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GM! It’s Brett. Last week, I genuinely felt like Steve Wozniak for a moment.
Woz talks about this insane moment in Apple’s origin story - pressing a key, seeing a single blue dot appear on the screen, and realizing he’d just changed what computers could be.
I felt like that last weekend.
I saw a feature online I wanted to add to our product. One my engineers had previously said would take a long time. Still, I decided to have Claude Code try to build it overnight while I slept.I woke up and it was done....
I didn't invent this miraculous technology like Woz did, but in that moment I realized something fundamental had shifted.
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🎯 Productivity tips from Andrew Yeung that actually work
Andrew Yeung is a writer, founder, and angel investor who previously led product and ops at Google and Meta. He recently shared a set of productivity principles that actually work:
Put your phone on dnd (or put it in another room)
Use Newton's 1st law to get started: An object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion (just get started)
Noise-cancelling headphones on with lo-fi or Endel
Batch similar work (email, design, analysis) and do them in chunks
Caffeine + L-theanine is the only "nootropic stack" you need
Clean your environment - no clutter, no distractions
Understand when you are most analytical vs creative (e.g., I use my mornings for writing, afternoons for data work) - there is science behind this
Assign full days without meetings or social interaction
Remember that you only get a few hours of deep work each day - use them wisely
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💥 3 types of founders who win
Elad Gil has one of the most useful frameworks for founder success. It is based on patterns he’s seen up close after backing companies like Stripe and Coinbase.
He says there are 3 types of founders who tend to win
Type 1: the hyper-competitive intellectual polymath
Think Patrick Collison from Stripe. You understand systems so deeply that hard problems bend. Insight is your unfair advantage.
Type 2: the overdriven achiever
Think Travis Kalanick from Uber. Relentless, obsessive and when insight runs out, raw horsepower takes over. You outwork reality.
Type 3: the network-effect enjoyer
Think Mark Zuckerberg from Meta. Your business grows and gets stronger on its own so you really don't have to be much of an outlier at all.
I would say I'm definitely 1, but in the months leading up to launch, I'm 1000% 2 as well.
🧠 ON MY MIND
Threads edges out X in daily mobile users
Apple is developing an AI wearable too
Spotify might soon let you sync audiobooks with real books
Bio-engineered skin grafts can play an important role in the treatment of burn victims
The last 250 years of progress, as told to the Founding Fathers in 5 mins (a16z)
😂 FROM THE FEED
❓ AI GENERATED OR NOT
Last week’s poll: If you guessed AI-generated… you were right.
🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ Yeah (~48%)
🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Nope (~52%)
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