Matt Luo ClarityText.com AI-enhanced group chat app for business

YouTube video by Kleiner Perkins What Most Founders Miss About Aesthetics | Ivan Zhao on Notion

Notion customer base is 80% international.

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YouTube video by Breaking Points Tim Dillon OBLITERATES Bari Weiss 250 Million Valuation

Hard to know what’s really happening from this video, but it seems to be $250 MM asking price for Bari Weiss’ the free press Substack.

Buying interest from David Ellison, the son of Larry Ellison.

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Software dev profession is entering a new era where, due to AI, one person has a higher quality bar in their work to meet, and also a broader scope of work responsibilities.

YouTube video by Ryan Peterman Amazon VP On Promotions, Getting Fired Twice, Working With Bezos | Ethan Evans

Ethan.

- Style of straight talk.
- Career escalator not career ladder.
- manager has ability to craft any narrative and fire anybody. But still is judged by achieving goals.

Vendor for coaching on how to get promoted.

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YouTube video by a16z AI Content and the War for Your Attention

Wrong: Everyone famous for 15 minutes

Revised: everyone famous among 15 people.

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Today, it might need an engagement manager plus two or three consultants, alongside a few AI agents and access to “deep research” capabilities, Smaje said.

AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?

What a downsize of McKinsey team size. From 14 to 3.

“But the size of teams is changing. Traditionally, a strategy project with a client might require an engagement manager—essentially, a project leader—plus 14 consultants.”

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Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.

Users can easily spam a channel that’s a forum type.

Other members cannot report the post as spam.

For example,

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How Cursor Serves Billions of AI Code Completions Every Day In this article, we will take a look at the key features of Cursor, how those features work, and the infrastructure stack that powers it.

New @cursor.com.web.brid.gy features:

Bugbot , which Lee worked on, who was previously from @convex.dev

Memories. A sidecar pattern of stored decisions.

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CEO Brian Niccol's commute to Starbucks' new office: a 5-minute drive Starbucks now has an office in Newport Beach, California, a short drive from the CEO's house.

“Starbucks has built out a 4,624-square-foot office — replete with "luxury" finishes — that CEO Brian Niccol can use while home in Newport Beach, California.”

This is a misleading headline when I see the actual sq foot. This is for one executive and staff.

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YouTube video by Peter Attia MD 355 – Skincare strategies, the science of facial aging, and cosmetic-intervention guidance

Aquaphor is a affordable moisturizer for face skin.

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YouTube video by a16z Marc & Ben on New Media: Podcasts, Politics & the Collapse of Trust

Growing trend of “barbell” distribution of media, where
- short videos
- three hour long podcasts

Also, articulate your point of view from the key human account.
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First-party extensions Learn how to set up first-party extensions

Giving biome a whirl for code formatting.

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YouTube video by Andrew Huberman Why Reading (Books) Makes Us Better at Speaking

Reading entails low level speaking.

- huberman.

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YouTube video by 20VC with Harry Stebbings Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding

Edwin Chen Surge AI seems focused on tech to quality review data labeling, as opposed to relying on credentialed humans.

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Founder Sam Ovens

YouTube video by Harut Sam Ovens on losing $1M/mo to Build Skool, Alex Hormozi, and what he’d do if he started again

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Early days of Skool: Losing -$300k with Skool and at the same time making $300k with mastermind.

YouTube video by Triggernometry The Best Breakdown of America You’ve Never Heard - Richard Miniter

From video: Boston and New England early American migrated to the west coast like California and the Pacific Northwest.

Portland’s coin flip decision to name its city was also considering New Boston.

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YouTube video by Convex Convex & PlanetScale for Postgres Fireside Chat with Jamie Turner and Sam Lambert

Convex & PlanetScale for Postgres Fireside Chat with Jamie Turner and Sam Lambert
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2) It's impressive that Convex migrated both from Aurora to Planetscale, and from MySQL to Postgres, in one migration. (Without many issues).
3) AWS still wins as I think Planetscale Metal is still an AWS service.

Takeaways
1) This migration affirms Convex's longstanding communcation that the Postgres and MySQL debate isn't that important for most (non-infra focused) applications.

YouTube video by Convex Convex & PlanetScale for Postgres Fireside Chat with Jamie Turner and Sam Lambert

It's impressive to see @convex.dev migrate its customers' underlying databases from AWS Aurora to @planetscale.com. I saw some graphs posted by Convex CTO James Cowling about latency going from mid teens in ms to about 7 ms.

Inside Zuckerberg’s AI Playbook | July 15, 2025 | The Information | TITV YouTube video by The Information

It’s great that mark Zuckerberg goes on smaller up and coming media shows. www.youtube.com/live/qDDOy90...

YouTube video by The Iced Coffee Hour Clips "Don't Wait!" - Why You Should SPEND More Money NOW | Bill Perkins

Bill Perkins on why he went into natural gas trading:
1) Natural gas contract just starting
2) New commodity, not that many people into it. There were legacy crude oil traders
3) growing, efficient fuel was a wave

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Solar Power is 54% Cheaper Than in 2013 📉 Key Takeaways Concentrated solar power, which uses mirrors to produce concentrated sunlight, stood at a $53 billion market in 2023, and is projected to…

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Usually price of 35 cents per kWh in San Diego homes.

AI Traffic Has Increased 9.7x in the Past Year We analyzed 81,947 websites to understand more about AI traffic today. AI traffic has grown tenfold over the last year.

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Traffic from AI chat bots still small

The creators selling their wares on Whop are overwhelmingly male and also young, mainly 17 to 25, and they’re hungry for two things: to be their own boss and to make serious bank.

The budding entrepreneur gets a marketplace which handles cybersecurity, payments, as well as a dashboard with promotion and sales tools as well as analytics.

Inside Whop, the $300 million Gen Z marketplace for selling your expertise Whop, the $300 million Gen Z marketplace for selling expertise founded by Steven Schwartz and Cameron Zoub, wants to build a digital etsy.

> Whop gets a cut of each sale—anywhere from 3% to 4.5% plus a transaction fee, depending on the merchant and price point.
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YouTube video by Hoover Institution Library & Archives Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: Vietnam and the Intellectuals

Today I learned that no one in William F. Buckley Jr.'s family, not his parents or siblings, talked in his patrician MidAtlantic accent.

The accent was probably a deliberate effort to cultivate his intellectual persona.

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