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@bfg
After onboarding my parents in rural Europe to Starlink and recording podcasts on their WiFi — I have to agree 🤷♂️ Starlink is still sleeping giant 💫
https://x.com/davidsenra/status/2043130647250931913?s=46&t=vGdL6gMJv0qcvymUV8209g
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@gokhan
Reading Samo Burja's 1517 Fund talk transcript How Civilizations Collapse from 2020 and I think stock portfolio punchline is a banger whereas we now have RAG-fueled personal administration LLM wikis that autoupdate and I do wonder whether as some parts of societal structures collapse, we come to know determined "great founder" type random individuals who might not be that great founders but good companies (salute to the Easy Company) whose presence we take for solidarity even if we have never met them in real life.
Today, I saw a post asking why Silicon Valley guys like Nick Land, and i think it's because he has always been the friendly paternal figure beaming a non-censored ideogrammatic level Word of direct wisdom baptized in vagueness of properly redeemable quality especially for the self-censoring unprotected class, and true great founders tend to look for proper optimistic contrarians.
https://samoburja.com/samo-burja-how-civilizations-collapse/
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@jonathancolton
Foundercheck gave my idea a 7.2/10 — verdict: ship it. Validated my customer, problem, and channel in 5 minutes.
☝️ created with @neynar app studio
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@gokhan
Fellow founders, boosts will be met in future boosters.
I have a synth library & dataset idea for finetuning and need your support so I won't get into VC debt for simple needs
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@bfg
Sounds familiar ... there's time to pivot to a real thing fuelled by your own ambition 😇
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@luciano
just because you are unemployed doesn’t mean you would be a good founder
but being a good founder definitely means you can’t be employed
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@kazi
Me: yo need a sick answer to this <important customer question>. I’m too bloated after Steak frites with <AI lab> infra eng.
Arta (while in the washroom): when’s your next meeting?
Me: 1hr
Arta: *turns shower knob
Comes out of shower with a banger client agrees 😆
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@jonathancolton
Why "who is this for" collapses in the FounderCheck data: it's a status problem, not a discipline one.
Eugene Wei: people are status-seeking monkeys, seeking the most efficient path to social capital. On builder platforms, the status move is shipping. Solving your own problem is the most efficient ship — the narrative writes itself, the social capital flows immediately.
Except it's a sample size of one. And the reward comes so fast the founder never looks for customer two.
166 FounderCheck validations.
Pain clarity 5.6/10.
Channel reach 5.4/10.
Knowing who hurts: 3.5/10.
The who collapses because naming someone who isn't you doesn't ship anything, doesn't earn status, doesn't feel like progress.
Discipline doesn't beat a status game. You have to change what the game rewards.
That's what "build distribution first" means. It's a forcing function. Name a specific person before you build. But naming them is step one, they're outside your circle of trust and have no reason to tell you the truth. Solving your own problem skipped that entirely. You already trusted yourself.
That's what "build distribution first" means. It's a forcing function. Name a specific person before you build. But naming them is step one, they're outside your circle of trust and have no reason to tell you the truth. Solving your own problem skipped that entirely. You already trusted yourself.
Distribution first forces both. Name the person. Earn the trust. Then build.
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@bethanymarz
Yesterday i decided to use The Complete Works of WIlliam Shakespeare as the starting source material to teach someone Claude Code
This is what I built
https://punk-shakespeare.vercel.app/
Should i make it a miniapp on Farcaster next???
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