All the rage is around ChatGPT at the moment. And for good reason. ChatGPT is an incredible language processing system that can imitate natural language and carry out different language processing tasks. We're still in the early days and I'm sure we'll see this area evolve very rapidly. To help you make the most out ...
26Nov 2022
AI Tools That Will Change How You Work
Generative AI The amount of progress that's made in this space is pretty exciting, especially with generative AI. It's an area worth carefully keeping a close eye on. A lot of innovations that I'll be listing below are based on either Open AI's GPT-3 (text generation), DALL-E (images and videos), Stability's Stable Diffusion and MidJourney. You ...
13Mar 2022
Lindy Effect Examples
Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash What is the Lindy Effect? The Lindy Effect is a theory that suggests that the longer something has been around, the more likely it is to continue to be around. In other words, the more often something is repeated, the longer it will last. The Lindy Effect was first proposed by mathematician ...
09Feb 2022
Logseq Review [2022]
Note-Taking Introduction I love taking notes and I've been using all kinds of systems including Roam Research (which I use the most), Obsidian, Evernote, among others. I'm combining the ideas from Zettelkasten (with influence from Andy Matuschak on Evergreen Notes), progressive summarization and others to a rough system that works for me. I stumbled upon Logseq ...
05Feb 2022
Using Roam Research as a Financial Log
Why Keeping A Journal Makes You A Better Investor I keep a daily log of all my thoughts and decisions on Roam Research, and find it incredibly useful to do so. This includes my thoughts for stocks, commodities and other financial instruments that I'm analyzing. Each decision represents a bet about an uncertain future, and this is ...
12Nov 2021
Top Black Friday SaaS Deals 2021
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22Sep 2021
Asymmetric Bets, Venture Capital & Cancer Cells
Perhaps the most significant is that it’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong -- Stanley Druckenmiller I've been obsessed with asymmetric bets and looking for them wherever I can find them. These are bets where you ...
01Sep 2021
Starting a Software Business
Photo by Karl Pawlowicz on Unsplash SaaS Business Ideas The most important thing when starting a new business is the market. You can have a mediocre kebab stand but if you have a starving crowd, you're pretty much guaranteed to make money. This is why understanding your customers and their needs is so important. You can have the ...
31Aug 2021
Body By Science Summary
Photo by Daniel Apodaca on Unsplash When it comes to health and fitness generally, my two favorite books are Body By Science by Doug McGuff and John Little, and all of the books written by Dr. Jason Fung. It's interesting how much Body By Science breaks with how people traditionally thnk about working out. One of the ...
28Aug 2021
Scaling a B2B SaaS Business and the Different Stages of Growth
I've just re-read Ben Horowitz's excellent book, Hard Thing About Hard Things. One of the things that Ben was talking about is diving the stages that a start up goes through. For example, for a well established company, having more than 3 initiatives per quarter will probably be too much. On the other hand, if you're a small ...
