The Daily Loop #14

Fourteenth edition of The Daily Loop. 3 long-form reads, 3 short-term tweets, 1 quote and some daily advice! Have a read.

The Daily Loop newsletter focuses on information that can be consumed in 2 minutes every day by linking to posts across the internet, formatted in a way that is easy for anyone to navigate. In a 3-3-1-1 design.

The goal is for as many people to read this daily and inspire them to think differently about certain things. It will primarily be around topics and industries I am interested in such as: startups, ai, success, innovation, change, crypto, nfts, etc.

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3 long-form reads

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Aleksandr Volodarsky 🇺🇦 @volodarik

Many of today's billion-dollar companies started as side projects. Here are 11 that will surprise you:

• → Google, Instagram, Yankee Candle, Github, SPANX, Oculus, Udemy, Craigslist, Houzz, WeWork and Twitter.

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Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic

A very interesting development in the AI art saga: litigation against several commercialized generative AI art sites whose machine learning models were trained on art scraped from the internet without the permission of the artists who made it. https://t.co/91jjXokDr7

Jon Lam #CreateDontScrape @JonLamArt

Here is the formal complaint in the Lawsuit against Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DeviantArt on behalf of Karla Ortiz, Sarah Anderson and Kelly Mckernan. https://t.co/cnXIi4Tsps Links for pdf of complaint (with violations and exhibits above) #CreateDontScrape #art #NoAi https://t.co/qTMq3Ttvex

• Small thread, but an interesting loophole to go through. The fight against AI will be one to look at. I am not sure how it will end in the short-term. But in the long-term I know it’s probably impossible to stop.

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JSC @JSCCapital

11/ On making concentrated bets the whole passage is worth a read:

• You can read the full thread but wanted to point to this image. On making concentrated bets.

3 short-form tweets

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Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi

Anger is more useful than sadness.

• <3

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Luca Netz 🐧 @LucaNetz

Delaying something is better than shipping a product that sucks. Understand that if someone delays a rollout it’s probably for good reason. Sacrificing short term gratification for long term success is key 🔑

• “A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.” — Shigeru Miyamoto, and this doesn’t just apply to games.

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6529 @punk6529

pull the bandaid off. make the decision, have the hard conversation, say "yes" or say "no" but pull the bandaid off on Monday.

• Have the hard conversation.

1 good quote

"Brick by brick, my fellow citizens, brick by brick."

This quote is originally attributed to Emperor Hadrian, who allegedly said it while urging his people to re-build Rome after a horrific fire, encouraging them to do so in a methodical manner so that it may stand the test of time.

1 piece of advice from me

Step out of the bubble you may be in ever so often. It’s good to have something you love and are passionate about, but it’s also good to not lose touch with reality.

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