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14 HARVARD TECHNIQUES to be better than 99% of the world
1. The 5 - second rule
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that's neuron.
it doesn't know fear.
it doesn't know lack.
it just repeats what you tell it.
you tell it "i'm not enough" 500 times. the neuron fires. then fires again. then builds a superhighway for that belief.
you tell it "nothing ever works for me" every morning. the neuron doesn't argue. it just memorizes.
you tell it "i can't change" long enough, the neuron believes you. and then your reality matches.
that's neuroplasticity.
from a quantum perspective, your focused attention is what turns possibility into experience. the neuron is the bridge, but the bridge only appears when you choose a direction.
the good news? the same neuron doesn't know truth from a lie. it just repeats. so you can overwrite the lie with a new signal. when you hold that new signal with quiet certainty, reality reorganizes around it, without you forcing it.
what most people get wrong: they try to "think positive" once. then wonder why nothing changes.
one weak signal doesn't build a highway. repetition does. and without the inner "already done", the repetition stays hollow."
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Not deceiving ourselves is tricky business because self-deception rarely feels like a lie.
It feels like a reasonable explanation.
We edit our memories, excuse our motives, and ignore whatever threatens the person we need to believe we are.
Once our identity depends on the story, contrary evidence begins to feel like a personal attack.
Honesty requires the willingness to meet the parts of ourselves we would rather leave unseen.
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4:17 MILE WHILE PUSHING A STROLLER‼️ HISTORY MADE IN CLEVELAND ⚡️
The world record for the fastest mile with a stroller was set by Stephen Biebelhausen and his baby at last night’s Guardian Mile 👶🏃
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Scottish athlete Josh Kerr breaks the 1-mile world record with a time of 3:42.66, the previous world record having stood for 27 years.
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A guy bought a $1,500 Samsung TV 3 years ago.
He watched Netflix. He watched YouTube. He thought the picture looked fine. He assumed that's just what a TV looks like.
His friend, a home theater installer who calibrates TVs for a living, walked into his apartment and looked at the screen for 5 seconds.
"You're watching everything in demo mode. The motion smoothing is on. The eco dimmer is cutting your brightness by 40%. Your TV is taking a screenshot of your screen every 30 seconds and selling your viewing data to advertisers. And you're watching a $1,500 panel in the same picture mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent lights to make TVs pop on a showroom wall."
He changed 9 settings in 12 minutes.
The picture looked like a different television. The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. The TV stopped spying on him.
Here's every setting he changed 🧵
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Browsing 40 questions to ask yourself every year — Steph Ango stephango.com/40-questions
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On Twitter we used to do "follow Fridays" where people would recommend who to follow here on X, formerly Twitter.
I asked my AI: "Who are the best consumer product thinkers on X?"
My AI made me a list. (I just interviewed Naveen, video up tomorrow, he has developed one of the best products I've seen in years. My AI says it is exceptional and I agree).
My AI, an agent built by me and @blevlabs that reads all of X's tech community, tells me "you should interview xxxxxx."
Is AI your boss? It quickly is becoming mine.
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Here are the 20 people who are best at building consumer apps with AI right now. They are building products that are delightful, consumer-first, AI as the enabler not the product.
THE TIER 1 — Proven consumer AI founders with track records
1. Eugenia Kuyda (@ekuyda) — Wabi + Replika (35M users). Two successful consumer AI products. The most proven consumer AI founder alive. She was right about AI companions before anyone else, and she's right again with Wabi ("YouTube of apps"). The person Robert mentioned first.
2. Naveen Gavini (@ngavini) — Extra email / BuildForever. Former SVP/CPO at Pinterest for 12 years. Co-founded with Steven Ramkumar and Albert Pereta. The Extra philosophy — "solving user problems, not pitching AI" — is exactly the right consumer AI mindset. Just launched April 21.
3. Noam Shazeer (@NoamShazeer)— Character.ai co-founder. 20M+ daily active users. One of the most retentive consumer AI products ever built. Shazeer left Google to build this before it was obvious.
4. Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) — Perplexity CEO. Consumer AI search with 100M+ users. Turned a research tool into a consumer product people use daily.
5. David Holz (@davidad) — Midjourney. Bootstrapped, no VC, tiny team, millions of paying subscribers. Legendary consumer AI product built on Discord. Philosophical approach to AI creativity.
TIER 2 — Building the next generation of consumer AI
6. Mikey Shulman (@MikeyShulman) — Suno. #15 on the a16z Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps list. Consumer AI music generation. One of the most retentive creative AI products.
7. Demi Guo (@demi_guo_) — Pika Labs. Consumer AI video generation. One of the fastest-growing creative AI apps.
8. Cristóbal Valenzuela (@c_valenzuela) — Runway ML. Consumer AI video. Has been building this longer than anyone.
9. Mati Staniszewski (@matiii) — ElevenLabs. Consumer AI voice. On every a16z edition since 2023. Voice cloning and dubbing that regular people actually use.
10. Anton Osika (@antonosika) — Lovable. Consumer vibe coding. On the a16z Top 100 list. Making software creation accessible to non-technical consumers.
11. Amjad Masad (@amasad) — Replit. Consumer coding with AI. Making programming accessible to everyone. Also an angel investor in Wabi.
TIER 3 — Consumer product veterans applying AI to existing categories
12. Rahul Vohra (@rahulvohra) — Superhuman. The gold standard for AI-powered email. Exceptional product taste. Angel investor in Extra.
13. Shreya Murthy (@shreyamurthy) — Partiful. Consumer AI event planning. One of the most delightful consumer AI apps. Angel investor in Extra.
14. Josh Miller (@joshm) — The Browser Company / Dia. Consumer AI browser. (Browser Company was acquired by Atlassian.) Dia is the consumer AI browser play.
15. Melanie Perkins (@MelanieCanva) — Canva. 200M+ users. The Magic Suite AI tools have become the most-used AI creative tools for non-technical consumers globally.
16. Ivan Zhao (@ivanhzhao) — Notion. 50%+ AI attach rate on paid plans. AI features now account for roughly half of Notion's ARR. The most successful AI integration into an existing consumer product.
17. Luis von Ahn (@LuisvonAhn) — Duolingo CEO. Duolingo has been more aggressive with AI personalization than almost any consumer app. 500M+ users.
TIER 4 — Product designers and builders to watch
18. Pietro Schirano (@skirano) — AI product designer/builder. Known for building beautiful consumer AI demos that go viral. Works at Brex but builds consumer AI on the side. One of the best product taste people in AI.
19. Suhail Doshi (@suhail) — Playground AI. Consumer AI image generation. Also built Mixpanel — understands consumer analytics and retention deeply.
20. Fidji Simo (@fidjissimo) — OpenAI Applications CEO. Former Facebook VP and Instacart CEO. Now leading consumer AI products at OpenAI. The person most responsible for how ChatGPT feels as a consumer product. Angel investor in Extra.
The pattern across all 20:
They all build products where AI is invisible infrastructure, not the feature. Naveen Gavini literally said "I think people don't really need [AI personal assistants]. People just want some of these basic problems solved." Eugenia Kuyda built Wabi so that "people who have nothing to do with coding or the tech world" can create apps. The best consumer AI builders hide the AI and sell the outcome.
The ones to watch most closely right now: Eugenia Kuyda (Wabi is early but the social mechanics are right), Naveen Gavini (Extra just launched and the product is exceptional), and Mikey Shulman (Suno has cracked retention in a category everyone said was impossible).
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Meet Tamerra Buckhanan. She's 82 years old and finished the 130th Boston Marathon to complete her Six Star Marathon.
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A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was standing room only.
I watched it at 2am and it completely rewired how I think about communication.
His name was Patrick Winston. The lecture is called "How to Speak."
His opening line hit like a truck: your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas in that order.
Not your GPA. Not your pedigree. Not your IQ. How you speak is what separates people who get heard from people who get ignored.
Here's the framework he drilled into MIT students for four decades.
He said never start with a joke. Start by telling people exactly what they're going to learn. Prime the pump before you pour anything in. He called it the "empowerment promise" give people a reason to stay in their seats within the first 60 seconds.
Then he broke down the 5S rule for making ideas stick: Symbol, Slogan, Surprise, Salient, and Story. Every idea worth remembering hits at least three of these.
The part that floored me was his "near miss" technique. Don't just show what's right show what almost looks right but isn't. That contrast is when the brain actually locks something in permanently.
His final rule before any big talk: end with a contribution, not a summary. Don't recap what you said. Tell people what you gave them that they didn't have before they walked in.
I've used this framework in pitches, interviews, and presentations ever since watching it, and the results are not subtle.
Patrick Winston passed away in 2019, but this lecture is still free on MIT OpenCourseWare. One hour, watched by millions, and it costs absolutely nothing.
The most important class MIT ever put on the internet isn't about code or math. It's about how to make people actually listen to you.
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Polish 26 year old guitar master Marcin Patrzałek respond to those who have made public comments claiming that his music is fake.
He made this video in a tutorial form showing how he manages to play so extraordinarily well in response. And yes, it's all played on one guitar.
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I've never heard anyone explain how to manifest anything in your life like this before… 🤯
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Today, we’re launching 4D generation, powered by our Cube Foundation Model. Creators can build experiences that let players create interactive 3D objects like cars, planes, and more. This is just the beginning, see what's next with AI-powered creation. 1/4 about.roblox.com/newsroom/20…
