Founder at @byPaperbell, Exited MeetEdgar Anti-hustle poster child I blog at https://teapawt.net/t.co/1RWo9V0MJd 🇬🇧
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Laura Roeder retweeted
Catch 22: If Anthropic cures Autism, what happens to Anthropic?
Anthropic CEO:
“If today we look at things like cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, mental illness. These will be relics of the past in. I think, less than a decade.
I believe that the company which gets the risks right will also be the company that has the license to operate that society trusts and society believes can build the benefits in the right way.
I think if we do this right, we can create an age of miracles where humanity is able to solve problems that have eluded us for millennia.
We have to make sure that all the risks, all the ways that things can go wrong with this technology, we very carefully address those risks as we bring the benefits, and as we have a viable business at the same time”.
Laura Roeder retweeted
My new favorite tech/business Youtube channel is @asmartbear.
It’s a breath of fresh air in my youtube algorithm, which is all AI hype / doom videos.
The videos are him working through how to grow a business with other founders.
And it’s practical advice, not “wake up at 5am, fail fast, and grind.”
It’s been a great reminder to focus on the obvious stuff.
Talk to your customers. Figure out who they are and why they buy. Then figure out how to find more of them and solve their problem.
It sounds so obvious, but it’s hard to see when you’re in it. Especially in today’s media ecosystem, where everyone is yelling about agents and no one is talking about business fundamentals.
Laura Roeder retweeted
I sometimes hate that the last third of my life has consisted almost exclusively of sitting around looking at my phone. but then I think of how my ancestors lived, sat around looking at potatoes or something. compared to them I am winning, and winning big.
Laura Roeder retweeted
Cool offer for mutuals I wanted to pass forward:
Can you make it to Tokyo in 24 hours?
A member in my community has a fully-funded space for walking Kumano Kodo Iseji, running October 31 to November 9.
Are you fit enough to walk around 18km/14mi per day with a day pack?
And are you feeling a call to a greater sense of connection - to yourself, to community, and to something larger?
Please dm me if interested!
Laura Roeder retweeted
Since moving back to London after almost a decade away, I keep meeting young people here building incredible things. Some at uni, some who've deferred
Hosted a small group of them tonight with @AkashBajwa96 at @meetgranola HQ and came away really inspired about the young talent here in the UK
Two ways you can help:
1. Angels who want to back impressive young (sometimes solo) founders early, DM me!
2. Pen testing/SOC2, which came up twice tonight. They have traction and need early security certifications to properly capitalize on it. If you can give them a great rate (under $3K per pen test), I'll send you two customers straight away. Hopefully, many more after (check my profile for the number & type of events I run)!
Zooming out, I've been looking for one thing I can commit time to, a cause i can consistently care about outside a busy job. I think this could be it!
Still reading this? If you know anyone great who's young in the UK and wants a peer group of ambitious builders, let me know. Hosting the next one in about a month with Akash.
Laura Roeder retweeted
I let AI run my YouTube without my taste on it.
Result: ~1,000 views a video.
A month earlier, writing them myself: 13,000 to 20,000 views. Same channel, same audience.
It's everywhere:
- Ad creative for clients: can't let the AI run alone.
- AEO/SEO content: still needs an editor.
- My X: Max used the X skill on autopilot, reach dropped. He started writing in his own voice again, reach came right back.
- Cross-posted videos: 1K on autopilot vs 15-20K when I write.
You still need the human in the loop.
If anyone tells you AI has already figured it all out, run in the other direction.
Neil's take: the key is adapting. Figure out where AI is weak and where it's strong, and don't drink the Kool-Aid.
AI plus taste beats either one alone.
AI-only content usually isn't bad. It's average. Average gets buried. Your taste is the part AI can't fake yet.
Laura Roeder retweeted
Oh my goodness this has to be right.
Instead of generating a random 256-bit number they generated a random number between 0 and 256.
That’s how they got 4, 66, 155, 156, 230 and 237.
Laura Roeder retweeted
A hill I'll die on
Customer Support should report into Product
If your support team keeps growing, your product is broken.
A support ticket is a product bug a customer reported for free.
Sort your tickets and most fall into a handful of categories.
That isn't a staffing problem.
That's a product roadmap nobody is reading.
The old way: Support sits under Ops, gets treated as a cost center, and hires more reps every time tickets go up.
The new way: bots read every ticket and send the patterns to the people who build the product.
One tags every ticket the moment it lands.
One drafts replies from answers your team already approved.
One flags a category that spikes and pings the product lead.
Even better, don't wait for the ticket.
@msftClarity or @posthog show you exactly where customers get stuck, before they ever write in.
All of it feeds straight into the @linear roadmap.
The goal isn't faster replies.
It's zero tickets.
Humans still own the judgment.
What to fix first. When to refund. When to pick up the phone.
But if Support reports to someone who never talks to Product, the pattern dies in a monthly report nobody opens.
Founder Mode: you hire more people to apologize.
Architect Mode: you fix why they're apologizing.
Laura Roeder retweeted
Somewhere in your customer interview transcripts is a line that would beat your current headline, and it's just sitting there.
Laura Roeder retweeted
𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱: 𝗔𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝘂𝗿𝘂
To redesign my book listing page to maximize conversions of people who are genuine target readers.
And ideally to then help with Amazon ads.
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Laura Roeder retweeted
One week to go until the first @OpenAIDevs Codex Community Meetup in Brighton for DevDay and we have a wonderful speaker lineup confirmed, ready to share lots of Codex tips and tricks!
Last free tickets 👇
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Laura Roeder retweeted
I find most high achieving dads have it backward:
They optimize to work the hardest when their kids are little, when they will actually know them for the vast majority of their lives as adults.
They rationalize they're doing it for family but they're missing a window of time they'll never get back.
Laura Roeder retweeted
You can now ask Claude to run subagents at a specific effort level! Make sure you're on v2.1.292+
