Imagination, that is your creation.
Come on Barbie, let's go party.
A quick word from the author:
Cześć dzieciaki,
What if laziness is the habit of thinking about the cost of things or the effort instead of thinking about the payoff?
What if you could reverse laziness by simply developing a habit of thinking more about the delicious food you’re about to enjoy than the effort to get up and go get it?
Can we think more about the good outcome and less about the work?
Can we go back to daydreaming, being hopeful? Would that make a difference in how we carry ourselves every day?
Focus on the outcomes, not on the effort. And you will, without a doubt and probably against your will, reach your goal.
Also, remember to be kind and loving. You never know when it’s the last time you get to meet and talk to someone. Stay strong brother.
The NeWs (if you can call it that):
“Novice document writers make the exact same mistake, but with prose instead of code. They get a soup of sentences and paragraphs and expect the reader’s brain to do what they want.
If the reader is smart enough, you might actually get away with this. Just like an expert programmer can mentally untangle spaghetti code.
But a perfect doc is written such that the reader is never surprised. The reader should find that every sentence flows obviously from the previous ones. They should finish your doc and think “well this was entirely straightforward, why did we even need to have this meeting?”
“If you have 100 posts, that’s 1 query for the posts and 100 more for the comments: N+1 queries in total.
That’s the problem.
It starts small. Feels innocent. But once your data grows, this turns into a flood of unnecessary database traffic and your app crawls.:
“Here’s what it actually takes to find a startup idea. This also will help if you’re working at a startup considering building a new product, or even just a new feature. I am writing this so that you, a serious person trying to build something real, don’t feel like an idiot when you see people peddling nonsense about how easy it is.
This post digs into three fundamental questions:
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What are we looking for?
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Where do we find it?
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How do we know we’re right?”
“imagine you start a company knowing that consumers won’t pay more than $20/month. fine, you think, classic vc playbook – charge at cost, sacrifice margins for growth. you’ve done the math on cac, ltv, all that. but here’s where it gets interesting: you’ve seen the a16z chart showing llm costs dropping 10x every year.”
“The Rationalist movement is a lifestyle as much as a set of ideas. The adherents have mixed their focus on A.I. with advice for how to live your life and manage your career. The community embraces unconventional ideas, including polyamory and the genetics of intelligence as well as Effective Altruism, which is also a lifestyle. And for aspirational A.I. developers, Rationalist events have become essential networking opportunities.
Gatherings like the Machine Learning Alignment and Theory Scholars program, or MATS, hosted at Lighthaven each summer, are a more important way of getting into the field of A.I. safety than academia, said Sonia Joseph, an A.I. researcher at McGill University in Montreal and the tech giant Meta.”
Tool of the Week: Orchids.app
Lovable, but the websites actually look good?
Sign me tf up. Right here:
https://www.orchids.app/
Startup Idea of the Week: Cards Against You
You know what’s more fun than telling a great story?
Convincing everyone it’s true.
The internet is currently obsessed with lore—not the fantasy kind, but the “tell me a weird fact about yourself” kind. One viral tweet asking for personal lore got 1.2 billion views. That’s billion with a “B.” Now there’s a constant flood of people oversharing their quirks, drama, and bad decisions.
And we thought: why should Twitter have all the fun?
What if this became a living room blood sport?
The Game:
Like Cards Against Humanity—but instead of picking the filthiest punchline, you’re spinning the wildest backstory.
Here’s how it plays:
👑 Lore Lord: Each round, a rotating “Lore Lord” draws a prompt card. Example: Share a piece of dating lore about yourself.
🎭 True or False?: Every player answers the prompt—either truthfully, or with one of 6–8 bluff cards in hand that suggest believable lies.
😂 Pick the Best: The Lore Lord chooses their favorite. 1 point if it’s a lie, 2 if it’s the truth (gotta reward the real-life chaos).
Why This Works:
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Humans love swapping stories—especially the kind that toe the line between “that happened” and “no way.”
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Viral social trends are great testing grounds for IRL fun.
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The format is easy to explain, fast to play, and endlessly expandable.
Go-to-Market:
📦 Launch as a $25–$30 physical card game.
🃏 Drop themed $5–$10 expansion packs (“Family Lore,” “Office Lore,” “Holiday Lore”).
📱 Optional app with extra prompts, bluff generators, and story-recording features.
🎯 Sell direct-to-consumer, then court party game publishers like Hasbro, Exploding Kittens, or What Do You Meme.
What Could Go Wrong?
Somebody shares lore that ruins Thanksgiving.
Everyone’s too shy in the first round.
Half the group is too good at lying.
That’s why:
– Prompts are designed to be fun, not therapy.
– Bluff cards keep even shy players in the game.
– The scoring rewards both truth and lies, so you can play to your strengths.
Business Model:
One-time purchase + optional expansions and digital upsells.
Target an exit to a party game giant at a 4–6x revenue multiple.
Ok, hear me out, you should try: Make your premium plan free during weird hours.
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$0 on weekends
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$0 after 9pm
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$0 during lunch breaks (12pm-2pm)
It’s unusual enough that some people will probably share your pricing page. Could create some buzz.
Someone who sets an alarm for 2am to try your product is already emotionally invested before they even start using it.
For B2B products, this is genius: You’re making employees try work-related software during their personal (or weekend) time. When someone voluntarily tests your project management tool on Saturday morning instead of relaxing → they’re solving real work problems on their own time. Truly obsessed. Perfect users.
Now, some people will cheat with VPNs or time zone tricks. Let them. If someone goes through the effort to hack your free hours, there’s sunk cost.
👉 Put a “Remind me when free access starts” form on your pricing page.
People will happily give you their email to get notified about your weird-hour windows. These are much better than random leads – they’re people who specifically want to try your premium features for free. They convert like crazy.
What’s going on for us:
I’ll just leave you with this demo:
And one last meme for good measure:
I kiss you,
The author at 1 AM from the comfort of his bed.