Tuesday night. Founders raving. GPs spinning. IYKYK — the AI Boiler Room (YCSSAP). Invite only. partiful.com/e/oPS6kZ0S3aPAj…

Last time I was job hunting I accidentally turned on “Do Not Disturb” mode. For days, I got 0 email, call, message notifications nothing in my life was delayed or affected at all. 💀📱

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Saw a new grad share that after sending 10,000 résumés, their interview rate was 1/150 (including screening calls). He said：I just need to apply to 30,000 next time. That’s a massive AI market. 😭 (Good thing we’ve got @finalroundai

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“Résumé polishing” doesn’t mean lying. It’s about describing your work more intelligently — seeing the logic beneath the surface. Don’t just say what you did explain what you learned and why it mattered. Not ：collected competitor data, but： understood how product strategies shift across stages, and learned to extract market insights from data. Not： designed event banners but： iterated fast enough to learn brand tone, audience rhythm, and conversion logic. Not：helped my mentor but： saw how ideas move from concept to execution in a real business. Most people stop at verbs like “assisted,” “participated,” “completed” those are records, not reflections. Great résumés read like reflections. They prove you can learn, adapt, and transfer knowledge. If you’re not sure how to “extract the essence” of your projects, try running a project debrief on @finalroundai guides you through Action → Impact → Value helps uncover results you didn’t even realize

HR stopped replying again? Relax — it’s almost never about you. Here’s what’s actually going on behind the scenes: Before the interview: 1️⃣ Too many chats at once — forgot to reply. 2️⃣ Got pulled into urgent offline work. 3️⃣ Stuck in meetings or reports. 4️⃣ Read your message, meant to reply… then Slack happened. 5️⃣ Realized you don’t meet some hidden filter (age, degree, etc). 6️⃣…… After the interview: 1️⃣ Silent rejection (the classic). 2️⃣ Comparing multiple candidates — waiting to finish all rounds. 3️⃣ The hiring manager’s stuck deciding. 4️⃣ HC got reshuffled. 5️⃣ Their top pick hasn’t responded yet. 6️⃣ Someone else joined faster. 7️⃣ You’re on standby just in case that person quits. 8️⃣ The final decision-maker’s on vacation. In short: so many reasons, most not about you. So stop torturing yourself over it. Apply, follow up once, and move on 💼

Hard to believe the two people running the world’s biggest social universes both look like AI-generated aliens. 👽

Every Monday I secretly hope that one of those X hypotheticals finally comes true ⬇️ “If you got $10M, what would you do?” “Dinner with Elon or $1M?” “High-paying offer or Stanford degree?” Just let one of them randomly cash out already. 😭💸

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Unpopular opinion: When AI can help you learn and even perform all skills the taste of a product will largely separate you from the remaining 99%.

In fact, according to my observation, many AI start-up companies do not follow the past habit of focusing on educational background, work experience, and work skills on resumes... Most of the time, they care more about things that match their values, such as whether you like to dig deep and whether you have the spirit of doing something no matter what. This may also be another expression of AI liberating productivity: when skills can be learned by AI, where does your job-hunting competitiveness lie?

Obviously, there are only two types of people who don't like the day off: - Entrepreneurs - Job seeker This is the most difficult part to adapt to when you leave the regular work cycle; it is hard to imagine that someone can do nothing on this day.

When I first watched The Boss Baby years ago, I didn’t realize it was a prophecy. Now my X feed is full of actual baby bosses — the SF startup wave has officially reached teenagers… and maybe toddlers too. 👶💼🚀

The Louvre heist proved that true work-life balance still exists even criminal gangs only operate during standard business hours. 🕒💼💎 （So don’t give up on finding a WLB job ——clearly, the opportunity still exists, even in times like these. 😌💼

x ≠ real world. it’s an echo chamber of vcs, founders, & tech media trying to perform insight for each other. normal ppl don’t care about seed rounds, acquihires, or who got funded by whom. they care about whether something feels good to use or makes life easier. launching a consumer product on x is like testing a restaurant by serving only to food critics. you’ll get noise, not signal. early adopters on x skew cynical, not curious. e.g. i would never launch a consumer experience on x first.