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Mehmet Perk retweeted
I built something I've wanted for years. It's called STFU - Standard Fundament.
The problem: YouTube is full of 20-30 minute videos where the actual useful content is 2 minutes. Clickbait titles, long intros, sponsor breaks, padded conclusions... All eating up your time.
So I built a Chrome extension that fixes it.
STFU adds a button directly below every YouTube video. One click opens the summary on stfu.cc. 3-5 bullets of what the video actually says. No fluff, just the substance.
The name is intentional. Sometimes you just want the content to the STandard FUndament.
Install it at stfu.cc — would love your feedback 🙏
Mehmet Perk retweeted
Diva: Dive into AI Conference is live today.
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Mehmet Perk retweeted
Yeah, I'm something of a first principles guy myself.
That's why I so often cite Jevons paradox, Baumol’s cost disease, Metcalfe’s law, Reed's law, Wright’s law, Goodhart’s law, survivorship bias, the principal–agent problem, the narrative fallacy, prisoners dilemmas, comparative advantage, Gall’s law, Chesterton’s fence, the cobra effect, Lindy, Moloch, fat tails, black swans, Pareto efficiency, and Occam's razor.
Mehmet Perk retweeted
AI changes how fast mediocre ideas get shipped and how quickly real judgment is exposed. There’s no hiding behind effort anymore.
Mehmet Perk retweeted
we used to design UI in a professional photo editing tool
we forgot how to make this
Mehmet Perk retweeted
A mini-essay on this moment in history:
We're living through something our grandkids will study in history class, and we're experiencing it as just ANOTHER Thursday.
You don't really feel paradigm shifts while you're in them. They feel like normal life with slightly better tools.
The printing press was just a faster way to copy books. The internet was just a better library. AI is just a smarter autocomplete.
You get numb to launch after launch and it all sorta blends into the new normal. Claude writes entire codebases and you're frustrated it missed a semicolon.
The audacity.....
Then ONE DAY you wake up and everything changed while you were sitting in a pointless meeting. That little startup that went viral on X is suddenly the incumbent. That 18 year old kid with a GPT wrapper with no moat is now suddenly the most interesting man in Silicon Valley.
The history books won't capture how mundane it felt. How we spent the revolution arguing about return-to-office policies. How we witnessed the death of gatekeepers while refreshing our email. How the greatest democratization of capability in human history happened mostly on Tuesday afternoons between Zoom calls.
You exist in the 20-year window where individuals can compete with institutions. Where a laptop equals a team. Where David doesn't need a slingshot because Goliath's advantages are somehow available for $20/month.
Soon, the window closes. The regulations arrive. The moats get built. The incumbents adapt. The wild west becomes the suburbs.
But today... on this Thursday... today you can still build something in a weekend that changes everything. Today it's tilted in favor of the individual for the first time in history.
Enjoy this moment while it lasts.
Mehmet Perk retweeted
People are finally starting to realise how few truly great designers there are, and how disproportionately valuable they are.
