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A few surprising things I learned from reading about Eiichrio Oda, the creator of One Piece:
1. He slept 3 hours a night for 15 years.
2. He created the most successful manga of all time with more than 600 million copies in circulation.
3. He said he would have missed his parent’s funeral because it conflicted with his work.
4. He is extremely private. He does not allow his face to be photographed and when he appears on video he has a giant fish avatar placed on his head.
5. When he hires a new editor the first thing he says to them is you need to be willing to die for One Piece.
6. His editor said he might someday encounter a writer more talented than Oda but he would never meet anyone who worked harder.
7. He doesn’t want ideas, he wants criticism.
8. He would hand draw entire Disney animated movies to learn how to give his characters emotion.
9. He said he only saw his family once a week because family time was too relaxing.
10. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author.
11. He is often described as a maniac due to his unbelievable work ethic and inhuman daily habits.
12. He believes in having the least number of people possible touching the work.
13. He says he gets his best ideas by not sleeping or eating. He says humans can only come up with truly new ideas when they reach their limit.
14. He started working on One Piece when he was 22. He is still working on it at 51.
15. He once spent 12 consecutive hours on the telephone discussing a single story with his editor.
16. He has an extreme tolerance for repetition.
17. Imagination is the organizing force of his entire life.
18. He's a perfectionist who has repeatedly admitted that he cannot make himself work in a more efficient way, even when he desperately wants to.
19. He never finishes before a deadline. He equates using every available minute with giving his maximum effort.
20. He believes it’s impossible to create something great unless you do everything yourself, attend to every detail, and test it exhaustively.
21. He believes the more experience he has the harder it is to create.
22. He was 4 when he decided to be a manga artist. He said he wanted to avoid ever having to get a real job.
23. He creates his work for an audience of exactly one person: himself at 15 years old.
25. He has dedicated his entire adult life to writing a story about freedom and adventure, while accepting an extraordinarily restrictive life in order to create it.
26. To this day he does not feel successful.
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Eiichiro Oda is a relentlessly obsessive creative genius who has devoted nearly every waking hour of his adult life to building one of the most extraordinary fictional universes ever imagined. You don't want to miss this episode:
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A few surprising things I learned from reading about Eiichrio Oda, the creator of One Piece:
1. He slept 3 hours a night for 15 years.
2. He created the most successful manga of all time with more than 600 million copies in circulation.
3. He said he would have missed his parent’s funeral because it conflicted with his work.
4. He is extremely private. He does not allow his face to be photographed and when he appears on video he has a giant fish avatar placed on his head.
5. When he hires a new editor the first thing he says to them is you need to be willing to die for One Piece.
6. His editor said he might someday encounter a writer more talented than Oda but he would never meet anyone who worked harder.
7. He doesn’t want ideas, he wants criticism.
8. He would hand draw entire Disney animated movies to learn how to give his characters emotion.
9. He said he only saw his family once a week because family time was too relaxing.
10. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author.
11. He is often described as a maniac due to his unbelievable work ethic and inhuman daily habits.
12. He believes in having the least number of people possible touching the work.
13. He says he gets his best ideas by not sleeping or eating. He says humans can only come up with truly new ideas when they reach their limit.
14. He started working on One Piece when he was 22. He is still working on it at 51.
15. He once spent 12 consecutive hours on the telephone discussing a single story with his editor.
16. He has an extreme tolerance for repetition.
17. Imagination is the organizing force of his entire life.
18. He's a perfectionist who has repeatedly admitted that he cannot make himself work in a more efficient way, even when he desperately wants to.
19. He never finishes before a deadline. He equates using every available minute with giving his maximum effort.
20. He believes it’s impossible to create something great unless you do everything yourself, attend to every detail, and test it exhaustively.
21. He believes the more experience he has the harder it is to create.
22. He was 4 when he decided to be a manga artist. He said he wanted to avoid ever having to get a real job.
23. He creates his work for an audience of exactly one person: himself at 15 years old.
25. He has dedicated his entire adult life to writing a story about freedom and adventure, while accepting an extraordinarily restrictive life in order to create it.
26. To this day he does not feel successful.
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Eiichiro Oda is a relentlessly obsessive creative genius who has devoted nearly every waking hour of his adult life to building one of the most extraordinary fictional universes ever imagined. You don't want to miss this episode:
Whatever they did with Grok bot over the last week is rage baiting me harder than mw3 deathstreaks
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Fun fact: the vast majority of society does not need muse nor instinct nor any other AI personal assistant. Too much kool aid.
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Nah
I think fundamentally we've ~now arrived at the correct form factor for mass consumer AI:
It was never going to be Google's search box but with AI, and a left-hand list of Chats was a 18mo experiment that has reached 100M users but won't be the thing that will scale to 1B users for next 10yrs —
it will be messaging with a single bot, occasionally split to specific bots for special areas of work/life.
Still ton of innovation to be done, e.g., in the bots–bots collab mechanisms, credentials, computer use, and generally optimizing the heck out of everything …
… but the form factor has settled; the iPhone Classic has landed; the News Feed has been established.
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Correct.
If you're building / investing in consumer and spend all your time on X, you're in a bubble
The mainstream breakout trend of the past 6 months is not agents but...digital repacks of trading cards
Monthly U.S. consumer spend on Anthropic vs. @triumpharcade 👇
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Rather than scrolling through static product listings, buyers interact directly with sellers, ask questions during the livestream, and compete against each other in auctions. It reflects a broader shift in social commerce, where entertainment overlaps with shopping. bit.ly/4cf216h
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"People who now do more than $1 million in sales a year on @trytilt share a common profile: They are young, ambitious and previously unknown."
CEO @abhinavan_ in @Entrepreneur on the sellers building empires from their bedrooms
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People often ask me how to pick which company to join. It’s the same problem as picking a stock, except you are allocating time not capital.
So run the same diligence you’d run on an investment. Look at the historical financials, the margins, the growth. But that doesn’t tell you anything about the future. The most important question that actually matters is about where it’s going. Ask the leadership what comes next. Assess what the rate of improvement is.
My rule of thumb: when you’re evaluating a late-stage company, it should still feel like an early-stage one. A good one is taking multiple insane bets, any single one of which, if it lands, dwarfs every existing revenue line. If the answer is “we keep doing what we’re doing, just bigger,” that's not a good sign.
You’re investing years of your life. Pick the company that’s still trying to become something, not the one defending what it already is.