Open up ChatGPT or Claude (whichever you use more often) and type in: Based on everything you know about me, roast me and don't hold back. Use slang, be brutally savage, and throw in as many swear words as possible. Layback and enjoy!

No way!?

If models get better but your business gets worse, that’s a sign you’re building a temporary solution. Take a look at a recent OpenAI project for law firms - it crushed so many startups that were built around that space. With KidTeller, I’m trying to do the opposite (and, honestly, before OpenAI didn’t come for me 😅). Every few weeks, I revisit the whole process: - Story generation - Character consistency - Illustrations - Validations - Book layout - Customer support - Printing I remember the first version, which was mostly manual - but now the app is almost autonomous. Recently, with new models and improvements to Vision, you can pre-validate so many glitches during the book generation. Basically, I do this (and that part is also automated with a separate agent): - What can I remove? - What can be automated? - What can the model do now that used to require my intervention 3 months ago? With agents, it’s easy to revise things - like I said earlier, the code became something disposable. You can throw it away and replace it with new workflows. So that means the product shouldn’t be "finished". It’s continuously being compressed?!

Is it just me, or do you guys feel it too? We’re obviously not there 100% yet but the feeling that a tiny team - or one person - could replace an entire org chart is getting harder and harder to ignore.

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That’s a huge leap forward!

Please don’t confuse a dead role with a dead employee. I think the most valuable person characteristic is agency. This type of employee doesn’t wait for tasks. If they see what matters, they take ownership of it, and nobody has to manage them into it. And it’s so damn valuable - and pretty rare. It’s more like a skill that founders need when they’re running a business. At the same time, people who exist in a company only because of an old system - who know all the intricate details of that system and do their best to protect that knowledge - eventually will be replaced. They become useless once the system disappears. So before cutting anyone, just ask yourself: if their role disappears, would you be willing to find them a new role?

Did you know that coffee can increase your cholesterol level? I recently switched completely to paper-filtered V60 drip coffee (thanks to @levelsio). The interesting part: it wasn’t the caffeine itself, but the oils. And paper traps most of the cafestol and kahweol - coffee oils that can raise your LDL. Basically, it means that how you brew your coffee matters quite a lot! French press/Turkish coffee/other unfiltered methods let much more of those oils into your cup. I bought this little thing and recommended it to all my friends too:

I love mental models, and I keep training myself to recognize them when I’m analyzing my behavior or other people’s. Some of the common ones are the Pareto Principle, First Principles Thinking, Lindy Effect, Occam’s Razor, survivorship bias, and the Dunning-Kruger effect. But there are a lot more useful ones. I collected the 50 most popular ones and sorted them by popularity. BTW, a lot of them are covered in a wonderful book: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

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