RT @levelsio: I find it so wild you have American billionaires who helped create modern Silicon Valley talk with governments (for free!) an…

RT @levelsio: On a micro level I kind of have this with certain people I met You give them the textbook instructions on how to make money…

I think the main thing AI has taught me, through all the time savings it brings, is that I’m not a very interesting person Faced with a surplus of free time, I realize I don’t really have hobbies besides content consumption I’m forced to conclude that I don’t have very deep friendships, and am not a core member of any particular community I’m not very cultured, I’m finding, and don’t have abiding interests in art or literature or history or much that isn’t directly related to my work I have a work-centric life, in other words. AI pulls back the curtain on just how impoverished such an existence is, by disabusing me of its necessity Given the freedom I’ve always said I wanted, I’m at a loss as to what to do with it, except plow myself even harder into work, thus exacerbating the lesson There’s nothing more confronting to humans than freedom

2013: tried to build a music app (failed) 2014: taught myself how to code. launched VentureStorm as a student 2015: drove to hackathons across the country, slept on classroom floors 2016: VentureStorm failed. graduated with $120k of debt. moved into my parents' basement 2017: joined Morning Brew as the second employee 2018: Morning Brew surpasses 1M subscribers. I’m leading product and growth 2020: left to join YouTube. started building beehiiv on nights and weekends 2021: 40 investor rejections. finally closed $2.6M seed round. quit YouTube 2022: took 6 months to hit $10k MRR. tragically lost our cofounder/CTO Andrew 2023: raised a $12.5M Series A in just 7 days. scaled the team to 40 people 2024: crossed $10M ARR. raised $33M Series B led by NEA. acquired Typedream 2025: fired a third of the growth team. cut spending by 90%. shifted the focus of the company 2026: $28M ARR. best quarter in company history. launched podcasts and webinars and an MCP. adding $1.5M ARR /mo. // hindsight adds a whole lot of perspective. convinced that the most interesting years are still ahead

Jangan buang waktu lo di conference & networking events. Gue udah ke puluhan tech events di Amerika & Indo, dan most of them gak worth it. Lo ke event itu buat ketemu top founders & VCs, tapi mereka gak ada di sana. They won't network with random people. Jadi gimana caranya network with the top 1%? Do top 1% things. Pas gue baru masuk dunia tech, gue suka build random apps and post them on X & Instagram. Lama2 ada yang viral, dan tau2 the top 1% of founders mulai reach out sendiri ke gue. Build interesting things, post them online, and your network will appear

Today is May 18th.

In the age of AI, the reader struggles because the writer doesn't have to.

One guy. One Navy ship. One file. 1 trillion databases. He built it alone in 2000. And gave it away forever. 🤯 Meet D. Richard Hipp 🇺🇸 > American developer. Born 1961 in North Carolina. > In 2000, working as a contractor on a US Navy destroyer. > Got frustrated with bulky databases that needed servers and setup. > Built SQLite in his spare time ~ a single-file database engine. > No server. No installation. No configuration. Just one file. > 25 years later, every iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows PC runs SQLite. > Powers Chrome, Firefox, Safari, WhatsApp, iMessage, Skype. > Runs inside Tesla cars and commercial airplanes. 🚀 > Over 1 trillion SQLite databases active worldwide today. > Put the entire codebase in the public domain. Zero royalties forever. > Trillion-dollar companies use his code. He's never charged a cent. > Still maintains it full-time with a tiny team of 3. > Pledged free support and updates until at least 2050. > No VC money. No acquisitions. No spotlight. Just code. Every app on your phone runs his invisible masterpiece. Most engineers build for fame. He built for forever. Database GOAT. 🐐

last week marked 4 years since we tragically lost our cofounder and CTO Andrew Platkin was one of a kind 🖤 I can't help but smile back at his photo on my desk. he'd be so proud to see where we are today each year I share his story: mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/4-y…

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30 smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000 will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

The longer you postpone building the life you actually want, the more likely you are to settle for a life you merely drifted into.

I get asked every now and then: "how do I become more influential, as a dev/eng leader, better known online?" Either for themselves, or to help put their company on the map. The single best thoughts on this come from @Lethain, from this article: lethain.com/tech-influencer/

These are the people telling you to go shoplifting as they sit in the comfort of their podcast studios and multi-million dollar homes. Incredible.

Probably the most underrated "law" out there: Parkinson's law My current company have a critical project that already in its 5th month when I just joined. Still stuck at 30% progress. Some shake up happened, that project fallen into my lap. We have real constraint: our Finance team need it in 2.5 month. We completed the project in just 5 weeks.

Like many “social justice activists”, Hasan’s spite for the rich (excluding himself) is not accompanied by any love for the poor. He shows great enthusiasm when considering ways to harm the powerful, but his eyes glaze over when asked for ways to actually help the powerless. In fact, as his routine electrocution of his pet dog shows, Hasan is also in favor of violence against the powerless. His advocacy of “social justice” is just a way to launder his sadism.

Teman-teman mohon bantuannya bersuara agar kasus uang jemaat sebesar 28 miliar yang raib di tipu oknum BNI bisa selesai. Kasus ini sudah berlangsung lama namun tak ada itikad baik,. @DivHumas_Polri @KejaksaanRI @prabowo No viral no justice kata @mohmahfudmd Bantu RT 🙏

Yang dicuri 28 Miliar, ditawarin balik cuma 7 miliar. Btw yang dicuri ini bukan uang gereja, tapi uang tabungan 1.900 umat yang backgroundnya macam2, ada yang buruh, petani, dll. Suster Natalia cerita kalau dia sampai utang kesana sini buat nalangin umat yang butuh dana mendesak karena berobat atau sekolah anak. Kita bantu viralin biar BNI ga ngeles mulu.