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Angry Birds is game 52 for the studio Rovio, after 51 games in 6 years.
A 6 year overnight success.
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Dru Riley 📈 Trends.vc retweeted
Introducing Rakazo, the best open-source Grok Bot alternative
→ Bring any model or sandbox
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Ira Glass cut radio tape for free in his college days at NPR. Became a newscast writer and then the host of This American Life.
Here's what he's taught me about creative work:
1. Your taste is why your work disappoints you.
2. If you're stuck, put yourself on a deadline: finish one piece of work every week. I've written a daily essay for almost 300 days. Quantity leads to quality.
3. Prolific over perfect: If you want to get good at something, you have to do a lot of work.
Here's how Ira Glass describes the gap between your taste and your work:
"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. [...] We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it's normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. [...] It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through."
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There's probably $100M a year in revenue up for grabs for people who sell to AI agents (the search engine Exa got there in about 3 years)
By 2030 the research firm IDC expects you to have a market of over 2 billion possible customers (agents) growing by about 1.2 million a day.
The internet was built for people:
1. Search google
2. Read landing page
3. Book demo
4. Talk to sales
5. Buy
Agents don’t do that.
Agents will:
1. Get a job from the person who set them up
2. Tend to pick the same tool each time they do that job
3. Work while that person sleeps
4. Pay for each job they run
5. Pay twice as much when they do twice the work
Find the kind of business you're most likely to win at.
6 questions, free:
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Dru Riley 📈 Trends.vc retweeted
Engineers, send this to the non-engineers you wish understood coding agents.
Founders, PMs, marketers, and designers have plenty of ideas they’d love to try themselves. Coding agents are making more of that possible.
I’m teaching Coding Agents 101 this Friday for people who don’t write code. You’ll learn how to give an agent a task and judge the result.
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You’re not rewarded for working harder than anyone else.
You’re rewarded for being hard to replace.
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Whatever rules you have for your life, I suggest you reread them every morning.
major life hack: stop complaining about everything. if something is within your control, take action. if it isn't, stop giving it your energy. constantly complaining can keep your attention focused on the negative and make it harder to notice the good around you. protect your peace, focus on what you can change, and stop letting things outside your control dictate your mood.
The goal in work is not "no new problems", but "the new problems you create by solving your most important problem first"
A bankrupt airline sold its staff's emails and chat messages for $10 million.
Google bought Spirit Airlines' internal records at a bankruptcy auction.
Spirit's flight attendants' union objected to the sale on privacy grounds.
@Simple_Closure is a firm that runs startup shutdowns.
47% of its shutdowns now include a code or data sale.
When a company dies, what its staff typed is now one of the things that sells.
You can build anything now.
Choosing what to build is the hard part.
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You can put too much into a good habit, whether it's 80-hour work weeks or six protein shakes a day.
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