Bethany Crystal
@bethanymarz
Teaching people how to build and making learning apps with Build First at buildfirst.ai.
the number one way i am using my AI note-takers these days is to find clever ways to get me out of saying yes to things I don't want to do LOL
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the day in the life of a female founder during day one of spring break:
8am - childcare option flakes out
9am - panic mode + inbox triage
10am - replacement childcare identified
12pm - lunch at home with kids
1pm - handoff to babysitter
1:30 - 3pm - work calls
3-4 pm - website review meeting (IRL) with block committee...
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A notable side effect of building community on my block has been incremental amounts of trust-building and micro-offloading.
For instance we always used to scramble when out of town for the weekend about who would watch our cat.
Now I have 2 neighbors at the ready who invite our cat, Bagel, into their homes for as lo...
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One really fun thing about getting so close with each early corporate training customer is that they really get to help drive the experience of what they expect from an "AI native workshop experience"
Sometimes I let them just lean into their assumptions about how I do things and then *actually* just do that thing
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"you better be careful, I hear she shares her repos with ANYONE... wouldn't want you to get a virus"
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Let’s be real: With my blog posts averaging 750-1000 words each for the past decade, I’ve basically been writing for an inhuman audience all along
Time to cash in on it lol
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you guys my block association just won ANOTHER (small!) grant!
not sure who's playing along at home but so far this means my scoreboard is looking like...
community nonprofit wins: 2
self-made consumer app sales: 0
🙃 🙃 🙃
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Had a wonderful advising session / pep talk with the GTM legend, @jonathancolton
You know you're comfortable with a person when you don't know the answer to the question but say, "let's just note it for the record and let our agents decide what to do next..." 😜
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feeling like an AI DJ to my family
i've now made my father-in-law three separate NotebookLM podcasts about him and the law class that he teaches.... 😜
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i’m glad someone has finally cleared this bar so we can stop daydreaming about this 1-person, billion-dollar fantasy
i'd love to see more of a focus on getting grounded in people who focus on work that actually touches grass and engages with other humans for this next era of tech celebrities and heros
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this is how to catch people in the net:
1 - watch someone do something which you think is cool
2 - meet for coffee, discuss TGP ("the grand plan")
3 - immediately pick 1 short-term thing to do together
4 - complete that thing together
5 - make sure it goes great and vibes are good
6 - pick another tiny thing to do to...
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New York or nowhere
Some reflections on my 15 year anniversary of moving to NYC (and what it took to get here at all)
🌆❤️

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