Can confirm. Just yesterday, my teammate wrote a custom JSON parser that would have been a slog for 1-2 days within hours using GPT4. GPT4 is like giving each engineer their own intern who does 70-80% of the job. The remaining 30% is constraints & biz logic. Startups are going t…↗

I can read all the email newsletters in my industry in 5 minutes per day using a workflow I built with @zapier and @OpenAI. Sharing here in case it's helpful to you, too. Here's how it works...↗

The Goal Setting Guide—how to set (& actually achieve) your goals for 2022:↗

How to find (and operate in) your Zone of Genius:↗

What are some 80/20 changes that you've made in your life? Ie: habits you've implemented, beliefs you've adopted, products you've bought that have had an outsized impact↗

A funny lie of adult life is pretending we'll act on advice we collect: I don't revisit bookmarks. I rarely re-open Google docs. I don’t re-read Kindle highlights. Until today, my friends. I finally realized how to turn notes into action:↗

Your job as an entrepreneur is to become like Teflon for tasks. You should be ALLERGIC to doing stuff and everything should roll off you and be delegated and systematized. Your job isn’t doing, it’s building systems.↗

The world's most valuable skill: Writing effectively. But colleges charge you 120k and still do a terrible job teaching it. Instead, here are 9 writing frameworks that cost you nothing and will save you hundreds of hours:↗

The most undervalued asset of a CEO is an Executive Assistant. My EA saves me 60% of time. I'm able to run a tech startup, coach 7 CEO's every month, write & surf every day, take @david_perell's intense WOP course, cook dinner and read every night. Here's how:↗

If you make more than $100k per year you should have a Virtual Assistant. If you don't, you're wasting your time on stuff that doesn't matter. Here's the process I've created to find, interview, and manage great VA's after doing this for 5 years:↗

Introducing “Superpowers” - the underlying skills that help you succeed at anything I spent nearly 6 months building this list and almost wrote a book on the subject Instead, I’ve condensed that work into a pithy (and punchy) Twitter thread **Read On**↗

Giving away your work for free is like compressing a spring that releases when you finally put something up for sale. The longer you do it, the more energy is released. Steve and I compressed the Refactoring UI spring for over two years. It made $1,000,000 in the first month.↗

Simple business lessons from a 14-hour road trip: 1) We spend too much time thinking about the last few turns and not enough deciding which interstate to use. Sweat the big stuff. 2) Small changes in speed make a big difference over long periods of time. Can you go 5% faster?↗

For anyone thinking about taking Write of Passage with @david_perell, here are ten tangible benefits: 1/Building a good information collection system. This system allows me to write from abundance and drastically reduce writers block.↗

If you missed the “How Basecamp uses Basecamp” livestream, here’s the recording: pscp.tv/w/1OyKAYOreqgKb. We start a new account and then take you on a tour of our *actual* account to show you how we work day-to-day. A bit under 2 hours. Watch —> pscp.tv/w/1OyKAYOreqgKb↗

What are some of your favorite personal productivity hacks? ie: color-coded calendars, no meeting days, etc.↗

Using @Superhuman is like using a fitness tracker. You invest into something, so you put in effort to do it right. I have better email health (towards inbox zero) in my first 24 hours of Superhuman than I’ve had in the last 5 years. Will see if it lasts, but props @rahulvohra↗

It takes me an annoyingly long time to get into a state of mind where I can do deep work (not just emails and ad box stuff). What are some tricks to shorten that time?↗

1/ As a founder you should spend all of your time on the unique things you can do which no other human on the planet can do. Corollary: You should spend almost no time doing stuff which is already well understood by someone else.↗

Habits that have a high rate of return in life: - sleep 8+ hours each day - lift weights 3x week - go for a walk each day - save at least 10 percent of your income - read every day - drink more water and less of everything else - leave your phone in another room while you work↗

A curated collection of practical skills and notes for real-world engineering, sourced from the author's .claude directory.↗