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Founder, ClarityText.com, an online platform designed for businesses to chat publicly.

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Audience for long form coding tutorials decreasing.

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Why I stopped making coding tutorials
YouTube video by Traversy Media
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December 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Let’s see if link unfurling works in Bluesky for a domain that redirects to another domain:

Convexchef.com
Convexchef.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Oldie but goldie for understanding the university finance and business model.

The UVA Magazine Fall 2015 issue.The feature article in that edition is titled "Funding Academic Excellence" (at the University of Virginia).

digital.uvamagazine.org/articles/funding-academic-excellence
Funding Academic Excellence
Budgeting for a complex organization like the University of Virginia is no simple task. Here’s a look at some of the numbers, and the priorities behind them.
digital.uvamagazine.org
December 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Daily stoic started as an email newsletter.

14:00

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How Ryan Holiday Built a Million Dollar Content Empire
YouTube video by The Nathan Barry Show
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December 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Here in this chat channel, I talk about the state of the stock market:

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December 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The strongest influence on the rate of the 30 year fixed rate mortgage is the 10 year treasury yield.

grok.com/share/bGVnYW...
Mortgage Rates: Market Forces, Fed Influence | Shared Grok Conversation
how is the mortgage rate in america set?
grok.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Estimate of Skool valuation at $800 MM.

10:02

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15 Years of Brutal SaaS Business Advice In 52 Minutes
YouTube video by Alex Becker Tech
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December 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Here, I chat about the stock market.

I work to find case studies that are educational.

www.claritytext.com/space/ks70wm...
Channel | ClarityText
Join the conversation in this ClarityText space channel.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The best investment in the 2010s that I know of.

grok.com/share/bGVnYW...
TQQQ Margin Trade: 2010s Best Bet | Shared Grok Conversation
Was the best trade of the 2010s to borrow money on margin and buy and hold TQQQ?
grok.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“Work feels like playing a multiplayer game with my friends. “

- Gabe Newell
2025

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Gabe Newell on AI, Gaming & Success (Full 2025 Interview)
YouTube video by Zalkar Saliev
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November 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Diversification of stock selection via the S&P 500 was once seen as not prudent investment advice.

This is an insight into how leverage early in life can be seen in the future as prudent.

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#40 Dr. Barry Nalebuff & Dr. Ian Ayres | How to Invest in the Stock Market? | Lifecycle Investing
YouTube video by Unconventional Money Moves w/ Joshua Krafchick
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November 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Chris Camillo on levered ETFs.

Alpha without stock picking.

2009 stock market 47% drawdown did not make the 3x levered ETF insolvent.

From 2022.
www.youtube.com/live/42azDpq...
Triple Leveraged ETF — Long Term Hold?
YouTube video by Dumb Money Live
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Nick DiGiovanni spends $50k or more per video.

9:00

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He Rejected Harvard for YouTube...Then Made $10M (Nick DiGiovanni Interview)
YouTube video by Jon Youshaei
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This gives insight into how AI search is able to understand the content of a website.

blog.google/technology/d...
Introducing the File Search Tool in Gemini API
File Search is a fully managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system built directly into the Gemini API.
blog.google
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Zach Kanter built Stedi for four years before launching. EDI electronic data interchange business.

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How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
YouTube video by First Round Capital
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November 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Documentary of Peter Thiel looking through his motivation in the lens of political philosophy as well as desire for money.

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The Antichrist is Here.
YouTube video by Volksgeist
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November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Interesting: a small brand is compelled to talk on Reddit, because a small brand is vulnerable to a reputation attack.

Story of Codesmith.

larslofgren.com/codesmith-re...
The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator
Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into ...
larslofgren.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
tanstack.com/blog/directi...

APIs carry provenance (imports), versioning (packages), composition (functions), and testability. Directives typically don’t, and trying to encode options into them can quickly become a design smell.
Directives and the Platform Boundary | TanStack Blog
A Quiet Trend in the JavaScript Ecosystem For years, JavaScript has had exactly one meaningful directive, "use strict". It is standardized, enforced by runtimes, and behaves the same in every environm...
tanstack.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Regarding SaaS, the “system of record is dead”

13:00
Thomas Laffont
Coatue
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Former CAA Talent Agent Turned Investor with $70B in AUM on AI and Venture Strategy | Ep. 29
YouTube video by Uncapped with Jack Altman
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October 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Anish Acharya from a16z introduced Kevin Rose to @convex.dev

Timestamped URL:
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Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code - Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya (A16Z)
YouTube video by Kevin Rose
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October 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
1:29:00 Dan Sundheim of D1 Capital wouldn’t take Stripe public.

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Dan Sundheim of D1 Capital on the art of public market investing
YouTube video by Stripe
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October 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The hard thing about newsfeed-format apps: ‬

‪An account can essentially just talk about one topic without losing the audience outside that topic. ‬
October 22, 2025 at 5:57 AM
It's surprising how big companies still don't consistently use HTTPS scheme in the web.

An email from HBO Max has a manage subscription button that sends me to:
October 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Too many social media newsfeeds are conveying to Gen Z men to use lots of debt to speculate on short term price changes of commodities and stocks.
October 20, 2025 at 5:07 AM