p.s. i talk to all of them in VS code. Not sure how you'd do this if you used the claude or codex app. Sounds intimidating but this way everyone can work off the same files. Here's a screenshot of 3 sessions (hermes + claude + codex) all running off the same context

ugh what a pain does gpt have skills? i don't rly wanna start all over with all my context haha

3 years ago, I remember sleeping on an air mattress and sharing a room with my co-founder with literally $200 in my bank account I would literally get a sale like once per week Every time I heard the Shopify cha-ching... I'd literally sprint up the stairs to see who placed the order. At the time, every sale felt unreal. I knew every customer's name. One day, I walked to USPS to ship one of our very first orders. Standing at the counter, I remember thinking how expensive it was to ship. Walking back I had this sinking feeling. "What am I doing?" I didn't know the first thing about running a brand. Hell, I never even had a real job. But for some reason I knew it would all work out. Maybe not now, but at least in 5 years. Fast forward to now. It's impossible to keep up with every single customer. I own a mortgage worth of sunflower butter just sitting in a warehouse. And a whole team relies on me for their paycheck. Crazy. I think back to that moment. The funny thing is... The problems never go away. They just get bigger. Instead of stressing over one expensive shipment, you're stressing over six-figure purchase orders. The stakes get higher. Every founder you admire was once the person sleeping on an air mattress, celebrating a single Shopify notification. The only difference is they kept going.

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i know several people in their mid 30s that got one-shotted by nomading and are starting to be really depressed about it here's the problems they are facing: > a lot of them would actually love to start a family > EVERYONE Is single though, often for years or even decades of situationships > optionality both human wise (relationships etc) and location wise has made it impossible to commit to anything > there's a constant feeling of the grass might be greener (leading to no grass at all!) > all of them moved around multiple times a year for 10-20 years > all of the nomad places (bali, KPG etc) are dominated by people who are there only for a couple of week/months a year > a lot of my friends have a lot of people they "know" but almost 0 true friends (because friendships actually need a lot of time spent together) > and because all of their friends are also nomads, everyone is always on the go so it's incredibly hard to build depth in any relationship > most of these "friendships" feel very intense in the moment but amount to 0 over a couple of years because you simply never see most people > if you want to start a family, when you're hitting mid 30s it suddenly gets real that you might miss that traind entirely (some of them are starting to be really depressed about this) > this is more true for women, but let's face it most 30-35 yo woman also don't want someone in their 50s or 60s so the window is also closing rapidly for the men > most of the nomad lifestyle is also antioptimized to be family friendly > you could say that being a nomad longterm really is anti-optimizing to make starting a family more likely > most nomad places are also predominantly inhabited by people in their 20 or early 30, once you outgrow these cohorts a mismatch starts to happen (people either become manchilds or start feeling totally disconnected) > btw, it's TOTALLY fine not wanting to start a family or have roots at one place. all i'm saying is many of these peopel thought so too in their mid 20s but then missed to adjust their lifestyle to what they really wanted: deep friendships, roots and eventually a family > let's be realistic, a lot of relationships go to waste so even if you're "only" 30, that's basically just 1-2 relationships go wrong before your become infertile (as we women). it happens fast as fuck! also you don't want to start a family with someone you just met, so you also need to include at least 1-2 years of living together before you make such a decision > friendships & relationships are assets that compound over time and it's very very hard for most nomad to actually get to that point. i'm not saying it's impossible but it's just what i'm seeing with people I know > I think a great solution is to take some of your nomad friends and actually start a co-living project like @levelsio does. > it's totally anecdotal, but I just wanted to remind everyone to rethink if you're lifestyle is actually aligned with your long term goals. and no, you don't have all the time in the world. things take time. use it wisely. btw. I also traveled a lot (and still do by most people's standards)! i totally get why people love this lifestyle. but it's so important to understand the downside too

The Cancer Episode > My diagnosis and prognosis > What this means for How to Take Over the World > A few thoughts on death > See below for links to GoFundMe, etc.

I'm 22 years old and Claude Code is deteriorating my brain. Every single day for the last 6 months I've had 6 to 8 Claude Code terminals open, waiting for a response just so I can hit 'enter' 75% of the time. And it's doing something to me. In convos with a couple of friends, it's been a point that's been brought up pretty frequently. None of us feel as sharp as we used to. I don't know if it's just us, or others in their 20s are feeling the same thing, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot. P.S. I know this is a problem with my reliability/usage of it, not Claude Code itself, but the effects are real nonetheless

Sam Altman predicted the first one-person billion-dollar company. Matthew Gallagher built a $401M company in year one with $20,000, AI tools, and zero employees. This year he's on track for $1.8B. With 2 people. The playbook has changed: Old path: - Come up with an idea - Fundraise from friends or VCs - Hire a team - Build the product - Hope it works New path: - Start with an audience (X, Instagram, TikTok) - Vibe code something for that audience - Build a community around it - Automate fulfillment with AI agents - Repeat That's the new barrier to entry is a laptop and an idea.

Hiring Rule: Every hire should generate 5X their salary in revenue Example, if you hire a salesperson for $200K/year, they should bring in $1m/year in sales If they don’t, you're hiring for the wrong roles