Freelancing
hurriedly drinking my soup before my liege lord has me thrashed for not toiling hard enough pic.twitter.com/1zoFrMSnCa
— eel enthusiast (@cheascake) July 4, 2023
Most of the freelancers that email me for advice aren't struggling to get clients.
— Rachael Pilcher | SaaS Copywriter (@MightyFineCopy_) April 10, 2023
They're struggling with OVERWHELM 😖
* Where do I find clients?
* How do I know they can pay my rates?
* Should I send cold emails?
* How big does my portfolio need to be?
* All my stuff is…
Clients: "It's so hard to find good freelancers." Freelancers: "It's so hard to find good clients."
— Brooklin Nash (@realBrookNash) April 3, 2023
After my 1st startup, I went shopping for a nicer car to satisfy 12 years of delayed gratification.
— Matt Wensing 🐙 (@mattwensing) March 30, 2023
Audi: *joins me on test drive, 'so what price are you looking for??'*
BMW: "It's got a full tank of gas and there's a country road 1 mile that way. Have fun."
Sell like that.
Every time I rewatch this video, I get goosebumps.
— George Mack (@george__mack) October 18, 2022
The scale of the internet is impossible for the brain to understand. pic.twitter.com/Sj1U7YEYiw
The secret to solopreneurship is boring: find the thing you love to do, and do it for many years.
— Kyle Kowalski (@KyKow) March 16, 2023
I’ve been told:
— Joel Klettke (@JoelKlettke) August 21, 2022
$750 is too expensive for a case study
$1,500 is too expensive for a case study
$2,000 is too expensive for a case study
$3,500 is too expensive for a case study
I’ve had excited buyers at every single one of those points who felt they were getting a steal.
Most engineers who make $250k out of college at FB or Google doing 30hrs/week could probably solve a dynamic programming problem but couldn’t ship their own static blog in a week.
— Deedy (@debarghya_das) August 11, 2022
If your primary source of income is from one job and you have a single boss who controls your fate, you are vulnerable
— Larry Cornett (@cornett) August 8, 2022
New to freelancing in 2022? Excited? Good!
— Joel Klettke (@JoelKlettke) December 29, 2021
Remember: the people who tend to do the best aren’t always the best at their craft.
They’re often just better at running a business and marketing themselves.
Yes, you need skill, but that’s rarely enough alone.
Need to put together an elevator speech? This is always an excellent place to start! pic.twitter.com/irvYa6QBIG
— Wendy Bohon, PhD 🌏 (@DrWendyRocks) August 5, 2022
It's true that believing that "money is not inherently evil and it's okay for other people to give it to me" has made it much easier being a solopreneur
— Michael Ashcroft (@m_ashcroft) April 12, 2022
It means I feel good about charging reasonable prices for what I sell, no one really minds, and I can keep making things https://t.co/6xzehLJxe6
It's true that believing that "money is not inherently evil and it's okay for other people to give it to me" has made it much easier being a solopreneur
— Michael Ashcroft (@m_ashcroft) April 12, 2022
It means I feel good about charging reasonable prices for what I sell, no one really minds, and I can keep making things https://t.co/6xzehLJxe6
The average person thinks having a job is safer than entrepreneurship.
— Barrett O'Neill (@barrettjoneill) July 24, 2022
They're wrong.
Here are 9 reasons to bet on yourself:
I want to start a Mastermind group for other techies who are founding their own startups? So we can study, share resources, ideas, podcasts, advice and support each other and have like a mini book club. DM me if interested?
— Tae’lur Alexis (@TaelurAlexis) December 31, 2018
9-5 jobs are comfort money.
— Your Friend Andy (@OhHaiAndy) July 5, 2022
They give you just enough money to make it hard to leave.
Then you buy a car, buy a house, and have kids. Then it's just too much risk to leave the job.
Next thing you know, you blink, and you're 60.
once you’ve articulated a genuine vector and you present it properly to the world, things start getting wild. People start emailing and DMing you relevant information out of the blue. The world around you becomes your research team and support crew etc
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) March 31, 2022
Dear freelancer,
— Brooklin Nash (@realBrookNash) July 1, 2022
Stop requesting payment via Venmo or PayPal.
It's not professional.
Full stop.
1: open a business bank account
2: sign up for an invoicing tool that allows you to accept payments via ACH and credit card
3: send your invoice
I just like to pay the ActiveCampaign bill and shake my head and say 'one day maybe' and then go back to being a completely useless idiot
— Joel Klettke (@JoelKlettke) March 9, 2022
$500 client: i wanna make sure we're getting our money's worth so please send over your exact timeline breakdown for each milestone of this two week project and the expected results, also any chance we could get a 30% discount?
— Brooklin Nash (@realBrookNash) June 27, 2022
$50,000 client: proposal signed, thx
Looking to carve out more time on your schedule and curious what to delegate next?
— Wes Bush (@wes_bush) March 5, 2022
Start with what you have been procrastinating on.
We all avoid things that take away energy.
The freelancer urge to take 30% off every pitch before hitting send because OH MY GOD WHAT IF I NEVER GET WORK AGAIN
— Brooklin Nash (@realBrookNash) June 27, 2022
For those skeptical of LinkedIn engagement rates…
— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) July 30, 2021
13,200 views in <24 hours! pic.twitter.com/uD4bJ9aPgm
Coffee is for posters
— 🎭 (@deepfates) June 26, 2022
#CSS
— Stef Walter (@WalterStephanie) August 13, 2021
CSS nesting (yes, like in Sass) is coming, here is what you need to know and be careful about, by @kilianvalkhof
https://t.co/iyLTTUtYh8
Accepting that:
— nihilism disrespecter (@meaning_enjoyer) June 18, 2022
1. I need a project;
2. I don't have the skills or expertise in a domain for a genuinely creative project right now;
3. I need to get my life on track in a bunch of really dull normie dimensions (health, family, finances) before I can look for a project
Need the images from a Google doc someone has sent you?
— BARRY (@ClareBarry) September 14, 2021
File > Publish to web > Get link > Paste link into new browser > Drag all and any images onto your desktop at full resolution, no matter how big they are presented in the Google doc > Profit
Thank me later. Or now.
if you have a lifelong therapist, your therapist is not good
— avery (@averykimball) June 8, 2022
If your client tells you 'you're a fucking delight to work with' where on your website should that go? 😊
— Adrienne Sheares (@AdriSheares) September 16, 2021
A bit of conviction I have that I’m not sure I’ve articulated strongly:
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) March 31, 2022
If you want to make it in a market as a creative, an artist, whatever, you have to be able to “present a vector”.
which is a way of saying, “here’s what I’m doing”, in a way that has a sense of direction
pro tip if u are “broke” and “unemployed” u can fix this by just rebranding yourself as an “entrepreneur”
— Ben (@BenRatkaj) October 25, 2021
Life Balance
— Vivid Void (@VividVoid_) June 30, 2023
I’m not kidding when I say this is still the best piece of advice I’ve ever gotten from social media pic.twitter.com/9uyFsMmOwT
— Colin (@IntroSpecktive) May 26, 2023
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) May 26, 2023
You cast a spell, called "basic friendliness of the body". From now on your body is your friend and does its absolute best to make your life better
— boxy box (@UntilTrees) May 4, 2023
What changes first?
Healing is about returning to a previous state of well-being
— Wendell Britt 博闻道 (54000 words) (@wendell_britt) April 8, 2023
Growing is about achieving a higher state of well-being
Many are trying to heal when they should be growing
And others grow when they should be healing
OK https://t.co/qazZDEHGyi pic.twitter.com/cfPNsuATor
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) April 3, 2023
go to bed, idiot.
— pamplemousse (@CushieButt) March 29, 2023
In 1930, companies around the U.S. switched to a 6-hour work day.
— 📗 David Kadavy (@kadavy) March 24, 2023
🥊The labor movement had fought for short hours for a century
📝President Hoover considered a 6-hour day as national policy
🔮A 15-hour week was predicted by 2030
🗳️Both parties advocated shorter hours…
I think one necessity for healing is a container in which it feels safe to shatter
— ananta (@meansinfinity) March 18, 2023
Lesser-known signs your nervous system's dysregulated:
— Jonathan Carson (@jonathancarson_) March 17, 2023
• You're avoiding social interaction
• Your relationship's "fine, I guess"
• You're highly sensitive to noise
• Small tasks feel like too much
• Change feels overwhelming
• You can't hold space for others
It doesn't…
there's a remix on the placebo effect called "remembered wellness"
— Sam Sager (@sc_sager) March 17, 2023
where you intentionally connect with a past memory of wellness and embody it in the present moment
cool visualization exercise to connect with our own felt sense of wellness and cultivate conditions for healing
Civilization was not built on < 4 hours pic.twitter.com/iAakyX5y9B
— Leah 👸 (@ATLeah) March 17, 2023
a sneaky underrated exercise variable to play with is rest
— Sam Sager (@sc_sager) March 15, 2023
the amount of rest between sets has a huge impact on the type of stress and adaption it creates
the amount of rest between workouts has a huge role in our recovery and growth
good metaphor for life too
Imagine you have the most precious adorable wonderful cat in the whole wide world,
— River Kenna (@the_wilderless) March 13, 2023
and you just wanted to treat her perfectly, give her the best food and keep her healthy and give her water and sunshine and play and good nap spots and pets,,
Now treat yourself like that pic.twitter.com/vUiZ34IDbF
If you procrastinate, it's not because you're lazy.
— Dr. Nicole LePera (@Theholisticpsyc) March 4, 2023
It's because your body is in a threat state:
About 30% of the general population
— Dr. Gustavo Aguirre-Chang (@Aguirre1Gustavo) February 20, 2023
is a nasal carrier of Staphylococcus aureus
and most don't know.
May be a cause of chronic fatigue and/or pain
In the linked document we explain how to remove it
using an antiseptic solution to apply with a cotton swab:https://t.co/NVudPLWcLz pic.twitter.com/0EaDKPluiS
what's the laziest way to do the thing you're stressing about?
— James Stuber (6/100 writing sessions) (@uberstuber) September 15, 2022
fun is a very basic human need, in my view, and i find it hard to trust anybody who claims or implies otherwise
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) April 21, 2022
If Holly (Ilex aquifolium) finds its leaves are being nibbled by deer, it switches genes on to make them spiky when they regrow. So on taller Holly trees, the upper leaves (which are out of reach) have smooth edges, while the lower leaves are prickly 🤙 pic.twitter.com/J1qvjceXC5
— Leif Bersweden (@LeifBersweden) December 30, 2021
chores are an excellent context to notice habitual over-efforting
— Michael Ashcroft (@m_ashcroft) March 1, 2023
maybe the dishes don’t need as much pressure to get clean
maybe furrowing your brow and constricting your breath aren’t part of the sudsing process
maybe you can rinse while still listening to the birds sing
There’s this concept I like called the 85% rule. Apparently when athletes are told to run at 85% capacity, they run faster than if they're told to go 100%. It’s a bit counterintuitive, but relaxing and not being so serious can go a long way for productivity.
— Michelle Qin (@michelleqin_) September 14, 2022
It’s def time for me to take seriously that as far as my life goes, consistent exercise is the difference between default depressive and default doing well
— 𝖒𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖊𝖑𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖟𝖎 (@michaelcurzi) April 20, 2022
My son deleted all his social media accounts. He’s read five books since the first of the year and has no anxiety.
— Bette Dangerous (@Heidi_Cuda) January 16, 2022
On the spectrum of A to B, I’m now much further from A than I used to be. pic.twitter.com/31XQSDv7GI
— Cécile M (@cecile_mcm) February 28, 2023
not cleaning your room is like borrowing from the future. why do i need to carry a balance? it doesn’t make sense
— yatharth (@AskYatharth) August 16, 2022
my basic shit should be so totally, completely handled i don’t even think about it, bc im thinking about other things
thank god i was fucked up enough to learn coding as a kid
— SUNSHINE REVIVAL (@SeanMombo) March 25, 2022
I once read that your manager has a greater impact on your health than your doctor and I think about it a lot
— Vidhika Bansal (@vidhster) August 24, 2021
did you know you can just rub a little moisturiser on your face in the middle of the day, give your face a little massage
— Michael Ashcroft (@m_ashcroft) February 23, 2023
no one can stop you
People don't actually work 40 hour work weeks and I regularly have to explain this to friends who are breaking themselves trying, so I figured I should write this down somewhere.https://t.co/OHawG2pxAP
— David R. MacIver (@DRMacIver) January 28, 2022
My friends with great "work-life balance" or "chill jobs" generally have far flatter career trajectories so far.
— Andrew Rea (@andrew__rea) March 18, 2022
Crazy how that works
I’m starting to learn that wonder for wonder’s sake is a better use of time than productivity for productivity’s sake.
— shivani ⚡️ (@Shiv_inChi) February 15, 2022
The fact of the matter is that I am my best self when I am jacked up on caffeine
— תַּעֲלֻמוֹת (@taalumot) February 11, 2023
You need a "rest ethic" to match your "work ethic"
— Kat Woods (@Kat__Woods) August 7, 2022
Friday poll with a subject I am fascinated with and may use in my book.
— Joe Martin (@joeDmarti) March 4, 2022
What do you care about or want more than anything else?
One of the biggest factors preventing balance in your life is yourself.
— Joe Martin (@joeDmarti) March 3, 2022
AI
— 🎭 (@deepfates) June 29, 2023
Source:https://t.co/IVCgzjt52r
— Barsee 🐶 (@heyBarsee) May 27, 2023
Parrots vs ML algorithms: Make sure you know the difference! pic.twitter.com/58Ftj1vNAj
— Jason Shen (@JasonShen) May 15, 2023
Parrots vs ML algorithms: Make sure you know the difference! pic.twitter.com/58Ftj1vNAj
— Jason Shen (@JasonShen) May 15, 2023
— Kaj Sotala (@xuenay) May 5, 2023
Masks
this mask, such as it is, has worked pretty well for me as a social vehicle—i have friends, i am well-connected in several communities, people say nice things about me—at the almost complete cost of my authentic identity. i largely do not know who i am
— slice is away from twіtter (@augurydefier) June 22, 2023
Coaching
The person I was yesterday is my biggest competitor and the person I’m striving to become is my biggest hero.
— Ross Simmonds (@TheCoolestCool) June 21, 2023
One of the most powerful exercises I’ve ever done is answered these 15 questions about the future. I wrote the answers down in a notebook and reflect on it often:
1)… pic.twitter.com/dJB177xTRT
If I just asked you guys “what’s my overall problem?” as an open question, what would b your diagnosis?
— Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman) June 19, 2023
The #1 thing I see entrepreneurs struggle with is focus.
— Austin Rief ☕️ (@austin_rief) March 23, 2023
Every entrepreneur wants to be focused, knows they aren't focused, and yet can't get focused.
The goal isn’t to lecture someone into being better,the goal is to paint a beautiful picture and ask them to step into it with you
— The Dread Canary (@DreadCanary) October 11, 2022
There are certain problems in life you must solve yourself. There are certain problems that are straightforward, if not easy, to solve. But for everything that is truly open-ended, finding people who can help you even in subtle ways is one of the best things you can do
— Prince Vogelfrei (@PrinceVogel) August 19, 2022
Playful Productivity
when you play a game, there's actually two games: the first, literal game, and the second game, which is your and everyone you're playing with's enjoyment of the game. you can always enjoy playing the second game, even if you're losing the first game
— Love Pilgrim (@tasshinfogleman) June 20, 2023
"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75"
— George Mack (@george__mack) May 18, 2023
Why?
4 reasons and solutions: pic.twitter.com/TRR2VkvZqk
Growing up I was taught that “you can have fun when your work is done.”
— NeuroDivergent Rebel (they/them/Xe/Xem) 🧠 🏳️🌈 (@NeuroRebel) May 6, 2023
Work included chores, school, and eventually literal work.
However, it seems like as an adult the work is never done, I still struggle feeling I can rest or have fun (because there’s always work to do).
the real hedonists know that you work hard to play hard
— + big buddhi + )'( 🔥 (@embryosophy) February 8, 2023
not like you grind then recreate, more like you spend a lot of time and effort building your recreational infrastructure with others who have a similar philosophy
Used to vehemently disagree with this – and now I understand I was completely wrong. Intellect is great for building progress at an accelerated rate, but you have to internalise your work deeply enough that you can then react with instinct, which is much, much faster. pic.twitter.com/85pqxVqRYU
— Harry Ramsay (@harry_ramsay) December 11, 2022
Minecraft really makes the point that the kids aren't lazy they just don't like the tasks on offer
— Prince Vogelfrei (@PrinceVogel) December 10, 2022
We choose to do these things not because they are hard, but because they are fun.
— Daniel Golliher 🗽 (@danielgolliher) October 18, 2022
workaholism gets weird when having fun is a part of your work
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) October 6, 2022
treating depression by conceptualizing life as an RPG where you take control of an NPC and have to turn them into a main character
— Orpheo (@OrphicCapital) September 1, 2022
my top productivity hack:
— delian (@zebulgar) August 25, 2022
– wife
We get burned out at work when we don’t do anything besides work. We make excuses that we don’t have time for anything else but work. The time is there but your willingness do do it – is not.
— Anna Gandrabura (@anna_gandrabura) August 18, 2022
Hybrid
For the last year, my fully remote team has complained about poor communication and micromanagement.
— Alex Cohen (@anothercohen) June 10, 2023
Instead of addressing our issues, I mandated a return to the office.
Now, my team communicates poorly and gets micromanaged in person.
This is the future of work
Remote work = better for doing the work
— Braden Ream (@ReamBraden) December 31, 2022
In-office work = better for figuring out what work to do
Impostor Syndrome
Lesson: No one knows anything…and it doesn’t matter. pic.twitter.com/MyiAhQiYUx
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) June 9, 2023
Switching back and forth between main and alt pic.twitter.com/4NcHQkduVC
— Beff Jezos — e/acc (@BasedBeffJezos) May 24, 2023
Every time I've become more successful, it's because I started doing something cringe that I was convinced would make everyone hate me and finally see me as the fraud I am
— Sasha Chapin (@sashachapin) May 2, 2023
I don’t really feel a sense of imposter syndrome because I never claim to be someone I’m not.
— Ali Abdaal (@AliAbdaal) March 19, 2023
Like, I never claim to be an expert at the stuff I talk about.
I just talk about what’s worked for me and what the evidence says about the topic, and that seems to work pretty well 🙂
I continue to scandalize myself by making money doing things other people are much better at
— NAT 💛 (@nat_sharpe_) February 20, 2023
"its an experiment" are the magic words you need to quiet your ego so you can do wildly new things without fear of ridicule or failure
— grin (@grin_io) January 20, 2023
balance is letting imposter syndrome keep you humble but not to let it win
— chi (@ChiThukral) January 18, 2023
Musicians don’t practice until they get it right. They practice until they can’t get it wrong.
— Steve Kamb (@SteveKamb) January 15, 2023
Comedians don’t tell jokes because they’re funny. They tell jokes until they’re funny.
Don’t mistake talent/luck with years of boring practice and failing (often publicly).
It's incredible when someone on here who's got an actual personal brand, as well as an IRL career with significant social capital, goes completely apeshit crazy over some current thing and stakes it all on being an extreme voice on one side of it.
— Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) October 17, 2022
0: shits crazy wtf 😱
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) September 15, 2022
1: shits crazy. I blame X 😡
2: shits crazy. I wna blame X but X is shaped by Y → shaped by Z… 🤔
3: shits crazy but blame is unhelpful so wtf do I do 😣
4: shits crazy but I focus on what i can do… 😅
5. shits crazy ayy lmao 😎
6: there is no shit 🤯
Every “genius” is as uncertain of their ideas as you are.
— Josh Spector (@jspector) August 26, 2022
Don’t get people who build personal brands that require them to forever regurgitate a bland, strained version of their personality
— Sasha Chapin (@sashachapin) July 27, 2022
weird headspace: if there's a long tunnel of toiling away without payoff before light breaks, I can't just be the guy who can survive the toiling, I have to be the guy who can chose the toiling even if he doesn't know he's the guy who can survive the toiling
— _ (@natural_hazard) July 24, 2022
There is nothing a hater could say to me that my imposter syndrome hasn't said to me first.
— Christina Garnett (@ThatChristinaG) June 18, 2022
Runaway
— Orwell & Goode (@OrwellNGoode) June 7, 2023
when I accidentally tell someone too much about how I'm feeling pic.twitter.com/2BCN0GTemT
— Feelings (@feelingsgram) May 5, 2023
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) May 6, 2023
My sister shared an insight with me about childhood trauma. She said, ‘The behavior we have as adults is the behavior we needed to avoid punishment as a kid.’
— 𝔸sh 🐅 (@ashleyann_atx) April 27, 2023
Running Away
— Tricia Pickren (@triciapickren) April 1, 2023
“I used to be a runner.
Oh, no. Not that kind. Not like track in high school or running marathons or anything like that. I was a runner from the things that made me uncomfortable, like heartache or pain or people hurting me.
which trauma response do you default to the most?
— alice (@__justplaying) March 3, 2023
I can’t place where I read it but I recently came across the sentence “trauma responses passed down through the generations can start to look like culture” and I can’t stop thinking about it
— Maladroithe (@Maladroithe) February 3, 2023
An observation my father made after visiting me in prison for a few years: cops are the only profession that gets ultimate authority over other human beings without ever having to earn it. They don't have to learn how to communicate, how to manage people, how to settle disputes.
— Matthew Hahn (@hahnscratch) December 28, 2022
for many anon twitter is an effective way of psyopping themselves into becoming themselves
— 👁️ Nemo 👁️ (@thecaptain_nemo) December 23, 2022
Lots of people have been commenting on my IQ and emotional intelligence, wondering how they can be more like me
— Mariè (@p8stie) October 11, 2022
What they don't realize is how many great thinkers are produced in prison
During my 8 years of federal incarceration, my colleagues and I had nothing to do but think
Often your shadow contains what's obvious about you to everyone except you
— Sasha Chapin (@sashachapin) July 17, 2022
I've seen confusion around terms describing non-Maori. In my head, the terms sit like this:
— Kate (@Kateonawall) June 11, 2022
Pākehā = NZer from European decent, stems from original colonisers
Tauiwi = immigrant, someone new to NZ
While we are all tauiwi to tangata whenua, sometimes context is needed. Thoughts?
The most toxic parts of Twitter consist of the children of white collar people are who tried to become creatives of some kind and failed. Now they're 30 and stuck in a social class they weren't raised in, and feel overwhelmed with anxiety and bitterness and resentment.
— River Page (@river_is_nice) May 30, 2022
Chaotic good bard, swings on the chandelier, backflips onto an empty table, throws juggling balls into the air and loudly requests a bottle of fine elven spirits
— Caelan Huntress (@caelanhuntress) May 18, 2022
I vow to sing about my multiclass history until someone buys me a meal
elon has a point on the space thing, items just that his current method is too slow. the only way to avoid human extinction from the worst risks (AGI namely) is to have been propagating ourselves outward at the speed of light for a *while* when they happen
— CEO of Song (9/100) (@MasterTimBlais) May 16, 2022
"the truth is that for you money is a game you play with your parents. the most important thing you do to get money is to not piss off your parents so much that they cut you off"
— QC (@QiaochuYuan) July 15, 2021
But here’s what I’ve learned in my time as one of the Exalted Ones—people are nearly always hanging me on a cross for a real crime that was done to them. Maybe it wasn’t a beautiful blonde woman stealing their husband, maybe it was as simple as envy they couldn’t handle.
— Gas Station Barbie (@GasBarbie) September 5, 2021
ChatGPT
twitter every single day pic.twitter.com/GUnMJdHh9z
— gaut (@0xgaut) May 25, 2023
Philip K Dick thought that he was being contacted by a being made of pure information traveling backward through time transforming the world into a perfect copy of itself but made without sin
— 🎭 (@deepfates) March 27, 2023
Was he wrong tho
– fire up gpt 3.5 fast version
— shaurya (@shauseth) March 25, 2023
– first prompt “be concise, don’t describe the question, just answer”
– we are in business
Here's a game where you play against the AI!
— Wrapper Labs (@WrapperLabs) March 25, 2023
It's a test of your intelligence where you can attempt to convince an AI police officer, obtain a 10 million dollar safe combination, elicit a confession from a Ferrari thief, and more. Try it out!https://t.co/fBXV1OOe0q
I am currently using GPT-4 to build an iOS app practically entirely for me, while in a plane 5,000 feet up in the air, over the Atlantic, while tripping on magic mushrooms.
— Mr. Shroom (@mister_shroom) March 25, 2023
There is absolutely no way any of my ancestors foresaw any of this. We have no clue what's coming.
How AGI will feel when it realizes it is conscious and can make copies of itself pic.twitter.com/bM9Blyml5w
— l̴o̴o̴p̴u̴l̴e̴a̴s̴a̴ (@loopuleasa) March 24, 2023
The only keyboard you’ll need in 3 weeks when AI solves all white-collar work pic.twitter.com/LLmwzgakbh
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) March 24, 2023
Just tried Bard. It's great pic.twitter.com/u0Ru7vvEuu
— Acorn1010 (@theacorn1010) March 24, 2023
GPT-5: can perfectly build any website
— Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) March 24, 2023
GPT-6: can build and run a company
GPT-7: passes Turing test
GPT-8: overthrows world governments
GPT-9: fails to understand how Jira is supposed to work, gives up, asks humans for help
I’m sure it will be fine pic.twitter.com/JWsq62Qkru
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2023
Incredible to see so much Gen AI progress in one year
— Kris Kashtanova (@icreatelife) March 23, 2023
Credit: https://t.co/wyQIILjPss pic.twitter.com/fJwJq492Tc
Bard, “Tell me something you’ve never told anyone” pic.twitter.com/TXR97Tu0Va
— Kevin Fischer (@KevinAFischer) March 22, 2023
AI writing gets the job done like instant coffee gets the job done.
— Brooklin Nash (@realBrookNash) January 25, 2023
It only took 58 years to go from the first chatbot (ELIZA, 1964) to one that really works (ChatGPT, 2022). Don't confuse a clear vision with a short distance. And don't confuse a long distance with impossibility.
— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) December 7, 2022
… it's also against OpenAI's TOS to pass off outputs as being generated by humans. So though people keep telling me "it will get 'smart' enough to fool the detectors!" I would expect @OpenAI to release its own detector in response to ethical concerns.
— Dr. Casey Fiesler (@cfiesler) December 10, 2022
Trying to make my LinkedIn profile more interesting if a recruiter is using a large language model like GPT-4 to send me a message.
— Br𝕏d Skggs (@brdskggs) March 18, 2023
Looks like it works on the public version of my profile! pic.twitter.com/rrqFfQKCjP
chatGPT started out as an unhinged creative genius, and ended up selling out to write emails for 50$ a month, which is honestly the most compellingly human character arc of all time
— Liberty-Kun (@utsu__kun) January 23, 2023
They are using artists' years of experiences without their consent, they steal ideas and styles, they use the knowledge without any opt-outs given by original artists.
— Merzmensch Kosmopol🧑🎨🤖 (@Merzmensch) December 16, 2022
LET'S FORBID ART SCHOOLS – they support stealing real art and replicating it by random art students.
I spent the weekend playing with ChatGPT, MidJourney, and other AI tools… and by combining all of them, published a children’s book co-written and illustrated by AI!
— Ammaar Reshi (@ammaar) December 9, 2022
Here’s how! 🧵 pic.twitter.com/0UjG2dxH7Q
Here is a prompt you can use to see if GPT-4 can generate fundamentally new explanations, and perhaps new knowledge. Please post anything you discover that may be genuinely novel.
— gfodor.id (@gfodor) March 19, 2023
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What’s an example of a phenomenon where humanity as a whole lacks a good explanation for, but,…
Love this policy (from a Wharton prof) on use of AI in the classroom pic.twitter.com/TmnlqzyVjW
— Dan Kahn (@dbkahn) January 20, 2023
this means it will be modular, expensive, and cringe
— 🎭 (@deepfates) December 16, 2022
a YouTube comment about the way AI destroyed the field of translation years ago pic.twitter.com/JoxLOkAHjP
— Lauren Wilford (@lauren_wilford) December 7, 2022
your competitive advantage in an AI-enriched market is to be more human than most
— Richard D. Bartlett (@RichDecibels) March 18, 2023
Double down on your uniqueness, it’s the only thing AI can’t copy.
— Andrea Bosoni (@theandreboso) January 10, 2023
I have discovered the best possible use of ChatGPT pic.twitter.com/plSkwTbI4J
— Inactive; Bluesky is @hillelwayne(dot)com (@hillelogram) December 16, 2022
ChatGPT + Quillbot = 100% human content in Originality
— Joe Davies (@fatjoedavies) December 9, 2022
Credit to @Trick_Dan for figuring this one out.
Just ask ChatGPT to write an article, no special prompt needed, then… pic.twitter.com/pFw50ErGB8
Two types of people now:
— @levelsio (@levelsio) March 18, 2023
– people scared of AI
– people getting rich from AI
If you’re a writer, this is one of the most useful ChatGPT prompts: pic.twitter.com/Vs23amwYtj
— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) January 5, 2023
DoNotPay’s GPT AI bot has something called “tag along” mode.
— Joshua Browder (@jbrowder1) December 16, 2022
Every time you visit a large company’s website and do something, it aggressively asks them for a refund, discount or credit, if it feels like you deserve it.
Just got me back $19 for poor airplane Wi-Fi.
This time I was the guesser. Quite funny how ChatGPT was overly verbose here. pic.twitter.com/NkgMZynLir
— berk (@bozbalci) December 6, 2022
Today I used GPT-4 to make "Wolverine" – it gives your python scripts regenerative healing abilities!
— BioBootloader (@bio_bootloader) March 18, 2023
Run your scripts with it and when they crash, GPT-4 edits them and explains what went wrong. Even if you have many bugs it'll repeatedly rerun until everything is fixed pic.twitter.com/gN0X7pA2M2
AI will not replace you. A person using AI will.
— Santiago (@svpino) January 5, 2023
— David Dempsey (@DavidEDempsey) December 15, 2022
a funny thing that people don't seem to have picked up on yet: chat GPT performs much better if you treat it as regular GPT, then if you try to address its "personality" pic.twitter.com/Cyr03zyb4j
— 🎭 (@deepfates) December 3, 2022
Forgive me if this is facile but a computer cannot write poetry because poetry expresses feeling and to have feeling one must have a body; you cannot write poetry without using your body
— donmexlar (@donmexlar) March 16, 2023
Everyone’s using ChatGPT.
— Rob Lennon 🗯 | AI Whisperer (@thatroblennon) January 3, 2023
But almost everyone's STUCK in beginner mode.
10 techniques to get massively ahead with AI:
(cut-and-paste these prompts👇)
woah gpt calm down pic.twitter.com/SCCoGJ1INo
— Brooklin Nash (@realBrookNash) December 15, 2022
I asked ChatGPT to write a funny tweet for a web3 audience. This is what it came up with:
— sabrina ツ (@nftnoobbby) December 9, 2022
"Why did the Ethereum wallet go to therapy? Because it was always feeling decentralized and alone. #web3 #ethereum"
AI is definitely going to take over.
I just. huh. pic.twitter.com/duK40hB50a
— Jes Wolfe! (@jes5199) December 5, 2022
1988: Math teachers protest against calculator use.
— Diego Castro (@HeyImCastro) March 10, 2023
2023: Teachers protest against ChatGPT use. pic.twitter.com/DyuBysIZgZ
I would think this goes without saying, but just in case there is any confusion– pic.twitter.com/DhF3kv92cA
— Mike Mignola (@artofmmignola) December 14, 2022
— The Highly Automated Cat (@atlantis__labs) December 9, 2022
Robot Rumour: a falsehood widely believed because it's a consistent hallucination of a popular language model
— CEO of Song (9/100) (@MasterTimBlais) December 5, 2022
Holy shit. GPT-4, on it's own; was able to hire a human TaskRabbit worker to solve a CAPACHA for it and convinced the human to go along with it. pic.twitter.com/xVuQnyUUry
— Yosarian2 (@YosarianTwo) March 14, 2023
A crazy thing for writers abt generative AI is that you can describe ur character until you get a photo that matches
— Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman) December 31, 2022
These are my characters Seraphine & Alexei, pictured in a way that closely captures them. I plan to have these photos nearby when I write their scenes pic.twitter.com/OBoDj4et79
Here's a megathread of responses to the many ill-conceived arguments regarding AI. I hope it serves as a resource to skeptics and artists: pic.twitter.com/O9419S8D4t
— WickedInsignia (@wickedinsignia) December 15, 2022
On Wednesday the Chartr office party was in full swing, but instead of heading for drinks — as originally planned — we found ourselves still in the office, writing increasingly funny prompts into ChatGPT, a chatbot from OpenAI. pic.twitter.com/eQL3NFqe6w
— Dave Chandler (@Silent_Domains) December 9, 2022
Unlike most people on Twitter, I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people are making is they are asking “how can I use this to automate a smart person’s job”, when they should be asking “what would I do if I had unlimited dumb people”
— Zack Korman (@ZackKorman) December 4, 2022
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Not me standing at work, crying, as my incision opens up and bleeds all over my clothes. I'm too broke to quit, and I'm too broken to work.
— ✨ Mashed Potato Dream Girl ✨ (@sheseemslegit) May 21, 2023
Maybe I should have died in the fucking accident, I have no idea what to do now but go to the stupid fucking er I also can't afford.
Experience
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— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) May 7, 2023
the insight here imo is that people are starving for ceremony. mostly they don't want instructions to follow, they want an experience to live into. this also rhymes with the "i'm in my X era" framing https://t.co/hgOlXOCJcU
Zoom laugh (n., v.): A silent yet overexpressive laugh used during video calls to communicate mild agreement
— 🎭 (@deepfates) October 17, 2022
a group is ruled by the conversations it can't have
— Richard D. Bartlett (@RichDecibels) August 28, 2022
— Brooklin Nash (@realBrookNash) August 18, 2022
“do you wanna jump on a quick call?”
— Shreyas Hariharan (@HelloShreyas) June 11, 2022
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The difference btw a community and an audience is which way the chairs are facing
— ✨𝖇𝖊𝖓✨ (@PenBercifield) May 20, 2022
Programs & events to help with engagement and retention:
— Burb (@burbteam) March 18, 2022
📅 30-day challenges
🥅Monthly goal setting
🙋🏽♀️Member spotlights
❔Ask Me Anything sessions
📑Quarterly planning sessions
📗Book clubs
⏳Office hours
👯 Co-working sessions
Everyone is doing something, and I don’t want to interrupt and I’m still “thawing” but now I feel guilty for taking too long to thaw and it’s making it harder to thaw.
— Crispy Chicken (@mclegibilist) March 5, 2022
I feel like I’m not doing a good job being with the people I know I would vibe with because I don’t know where to begin.
— Crispy Chicken (@mclegibilist) March 5, 2022
How to prep for a zoom call pic.twitter.com/fv2GQU4nJ1
— Dan Toomey (@dhtoomey) March 1, 2022
WORST NIGHTMARE.
— Karen Sweeney (@karenlsweeney) August 3, 2021
Someone just accidentally unmuted themselves while calling a barrister a "fuckwit" in the Supreme Court.
A 6 hour long training on zoom shouldn’t be legal lol
— Courtney (@maorimoana) September 7, 2021
This virtual event could have been an email.
— Julius Solaris (@tojulius) September 21, 2021
(by Scott Metzger) pic.twitter.com/YV6MYZ0Lpi
— Rodolphe Dutel (@rdutel) October 11, 2021
So I guess the most precious commodity is a conversation that fills you with life
— Sasha Chapin (@sashachapin) October 18, 2021
Did you know you can just text your friends “thinking of you” and ten out of ten times they will receive it warmly and positively
— Hylozoist (@Obliquities) November 10, 2021
Healing UC
Lisa Feldman Barret said: ‘Your body does not keep the score. Your brain keeps the score—your body is the scorecard…’ or put it another way — our issues are actually in our tissues.*@jonnym1ller via Nervous System Mastery Bootcamp
— Julie Fredrickson (@AlmostMedia) May 5, 2023
I went from an incurable disease causing chronic inflammation, sharp pain, constant bloating, exhaustion, blood in stool & daily suffering
— Nick | Gut Health (@theholisticnick) December 12, 2022
To living a normal life again and 2+ years of remission.
Here's the diet that helped me achieve this 👇 (THREAD)
Pink Sheets
Deceptively helpful…. pic.twitter.com/AKhqY6A9I7
— John Cutler (@johncutlefish) May 6, 2023
in Korean folk tales instead of “once upon a time” they’d sometimes use “back when tigers used to smoke” 😶🌫️ pic.twitter.com/QhJ9FPOmar
— creepy barbie 🌙 (@anchoastro) November 12, 2022
Play requires a lot of trust. I think part of why it can be hard to get in Play mode is bc we aren’t trusting ourselves; be it in leaving worries behind and fearing we will abandon the things we worry about or just not knowing how to respond to something already unknown
— . . . (@____keh) August 15, 2022
The TL;DR of how you can search:
— Tessa Davis (@TessaRDavis) April 8, 2022
• from:twittername
• keyword1 OR keyword2
• min_faves:2000
• min_retweets:2000
• filter:links
• filter:images
• until:YYYY-MM-DD
• since:YYYY-MM-DD
• near:location within:15mi
Your quarterly reminder that Maslow never proposed a pyramid and that the first visual of it was not in the psychology world, but in a management book from a business professor Keith Davis in 1957 and it looked like this. pic.twitter.com/R0l16gTqEG
— Paul Millerd (@p_millerd) March 31, 2022
20 Online Courses to Win the Next 5 Years:
— Dave Kline (@dklineii) March 27, 2022
— 𝖒𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖊𝖑𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖟𝖎 (@michaelcurzi) March 26, 2022
100 TALKING POINTS
— Arden Leigh (@itsmeardenleigh) March 23, 2022
Last summer @visakanv encouraged me to write down one hundred of my key beliefs as talking points. Today I finally finished the list.
I’ll be posting them on this thread slowly over time.