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Lance retweeted
What’s happening in the AI-powered reverse engineering and decompilation is absolutely insane. Pretty soon all software will be de facto open-source.
AI is coming for everything and everyone.
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First run at this. Actually pleasantly surprised with how high I was able to get the production value on the first go-round on my own.
I've committed to at least once a week on Wednesdays but given that I got the process down, I may be able to do more a week.
One thing I noticed I need to figure out because I'm still having trouble:
1. Configuring OBS to capture audio properly
2. Scene configuration to make for easy navigation
Everything else worked really smooth.
Going to try to fix these today and if its easy I'll be back soon for another live stream
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Lance retweeted
You know how people are. They already have OpenAI API budgets, and even if it costs twice as much and is a little bit slower, it'll become faster over time, and it's part of the thing that they already use. This has always been the problem with incumbent platforms offering similar but not quite the same functionality. At least from a certain kind of customer, they will easily get their business. Plus, let's not forget about vision capabilities here.
Also, I'm not saying anything negative about jev. It's great and has been a milestone in AI development. It just blows my mind how quickly things shift in this field.
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Something @DylanAbruscato said about the future of live television has stuck with me. The more I think about it, the more I think I just need to try it. I feel like it solves problems I've been trying to solve for a while without a clean answer.
The question that keeps coming up in that conversation is "who's going to build the next TBPN".
The TBPN for cooking, or fitness, or [insert vertical].
I think the next one that gets built is going to be heavily influenced by how cheaply and quickly someone can get started and iterate. This is one of the reason why I don't think the next TBPN will start on X, initially. X Business is $200 a month. That's not an impossible number to pay, but as a starting price it makes no sense especially for the other things you may need to make it work.
I revisited the @DialecticPod, where @jordihays described the barbell approach of @tbpn "...show up every day, and that gives you an opportunity to iterate every day."
I got excited when I understood the connection that he was making to cooking because it seemed like this was the other half of the conversation he and Dylan had:
"A baker gets to show up every day to make bread, but every single day they can change tiny little things. They can change the temperature, the amount of yeast, or the amount of flour."
He continued:
"When we think about making the show, the product flows through all of us. It flows through the team. We know when the product is great; we feel it. We end the show every day and talk through what could have been better. This section could have been better. We didn’t have the right information to give the best takes on that story. That interview was really slow. We have to adjust the schedule for tomorrow to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
Every single day is an opportunity to make the product better."
"If you were to look at just one shot of the show every single day over the last year, you would see very clearly there are minor iterations happening."
said @jordihays:
"Some of that is in the content and the ordering. Every single day we’ve learned something new about the show and how to make it better. I think we’ll do that for a very, very, very long time.
@jordihays continued, talking about the evolution of the production value:
"... once-a-week show: one camera, two mics, talking through some posts. Then we added another show, then another camera, then new microphones. We added an overlay, then we added live, then guests, then five days a week, then new channels. It’s just this constant compounding..."
Even @johncoogan talked about the wide shots in the first show and how they wrapped an American flag around their light stand inthe background because their lighting rig wasn't big enough.
John put it plainly: "All the different elements were happy accidents, different ideas that came together, grew, and found their place within the show. It would be very hard to copy-paste all of this."
So starting on X and just doing live streaming the way TBPN does it is the wrong approach for me. The approach I'm going to take has to be different. Cheaper to start, easier to adjust, built around the ability to learn something new about the format every single time I show up.
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Something @DylanAbruscato said about the future of live television has stuck with me. The more I think about it, the more I think I just need to try it. I feel like it solves problems I've been trying to solve for a while without a clean answer.
The question that keeps coming up in that conversation is "who's going to build the next TBPN".
The TBPN for cooking, or fitness, or [insert vertical].
I think the next one that gets built is going to be heavily influenced by how cheaply and quickly someone can get started and iterate. This is one of the reason why I don't think the next TBPN will start on X, initially. X Business is $200 a month. That's not an impossible number to pay, but as a starting price it makes no sense especially for the other things you may need to make it work.
I revisited the @DialecticPod, where @jordihays described the barbell approach of @tbpn "...show up every day, and that gives you an opportunity to iterate every day."
I got excited when I understood the connection that he was making to cooking because it seemed like this was the other half of the conversation he and Dylan had:
"A baker gets to show up every day to make bread, but every single day they can change tiny little things. They can change the temperature, the amount of yeast, or the amount of flour."
He continued:
"When we think about making the show, the product flows through all of us. It flows through the team. We know when the product is great; we feel it. We end the show every day and talk through what could have been better. This section could have been better. We didn’t have the right information to give the best takes on that story. That interview was really slow. We have to adjust the schedule for tomorrow to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
Every single day is an opportunity to make the product better."
"If you were to look at just one shot of the show every single day over the last year, you would see very clearly there are minor iterations happening."
said @jordihays:
"Some of that is in the content and the ordering. Every single day we’ve learned something new about the show and how to make it better. I think we’ll do that for a very, very, very long time.
@jordihays continued, talking about the evolution of the production value:
"... once-a-week show: one camera, two mics, talking through some posts. Then we added another show, then another camera, then new microphones. We added an overlay, then we added live, then guests, then five days a week, then new channels. It’s just this constant compounding..."
Even @johncoogan talked about the wide shots in the first show and how they wrapped an American flag around their light stand inthe background because their lighting rig wasn't big enough.
John put it plainly: "All the different elements were happy accidents, different ideas that came together, grew, and found their place within the show. It would be very hard to copy-paste all of this."
So starting on X and just doing live streaming the way TBPN does it is the wrong approach for me. The approach I'm going to take has to be different. Cheaper to start, easier to adjust, built around the ability to learn something new about the format every single time I show up.
Dylan Abruscato on the Future of Interactive Entertainment
"The reason that I left TV to join HQ was not for HQ Trivia the show, it was for this grand vision of a live interactive TV network."
@DylanAbruscato explained, describing how he saw beyond the viral game show to a fundamental transformation of how audiences would consume content.
His bet wasn't on a single hit—it was on an entire medium shift.
Dylan's vision was simple but ambitious: take proven TV formats and rebuild them as live, mobile, interactive experiences. HQ Trivia had demonstrated the model by transforming the traditional game show. But that was just the beginning.
"In the same way that HQ took a TV game show and made it live and mobile and interactive, the same could happen should have been said for a Shark Tank format or a talent competition or a dating show or a late night show," he explained.
He put this theory into practice with Krypto, which he described as "my attempt at building a live interactive Survivor—essentially just the game I always wanted to play online with my friends."
But Dylan wasn't just building products—he was articulating a thesis about the future of entertainment.
"I still truly believe that every traditional TV format has a place as an interactive internet native show," he said.
The key insight is generational.
"There's a whole generation of consumers that watch TV on the internet, and so they should be built by internet native founders," Dylan noted. He's actively thinking about who will build "the TBPN for cooking" or "the TBPN for late night."
The combination creates opportunities for founders willing to rebuild what already works for an audience that expects participation, not just consumption.
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I remember seeing this post from @TomFrankly
One of the reasons I find it interesting now is because I tried recording a video with a screenshare and I wasn't able to do it. To explain why I have to give some backstory but I fianlly understand why the person he refers to below used OBS with their phone as audio...
x.com/TomFrankly/status/1605…
They don't notice people like @traversymedia building an entire empire by teaching people programming... though screen recordings that don't even have a face cam.
You can do with with a computer, OBS (free), and even just use your phone as a mic.
It's much more about skill.
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@PaddyG96 essentially told me my audio quality is trash. This Was really helpful feedback because I'd seen other videos from him where he said that writing is the most important thing to growing on YouTube and so I'd been focusing on writing. But once he gave me the feedback that my audio quality was keeping him from listening for even 5 seconds, I knew what I needed to fix...
x.com/PaddyG96/status/205749…
I couldn’t watch more than 5 seconds (no offence)
Why?
Audio quality. Viewers are ruthless with audio quality.
You could have the best video in the world but if the audio is like that it won’t work.
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When you think about it one of the reasons why this video is so viral is because it’s a continuation of the last one everybody wants to see how the previous video ended so you’re sourcing the same people. “Algorithm” does the work from there
New video is our most viewed video ever in 24 hours but more importantly, it has 10,000+ comments saying it’s our BEST video ever (literally). Even though I’ve been making content for 17 years now I still think my best days are ahead, appreciate you all ❤️❤️❤️
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there's nothing worst than drafting a long thread on x and then it just getting deleted mid write. i can't draft here anymore
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Lance retweeted
Isaiah Rashad brought out Schoolboy Q & Jay Rock to perform ‘Shot You Down’ in LA 😭🔥🔥🔥
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Pressing play on @Tinashe 's new album feels like stepping into the future
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Lance retweeted
“There’s actually only a few real players, like serious players.”
Sara Du on why a crowded market shouldn’t discourage solo founders:
“I think a lot of first-time founders get so dissuaded from doing things because they’re like, ‘Oh, this person’s doing this already. There’s like so many things that look like this.
And it’s the same with like, people who say they’re grinding, but then you look at their GitHub and they’re not dark green.
You can still basically be like a top percentile founder if you just put in like the sheer hours and the thought of like building something that you believe should exist in the world.”
Slack was built before AI and you can tell.
This solo founder raised $20M to build the workspace for humans and agents.
Solo Founders Podcast ep 30 is live with @saradu of @andocorporation.
01:19 Two companies, two motivations
05:29 A problem worth ten years
08:43 Why now, and why so few competitors
19:36 Agents are coworkers, not tools
33:15 The locked office building
37:07 An agent's first 90 days
42:53 Trust runs backwards with agents
54:05 Georgia to SF at 17
1:09:30 The bear and bull case for going solo
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Lance retweeted
Just found the old list of patents out IP lawyers for Broadcast com were going to file but never got around to under Yahoo. Not saying they all would have been granted, but if you ever need prior art in this area, here you go lol.
Potential broadcast.com Patent Applications
January 4, 1999
1. Geographic IP Identification
Technique for pin-pointing the geographic location of a static IP device by triangulating routes taken by IP packets and building a database of IP addresses and DNS names.
2. Hybrid Networks
A commercial network of unicast and multicast enabled networks that terminates at a single point and which enables digital content to be distributed in a one-to-many fashion across multiple networks from a single initiation point.
3. Multi-Network Multicast
A commercial network of multicast enabled networks that terminates at a single point and which enables digital content to be distributed in a one-to-many fashion across multiple networks from a single initiation point.
4. Reverse Auction
Online auction mechanism in which a buyer who desires to purchase goods defines that desire, along with a maximum price that s/he will pay. Potential sellers then respond by offering their goods at a price below any previous bidders and at or below the designated maximum price.
5. Audio Ad Delivery
Software techniques for parsing files served by web server and acting upon text to perform functions such as audio ad rotation and synchronized audio ad/pop-up URL scripting.
6. Web Server Reporting System
Software techniques for reporting on very large web server of files across multiple web servers in order to comply with industry-standard web server reporting practices.
7. Commerce Payment Gateway Integration
Modular software routines for interfacing with a variety of payment getaway vendors (e.g. Mpact, Cybersource) for pay-per-view/listen and for traditional e-commerce.
8. Streaming Server Parsing And Reporting
Software techniques for reporting on very large streaming server log files across hundreds of streaming servers.
9. Streaming Authentication System
Custom database and related Software routines that extend RealAudio's 5.x implementation of user and player authentication.
10. Web Page Generation System
Set of databases and scripts for automatically generating website sections such as CD Jukebox, Radio Stations, AudioBooks, etc.
11. Live Events Management System
Custom data base and web-based system for managing daily events by collecting data on each event and "publishing" collected data to various groups as needed.
12. Automatic Content Promotion
Set of scripts that run against live event databases and generate files for publishing to Yahoo!, Real Networks, and CMP.
13. Telephony-Based Content Publication
System that allows people to call into a voice-mailbox and leave messages which are then automatically encoded into multimedia content and hosted on a website.
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Lance retweeted
"Business books tend to be really obsessed with make a right choice."
But most people actually make decent choices when there is only one good option.
"The problem is there's a lot of good choices. This is where things get really hard."
Lets say there are 5 good options. How do we choose now?
One of them leads to immediate revenue. It's a good choice will will reward you immediately. The other 4 might be better choices but they don't lead to anything immediate and 2 of them actually have a short term negative impact, even though the long term impact is massively higher than the other options. They make you a much better company.
"Choosing the right among of the valid solutions is actually the hard part, not finding a right solution. And unfortunately, there's so much ink spilled on finding one of the right solutions that everyone stops at this point. And I just really don't think this is the f-hard part."
My third conversation with Shopify co-founder and CEO @tobi.
0:00 How Shopify Uses AI
7:18 River: Shopify's Internal AI
8:55 How to Encourage Osmosis Learning
10:52 AI Dreaming and Self-Reflection
11:53 How to Use AI for Strategic Decision Making
14:11 The One Thing AI Cannot Do
16:04 What AI is Making Worse at Shopify
19:46 Predictions: Where AI is Headed Next
21:55 The Future of AI-Powered Software
24:40 Will CEOs Be Replaced with AI?
27:54 Can Superintelligence Be Controlled?
31:13 Critical Skills in AI Age
34:22 Why Complex Solutions are Usually Wrong
36:33 Conditions Needed for True Intuition
38:02 The Best Path Doesn't Have Instant Feedback
44:51 How Affirmations Can Shift Your Behavior
50:44 The Inobvious Thing Hurting Companies
52:37 Relationship Between Beauty and Creation
56:23 How SpaceX Moves Forward By Subtraction
1:00:24 Why Companies Need Refounding Events
1:01:50 Books as Cheat Codes
1:02:39 Three Books to Change Your Thinking
Enjoy!
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