my three learnings from today: - 1 finished > 5 "pending" - messiah --> builder - morning/day/evening mood (vibe) are fair to exist different: just acknowledge and accept each of them like saying "i see you, i know you" & keep going.

human crafted letter/DM is a new way to show your taste in the era of AI agents

I am frustrated: many of the smartest ppl from startup world I've been adoring for years, literally j*rk*ng on ai slop saying it's a god blessed wonder. So two questions are coming 1-whether they are just rage baiting 2-or maybe I was wrong about their intellectual power...

when i read this , it has immediately recalled in my memo an analogue: "one death is a tragedy, million - is the statistics!", a quote by one sadly famous guy

3 ‘whys’ no one can give an answer: 1-why should access to a person depend on word of mouth at all? 2-why should the way you found them be seen as an indicator of quality? 3-why is the lack of a ‘warm intro’ auto-interpreted as a ‘bad deal’? ...a whole host of prejudices

Séb Krier PITTI My view is that if there is a bottleneck downstream then applying AI is counterproductive. This sounds stupidly simple, but consider AI applying for jobs on behalf of people which requires AI to screen applications. This is obviously spam, since the limiting factor is the

📵life is easier when there is someone who can fire you open.substack.com/pub/sabledima/…

amen

AI has made perfect posts/messages/DMs - free. Now, "polish" is no longer proof of intent. -->so no chance to define a signal

wisely said, oh man - thx such ppl, who are thinking with their own head and logic - exist! that gives a hope, we're not finally lost. and will survive

Email is free, so people take it for granted. humans' attention is treated as a commodity they are allowed to get for free. Like at hunting for ducks. I'm building smth, that restores the importance of sending a message before it is sent and delivered. This approach is fair.

all the tools help you manage inbound. ai made sending effortless. the old model filters noise after it arrives. i build smth that asks for proof before it enters.

real transformation starts before the message is sent. we don’t optimize the inbox (after the fact) we change the terms of entry (before it lands)

Your inbox isn’t broken - it’s unreadable. Real signals are drowning in perfect slop Everyone’s outreach looks flawless. That’s exactly why you can’t trust any of it anymore

Fear of missing the one real opportunity is growing faster than your ability to read the inbox. AI didn’t kill cold email. It killed your ability to know which one matters

(v) Do. (x) Don't think. (v) Show. (x) Don't tell. (v) Fact > (x) Theory

You don’t need a better idea. You don’t need more funding. You don’t need to wait until it’s ready. You just need to be willing to ship something embarrassing.

What will come next when the 'dropout' trend fades?

+1 Learning by doing. not by (over)thinking 💭 Also, that's why 70% of startups who exit successfully end up with another idea they've started. Take BREX, for example.

🧯 Would you put out a fire with gasoline? open.substack.com/pub/soboleff/p… #coldemail #aifilters #coldoutreach #spam #emailoverload