Is Elon now officially the world's first trillionaire?

Sometimes you get news that puts in perspective the fragility of life and forces you to question your echo chamber bubble, even if only briefly. Yesterday I received news that my best friend was involved in a scooter accident in Bali and fractured vertebrae and skull in 3 places. Luckily survived by a thread and in intensive care. But it's moments like this that make you question a lot of things rhetorically: What actually matters in the scheme of things? Where am I giving more energy/meaning? Where am I letting fear get in the way? Where am I not living to the fullest? We don't actually know what will happen tomorrow, it's not promised, so make it count.

Currently looking for 5-10 solo saas founders or small digital business owners to act as early pilots/build partners with us at Orbit Money. We are building automations for solo SaaS founders and small digital businesses to take the most painful parts of money financial admin off the plate. We’ll work closely together to unblock bottlenecks and automate workflows. Primarily around reconciliation, invoicing, cash flow visibility. Things that you are currently doing manually in the background but shouldn’t be. Will be then be solidified in the early product. Comment below or send me a Dm if you’re interested or to chat.

anthropic won't let you use fable for biology, chemistry, ai research, or anything that accelerates human progress. that makes it the perfect tool for developing blockchains

Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI: Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible. 1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun. 2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love. Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI. Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.

Some of the best apps seem to do a great job of gamifying small things. This is whispr flow, adding little challenges to trivia things. I noticed that products like Whoop do this really well too they play on people's need to compete or optimise.

AI allows you to build a lot of your own software which is great but sometimes the tinkering and maintenance is more annoying than just paying for the tools. I found open source version of wispr flow to save 20 bucks a month and burned time trying to debug it. It would have been more economical just to pay for it. I think the exception can be if you want more custom setups or if there's heavy seat pricing and it really brings costs down. I also find new tools useful where I can plug in by API and don't really need the dashboard, like replacing GA ect

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With @bryan_johnson in there they really missed the opportunity to play the werewolf version! Epic content, can’t wait for round 2

Actually a really cool ad! They outdid Anthropic on this one

My dad runs a church and they are increasingly adopting ai systems. I’m curious, get him to show me some of the tools they use. Find they use a live translation feature specifically designed for churches. Solo founder, platform looks vibecoded, many features a direct copy to whispr flow. Charges 2k per year, already has a tonne of local churches. Already expanding to conferences. Opportunities everywhere.

This is something we are testing now, we are looking at stronger wedges where we can focus on paid initially. The strategy of freemium first can be very limiting unless you have big budget.

When the map disappears, the next move is usually not to stare harder at the map.

The hardest part of building something from nothing isn't the work. It's doing the work when nobody's watching, reading, buying, engaging, subscribing, collaborating, or caring yet. But it's that work that makes all the difference

Got really stuck in my head recently with biz direction recently. We hit a few walls in our initial wedges and it's been back to the drawing board a little bit and how we validate some stronger entry point. It's painful but learning a lot in the process. Need to be willing to led go of initial hypotheses faster and adjusting with market signals. The vision is still to build this financial OS for solopreneurs, but we need to sharpen up the initial offering and focus on a wedge with high willingness to pay. This means going back to talking to a lot of users and running tighter experiments.

This is one of the biggest questions for validating PMF right: What % of your users would be highlight disappointed if your product disappeared tomorrow?

Not many people talks about the fog of war phase of building a startup. You have a good vision of where you're going, but the exact path to it isn't always clear. Every step you take is a bet and you're trying to extract as much signal from the market as possible, but it's not always clear. You see so many success stories after the fact where the path they took looked obvious, but you didn't see the 2-3 years where they were pivoting wedges and stuck in the fog of war themselves, you just read about the one path that worked.

The market and problem you're trying to solve can but very real, while the path/wedge to get there is insanely narrow. Both being true at the same time is what makes the experience feel like banging on your head against the wall when the opportunity is right there.

Is it just me or does Opus 4.8 feel significantly better? Like a big leap

What would make me kill this? If you can't answer this even for a longer-term bet, you're not making a bet.