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The way he talks about Deep Research (which came out this week) as a core part of the workflow is the clearest tell that this is engagement bait. "No longer hiring junior or even mid-level software engineers"...as of what, 4 days ago? Gumroad famously has no full-time employees and a tiny team. So he went from not hiring junior engineers, to using AI and also not hiring junior engineers.

without commenting on the rest of it, i can share anecdotally that i currently have 3 dead airtags that i have been procrastinating updating the batteries on

Shazam is a huge success story!

for what you're after, my app howie.ai would work well. we don't do nearly as much as Martin does, instead we're narrowly focused on getting the scheduling use case right. i'm [email protected] if you want to try it out!

Dead & Co. at the Sphere was an unforgettable life experience. So much creativity in what they did with the visuals to honor the history of the band, its San Francisco roots, and the canvas the Sphere gave them. I'm going back in August!

love this. next up, let's see if you can achieve Static Minecraft!

based on everything tim has written that shows extreme self-awareness about his working/productivity style, and the fact that he makes a lot of money for his family by doing occasional multi-day binges of work, i think it's fair to give him the benefit of the doubt that they have a system that allows him to show up for his family much of the time while also maintaining his output of work

this comment is fantastic and gives a clear answer to anyone griping about whether this is considered "beating" the game. scruti is the first human to beat the game, now other people will try to beat it in other ways on other levels.

whooops you're definitely correct. carry on!

i found this a few weeks ago and have been really enjoying it. i’m on the paid plan. my screen time on twitter and instagram has gone down significantly as a result of the slight inconvenience every time i open them. and doing the breathing exercise before plunging into hellish social media is also surprisingly refreshing.

the app is a little bit buggy, which sometimes makes it impossible to “pause” it. but one could argue that’s a feature not a bug!

overall impressed with Clearspace’s clever approach to this issue.

next post will be: how i got into YC, shut down my company, and then added x subscribers to my substack by simply trash talking YC

This post is on point, but the bottom section highlights a nuance that may mean Google Search is not in fact dying: Google remains the best way to search Reddit, by a longshot. As someone who searches Reddit multiple times daily, I have tried a number of Reddit clients and always find myself falling back to Google.

Perhaps this is where the entry point opportunity is...build a search engine for power users that effectively filters results to "authentic" content from reputable UGC platforms.

As an aside: the advent of GPT-3 is going to make it really hard for reddit mods to keep doing as wonderful of a job as they do today.