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Mechanical Watch (2022) (🔥 Score: 164+ in 1 hour)
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ciechanow.ski
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
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Charlie Munger's recipe for getting rich:
🖱 Curiosity
🖱 Diligence
🖱 Analysis
🖱 Courage
🖱 Prudence
🖱 Patience
✔️ @venture
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An island in the middle of the ocean.
40°C heat, humidity, insects.
Every dollar from the PayPal sale gone. Debt worth twice your net worth.
Your childhood hero, Neil Armstrong, publicly calling you an idiot.
Tears in front of rocket debris after 3 failed launches. One rocket left. One shot before bankruptcy.
The result?
A $2 trillion company today.
Potentially $20 trillion if SpaceX succeeds in scaling humanity's access beyond Earth.
Dream bigger. Take risks. Build things.
Don't settle for being part of the crowd.
✔️ @venture
40°C heat, humidity, insects.
Every dollar from the PayPal sale gone. Debt worth twice your net worth.
Your childhood hero, Neil Armstrong, publicly calling you an idiot.
Tears in front of rocket debris after 3 failed launches. One rocket left. One shot before bankruptcy.
The result?
A $2 trillion company today.
Potentially $20 trillion if SpaceX succeeds in scaling humanity's access beyond Earth.
Dream bigger. Take risks. Build things.
Don't settle for being part of the crowd.
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Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Notes from a Tired Egyptian Guy Whose Job Is Explaining That Humans Built the Pyramids
A traveler asked: “How could ancient people possibly understand mathematics?” Excellent question. We accidentally invented geometry while trying to avoid car...
' Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.'
Proverbs 16:3
https://www.bible.com/bible/8/PRO.16.3.AMPC
Proverbs 16:3
https://www.bible.com/bible/8/PRO.16.3.AMPC
Bible.com
Proverbs 16:3 (AMPC) - Roll your works upon the Lord [comm - Bible App
Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.
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The new HTTP QUERY method explained (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
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kreya.app
The new HTTP QUERY method explained | Kreya
In this blog post, we take a deep dive into the new HTTP QUERY method, explaining the history behind it as well as the advantages and disadvantages of using it.
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Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone (❄️ Score: 159+ in 3 days)
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https://archive.is/LV6Cw
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WIRED
This Buried Apple Feature Turns an iPhone Into the Perfect Kids’ Dumb Phone
Apple built a tool for people with cognitive disabilities, but I accidentally discovered it’s also the best kids’ phone setup no one is talking about—not even Apple.
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Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (Score: 153+ in 16 hours)
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Ship That Code
Ship That Code — Build Real Systems, Not Tutorials
Learn programming by building real systems from scratch. Redis, Git, a database, a compiler — every lesson is choose, write, run.
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How to Read More Books (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
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scotto.me
How to read more books | scotto.me
My method for reading more
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Obsidian Mind is a new tool that creates a persistent, infinite context for AI models like Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini, and others.
It saves all information between sessions so models don’t need to be re-primed every time, saving tokens and effort.
This tool helps AI agents maintain continuous memory and context across sessions, improving workflow and reducing repeated setup.
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Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering - Google Developers Blog
https://developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an-ideal-language-for-ai-assisted-software-engineering/
https://developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an-ideal-language-for-ai-assisted-software-engineering/
Googleblog
Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud
As AI shifts software engineering from writing to reviewing, discover how Go's strict compiler and unified toolchain ensure reliable AI-generated code.
The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life (❄️ Score: 152+ in 5 days)
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Substack
The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain's life
Learning from the automation dreams of the first Machine Age
Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
https://github.com/TheRealYT/git-knife
https://github.com/TheRealYT/git-knife
GitHub
GitHub - TheRealYT/git-knife
Contribute to TheRealYT/git-knife development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Do not confuse activity with progress
A product that solved a problem six months ago may no longer be needed. Markets change. Customer behaviour changes. Yet founders keep adding features, changing packaging, adjusting prices. They improve the solution — but the problem has already shifted.
McKinsey found that companies analysing customer behaviour grow 85% faster. Those listening only to words, not actions, fall behind. Customers say one thing and do another. In surveys they want innovation. In reality they buy reliability.
Founders fall in love with their idea and stop noticing the market has moved. They add features when customers need clarity. They add complexity when customers want simplicity. They solve the old problem while thinking they are solving the new one.
How to avoid this mistake. Once a quarter, ask yourself one question: "What problem are we solving today?" Not "what problem did we solve a year ago." Look at the data: what are people buying, abandoning, recommending? Find the gap between words and actions. If it exists — the problem is not the solution, but the question.
A mistake even successful founders repeat: confusing activity with progress.
The paradox is that the market may validate an idea once, but demand something different later. The question is how often you revisit your current focus.
#learnfromothersmistakes ⚠️
Other insights — t.me/theaccel
A product that solved a problem six months ago may no longer be needed. Markets change. Customer behaviour changes. Yet founders keep adding features, changing packaging, adjusting prices. They improve the solution — but the problem has already shifted.
McKinsey found that companies analysing customer behaviour grow 85% faster. Those listening only to words, not actions, fall behind. Customers say one thing and do another. In surveys they want innovation. In reality they buy reliability.
Founders fall in love with their idea and stop noticing the market has moved. They add features when customers need clarity. They add complexity when customers want simplicity. They solve the old problem while thinking they are solving the new one.
How to avoid this mistake. Once a quarter, ask yourself one question: "What problem are we solving today?" Not "what problem did we solve a year ago." Look at the data: what are people buying, abandoning, recommending? Find the gap between words and actions. If it exists — the problem is not the solution, but the question.
A mistake even successful founders repeat: confusing activity with progress.
The paradox is that the market may validate an idea once, but demand something different later. The question is how often you revisit your current focus.
#learnfromothersmistakes ⚠️
Other insights — t.me/theaccel