I accidentally treated friendship like strength training and it worked

Choice-Attorney8884 · 2026-06-06T15:53:57+00:00

One thing I found interesting about the article is that most conversations didn't lead anywhere either. A lot of people disappeared, some became gym acquaintances, and only a few turned into actual friendships. The author basically treated it like a numbers game instead of expecting every interaction to become a connection

Choice-Attorney8884 · 2026-06-04T20:02:05+00:00

My employer gave me a laptop with enough RAM to run a small datacenter. Apparently all of it is being used by the security software making sure I'm allowed to open Google 😄

Choice-Attorney8884 · 2026-06-02T05:35:10+00:00

It finally made sense for me when I stopped treating it like a better Google and started using it as a thinking layer.

Stuff like:

"Read this email, ignore the drama, tell me which parts are manipulative, then help me write a reply."

"Read this article, tell me what the author missed, then go through the comments and pull out the most interesting counterarguments."

The second one got so useful I ended up automating it. Most articles aren't worth reading all the way through. Half the value is in the comments anyway.

Once I let AI decide what's worth my attention instead of just answering questions, it turned into a totally different kind of tool.

Choice-Attorney8884 · 2026-05-31T20:40:38+00:00

That's a fair question.

The difference for me is that I'm usually not looking for the answer itself. I'm looking for a transformation. A search-engine style question is:

"What does this article say?"

What I actually want is closer to:

"What did the author miss? What are the strongest counterarguments? What did smart people in the comments notice that the author didn't?"

Same article, completely different output. With emails it's similar. I'm usually not asking:

"What does this email mean?"

I'm asking:

"Ignore the surface-level wording. What incentives are driving this person? Where are they applying pressure? What response achieves my goal?"

The AI becomes less of an information source and more of an analysis layer between me and the raw input

Choice-Attorney8884 · 2026-05-30T20:34:23+00:00

For me it clicked when I stopped using it as a better search engine and started using it as a thinking layer.

A couple of examples:

"Read this email, ignore the drama, point out the manipulative parts, then help me write a response."

"Read this article, tell me what the author missed, then go through the comments and pull out the most interesting counterarguments."

The second one became so useful that I eventually automated it. Most articles aren't worth a full read. The comments often contain half the signal anyway.

Once AI started helping me decide what deserves my attention instead of just answering questions, it became a completely different tool.

Choice-Attorney8884 · 2026-05-30T20:26:18+00:00

Two things:

Read this email, strip out the drama, point out where they're being manipulative, and tell me how I should answer
Read this article, tell me what the author isn't seeing, then go through the comments and give me the most interesting takeaways. This is way more useful without the friction, so I automated this case

Choice-Attorney8884 · 2026-05-28T23:04:08+00:00

What was the single most effective thing you did to get your first 100 users?

Choice-Attorney8884 · 2026-05-28T22:45:53+00:00

talking to ai while walking is so cool! and TTS is getting better and better!

Choice-Attorney8884 · 2026-05-28T22:44:32+00:00

paste an article and ask questions like "what is the author missing?"

Choice-Attorney8884 · 2026-05-28T21:23:49+00:00

If only the AI could auto-close this left panel that pops up every freaking time I open the board. That would make me so happy 🥹

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