It’s very easy to tell if someone’s consumer product will work. Does the product enable its consumers to be entertained, eat more or fuck more in some form or another? Take a look at all successful consumer businesses. That’s what the consumer market is from first principles.

You ever get to the point where life is so hard that you start journaling every day to find the balance in things lol

What I’m enjoying so far from DiVine is seeing moots make content IRL. It’s nice seeing you all outside of our little text feeds here 😊

Making a user interface and experience good really feels like 90% of the work in software engineering.

I was invited today to a purepecha festival by an indigenous mayor in California yesterday. I’m learning that indigenous communities are incredibly warm and welcoming, which is something I’m not that used to. But it certainly is motivating to feel seen, and it continues to make me want to do more good in my work.

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Really cool UX on the Ditto client - you can embed and run nostr apps in the feed.

You will inevitably find an abundance of disappointment if you believe you are a good person. It is better for your self-esteem to believe that you are just an individual who is trying their best instead. This recharacterization will protect you from the judgement and criticisms of others, who in most cases, will only be able to observe parts of you, and in some others, actively search for & perceive whatever they believe to be objectionable.

This is the only metric I follow to understand the progress of AI

Average Reddit experience

Lowered the price of my language learning tutor to $8/mo from $10 so that annual subscriptions can cost less than $50

Which way, Bitcoiners?

reached 20,000 followers on instagram 🥳

It is strange how common algorithmic psychosis is on social media. It becomes strange when it convinces others to dedicate themselves to poisoning the minds of others with the politics of good vs. evil. What a predictable outcome too. The algorithm is totally binary. You either post or don't post. You view or don't view. You engage or don't engage. So naturally, large swaths believe they are good. I mean, after all, how could one simply settle with being evil?

first time reaching 2000 MAUs on my education platform :')

Broke past 15,000 followers on Instagram 🤙

Good morning! I have updated the language learning app with a cool app-wide change. I think this is the last major update I’ll make in a while because I am TIRED but I’m also happy and proud of its progress. In a nutshell, I've introduced a memory system and more advanced adaptive learning assistant to the app. So now when you get things wrong across any learning modality, the app will store that and save it for the next day's quest. The next day's quest will then produce a repair task in the daily quest, using one to two days of insights, that will have users go through quick bite sized lessons using the existing learning modalities to review and correct those mistakes, followed by the rest of the daily quest to tackle new material. With this, the app feels more complete and much more like I envisioned - every part feels makes sense now. The pets will welcome users with a message explain what and why they're working on what they're working on, levels unlock different pets, daily goals are tracked and represented instead of streaks and no feature really exists in isolation anymore. For example, before, the amount of XP/level you had was just a number that went up, but now it can unlock a companion. Learning modalities, pets, and XP/levels all work together to reinforce learning and have users discover new things, and overall it just feels like a stronger personal tutor that grows and works with you. I also went ahead and updated the pet models so they feel better animated and more unique.

Happy 4th of July to my American friends from Mexico Hope you enjoy the fireworks with friend or family 🤙

The language learning app is getting there.