12: ChatGPT, GPT-4

First-time startup founders struggle with marketing because they believe the lie that startup success only comes from building a great product.

Marketing isn't so hard but it doesn't match our fantasy of building a great product + go viral easily.

— Dagobert Renouf (@dagorenouf) April 12, 2023

There is something called Thought Leadership. I can do Thought Leadership. Can take you to new heights. Out-of-the-box thinking. For example, you have never thought about expanding into Africa, have you? You are missing out. I can help.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

April 13th, 1947, is the birthday of American comedian and TV icon David Letterman, who once wrote: “America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.” pic.twitter.com/Lyxe6F2O4S

— Kevin L Nenstiel (@KLNenstiel) April 12, 2023

DAVID LETTERMAN celebrates his 76th birthday today 🥳🎂

Here he is in 1994 with ZSA ZSA GABOR, going on a fast food joy ride through Los Angeles

😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/ODsQZNNJo2

— James Leighton (@Leightonauthor) April 12, 2023

Very thoughtful. The YouTube pointer. It worked on me.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

David Letterman puts on a New York #Yankees uniform and practices getting hit by a pitch at Yankee Stadium! Classic cameos by Buck Showalter and Frank Howard! (1992) ⚾️ Happy 76th Birthday Dave! pic.twitter.com/ID6hDpIx7e

— Baseball by BSmile (@BSmile) April 12, 2023

I do have to check out AIR. #AIRMovie

In the meantime, here's a classic #MichaelJordan clip from the old NBC Late Night w/ David Letterman. #AIR #AirJordan1 #Nike #Throwback pic.twitter.com/qGvo3B0iSQ

— AC  (@ACinPhilly) April 8, 2023

In the latest episode of The Light Podcast, David @Letterman and I talk about the writing process, vulnerability, mental health, and how focusing on smaller tasks can help us keep bigger challenges in perspective.

I hope you'll listen on @Audible_com: https://t.co/vl6kht3SU1 pic.twitter.com/zitPlgeJPl

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) April 5, 2023

"I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host."
― David Letterman (born this day, April 12, 1947) pic.twitter.com/evB6RVcbTm

— MacCocktail (Mastodon: @MacCocktail@zirk.us) (@MacCocktail) April 12, 2023

Iran's regime, for months, has been poisoning school girls. At least 5,000 have been subject to chemical attacks aimed to prevent them from joining #IranProtests, which girls have been involved since Sept 2022. To end this, YOU can make a difference. Follow us for updates. pic.twitter.com/b6raVeNvXf

— Alireza Jafarzadeh (@A_Jafarzadeh) April 11, 2023

BICYCLE - hand-painted oil painting on canvas by Leonid Afremov. Only today for $168 including super-fast free shipping worldwide. Directly from the Afremov family https://t.co/aBhCylfaJX pic.twitter.com/XngVWThHaI

— Leonid Afremov (@afremovartcom) April 4, 2023

The Singularity is near

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 12, 2023

मधेश प्रदेश सरकारमा जनमत : वैशाख १० पछि आउट !
स्वर्णिमलाई दिनभर पछ्याउँदा : बटुवालाई गाडीको झ्यालबाटै घण्टी बजाएर भोट माग्न म्याराथन बिहानदेखि दिउँसो ४ बजेसम्म स्वर्णिमलाई पछ्याउँदा उनी राजनीतिको तल्लो कमिटीबाट संघर्ष गर्दै, जनतासँग घनिष्ठता बढाउँदै राजनीतिक नेता भएका हुन भन्ने कुनै छनक देखिँदैनथ्यो । गाडीबाट सडकमा ओर्लिएका बेला पनि मतदातासँग केही क्षण अडिएर कुरा नगरी नमस्कार गर्दै उनी निकै हतारमा हिँड्थे । केही चोकमा गरेको छोटो कोणसभामा भने उनले आफू अर्थशास्त्रको विज्ञ भएको बताउँदै नेपालबाट युवाहरूले विदेशमा रोजगारी गर्न जाने अवस्था रोक्ने, स्थानीय मागहरू के के छन् त्यसको सम्बोधन गर्ने प्रतिबद्धता जनाएका थिए ।

#ChatGPT #GPT4 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence pic.twitter.com/OEKdQuFGcH

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

11: GPT-4, ChatGPT

AI makes expertise even more niche going forward.

— hiten.eth (@hnshah) April 11, 2023

"Start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology." – Steve Jobs

— Brian Solis (@briansolis) April 11, 2023

My dad moved from India with $1 in his pocket, worked his ass off his whole life, and gave us every advantage he could.

— Jesse Pujji (@jspujji) April 11, 2023

How much in your pocket? :)

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

I was on @the100mba show to talk about how I took ConvertKit from a side project to multi-million dollar company.

We get into my early life, why I dropped out of college, and how I went from selling info products to SaaS. https://t.co/7o4nAhAjmP pic.twitter.com/G6TOZkN16h

— Nathan Barry (@nathanbarry) April 11, 2023

Possibly useful measure of a person's character: The difference between their facial expression while taking a selfie, and one second later.

— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 11, 2023

Interesting option I heard, give every newborn $1000 and put it in the markets until they are 21

Thoughts? https://t.co/ktau8ox2gC

— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 11, 2023

The used car market is brutal, but I managed to pick up this beauty for $90,000. pic.twitter.com/80nLHNvrDP

— Douglas A. Boneparth (@dougboneparth) April 11, 2023

There is something super symbolic about the fact that Russia’s best documentary film festival which naturally got banned in Moscow made its return 2.5 meters under the ground at a Soviet bunker (!!) in Kazakhstan pic.twitter.com/2SSLPq5bwf

— Varia Bortsova 💙💛 (@variainayurt) April 11, 2023

Interesting option I heard, give every newborn $1000 and put it in the markets until they are 21

Thoughts? https://t.co/ktau8ox2gC

— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 11, 2023

it’s banana bread day! pic.twitter.com/GiB7sfmGcc

— ali (@_ali_taylor) April 11, 2023

“अहिले आएर यी मान्छे मलाई ठीक लाग्न थाले।”

एउटा हास्य टेलिशृङ्खलाको यो डाइलग पो सम्झाए!

— Madhu Raman Acharya (@MadhuRamanACH) April 11, 2023

Imagine a corporate team that is 11 members. One of them is super enthusiastic about ChatGPT. The other 10 know about it but do not use it. Could that team harvest the productivity boost that ChatGPT is? No. That serious dis-alignment is soon going to become a misalignment.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Video 1: https://t.co/4gvxsikqOJ
ChatGPT Literacy Course: https://t.co/n3LflBByWh
Video 2: https://t.co/yJooByKZS5
Video 3: https://t.co/k2987ezWkR

Sign Up!

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

What makes this course different from many others like it is that it takes a holistic approach. It recognizes that introducing ChatGPT into your many business operations necessarily means that you have to now reimagine each of them.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

The massive productivity boosts mean that the old goals will no longer work. You now need new, bigger goals for the team. And ChatGPT can help you with that as well. Yes, ChatGPT can help you with goal-setting.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Video 1: https://t.co/4gvxsikqOJ
ChatGPT Literacy Course: https://t.co/n3LflBByWh
Video 2: https://t.co/yJooByKZS5
Video 3: https://t.co/k2987ezWkR

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023

"Despite the Prime Minister’s best efforts, the people of India cannot and will not be silenced."

Do Read: Smt. Sonia Gandhi's thought-provoking indictment of the Modi Govt -https://t.co/foTh28Orxi pic.twitter.com/1NWMoWBnsX

— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) April 11, 2023

Yeah

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023

Yesterday, I spoke with someone who is coming OUT of retirement after decades in data and analytics to build something new in the LLM space.

That’s how electric this space is ⚡️

— Allie K. Miller (@alliekmiller) April 11, 2023

Why do people send emails that they wouldn’t open themselves?

[Reflect a bit on your own cold email outreach here ;)]

— Arvid Kahl (@arvidkahl) April 10, 2023

I haven’t been online almost all day because I’ve been working on building a computer and getting all my necessary software installed. After just 24-hours I feel so out of the loop already. Lol.

What cool advancements did I miss?

— Matt Wolfe (@mreflow) April 11, 2023

The #1 preventable reason startups fail?

Cofounder problems.

9 crucial questions to ask your cofounder today (if you want your business to last):

— Dr. Matthew Jones (@Dr_MatthewJones) April 11, 2023

Many of you ask, why can LLM ever be superhuman if it’s trained on human data?

The reason is simple. It’s far easier to judge whether a work is good or not, than to create the work yourself.
You can be a food connoisseur but terrible at cooking. You can be a top art critic but… pic.twitter.com/lnaUVYgNjt

— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) April 11, 2023

Seeking your feedback on the anxieties around AI: https://t.co/4gvxsikqOJ

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Multi-modal as in 3D?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Do your thing and move on … come back more beautiful next time pic.twitter.com/R5fjLm0p8s

— Ruchit G Garg (@ruchitgarg) April 12, 2023

Nobody has ever spent 24 hours studying #Bitcoin and come away with a negative opinion of it.

It takes one day of complete attention for anyone to be convinced we need to fix the money.

— Martell Fox ⚡️🧙‍♀️ (@Martellfox) April 12, 2023

RAINY ALLEY BY THE LAKE - hand-painted oil painting by Leonid Afremov. Today's price is $168 including super-fast free shipping worldwide. Directly from the Afremov family: https://t.co/gJInsFYQ1k pic.twitter.com/eRDhcVb0Wb

— Leonid Afremov (@afremovartcom) April 6, 2023

Kids are their own people. It's like watching flowers unfurl.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

Khan Academy? @khanacademy @khanacademykids @salkhanacademy

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

Great advice. I have something due in 20 days. Am taking it.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

The future is weird.

We will dance around in front of a camera to get our robot to entertain people and other robots. https://t.co/s2tCJuZ0Xc

— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 12, 2023

Need a task done quickly?

Give it to a female founder who's also a mom.

— Rachel Soper Sanders (@rachelssanders) April 11, 2023

We have entered the age of automation.

Robotics automated the assembly line, artificial intelligence automated knowledge tasks, and bitcoin automated the next generation's monetary policy.

There will be many more in the future.

— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) April 12, 2023

Just read about the $150M valuation for Harvey (2 customers, just launched, offers thin layer on GPT4). My bet is on @Clearbriefai - a women-led AI #legaltech startup that’s been innovating in this space for 2.5 yrs + 140 customers incl large global firms. https://t.co/jKwFxuDbhq

— Erin Levine (@erinlevine_) April 12, 2023

You, of all people, ask? You should know.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

It does spreadsheets better than it does essays.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

I have a term for it. CI = Chat Interface.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

Presidents 30 years ago.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

We will be able to see around the corner with 6G.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

Or Part 2, Abundance in Food: https://t.co/9EbRWfGk3K

— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 11, 2023

I disagree. You did not have to edit Google's output. There was no output.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

GPT-10 Prompt Engineers will be astronauts.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

OpenAI gave every kid with an internet connection access to an army of robots.

Bloated corporations should be shaking in their boots.

Compete or die.

— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) April 12, 2023

What 21 years of marriage teaches you:

The wife woke up mad about something I said in her dream.

I didn’t argue; I surprised her with flowers.

This is the way. pic.twitter.com/JQlcV0us16

— Paul Griffiths (@paul_griffiths) April 12, 2023

If I had to choose a beginning to the Netflix story, it would probably be that rainy morning In 1997 when Reed Hastings and I skipped work, drove into town, bought a used music CD, and mailed it his house.

We could have spent hours debating whether our DVD-rental-by-mail idea… https://t.co/FSof6aIyNC

— Marc Randolph (@mbrandolph) April 12, 2023

Artist Leonid Afremov passed away. His family gives away Afremov's oil paintings to his fans. Please subscribe to get free painting https://t.co/gQm2h2FkQ2

— Leonid Afremov (@afremovartcom) January 30, 2023

Large Language Models are going to lead to a lot of unexpected discoveries

Here is a proposal by a team of top marine biologists, computer scientists & linguists for learning to communicate with sperm whales using AI. Plenty of details in the paper. https://t.co/NbxXU7Qkfi pic.twitter.com/P9K0bwFPFK

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) April 12, 2023

“Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words” described by some as a posthumous memoir/ scrapbook album (includes notes & drafts emailed to himself, excerpts of letters & speeches, oral histories & interviews, photos & mementos)

is now available, free to download: pic.twitter.com/dKJ4zbmFKE

— Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) April 12, 2023

I'd like to join. I. am googleable.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

Free Evan Gershkovich. By taking an American journalist hostage, Putin’s Russia announces its transformation into a full-blown terrorist state. Great essay by ⁦@BHL⁩ (Bernard Henri Levi) https://t.co/SJCRpNVMUk

— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) April 11, 2023

What substances make people more creative in experiments?
☕️Coffee does! It helps creative problem-solving https://t.co/Jlb7jv6Fgf
🍻Contrary to what many think, alcohol doesn’t https://t.co/1B6EYlO94T
🚬Pot does not, but makes you think bad ideas are good https://t.co/sUjPahnLCe pic.twitter.com/2JqNMm3Lge

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) April 11, 2023

The best way for Russians to protect themselves against their fellow citizens is to make it clear that they support Putin & the war.The longer the war lasts, however, the riskier that strategy becomes.Anxiety, after all, often breeds resentment@samagreenehttps://t.co/ApMe1HcJjD

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky (@mbk_center) April 11, 2023

1/ China’s cyberspace regulator publishes draft rules on managing generative AI like Chat-GPT models. While a good step recognizing the dangers of the tech, the rules include asking the AI to promote socialist values. Puts in writing what many have feared. https://t.co/vZUmArWy9c

— Liza Lin (@lizalinwsj) April 11, 2023

The Chinese firewall has now melted.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 12, 2023

In an era of #ChatGPT and #generativeAI, this artwork that @gapingvoid and I created seems pertinent now... pic.twitter.com/igMqCt6LlD

— Brian Solis (@briansolis) April 11, 2023

A world-destroying AI?

Didn’t see that coming. https://t.co/TURJwR4cxg

— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 11, 2023

Raising Hustle Fund I was so tough. It took 700 meetings to get to $11.5M for our debut fund.

One of the best sources of LP leads we got...actually were our founders. We asked them for help to fundraise, and some of our best LPs came from our founder fam. Grateful to you!

— Eric Bahn 💛 (@ericbahn) April 11, 2023

Germany is so strict on stuff that doesn’t matter https://t.co/14mr8TxOsc

— Hussein Kanji (@hkanji) April 12, 2023

A Southasian great has moved on.
Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, freedom fighter and public health activist who pioneered basic rural health in Bangladesh and set the innovative national drug policy in motion. We need to organise our societies by his vision. pic.twitter.com/cxYXCW01j7

— Kanak Mani Dixit (@KanakManiDixit) April 12, 2023

Our first foray into direct air capture from @usv #climate fund https://t.co/YJnuHU7LRJ

— Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛ (@albertwenger) April 11, 2023

Work hard. Accomplish much. And most of all...share your victories with others... https://t.co/lcIszt1YYP

— Michael K. Reynolds (@M_K_Reynolds) April 12, 2023

😂

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 12, 2023

Editing is often the most time-consuming part of writing.

You're constantly fighting tired eyes, brain fog, & the desire to be DONE already...

But that's all changing now.

I couldn't believe how quickly I was able to proofread & edit my writing using these 18 ChatGPT prompts:

— Joe Portsmouth 🧲 (@joe_portsmouth) April 11, 2023

If you want to go down the rabbit hole on AI copywriting, here’s a free guide to get you started:

150 Chat GPT Copywriting Prompts on:
• Best Practices
• Storytelling Tips
• Mistakes To Avoid
• And More

Over 2,500+ downloads and counting…

Enjoy! 🎁 https://t.co/XX2Yd4l9n9

— Joe Portsmouth 🧲 (@joe_portsmouth) April 11, 2023

Love using this one to make my writing tighter.

“Find any repetitive or redundant sections and suggest ways to streamline them."

— Joe Portsmouth 🧲 (@joe_portsmouth) April 11, 2023

After ChatGPT, MultiModal LLMs?

After ChatGPT, the future belongs to multimodal LLMs. What’s even better? Open-sourcing.

Announcing Prismer, my team’s latest vision-language AI, empowered by domain-expert models in depth, surface normal, segmentation, etc.

No paywall. No forms. https://t.co/LV76hKH1PY… pic.twitter.com/U4NeizwGX8

— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) March 7, 2023

There're 3 major bottlenecks for robotics: data, data, data.

Amazon ARMBench completely flew under the radar, but I believe is one of the most exciting data releases in robotics:

- Real warehouse deployment scenarios: not as sexy as ChatGPT, but holds gigantic economic… pic.twitter.com/10Ma8unOsM

— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) April 11, 2023

- Blog post: https://t.co/YbCvLm0FRU
- Project website & download: https://t.co/jEpuUEQAHy
- ARMBench paper: https://t.co/cwqr3rU1it by Chaitanya Mitash, Fan Wang, Shiyang Lu, Vikedo Terhuja, Tyler Garaas, Felipe Polido, Manikantan Nambi

— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) April 11, 2023

Many of you ask, why can LLM ever be superhuman if it’s trained on human data?

The reason is simple. It’s far easier to judge whether a work is good or not, than to create the work yourself.
You can be a food connoisseur but terrible at cooking. You can be a top art critic but… pic.twitter.com/lnaUVYgNjt

— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) April 11, 2023

Below is Steve Jobs announcing a new product, “WiFi-connected socks” in his eloquent voice. I’m sold.

The Black Mirror episode “Be Right Back” describes a technology that revives people from their digital footprint. Where we are today:

- LLMs prompted by past chat logs can do a… pic.twitter.com/NEkUxR0P42

— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) April 10, 2023

A very clean toy experiment. Next up:

- Does few-shot in-context emerge? At what model size, data size, and data diversity? Prompt with a set of new transitions.
- RL from human feedback: how many bits of human annotation are required to produce a desired distribution?
- Safety:… https://t.co/lHZEzqQxFq

— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) April 9, 2023

Deepmind released a comprehensive overview of transformer architectures and algorithms!

This is a must-read to understand language models. It covers what they are, how they are trained, what they are used for, and their key architectural components.https://t.co/MCOYoMW8nN pic.twitter.com/P28SRn0Yrj

— Lior⚡ (@AlphaSignalAI) April 9, 2023

For every new iPhone, we expect longer battery life.

Context length is the new battery for LLMs. For every new GPT, there will be more, until context becomes infinite.

In-context retrieval is not new and can be deeply integrated with attention, instead of embedding search. pic.twitter.com/VET1vQ74QA

— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) April 8, 2023

An enforced silence cannot solve India’s problems The government’s deep-rooted disdain for democracy and democratic accountability is disturbing ....... Faced with a determined Opposition, the Narendra Modi government resorted to unprecedented measures — expunging speeches, preventing discussion, attacking Members of Parliament and, finally, disqualifying a Congress Member of Parliament at lightning speed. As a result, the Budget of 45 lakh crore of rupees of people’s money was passed without any debate. In fact, the Prime Minister was busy inaugurating projects in his constituency with widespread media coverage when the Finance Bill was rammed through the Lok Sabha.

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11: ChatGPT, GPT-4

How ChatGPT Is Revolutionizing Corporate Communication https://t.co/ZkSEhN83z7 #ChatGPT #GPT4 ChatGPT Literacy Course https://t.co/n3LflBC6LP Sign up! https://t.co/k2987eAuap #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BigData #abundance @elonmusk

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

@sayedflah Thanks for the likes. My course has an affiliate program at 10%.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Introduce me to the 2,3,4s. https://t.co/k2987ezWkR :)

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

We already have it. https://t.co/yJooByLxHD

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

I think you should recommend my course to all of your startup teams. A surprising number are still not on board, and many still think of it as a toy to play with. Whereas it can transform ALL business operations, best done as teams. https://t.co/4gvxsikqOJ

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Video 1: https://t.co/4gvxsikqOJ
Video 2: https://t.co/yJooByKZS5
Video 3: https://t.co/k2987ezWkR
ChatGPT Literacy Course: https://t.co/n3LflBByWh

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Video 1: https://t.co/4gvxsikqOJ
ChatGPT Literacy Course: https://t.co/n3LflBByWh
Video 2: https://t.co/yJooByKZS5
Video 3: https://t.co/k2987ezWkR

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Mailchimp. The bootstrapped legend.

Acquired by financial software giant Intuit for $12,000,000,000.

That's tres comas. $12 billion.

How did Mailchimp pull this off?

Here's the story. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/D6FtGXFABP

— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) April 11, 2023

Mailchimp has evolved over the years, expanding its offerings to include e-commerce tools and website building capabilities.

And with $800 million in annual revenue at the time of its acquisition by Intuit, it's clear that they're doing something right. pic.twitter.com/HkwsYVpDNJ

— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) April 11, 2023

12B for an 800M revenue and growing company is not even 20X. Cheap.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Fun fact.

This is my favorite feature.

Every newsletter I sent I'm sweating.

The lesson? Mailchimp gets their customer. pic.twitter.com/Ij8SNnDm0s

— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) April 11, 2023

Really? Square stars? What date is it? This is April.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

As a bystander, I’m not sure how to square the competing narratives: SF is back and SF is a hell hole

— Shai Goldman (@shaig) April 11, 2023

age gap relationships are ok if the older person is as immature as the younger person

— James Mishra (@rishmishra) April 11, 2023

Russian opposition figure @vkaramurza, who faces up to a quarter of a century in jail on treason charges, has told a Moscow court that he stood by all of his political statements and said his prosecution resembled one of Joseph Stalin’s show trials. https://t.co/W2jt5NBEon

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky (@mbk_center) April 11, 2023

Just wow. https://t.co/sYxO7kgkFq

— Martin Pelletier (@MPelletierCIO) April 10, 2023

America prints money. It is a gross misuse of the global currency status. But then it is a hugely unequal society. The inequality is a structure of steel. The super duper rich vacuumed the pandemic stimulus money. They are super rich, but also super greedy.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

They want that money to grow. They put it in the banks. And buy the safest investments. Inflation is too much money chasing too few products and services. Except the super-rich vacuumed all that money. But then they did pump it all into the system.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

The global economy has an immense capacity to absorb US dollars. A country that printed several trillion dollars for the pandemic stimulus would have been wise to spend 50B out of it to vaccinate the world and get the global economy back on track. It didn't. #inflation

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

All that vacuumed and parked money needing to grow even more has seriously distorted the markets. The solution applied again has been printing more money. That is a recipe for a hangover.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Competition from a G17 currency might not be a bad idea and would give the US dollar some much-needed discipline. https://t.co/8tokZObX7m

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

First — I built a template you can use for your investor updates

It's based on the tips I heard from Ryan Hoover, Greg Isenberg, Sahil Bloom and other great investors

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— Michael Houck 💡 (@callmehouck) April 11, 2023

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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Balen Shah's anarchy

11: China

Thanks to @AhmedRezaT who invited me to a meeting of AI people in Silicon Valley tonight. First Muslim AI meeting in Silicon Valley that I know of.

Interesting networking of people working on a bunch of things from autonomous vehicles to new kinds of advertising.

My mom was… pic.twitter.com/1y7dHNZCzA

— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 11, 2023

Ahmed. Can I profile you for my tech blog? All questions can be answered over email.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Plate Discipline

Solopreneurs don't need viral content.

Marketing is about getting on base every day.

- Familiar face
- Familiar name
- Familiar content
- Familiar opinions

It's cliché as hell but play Moneyball.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

The poll has closed. Results are in.

Team @acquiredotcom is sending team Twitter some cakes. https://t.co/2A35Gy0ioF

— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) April 11, 2023

Build for customers, don't chase competitors.

— hiten.eth (@hnshah) April 11, 2023

Twitter is one of the best places to market yourself.

But it requires:

- A great profile
- Consistent output
- Social networking
- Analysis and iteration

Here's how I'd add 5,000 followers if I only had 90 days:https://t.co/xi6yiSwQbl

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

To give you a sense of my "Moneyball":

- 548 consecutive days
- 341,000+ followers
- 18,800 Tweets
- 200+ threads

Less than 1% of my content has gone "viral".

It's just reps.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

Wow. Love that formula, Ben.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

Super overrated.

I make more money on days when my content hits with my niche versus going ballistic with a bunch of people who have no interest in starting their own business.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

I love that. That's such a stealable line. Ha.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

Wow. Love this, Sachin.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

For sure.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

You're right, Marc.

Check it out: pic.twitter.com/vCShKJyt3u

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

A thought I have never once thought to myself:

"I'm really glad I waited for the perfect time to get started."

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

Let's talk about Craigslist. Bootstrapped.

With annual revenue of over $1 billion.

Without ever changing their design.

The site looks straight out of the '90s.

How did Craigslist become the internet behemoth that it is today?

Here's the story. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/HcqSGtz005

— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) April 11, 2023

We launched Netflix 25 years ago this week. In celebration, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite memories—from the initial idea through the years I spent at the company.

Welcome to the Netflix Chronicles.

We’ll start with the question I get asked more than any other: where did…

— Marc Randolph (@mbrandolph) April 11, 2023

[Citation not needed]

From training AI to search, Wikipedia is the source of so much information, thus having verifiable facts matters (though only 0.3% of readers click on citations)

This paper shows huge progress in adding good references to Wikipedia https://t.co/o2XwQZdvdy pic.twitter.com/0uXCooVY4u

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) April 11, 2023

It’s a fact of entrepreneurship that for every good idea, there are a thousand bad ones. And sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference. Personalized shampoo. Customized baseball bats. Customized dog food. These were all ideas I pitched to my co-founder Reed Hastings. I thought all these ideas were better than the one that would eventually become Netflix.

Order here: https://t.co/d6hER2dZNc
More here: https://t.co/CiP2TkPmNA pic.twitter.com/WS2pkjMNh0

— Ducon.space (@duconspace) December 2, 2022

People give up reporting crime when no action is taken or the criminal is immediately released. They actually call it “catch and release”.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023

MELODY OF THE NIGHT - oil painting by L.Afremov - $168 free fast shipping worldwide https://t.co/kTmyBbIeCG pic.twitter.com/prs7MH2UFa

— Leonid Afremov (@afremovartcom) January 12, 2023

Seems like the trains are running at reasonable speed here. Suzhou to Zhengzhou still takes about 5 hours, but must say it's very comfortable. And the mobile network works perfectly too :) pic.twitter.com/Z2TwAjG45u

— Peter Vesterbacka (@pvesterbacka) April 11, 2023

The court proceedings will hopefully illuminate this matter

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023

Who cares. Have you been through a Federal criminal case? It takes years and the people you love give up on you and you break from stress and isolation and financial ruin until there's no reason to live anymore.

I'm not suicidal but if I knew what the last 3 years would be like…

— Ari Teman (@AriTeman) April 11, 2023

if you enjoy headaches, 10/10 recommend event planning! 🙃

— Meagan Loyst 🧚‍♀️ (@meaganloyst) April 11, 2023

X

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023

After 9 months writing online:

• I had under 100 followers
• I wrote blogs no one read
• I was ready to give up entirely

But in the 2 years since then, I've added 380k followers & grew a newsletter to 70k readers.

So what changed?

These 6 "perspective hacks" ↓

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

3. Realize: no one on Earth is thinking about you as much as you think

I still remember the first time I hit publish.

I expected a wave of criticism from every single person I ever met to pour into my inbox.

But much to my surprise, that didn't happen.

Here's what did:

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

I hit publish on that first blog post—and heard nothing but the internet's crickets of indifference.

Turns out, these people I thought would read every word (mostly my high school friends) were way too busy thinking about themselves.

And now I think about this graphic daily: pic.twitter.com/GHms3ZtHFK

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

People don't want to learn from "experts."

Why?

Because most "experts" are out of touch with beginners.

Instead, it's much easier to learn from someone a few steps ahead of you.

It's why 3rd graders always love to learn from 4th graders (not 8th graders).

Now for the last 2:

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

5. Optimize for progress, not perfection

I thought before I started writing, I needed to have:

• The perfectly designed blog
• The perfectly optimized note-taking system
• The perfectly planned content calendar

Turns out, I didn't.

Here's why:

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

Chasing the "perfect" system is nothing but procrastination disguised as productivity.

Truth is, you have no clue what the ideal system looks like—so you're going to waste hours building & rebuilding it.

And if this sounds like you, come back and read this thread later: https://t.co/ySNv1BKbV8

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

To recap, try these 6 "perspective hacks":

1. Embrace the empty gym
2. Realize: no one is looking at you
3. You do not need to be an expert
4. Think in percentages, not absolutes
5. Optimize for progress, not perfection
6. Don't compare Step 1 to someone else's Step 9

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

Different casting techniques, baiting techniques, reeling techniques.

You name it, he's bought the book on it.

And of course, he's watching the fishing channel every night for hours, learning from the best of the best.

A few months later, he finally feels ready to fish.

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) July 28, 2021

Turns out, the second fisherman had already sucked the lake dry.

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) July 28, 2021

But on the eighth day? His first nibble.

And every day after, he honed his technique.

He found a baiting technique that worked a bit better.

Or a new spot with a few more fish.

And after three weeks of iteration, he found the winning combination.

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) July 28, 2021

He did all of this while the first fisherman sat around gathering gear.

Sure, the first fisherman felt productive. He was "learning" after all, right?

But there was one difference: feedback.

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) July 28, 2021

The moral of this story?

Get to action as quickly as possible.

When you find yourself gathering gear, grab a shitty rod and start fishing.

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) July 28, 2021

Michael. https://t.co/yJooByLxHD I'd love to train your entire corporate team. This is a 80% productivity boost. https://t.co/n3LflBC6LP #ChatGPT #GPT4 https://t.co/4gvxsikYEh

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023