Tobi Lutke: Books are a cheat code for life Shopify founder Tobi Lutke explains why he reads so many books: “If you don’t read books, you live a lifetime. If you read books, you live 1,000 lifetimes.” David Senra reads a quote of Tobi’s back to him: “Books are the closest

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The world will reward you in proportion to your courage, not your intellect.

God forbid Hamburg gets a little motion 😤 Germany’s largest AI hackathon is happening right here, right now. Powered by Cursor and AI Beavers 🦫 with support from OpenAI plancraft n8n.io ElevenLabs Runway and many others. Most fun I’ve had shooting in a while 📸

Ran into a sheep lady giving out quests and healing potions downtown #Hamburg

Hamburg on a Sunday. The Age of vibe coding (and the golden age of hackathons) is upon us.

Twitter will hate it, but our EU–INC is step by step turning real.

taste is a new core skill

Peter Steinberger just proved his own point in real time. He built PSPDFKit in Austria, bootstrapped it for 13 years, exited to Insight Partners, then created OpenClaw, which became the fastest-growing GitHub project in history. Two days ago, he joined OpenAI and left Vienna for

Well said.

aesthetics of AI companies from A Color Bright

Germany is the only country in the EU (and one of the two in Europe) that has produced two major regional ecosystems that sit in the continent's top 10 by VC investment. Berlin and Munich both sit high in the rankings, showing healthy growth and increasing interest from VC

European 🇪🇺 (co-)founders have created more enterprise value in the US 🇺🇸 than in Europe itself 🤯 Europe produces 24% of the world's unicorn founders. Almost half start in or moves the US (source: Yoram Wijngaarde ). But where does the value end up? This chart says it all. 🇺🇸

This is what an EXCEPTIONAL mindset thinks like and sounds like. So impressive from a 22 years old. Not only you CAN control what you think, and how you think it and why, but you SHOULD. See your mind as a skill and practice it as such.

VCs ascribing value to founders with daddy issues. Hilarious yet kinda fucked up.

Cost of content? Zero. Software? Abundant. The difference-maker? Exceptional, direct, authentic content. Trust. Taste. Consistent creativity. Stuff you can’t farm with a claw. 🦞

Addiction to short-form videos reduces brain activity in the frontal lobe weakening the ability to focus.

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A German startup has just signed an agreement to build the world’s FIRST nuclear fusion plant. Proxima Fusion has signed an MOU securing €400m from its home state of Bavaria to build the €2bn plant. The rest of the funding is expected to come from the federal government.

You can complain about Europe. Or you can apply for €125M to build the next frontier AI lab. They’ll come from 10 teams funded with €125M. Non-dilutive. 24 months. Zero equity taken. On March 19, 2026, Next Frontier AI comes to Paris. SPRIND is launching a €125M Challenge