Neek retweeted
Nick Saban's Five Enemies of Greatness is always worth a read. He didn't write these, but they're a solid short list of his coaching philosophy throughout the years...
Ingest them for your team, and ingest them for yourself.
The 5 Enemies..keep them away from you.
Neek retweeted
Olha o tamanho do prompt para 30 segundos de vídeo
So delicious 😋
Seedance 2.5
Prompt:
Create a 30-second fast-paced cinematic Japanese anime cooking video showing the preparation of authentic katsudon, entirely from the text description below.
IMPORTANT: Do not display, recreate, trace, reference, or imitate any storyboard, sketch, reference image, panel, annotation, or source material. Generate only original anime-style animation.
STYLE
High-quality Japanese anime film style, cinematic summer lighting, ultra-detailed food textures, realistic cooking physics, visible steam and moisture, shallow depth of field, macro close-ups, smooth camera movement, warm Japanese kitchen atmosphere. Fast rhythmic editing with natural match cuts based on movement, shape, texture, and composition.
TIMELINE
0–2.5s — Prepare Pork
Close-up of hands pounding a thick pork loin with a wooden mallet on a cutting board. The meat gradually flattens and its fibers loosen. Sprinkle salt and pepper evenly. Crisp rhythmic impacts.
2.5–5s — Bread the Pork
Quick match cuts: press the pork into flour, dip into beaten egg, then firmly coat with coarse panko breadcrumbs. Show realistic egg dripping and breadcrumbs adhering to the surface.
5–7.5s — Fry
Lower the breaded pork into hot golden oil. Intense bubbling surrounds the cutlet as the crust turns golden brown and crispy. Warm cinematic lighting and detailed oil movement.
7.5–9.5s — Slice
Place the fried tonkatsu on a wooden board. A sharp knife cuts it into even strips. The crispy crust cracks naturally, revealing juicy white pork with gentle steam escaping.
9.5–12s — Simmer Dashi & Onion
Thinly sliced onions gently simmer in amber dashi inside a shallow pan. Small bubbles rise while the onions become translucent. Chopsticks gently move them through the broth.
12–14s — Add Tonkatsu
Place the sliced tonkatsu carefully over the simmering onions using chopsticks. The broth begins soaking into the crispy edges while steam rises.
14–16.5s — Pour Egg
Slowly pour beaten golden egg over the tonkatsu and onions. The egg spreads naturally through the gaps and begins setting around the hot edges.
16.5–19s — Set the Egg
Close-up of the egg gently coagulating over low heat. Edges become soft and golden while the center remains glossy, slightly runny, and trembling. No stirring.
19–21s — Prepare Rice
A white ceramic donburi bowl receives a generous mound of steaming Japanese short-grain rice. The rice looks fluffy and slightly glossy.
21–24s — Assemble
Carefully slide the egg-and-tonkatsu mixture from the pan onto the rice. The egg settles naturally in a soft wave while dashi lightly absorbs into the rice.
24–26s — Final Close-Up
The finished katsudon rests on the counter. Glossy egg slowly settles over the tonkatsu and rice, gently trembling. Slow cinematic push-in.
26–30s — Hero Reveal
Present the finished katsudon in a traditional blue-and-white ceramic bowl on a wooden surface. Golden egg covers crispy tonkatsu over glossy rice, topped with fresh mitsuba. Steam rises as the camera slowly arcs around the bowl for a beautiful anime-food-film ending.
AUDIO
Bright 1980s-inspired Japanese city-pop instrumental, 110–120 BPM, with subtle koto and light chime percussion. Synchronize realistic ASMR cooking sounds: mallet impacts, knife slicing, frying sizzle, bubbling dashi, chopsticks, egg pouring, steam, and a soft ceramic clink.
End with one delicate wind-chime tone during the final reveal.
NEGATIVE
No storyboard, reference image, sketch, panels, borders, numbers, arrows, annotations, subtitles, captions, UI, logos, or text overlays. No unrelated ingredients or dishes. Katsudon only. Keep the food, hands, utensils, lighting, and environment visually consistent throughout.
Neek retweeted
Blows my mind what Ammaar is doing. This isn't just "tell Astra to make no mistakes" kind of work...
Jalen Brunson says he saw himself as JJ Barea off the bench in Dallas and never asked for more, until New York handed him a franchise.
"My mindset was, I'm filling JJ Barea's role. He came off the bench for Dallas. He did all these great things for Dallas. That's where I see myself. I'm gonna work to be better, but that's where I see myself. That's where I feel like I can help this team."
"The more you show in your role, the longer your leash gets, the more you're able to do. People just want to say, 'Hey, I can do this, I can do that.' Well, do what's asked of you first. Perfect it. Master it."
"And all of a sudden you'll be surprised of what they'll allow you to do. And you'll be surprised by yourself, like, 'oh damn, I can do this.'"
"So it's all about starring in a role."
Neek retweeted
You can get 95% of the results you want by calmly putting one foot in front of the other. One former Navy SEAL friend texted me a principle used in their training: “Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.”
Today is a very historical moment for AI video generation
You can now generate AI video faster than you can watch it
Before it'd take let's say 2-5 minutes to generate 15 seconds of video
@fal made a post-trained Minimax H3 variant called Max which is 50x faster than the original but still maintains quality
It generates 15 seconds of video in 9 seconds!
That means you can now do new things like build a perpetual livestream with it that never ends!
Neek retweeted
Slow down and remember this:
Most things make no difference.
Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant.
Being selective—doing less—is the path of the productive.
Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
Neek retweeted
I've had a theory about super smart people who aren't always successful, that it boils down to focusing too much on verifiable rewards with short feedback loops.
It feels like there's a lesson that might carry over to LLMs here.
Neek retweeted
I really love these videos of people making their own instruments with LLMs. They are blowing up my instagram in the last 2 weeks.
Feels like one of the most purely creative uses of AI, which I think are still relatively rare
Neek retweeted
Reminder to go touch grass
A scientist in Japan demonstrated that the air inside a forest strengthens your immune system for a full month
The study is incredibly fascinating:
Qing Li, an immunologist at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, took 12 men on a 3-day forest trip. These were slow walks with no breathing exercises and no set route.
Then he tested their blood and found a surge in natural killer cells -- the immune cells your body uses to fight cancer and virus-infected cells.
Remarkably, the effect didn't fade when they went home, it was still measurable 30 days later.
A control group that walked the same distance through a city showed no change at all.
Pine, cedar, and cypress trees release compounds called phytoncides to defend themselves from insects and bacteria. You breathe them in, and Li believes they switch your immune cells into high gear.
He estimates one forest walk a month may be enough to keep those cells elevated all year.
The best medicine might not even need a prescription -- just a walk among the trees.




































