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Choosing priorities

It becomes apparent once you have kids that you don’t have time for everything you want to do - something I took for granted in my 20s. It took me almost …

Signed up Kwindla's Voice AI course

A lot of the material seems to be an overlap with the excellent Voice AI and Voice Agents that they released a while back. Fwiw, the guide itself is great …

Relatable AI Companions

I am listening to an Every podcast with the founders of Tolans - an AI alien that users interact with to discuss…life. This is a hard AI engineering …

venture-hypothesis-test

Venture Hypothesis Test for your Business Idea Develop a clear venture hypothesis to help distil your idea into a business. lossfunk slides RightJoin AI Venture …

The Great Marketing Hurdle

That’s some tweets from Danny Postma and just throwing my thoughts into this note. People hate marketing sales so much that just talking about your …

Idea - Synthetic Surveys

So this idea’s been bouncing around in my head for a while - just got sparked again watching Every’s latest video about this product Valley that …

AI Engineering Evals 101

Look at your data. Create a data annotation interface to add free-form notes. this forces you to get close to the data Annotate until you feel you’re not …

Idea- AI to prompt humans

Some verison of this has been rattling around in my head for a while. AI is a great sparring partner, better than a one-sided internal monologue and …

Businesses in the AI era

Some thoughts sparked listening to the SIP podcast with Andrew Wilkinson. building an arbirtage mindset one idea shared was to use v0 or lovable to build …

Spatial llm are here

this one caught my attention. the applications in civil engineering and architecture (my background) are immense. tagging this note from the the AINews …

Strategy 101

Writing is peak into one’s mind. This is a level of clarity of thought I aspire to. By Paras Chopra, …

paras chopra's book reread list

I usually keep a note of reasources recommended by someone if it seemed interesting, but later forget who recommended it & why. This context is part of the …

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Building realistic voice interactions with voice AI

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MCP Deepdive

MCP Deepdive

MCP is an open protocol that revolutionizes how AI applications and agents interact with tools and data sources. …
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Note Taking System Guide

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Rebuilding Rightjoin

Rightjoin began as an automated interviewing tool designed to help recruiters pre-qualify candidates without spending …
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Making a Good LLM - Tom Lu from CHAI

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Building an AI-Powered YouTube Note-Taking System

In the age of AI and abundant video content, being able to efficiently process and retain information from YouTube …
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Hosting Multiple Apps on One Droplet

When running multiple applications on a single server, proper configuration is essential to avoid conflicts and ensure …
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Deploying a Django app with Kamal

Deployment Guide Setting Up Start from a boilerplate - don’t reinvent the wheel. Clone repo from github. Use …
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Enterprise Sales

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Marketing for solopreneurs

Problem selection Marketing starts with product and pain point. Checklist before starting to build a product: -1 major …
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On Focus

There are X hours in a day. My goal is to achieve Y. I can stay busy working some high % of X and get Y done. Y can also …
startups

A good cold email

Cold emailing is a slightly different skill than writing given the target audience and the time consttraing to capture …
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On Intensity

Habits to live by Ship every 2 days. Anything that ships should provide immediate value to user. If not immediate, break …
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Business Books

Business Buy Back Your Time, by Dan Martell Business Million Dollar Weekend, by Noah Kagan Business Rework, by Jason …
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Understanding the Needs Stack

Understanding the Needs Stack

Charlie is a business owner, and he frequently needs to hire employees. But posting on job boards, screening …
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It took me 5 mins to launch this site!

It took me 5 mins to launch this site!

I share how I launched this Hugo site in 5 mins, invariably for my future self when I get around to doing it again after …
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