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"I use Claude every day now to do all sorts of things that are just not related to coding at all and just to do it automatically."
"I just find Codex and Claude are so good at actually giving you ideas for what to build. I'm just like, what should I do to make this better? And it's like, here's 10 ideas."
"I manage context windows even more efficiently by sectioning off which tasks go to which agent"
"The tools like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, they take that step for you. They can generate the code and then they can run the code themselves and see if it works"
"One was the first thing I wrote on the this is like the first thing I wrote on the internet did very well is this post on what I learned at Airbnb like Medium featured. It went all over the place."
"I've become a huge I have a Tesla and the self I just use self-driving all the time now."
"So I decided I'm going to move to Substack. I'm gonna write every week I tweeted I'm going to experiment with a newsletter, weekly newsletter, see how it goes."
"that was the during AdWords when Google Adwords was a way to monetize your site and so all the ads on the site because most of the articles were about religion were all these religious dating sites."
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Clear filters"Everything important you need to learn about humans was written by Shakespeare. Just read Shakespeare. Like that's better than all the customer research."
"The first is a book called Joy of Living by a Buddhist monk. I've recommended to people and they've really really enjoyed it"
"this pillow is like it kind of it's full of beads and so you can like naturally shift the height of the pillow while you're sleeping. I think that has changed my life in like the last week"
"movie is probably Marty Supreme. I thought it was great. I thought it was just insane"
"thinking in bets by Annie Duke. Those types of things I think are just so tactically helpful in product"
"another one is awareness by Anthony De Mello. Those two I consistently recommend to people"
"he's been sharing everything he's learning in real time through his incredible blog, simonwillson.net."
"Open Claw is open source, which means you can actually understand what's happening behind the scenes. This is a platonic ideal example of what are good fundamentals of an agent experience."
"I think the book The Overstory is an example of that. It's the story of a family over many generations and around a tree."
"Literally, every startup that I'm an investor in that starts to expand up market ends up working with WorkOS. And that's because they are the best."
"What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Vercel, Replit, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common? They are all powered by WorkOS."
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