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Scott Stevenson
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    Scott Stevenson
    Spellbook
    @scottastevenson
    Jun 18
    If your product doesn’t allow your users to say: “hey boss, look what I built!”, you are depriving them of something very important.
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    Scott Stevenson
    Spellbook
    @scottastevenson
    Jun 18
    Product simplicity can be a surprising negative at the moment. A billion people are feeling the creative buzz of being a builder for the first time. AI tools that do not enable users to maintain a sense of creative pride get subconsciously filtered out IMO.
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    Scott Stevenson
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    Aug 25, 2025
    Every 6 months I open instagram and am shocked to see how many 37 year olds were one-shotted into playing high school aesthetic status games for their entire lives
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    Scott Stevenson
    Spellbook
    @scottastevenson
    Mar 2, 2025
    Warning to young technologists: there is a kind of person who is motivated to learn tech as a way to impress and gain cool points amongst other technologists. Maybe not knowingly, but subconsciously—they are socially motivated. They know Rust, they know Haskell, they only use
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    Mohit Mishra
    @chessMan786
    Mar 1, 2025
    Everyone should learn C and Assembly
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    Scott Stevenson
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    Jan 26, 2024
    This is the first time I felt a game engine demo cross the uncanny valley
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    Scott Stevenson
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    @scottastevenson
    Apr 18, 2024
    The dark secret of capital gains tax during inflation—it taxes you for gaining nothing: If you have $400k in retirement assets, and 25% more money is “printed”, your assets are now worth $500k, but you are no richer. The dollar just became 25% less valuable. Although you are no
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    Scott Stevenson
    Spellbook
    @scottastevenson
    Jul 9, 2024
    This is one of the fundamental things people who struggle with creativity don't understand about it. The essence of creativity is "waste". So long as you are worried about "doing things efficiently and correctly the first time to reduce waste", you will not be creative.
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    Sean McClure
    @sean_a_mcclure
    Nov 27, 2020
    "Leonardo da Vinci had so much unfinished work, such a shame." No. You toss 80-90% of everything you create if you're a builder. If you don't have a workbook littered with "unfinished" projects you're not creating.
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    Scott Stevenson
    Spellbook
    @scottastevenson
    Oct 9, 2025
    Never surrender
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    Scott Stevenson
    Spellbook
    @scottastevenson
    Feb 19, 2024
    Why sharpen your axe when the chainsaw is going to be invented tomorrow?
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    Scott Stevenson
    Spellbook
    @scottastevenson
    Nov 20, 2023
    If Ilya held his opinion that loosely, then who was the driving force at the board table? It's looking increasingly likely that it was @adamdangelo , who was likely upset that his product launch got destroyed by Custom GPTs "Not consistently candid" = "You didn't tell me you
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    Adam D'Angelo
    @adamdangelo
    Oct 25, 2023
    Today we are launching creator monetization for Poe! This program lets any bot creator on Poe generate revenue. This is a major step forward for the platform and is the first program of its kind, so we are very excited to see what it lets everyone create. (thread)
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    Scott Stevenson
    Spellbook
    @scottastevenson
    Nov 29, 2023
    A big trap in your 20's and early 30's is "vanity knowledge". Learning things that you think will impress people or get you to the next tier of status in your career. This is rampant in tech/software. A lot of the things "experts on the stage" talk about are fairly irrelevant to
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    Scott Stevenson
    Spellbook
    @scottastevenson
    Dec 24, 2024
    Ilya is brilliant but he’s making a Founder 101 mistake by believing he can make a “straight shot” to the product he wants rather than iterating on useful products with customers. The problem with this mentality is that you are always levitating, never really touching the ground
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    Scott Stevenson
    Spellbook
    @scottastevenson
    Jul 28, 2025
    It's surprising how few people play real life like it's Starcraft. APM matters a lot. If you play life this way you will do well, because almost no one else is.
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    Scott Stevenson
    Spellbook
    @scottastevenson
    Oct 29, 2022
    As neural networks better at chess, they become more illegible: you can't explain why they make the moves they do in words This will happen in the world at large as we approach singularity: you won't be able to explain in words why anyone does what they do
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    Scott Stevenson
    Spellbook
    @scottastevenson
    Jan 13, 2024
    There is zero incentive for anyone to post about this defending the company. Anyone "playing politics" must defend the employee to earn charisma points. But that is deeply selfish and perpetuates illusions that ultimately hurt employees: 1) She closed zero sales 4.5 months into
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    knewter 🇺🇲/acc
    @knewter
    Jan 12, 2024
    I love that she recorded this. I love that people get to see what these giant corporations are like. From the human perspective, how could she ever improve with this feedback? I would be furious in her position. I've had to fire and lay off people, and I hope I did better.
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