The paradox of presence: The moments you’ll miss most one day are often the ones you want to escape while you’re in them

“Good kings are the only dangerous enemies that modern democracy has” Oscar Wilde

we are hiring a VP of Growth to take beehiiv 🐝 from $20M ARR → $100M+ and make this headline look obvious ideal person has experience doing both PLG + enterprise GTM at scale tag the best growth person you know 👇

The Ring Kissing and Bootlicking Will Continue While Networks Eat The State Be Careful Who You Pray Too... ht Daniel LJ Attia Balaji fresh on my newsletter howardlindzon.com/p/the-ring-kis…

The difference between who you are today and who you’ll be in 5 years is almost entirely made up of the books you read between now and then.

everything is a remix everything will be an ai mix

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earlier this year, we made a multi-million dollar bet on independent journalism our mission with the beehiiv 🐝 Media Collective: give top journalists everything they need to build their own sustainable media businesses here's what the first 8 months looked like (spoiler: dope)

From today's Big Desk Energy. I'm in several DMs with people on Substack looking for a change, and am doing a group call with some of them on Thursday. DM me if you want to be invited.

I think we can all feel this happening sub-consciously, but this article puts it into words

tobi lutke 4Chan, the only network to file a lawsuit against a state with a patriotic paragraph about its origin state this is contemporary art

MongoDB really baked with a 420 m gp hits from the Bong(oDB)

Tested 3 AI models on the same prompt. 2 ran locally on my M4 Max / 48GB RAM. 1 ran in the cloud. The prompt: "Plan me a 10-day trip to Ecuador with a $7,000 budget. Top 10 things, best hotels, full itinerary." The results were… brutal. 🧵 (spoiler local models are the future)