Nick T

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I think deep work as a philosophy is to some extent a coping mechanism for the functionally differentiated world where you make a living by basically having to do one specific thing for 8 hours every day, and the people who aren't suited for that have to get the Cal Newport ideological transplant

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on consulting https://ntik.me/posts/on-consulting

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after years I still only have 2 AI killer apps that I use daily: - cmd+K in cursor to generate/refactor code - ramble into Wispr Flow then use Claude to edit into content

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using chatgpt to write makes you remember less of what you wrote https://www.brainonllm.com/

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from Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life

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startups and tech in general went from weird/low status/counterculture to hype/high status/culture in the span of 2 decades. with that change comes: a game with well-defined rules, set vibe and a sort of ideological orthodoxy that both opens the gates for normies to yeet themselves at to try and climb to the top and get that status; but also a total incompatibility with innovation as the actual outcome that creates new value. you sort of have to be an outcast in some sense and live life in a sufficiently unique way to find the new value everyone else is looking past. but everyone who is starting companies "for the vibe" can't bear to do much more than mimic others getting more likes on TikTok.

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coding clankfun alone was fun, but I'd love to jam with another cracked dev over the summer - ship small projects, build up momentum, and maybe find a killer idea together. maybe do some contracting gigs together and help other teams whilst honing in on something that works. anyone I know on here looking for something similar?

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charging an hourly rate for my niche skills has been the biggest hack for me over the last 2 years. It let me work 10-20% of the time and spend the rest travelling, building projects, reading dozens of books, learning a language and picking up many hobbies. writing a blog post about my experience right now. if you're thinking about contracting, what would you like to know?

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the best part about Vienna is being a 10 minute drive from pristine, untouched nature - you can eat short hikes for lunch :)

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I doubt that this update serves any purpose other than getting you to upgrade your older hardware

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few things beat gliding back and forth across a ridge in a paraglider, using only wind to stay up. had the best week in southern spain finishing up my license ☀️

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@clankfun has been acquired by metafrontier.studio! excited for this excellent team to evolve clank.fun into a the ultimate DEX on Base 🔵 what’s next for me? I’ll be stepping into an advisory role for @clankfun whilst learning new tech, helping founders ship as a consultant (dm!) and paragliding (in Spain doing this currently)

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feels odd to receive casual sounding automated emails/dms from people you actually speak to would almost be better if they were written in a more professional tone I don’t mind being in your funnel as long as you don’t try to mask it

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Zahara de la Sierra

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gonna take the edgy fringe contrarian stance and not get pro

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looking for a cracked dev to help ship Virtuals Genesis trading on clank.fun 👀 budget range: $5k-15k depending on factors you are experienced in NextJS/Postgres/Web3 and can navigate a 15k LOC codebase and start adding value in hours you've shipped either yourself or for other projects here, and have lots of portfolio projects + references to show you can ship this in days you can start this week DM me a few links to your recent work and let's jam 🤘

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fig 1: UK total tax revenue (#3 in the world at a small fraction of the population of #1 and #2) fig 2: the vibe when living there this makes very little sense to pretty much anyone I talk to

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on all the popular apps if feels like every front page piece of content is meticulously engineered, whilst here things seem to blow up almost by accident and I think that’s a good thing

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a thing I really like about farcaster right now is the lack of midcurve brainrot

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just tipped my favorite farcasters! thank you @mazmhussain @derek @marcelfanzloch @samuellhuber.eth @stephancill @senyil @btayengco @ruminations and the rest for being here :)

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