Co-founder/CTO of gxb.vc (AI consulting for private equity firms and their portfolio companies). Founder of fileinbox.com. Father of two.
Dallas, TX
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Executives on these AI consulting jobs keep asking me "what is AI?"
But to really understand AI, you've first gotta understand the basics of how a computer works.
Here's my entire undergraduate computer science degree summarized for your C-suite:
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You can also order an extra drink when they come around asking if you need anything and you can take the extra one they give you and hold it above the person sitting in front of you and then dump it on them.
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Mini splits don’t pipe air in from outdoors! Super common misconception: they just recirculate air inside and move temperature.
For ventilation, get an ERV.
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I'm so glad I'm not the only one who doesn't even try to write professional commit messages ❤️@wesbos
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In Texas “howdy partner” is something you say to your ranch hand, not the mother of your children.
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Hello I have a VERY SPECIFIC thing for you if you use @tailwindcss and Tailwind UI and React and you're really frustrated by figuring out what the active classes are on components
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Update: I'm now making more revenue from my 64 newest customers than the 742 oldest customers.
If @patio11 tells you to charge 12x more than you're charging, you should do it 😅
(thank you @pushcx for forcing me to grab my laptop from my room and actually push the price change at @microconf)
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It’d be cool if you could do regex matches:
/here(‘s)?\s*(are)?\s*(the)?\s*(top|best)\s*\d+/i
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If @patio11 tells you to charge 12x more than you're charging, you should do it 😅
(thank you @pushcx for forcing me to grab my laptop from my room and actually push the price change at @microconf)
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The question I heard in the video was "what do you think the deficit would be with your policies?"
And Trump's answer was "we'll bring way more money which will reduce the deficit."
Sounds to me like he understood and answered the question asked, no?
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There are some days where I feel like "oh man my future self is going to appreciate this code I'm writing so much" and then there are days like today.
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Today I realized you can just pay people who are better than you at design to design apps for you 🤯
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> I see no reason why financiers should be bailed out simply because the event they’re being harmed by was unpredictable.
via. @Oaktree and @tferriss
oaktreecapital.com/docs/defa…
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Don't. Managing security in your database layer was an interesting but terrible idea.
I've done two pretty big projects in it now and both of them have an annoyingly large amount of row level security rules.
Clients connecting directly to your database was a mistake.
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Oh man, I just made my customer email support dashboard 1000000x better with like three lines of CSS that scribble out everything but the top ticket.
Now it's like a fun little game to close the top ticket so I can see what the next one is 😍
@Groove
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I've been trying to optimize food for the longest time and I think ChatGPT just unlocked something in meal prep for me.
Here's my new AI meal prep collaboration process:
- ask for some recipe ideas compliant with my current dietary preferences (whole30, paleo, primal, and ideally also keto)
- pick a few to make this week and ask to see the full recipe with ingredients
- make any modifications as needed (ex: "use an oven instead of a pressure cooker")
- ask to make a shopping list organized by section (in the order they're in my local grocery store)
- ask to combine all the recipes into one master recipe so I can cook them all in parallel
- copy the grocery list to Apple Notes and make it checkboxes (or just do a grocery delivery)
- print out the master recipe
- jam out to an audiobook while I make food for the week
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Check out any car compatible with @comma_ai
I drive a Tesla and I installed a Comma 2 (and then 3) in my wife’s Toyota RAV4.
The self driving on each is about the same which is wild because the comma is basically just a smart phone you stick to your windshield.
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THAT'S A #MICROCONF RECAP
Final word count: 31,316
Final finger state: sore
Time to my nap: as fast as I can power walk to my hotel room
Things you should do: sign up for the microconf recap at microconf.gen.co
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I was homeschooled up to high school. I think it was fantastic preparation for the type of self-directed work I need to do now running a company.
School taught me how to do work sometime else arbitrarily assigned me to do, and that's very rarely the hard part in real life.
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I feel like this post is hateful and harassing.
Do you feel like I would be justified in calling the police to raid your home and confiscate your computer?
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Hey ADHD friends: need some affirmation for doing a good job?
ANNOUNCING 🎉 ATTABOY.AI
🥳 Gives you a constant stream of positive affirmation
🎊 Celebrates your wins without cutting you down
🤩 Thinks you're the best all the time
CC @adhdjesse @chrisachard
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My girlfriend asked before today's road trip how much @Tesla range we'd lose if she charged her phone in the car.
After re-learning what volts, amps, and watts are, I'm pretty sure the answer is "about two football fields per completely full phone charge."
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🚀 Announcing a launched a long-awaited @fileinbox feature: sending files!
🔑 No logins
🐳 10GB max file size (or maybe more?)
🔗 Literally just drag and drop then copy a link
I made it in one day so lemme know how you manage to break it 👉🏻 fileinbox.app/?ref=tweet01
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Isn’t the whole point of framework that you can build your own laptops
which is hard
but building your own desktop is easy
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I used to consider myself pretty progressive. In college I unironically strived to be woke, worked to check my privilege, tried to be vigilant against racism and sexism, and committed to be an ally for the LGBT+ community. One of my most popular tweets to date was about trying to get more diversity at my favorite business tech conference.
I now believe this movement has gone too far.
@MattWalshBlog's "What is a Woman" convinced me that (in almost every case) it's terrible to help kids transition their gender.
@waitbutwhy's "What's Our Problem" convinced me that the woke movement has become tribalist Neo-Marxism which poses a uniquely dangerous threat to our society.
@jordanbpeterson's "12 Rules for Life" (and sequel) convinced me that it's more effective and virtuous to "clean your own room" before trying to fix the world (ie: if your life sucks, work on self improvement instead of protesting for social justice).
I've found myself admiring the decisions @dhh has been steadfastly making for years even when they were unpopular.
I'm glad to see Google taking a step in the right direction here after their woke-racism Gemini event.
"The most amazing thing happened. There was no drawn-out investigation. No saccharine statements about employee's rights to occupy offices, preventing work from happening, or advance their political agenda at work. Nope. They were just fired. Bravo." world.hey.com/dhh/we-are-a-p…
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I don’t know what to do with this reasoning.
I’ve dug into the “who are the Nazis being platformed by 𝕏” line before and it’s just people like Tucker Carlson.
“Nazi” has come to mean “person I don’t like, particularly because of their political beliefs.”
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I just walked through this with my assistant! (the one I hired inspired by your course 😉)
The things I care most about in flights turned out to be:
- leaves after 10am and arrives before 10pm both ways
- nonstop
- price
For lodging it’s:
- price
- <15min walk from destination
- entire place to myself
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Oh man dating would benefit so much by treating it more like hiring
"Alright I've just left the toilet seat up even though two days ago you told me a story about how your friend broke up with her boyfriend because he couldn't remember to put it down WHITEBOARD WHAT YOU DO NEXT"
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I love the Microconf community, but oh boy it sure is almost entirely white dudes.
I'm not sure how to personally make this better. If you're not a white dude and you wanna break into the run-your-own-software-business space: slide into my DMs and I'll help?
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I've posted this @buttersafe comic every halloween for the last three years because it's the best comic that's ever been created.
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For a completely private ChatGPT-like experience try github.com/cocktailpeanut/da…
The entire model runs on your computer and nothing leaves.
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Watch these planetscale.com/learn/course…
by @aarondfrancis
tl;dr numbers unless they have to be generated outside your database (like for analytics).
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Man, @r00k is nailing the build-a-software-business thing 💯
Check out Ben's genius method to go from charging $149 to $749 for Tuple, how he presold a $4k annual license, and how he accidentally got a third cofounder.
microconf.gen.co/ben-orenste…
@microconf #microconf
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My new favorite loading spinner technique. Works especially well with pure React components that can be fed dummy data that gets rendered in the BLOKK font.
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7 yrs ago I used my first $1.5k from @fileinbox to go to @microconf to meet @patio11 and thank him with a custom-made jacket
Today, I got a custom-made hat from @ControlAltPete as a thank-you for gen.co/3hats and it feels amazing 🤩
piped.video/eJICe-zADXM
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See this right here is the sort of bullshit that caused me to jump ship from Next to Rails.
Next raises compile warnings if you don’t write your code in a way that makes Vercel charge you more.
The incentives are misaligned.
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I really like this method of teaching.
If I’m understanding it correctly, when approaching a new topic you:
- survey all available material
- pick the top ~24 hours of content, especially including RTFM
- print it out and read it
- make an outline
- ???
- film videos and profit
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Keep it low with an ERV!
gen.co/co2
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I'd argue she couldn't answer this question because she isn't answering any questions (other than the 18 minute CNN interview)
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Hey are you pretty good at Next.js/React (and ideally also @supabase) and open for a ~1 month consulting job to jump into our code base at rootabl.com and help squash a few bugs for $5k?
To apply please DM me a link to an app you've deployed.
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Me: my users are so stupid these support emails are so dumb my app literally says "on" how much clearer could I possibly be
My app:
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These 17 seconds took me the better part of the last 17 months of work on TheVideoClipper.com to make happen.
Feels kinda like magic now 🤩
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If my LTV for thevideoclipper.com continues this growth trend for another two days it'll be $3 billion.
guess I'm a growth hacker now AMA ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Time to get an ERV my guy. Welcome to air quality enlightenment.
gen.co/co2
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I keep finding such beautiful easter eggs in the @tailwindui example templates.
Whoever wrote this copy needs a raise immediately.
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Huh, Bard was trained by Google so maybe they had more SEO juice in the training process and Bars actually does know a little more about what people want to read.
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I've learned a lot taking notes on the last 55 @MicroConf talks.
Here's my auto-recap of the biggest themes I saw in last year's Starter conference on the best way to start a business.
microconf.gen.co/christian-g…
#microconf
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I’m looking to hire a React developer part-time for 1k/month, ideally someone familiar with Firebase, serverless functions, Tailwind, and Next.js who’s been building stuff.
I’m a developer and business owner and want help getting through my development todo list for fileinbox.com (to support ~1k customers), thevideoclipper.com, and some side projects like attaboy.ai and other stuff at gen.co.
If you know anyone please send them my way!
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Get an ERV and the air toilet gets continuously flushed.
A cheaper and easier but less perfect solution is to keep your central AC fan on all the time. This smooths out CO2 hot spots.
gen.co/co2
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🚀 Just shipped the biggest A/B test OF MY LIFE. This bad boy has been several years and many hours of procrastination in the making.
A: the most bland safe landing page you ever did see, converting at 3.64%
B: a wild and crazy long copy page inspired by @amyhoy
LET'S GO
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🔥 I'm building a thing and you can watch me build it if you want
👇🏻 Here's a video at each step of development
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I'm moving from Dallas, TX to Washington DC in 7 days, so I'm going to try to improve my US geography every day until then.
Here's day 1 of trying to draw all the states in a blank map from memory:
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YUP
I went on this journey a few years ago. The best solution is to live outside and the second best is to get an ERV: gen.co/air
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If you're on Ryobi and know how to solder you can get the same thing for an ~80% discount.
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I've got my first paying customer for clips.marketing!!! 🥳🥳🥳
First piece of product feedback: "You're not charging enough. You're basically selling me money. I can take this clip, put it on linkedin, and two or three people are going to book sales off of that."
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Instead of focusing on the optimal delay to text back to get a particular outcome, unpack the feeling behind not trusting that your natural response rate is appropriate
Feeling obsessive? Do some meaningful work or call a friend. Out of your league? Journal+unpack insecurities
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Oh hey I was just having this conversation yesterday.
If you want a LLM you can use privately where no data leaves your computer check out this thing 👇🏻
For a completely private ChatGPT-like experience try github.com/cocktailpeanut/da…
The entire model runs on your computer and nothing leaves.
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Nah get an ERV instead: gen.co/air
All the CO2-reducing benefits of an open window with none of the temperature or humidity loss.
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Golf courses exist outside country clubs! I go about once every two years with my dad and/or uncles in upstate New York and it’s like $15/person or $25 if you want a cart.
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🚀Tiny product launch: checklist for finding places your audience hangs out so you can discover what pain they have and help them.
gen.co/qgen/
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This illustration is terrible. It visually equates black and yellow, blue and white, and red and green, and that’s not real information.
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Hey how do you currently document your business processes? Like, where do you have written down how to:
📖 Respond to a customer support request for a refund?
📖 Restore from a database backup?
📖 Market a new blog post?
📖 Onboard a new employee?
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An Energy Recovery Ventilator is the best solution: it continuously exchanges outdoor air with indoor air.
Turning on your AC fan is a reasonable low effort solution: it mixes all the air in your house to smooth out hot spot.
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I was trying to listen to a book that didn't have an audiobook version the other day and OH BOY it sure is difficult to get the plain text of a book that you own through @AmazonKindle so you can listen to text-to-speech.
Here's my outrageous workaround.
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