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Hot take: the most dangerous point in life is not the point of total failure but the point of moderate success. A failed man keeps throwing punches—his spirit is alive and kicking. But a moderately successful man is in the danger of trading potential glory for peaceful mediocrity↗

·@oldbooksguy·Jan 26, 2025·essay·life-advice·motivation·success

I love APIs, but as we move towards a more agent-based world, I think we'll see forward-thinking products and platforms offer an interface that's built for agents. Today, we have robots.txt and sitemap.xml support. They provide instructions to webcrawlers. Tomorrow, I can imagi…↗

·@dharmesh·Jan 26, 2025·essay·agents·api·automation·openai

Have been playing with OpenAI's "Operator" agent all weekend. Some early thoughts: 1) The fact that it's already hosted and you can just start using it means it'll be more widely used than Claude's "Computer Use" feature. 2) Operator will be able to make websites that haven't…↗

·@dharmesh·Jan 25, 2025·essay·automation·llm·openai·operator

I paid Alex & Leila Hormozi $5,000 to attend their 2-day workshop. ...and then another $35,000 at the end to join their smaller-group workshop group to keep learning. So, here's what I've learned so far: Takeaway #1: Take out as much cash as you need from your business to fee…↗

Let’s talk about AI SEO. A lot of new users are signing up to our product because AI models are recommending it. Here’s what we did so far…↗

·@zenorocha·Dec 27, 2024·essay·ai·product-growth·seo

Now that the chat is directly pushed into my SQLite messages.db I can make a robot to ask ChatGPT to summarize the chat on a weekly or monthly basis and maybe email it to active users as a 100% fully automated AI written digital nomad newsletter ala @swyx's AI newsletter This i…↗

·@levelsio·Dec 22, 2024·repo·ai·automation·chatgpt·newsletter

💬 The Nomads.com digital nomad chat is now viewable on the web again This chat tab on every city page is very useful in letting people peek inside the community before paying to sign up, as it's hard to see what you sign up for otherwise When people click to message they get r…↗

·@levelsio·Dec 21, 2024·tutorial·chat·community·digital-nomad·nomads-com

How I made $200,000 with Unlimited Consultations Earlier this year, I tried something a little different: I started offering one-on-one consulting to members of the Small Bets community. But I put a twist on it. Instead of charging for my time by the hour, or per session, or per…↗

Hampton's a hard company to run because it involves real people, not just saas. But its pretty amazing. Here's the roadmap for Hampton in 2025 from @dipietromedia: 1. IRL Core Groups: Virtual groups are still great, most want in real life. New York, Austin, Los Angeles, and mo…↗

Charlie Munger said: “If all you ever did was buy high-quality stocks on the 200-week moving average, you would beat the S&P 500 by a large margin over time. The problem is, few human beings have that kind of discipline." 📉↗

Thank you @elonmusk for this framework on automation, it's been super helpful at @flexport: 1. Make requirements less dumb: Question requirements to remove unnecessary work 2. Delete a part or process: Delete parts or processes that are unnecessary 3. Simplify and optimize: T…↗

I made a real-world AI hedge fund team. It has 4 agents: 1 • market data agent 2 • quant agent 3 • risk manager agent 4 • portfolio manager agent You can run all of my code below. No prior coding experience is required. The agents work sequentially, passing messages to the ne…↗

Nearly 5 years ago, I left VC to build a holdco focused on acquiring and tech-enabling traditional businesses. Ultimately, I failed, but here's what I learned about the potential that exists -- and some hard truths I uncovered along the way...↗

·@_markvaldez·Nov 21, 2024·essay·business·entrepreneurship·lessons·vc

✨ Saw this thread on HN yesterday, about someone who signed up to Photo AI and didn't use it and wanted a refund and couldn't get it and that's not good So I've quickly built a [ ♻️ Self-refund ] page on Photo AI It follows Midjourney's refund policy which seems quite sane for…↗

Social headlines make it seem cohort-based courses are in the toilet. Yet Maven’s instructors have 2x’ed their earnings in the last 12 months. What is going on? In the last year: The altMBA shut down. Building a Second Brain shut down. Write of Passage shut down. d/MBA announced…↗

I agree with everyone complaining about the CGT changes - but I also think we need to stop being whiny little bitches and just build elite companies in the UK anyway. The main thing that needs to change is our culture & mindset, not our taxation system. We need to think big, and…↗

Why doesn’t the UK have more startups? Capital is fixed, technical talent is world class, tax incentives are great, visas mostly fine, university IP problems seem like they’re getting fixed. Free healthcare and social security net in the UK is a huge advantage that should make…↗

A Bloomberg Terminal costs $30,000 per year. Unaffordable for 99.9% of us. Reserved for the Wall Street elite to outfox the normal investor. OpenBB just dropped the $0 cost replacement. Get 405 free data sources and an AI Copilot. The 90-second step-by-step guide:↗