Excerpts from the book "Hooked: How To Build Habit Forming Products" by @nireyal Thread.

Reference agents, skills, and data connectors for the financial-services workflows we see most — investment banking, equity research, private equity, and wealth management. From Anthropic. github.com/anthropics/financ…

Every Building You've Ever Been In Was Designed By Software Built in 1997 open.substack.com/pub/a16z/p…

IT: The 6T Industry that Silicon Valley Hardly Ever Thinks About open.substack.com/pub/a16z/p…

Built an AI chatbot for the Ashtavakra Gita this weekend. Stack: Claude + Dify.ai + Lovable Try it: ashtavakragita.lovable.app Quick learnings: Lovable is the fastest path to a polished frontend I've found. Dify.ai was surprisingly intuitive.

Probably the only thing that makes us human is not knowing when to use Their/There; I didn't knew/know.

Frontier models now match or beat human experts on nearly half of real-world tasks. This isn't performance on academic benchmarks; it's on actual deliverables that professionals get paid to create. The gap is closing faster than many expected. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04374

Test-To-Speech input on ChatGPT is significantly superior to Gemini!

Here's something I vibe-coded for fun — an AI Physics tutor inspired by the Feynman Lectures. Introducing Let’s Learn - It breaks concepts into clean, bite-sized slides along with helpful side chat and tracks your proficiency. Try it out: lnkd.in/gWqrftPq

Product Manager Reading List 2025 g.co/gemini/share/e5b294a3d3…

I’m back. I’m back on Twitter (which is its only name). I have left AI in charge of the universe; you’ll notice the improvement. I’m back, with less respect for you than ever. And just like before, My nephew is my only follow. Spread the word, bastards.

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TIL: Canva is a much bigger business than Figma. ~$26B valuation vs. $10B, respectively.

Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate. Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own. Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society. Make these habits. Say no to everything else. Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media Relax. Victory is assured. @naval

The return on income tax paid is horrible in India, no where in this world a salaried class is exploit by Govt like this. You pay 31.2% tax or most probably you give more money to Govt than you spend on yourself annually, but in return 1. To get even a small work done in Govt department, you have to waste months of time or bribe. 2. The condition of 99% hospitals and schools run by Govt is so bad that you will never take go there. 3. You pay lakhs of rupees tax and if you lose the job next year, you don't even get anything in return, You are on road. If nothing else give income tax payers some priority in getting Railway tickets reservation, some priority in getting their job done in Govt offices but no, you will keep 81cr people dependent on free ration so that they keep voting you and you keep exploiting hardworking salaried class.

pretty crazy that GPT3.5 can outperform GPT4 through an agentic workflow reminds me of folks I've worked with in my career who outperformed people who were much smarter merely because they had a better process

This cracked me up ROFL

Nothing more precious than old friends

Found this in my fortune cookie tonight

Last 15 years: Supercomputer in your pocket Next 15 years: Infinite labor in your pocket

A person who needs to be happy will never be happy. A person who needs to be at peace will never be at peace.