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the Kit MCP is excellent

opus 5.5 is just excellent its helping me raise the quality bar across almost everything i do. such a hard thing as a solopreneur because there are just too many things, in the past i always just optimized for life, not being perfect now i can do both

What three people want to join me

as someone who used to be a huge organizational design nerd, this is a very fun time

Two ways to see this 1. The former growth in good jobs in high profit sectors is over 2. The rest of the economy will become the high growth sectors

Alone, I can make great slide decks Alone, AI does not make great slide decks Me + AI makes FAR better slide decks than I can make alone Creating a coherent narrative and story is still very hard for models. Augmented storytelling, at least in slide form, is powerful

underrated idea I think about a lot: prestige is good actually if we take prestige as attention, then the problem with prestige is that people actually seek out attention in the wrong areas of their life a credential, like impressive degree or a job, does nothing for you if you don't actually want to be moving in the direction of what that system wants out of you but if you seek prestige in a smaller zone of genius, something you care about, maybe its writing or making videos, then that sort of attention can push you toward prestige, especially early in career, is underrated. it usually is associated with jobs that really do get the most out of people and help them grow a ton. the problem with this high-status prestige is that it usually pushes people to excel in very narrow ways, ways that aren't great as your life evolves and your interests and desires expand. x is brutal in this way, it tears you apart if you are seeking status in ways that aren't actually aligned with what you care about. we see big accounts on here running x growth playbooks and they might have tons of followers, but are low in actual prestige in this local zone of poasting. and we see small accounts putting out bangers and people love to see it.

"actually enjoy your work as a primary principle" has never been more of a solid bet with ai there is infinite degrees of freedom and directions you can move and work grinding dampens imagination and constrains - complete opposite of what this new work calls for

pedestalizing working in an office is sort of a desperate way of trying to reclaim a slower less productive time when we didn't have agents

Speaking to students at harvard is the new book deal

At this level you're just creating a job for yourself

imagine paying accenture $32M for a website and them never shipping anything could probably build it in a day on a $200 plan now

the money-making life is but only one kind of life discovering the alternatives means asking bolder questions

i now have a few "users" and they are giving me feedback i am having so much fun with this

claude slides is so uninspired, and doesnt have a point of view its just slides with chat - it should at minimum have comments on each individual slide it could definitely build something great