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You guys we almost made it to the first rest stop outside of nyc before the first kid puked 🫠🫠🫠
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ITAP of our drive out of NYC
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About to embark on a six hour drive with an 8pm departure and 2am arrival time in Williamsburg, Virginia with the whole family in tow, pray for me, lol
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This month’s block meeting AIgenda…
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Welp. Last night included an ER visit for our almost-3-year-old after she fell backwards out of a chair while refusing veggies at dinner.... She's OK. Three staples in her head, but in good spirits. (Yikes...) Question for the group: For folks who have experienced kid head injuries that needed staples, have you still taken kids in the pool, ocean, etc.? What was recovery like? We are supposed to take a family trip next week and just trying to figure out what modifications we might need to do.
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Wrapping up this week's mini-series, "Building WITH the Public" with one final case study This spring, I partnered with Tech Kids Unlimited, a NYC based nonprofit that works with neurodiverse young adults, to help test the viability of the AI-generated outputs from my learning app, MuseKat I ended up receiving a ton of real feedback from students ranging from 16-22, which I eventually codified into creating a more automated "evals agent" This is the final example of 4 student-led activations I ran all spring. It's been really fun to have design partners at this early stage. Hope this mini-series inspires a few more creative approaching to building alongside your users too! https://hardmodefirst.xyz/building-with-the-public-breaking-my-own-app-with-neurodiverse-student-interns
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It’s that time of year when it’s just easier to stay home all summer vs find a person who can water all 100 of my plants while I’m away lol
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tfw there’s an epic rain delay at yankee stadium but your seats happen to be the exact line to the dry zone 👏👏
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In-home user testing is pretty great “Mom, why is Miko orange?” “Because it’s my favorite color.” “But meerkats are yellow!” “You’ll have to build your own then.” 😜
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This is too real
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It's Day 4 of my mini-series, "Building WITH the Public" In today's post, I share how elementary aged students at P.S. 281 helped me conduct product tests and build critical thinking skills at the same time Turns out that kids love games. And also telling you when you're wrong. Who knew? https://hardmodefirst.xyz/building-with-the-public-getting-elementary-aged-kids-to-evaluate-ai-in-real-time (shout out to @greg for getting me invited to a career day at a local elementary school!)
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Calling all vibe coders! I'm teaching an AI vibe coding fundamentals class with Girls Who Code on June 30 at 7 p.m. ET. We will cover: - No-code building fundamentals and design thinking with AI - Case study in how I've been able to no-code build my way to a working in-market prototype - How to vibe code your first website, then quickly up-level it for a broader user audience - AI on the job and how to use AI to help you learn...well, anything free to attend, you can sign up here! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vibe-coding-build-a-business-from-scratch-with-ai-tickets-1393081838279
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Welcome to Day 3 of this week's micro-series: Building WITH the Public Each day, I'm sharing an example about how a different student-led activation has helped shape my real-time thinking as I start a learning app company, MuseKat. Today's post is all about two different grad school immersions I participated in this semester -- one at NYU and one at Columbia. I don't have an engineering degree or a business degree, but somehow these schools invited me in to share out about my process as a no-code AI-first startup builder. It was a ton of fun, and the students grilled me on a lot of stuff that was really helpful in the end. This is why I love to teach WHILE I'm on the learning curve. And I intend to keep doing it. https://hardmodefirst.xyz/building-with-the-public-battle-testing-startup-economics-with-grad-students
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Respect the hustle of hand flyering for your startup
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So last night was kind of a big deal because I got to visit City Hall in /new-york for the first time and receive an awards for a micro-grant on behalf of my block association, The Manhattan 75! Some of you probably know I’ve been pushing reactivating hyper-local community on my block for the past year or so. I started bootstrapping my own block association last summer, with the help and encouragement of @cabin (h/t @savannah and @hillis!) and despite a lot of slow starts and long pauses, I’ve somehow managed to become President, rebrand, and recruit a half-dozen eager volunteers to get engaged. One of those volunteers got so empowered by rat mitigation that he recruited NYC’s Rat Czar to our block (via cold email) and at her encouragement we applied for this grant. We will set out to create a street-wide “rat pack” with “rat squads” per block, and some mitigation efforts. Part of this grant award is being included in a community of 15 other block association, tenant association and community garden orgs in the city. In other words, I’m in another neighborhood accelerator. 😜 The cycle continues. This is what it feels like to learn and build with community.
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In other news, my chaos mode reined supreme at the city hall grant ceremony when I already started a rogue WhatsApp group with all fellow block association grantees 🙃🙃🙃
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Tonight i learned the hard way what happens when you try to upend social order and negotiate with patrons to claim a seat at the Balthasar bar Never a good thing to start your night with a bartender who’s pissed off at you… 😬
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Update: It was NOT all fine...
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omg you guys i just showed my new 14-year-old intern the prompt chain logic for MuseKat in my Cursor instance and he goes, "wait, but you told it to give older content for older kids... so why isn't it doing it?" WELCOME TO THE CLUB, KID. YOU'RE A DEV NOW
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Decided to leave cursor on YOLO mode while I went out to lunch… I’m sure it’s all gonna be just fine 🤣
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