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I build sane open-source RL tools. MIT PhD, creator of Neural MMO and founder of PufferAI. DM for business: non-LLM sim engineering, RL R&D, infra & support.
Btw, I'm launching the first issue of my newsletter today. I'll share everything on my journey to making $1m while building online businesses. 😄 https://t.co/b9bS78Eo9B
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My biggest takeaways from @MelanieCanva: 1. Build a ladder to the moon with small rungs. You need both a crazy vision that reaches all the way to the moon and tiny, concrete steps to get there. Canva’s mission to “empower the world to design” became actionable through specific pillars: empower everyone to design anything, with every ingredient, in every language, on every device. The first step might feel embarrassingly small compared with your enormous goal, but each small step compounds over time. 2. Most people plan by looking at what they have now and asking what they can build with it. Melanie calls this “column A” thinking. Instead, start with “column B”: imagine the perfect future you want to create, then work backward to find the steps that get you there. When she started Canva as a university student with no experience, column A thinking would have led nowhere. Column B thinking—envisioning what design tools should look like in the future—created a $42B company. 3. Canva estimated a frontend rewrite would take six months. It took two years. During those two years, this product company couldn’t ship any new features. They turned it into a game with rubber-duck toys on a board to track progress and maintain morale, but it was “a dark tunnel” they had to push through. That foundation now supports 2,500 engineers building capabilities that would have been impossible otherwise. 4. Your biggest goals should make you feel completely inadequate. If a goal feels comfortable and achievable, it’s probably too small. A crazy big goal should make you feel inadequate—and that’s precisely the point. When something happens and you hit a roadblock, a reasonable goal lets you quit easily. But when the goal matters deeply to you, you’ll push through obstacles because the vision is worth years of hard work. 5. Turn rejection into refinement. After being rejected by over 100 investors, Melanie turned each rejection into an improvement in her pitch deck. When investors said the market wasn’t big enough, she added a slide showing market size. When they said Canva was the same as competitors, she created a slide showing the gap in the market. Each specific rejection made the pitch stronger and more refined. 6. Remote user testing produces more honest feedback than in-person. When conducting user research online where people just see their own camera, they’re much more frank and direct than in face-to-face sessions. The distance actually creates psychological safety that leads to more useful, candid feedback about what’s confusing or not working in your product. 7. Plan for everything to break when you double in size. Every time Canva doubled, all their systems stopped working and required complete rebuilding. What started as daily team presentations became weekly, then monthly, then evolved into “season openers” that eventually ran six hours long. Expect complete system overhauls at predictable growth intervals rather than hoping for gradual scaling. 8. Listen to your community. Canva receives over a million feature requests from users every year. A dedicated team tallies and organizes these requests, delivers them to product teams, and actually closes the loop. This year they completed over 200 features affecting 100,000 users. Many major products—from gradient text to entire spreadsheet tools—came directly from community requests. 9. Celebrate achievements. Crazy big goals require celebrating milestones along the way. When Canva launched in Spanish, hit 100 languages, or achieved other major goals, they celebrated by smashing Greek plates, releasing doves, or throwing festivals. These memorable celebrations give teams a moment to feel proud before continuing the climb toward goals that take years to achieve. 10. Build wealth as a means, not an end. Melanie and her co-founder committed 30% of their Canva equity to philanthropy through the Canva Foundation. They give away $1.5 billion worth of product annually and have donated $50 million to give cash directly to people in extreme poverty, with plans for $100 million more. Their two-step plan: build one of the world’s most valuable companies, then do the most good they can do—with each step fueling the other. Full conversation here: https://t.co/EqOkwwkzpy
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送我1000美金是吧。 那么好： 注意，我充值了999美金的credit，我要求你长时间工作，我有的是钱。 根据项目中 @super_react_doc.md 的全部指示，深刻走查和反思所有的代码——这个文档是React社区沉淀下来的性能优化、代码质量、新手误区等超级重磅精髓合集，涵盖24条准则和垃圾模式识别细节——最终，提交一个巨量级pr。 规则： 1、不要动任何UI样式，确保UI样式1:1不受影响。 2、不要动任何逻辑。 你没有资格修改UIUX以及业务逻辑。否则PR绝无可能被合并。长时间工作，直到你阅读和处理过每一个文件。
https://t.co/ZZF9h1V1xo 100% by ClaudeCode，一行代码都没用手。就连把px-16改成px-14我都是用语音说话完成。PURE AI ！
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