts page copy, he reviews and edits, then pastes the final version back into stitch. now the site has real names, real tips, real ctas. it stopped feeling like a template. the whole process: empathy → design language → colors and type → layout → copy. if you've been getting generic output from stitch (and AI design tools in general), start with one question: how do you want the user to feel? everything else follows from that.

@MUKIDEZA2 Every American boy on a calculator

今日覚えた英単語 「Boobs」

@Cernovich Only punish those who try to follow the law.

Of course.

New entrepreneur fear: "Did I hire the right agent?"

@tomfgoodwin There's a lot of fear in this thread every entrepreneur has to face when he starts hiring. Every job you used to do becomes illegible to you quickly. The big question is did you hire correctly and do you have proper oversight?

I met someone super smart the other day. An agency Founder, says she's been training an LLM on every single email she's ever written. Uploaded every document she's ever created. Fed in transcripts of every call that she's been on lately. And she now expects 99% of her small agency CEO job to be entirely automated. All emails reply to automatically. All calendar appointments arranged automatically. All follow-up notes from meetings done All follow-ups from follow-ups done. She plans to check in on about 1% of emails to see what's happening, but not be "the human in the loop" And all I could think was, wow, in about three days time, you'll have absolutely no idea what's going on in your business. In about a month, you'll be genuinely terrible at almost every element of your job. Your brain will entirely atrophy. Let's assume it all goes extremely well, Let's assume no hallucinations. Let's assume it's all brilliant, personalized outreach and amazing client management. Let's assume that it can win new clients. Let's assume that the clients don't care that it's an AI. That still just doesn't seem like a situation that I'd want to be in. It was quite a strange boast to me.

@bandholz @Camp4 I use wedges due to a near nonfunctional ankle for my squat movements otherwise I can’t get to parallel.

@Camp4 What is the purpose of the blocks on the squat? You just hold it for 3 min?

I’m convinced that 80% of chronic back and joint pain is caused by systemic inflammation due to a bad diet and unhealthy gut. 🤪 Then we take ibuprofen, which further damages the gut. Here are 3 things you should try: 1) Eat a super-clean diet for 14 days and see how you feel: —Single-ingredient foods (for me, that means mostly meat and fresh fruit) —Only drink water, tea, and coffee (no alcohol or energy drinks) —If you eat bread, make it high quality sourdough from a local baker (not a grocery store) —High quality condiments and oils (no seed oils) —Very little refined sugar 2) Use good old-fashioned aspirin instead of ibuprofen and naproxen. Unlike those other NSAIDS, aspirin doesn’t damage the gut and has a huge number of other health benefits. I use this brand, which doesn’t have binders, fillers, or coatings: healthnatura.com/aspirin-powder… 3) The peptide BPC-157 is all the rage in fitness circles and it’s especially effective for repairing the gut. The results of some recent animal studies are miraculous. Fitness bros inject BPC-157 (and I have too) but it’s one of the few peptides that can be taken orally. I’m currently experimenting with brands and don’t have a favorite yet. ⭐️ BONUS: —Get your vitamin D and testosterone levels checked and correct them if they’re low. You’ll never be healthy if your hormones are suboptimal. —Ditch (most of) your supplements. Beyond a few basics, most don’t work anyway and they irritate the gut. You should not be taking 10+ pills each day. —Try red light therapy (I use a Novaalab lower back pad) —Try sleeping on earthing sheets (Google it) —Put together a mobility exercise program and do it 3X/week. Start with a simple 3-minute deep squat each morning. 💪

@1GamewithDave1 Entertainment for all of humanity was a fleeting distraction. You went to a theatre to watch a play, hundreds of years later you watched moving pictures and eventually consumed TV every night. Owning an entertainment experience was just a blip in time that no one really wants.

They removed CD/DVD drives from devices. They made physical media harder to buy and use. They removed expandable storage from phones. They pushed us into streaming subscriptions. They made always-online normal. They made unlimited internet necessary. Then slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.

I went with melatonin because it was the simplest and most benign intervention. I've not found anything conclusive about long term negative effects. As for effecting my bodies ability to produce, the reason I'm taking it is because I suspected I wasn't producing enough due to age-related decline. First night of using it validated my assumption.

@TimConley You might look into Epitalon peptide. Not sure Melatonin is good to take long term. Might suppress your body's ability to naturally make it's own melatonin. You can follow @AbudBakri and @RogerSeheult if you wanna go down those rabbit holes.

My brain boosting daily supplements: 5mg lithium, 30g of creatine and 5mg melatonin. I added the melatonin 2 weeks ago. Instant REM sleep improvement. Having nightly vivid dreams I used to have when I was under 40. Goal: attempt to stave off dementia when older.

@AdamSinger @Noahpinion I bought a Tesla for only one reason: FSD. Couldn't care at all about it being electric. If I could get an ICE with FSD, I'd buy it.

@Noahpinion Already bought one last year, best car I've ever owned

The United States is almost unique in choosing to believe in a bunch of anti-EV nonsense. Anti-EV B.S. is a luxury belief. And it's a luxury the rest of the world is deciding it can no longer afford. noahpinion.blog/p/maybe-you-sh…

@michael_kove @jbillinson Has to be a troll. I have to believe there aren't people who believe this level of stupid.

@jbillinson the psychosis has no limits

incredible things are happening on threads

A big flaw of mine is I can't stand writing in 3rd person. I write all my emails and articles from me to the reader. I spent 20 minutes trying to write a 3rd person description for a workshop I'm doing for a friend. Then gave up, wrote it my way and had Grok convert it.

You need to maintain custom client services even if you productize. 90% of your cutting edge experience and new IP will come from these clients. You'll only need to keep 4 to 10 of these clients while you scale the rest of your business.

@dvassallo @jarrylew @openclaw I instruct my clients to book a quarterly strategy meeting with their accountant. Majority of accountants refused to meet even with an offer of double their hourly rate.

@jarrylew @openclaw Just the ability to ask it things and explain things to me patiently and quickly. My accountant would take 2 weeks to reply with some cryptic response.

Update: My accountant is gonna be @openclaw instead, using TurboTax for tax filing. It’s already been 10X more helpful than my previous accountant.

@JulieChangRE These emotional arguments are based in the belief someone else deserves your wealth more than your family.

Basically the siblings inherited substantial housing wealth on paper The sold the commercial lot for $2M If the premise is that once your family owns land nothing can change in taxation or rules - well that just creates a landed gentry. We’re not British with royalty owning land forever and that is a good thing

@BowTiedBull Driving long distance in my tesla is a time suck with all the stops needed to charge, but as a daily driver around the city it’s fantastic. I put in my destination and it takes me there.

If in need of a car the self driving from Tesla is the real value vs electricity Driving is net productivity loss, losing hours of value every single time you drive

@pilkster @flyosity @MercedesBenz German cars have too many unnecessary controls. Interior looks cluttered.

@flyosity @MercedesBenz The old Merc steering wheel and controls are sooo much better

While I was getting my car serviced, Mercedes let me borrow a new S 580e with a $144K sticker price The steering wheel has all touch controls made from cheap plastic while my 2022 GLE has aluminum buttons and knurled thumb controls What are we even doing here