
Channing Allen
@ChanningAllen
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Co-founder @IndieHackers I tweet lessons from my 50+ weekly chats with founders. Mostly how stuff works and how to make it work for you.
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Joined December 2009
Vibe coding will cause lots of heartbreak for non-technical “idea” people. And honestly I can't wait lol. They've been on the sidelines swearing up and down that: “If I could only build my brilliant idea™️, I'd be making millions in no time.”. But now that building is easy,.
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My favorite low-cost high-return practice is to do a 1-minute meditation session. Literally just stop, start a 60sec phone timer, and meditate till the ringtone sounds. Lots of external benefits but the main benefit is you get a "measure" of your internal state, you make the.
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can't believe it: our new app is now proving sliiiightly more convenient for me than the big tech incumbent. and i LOVE the incumbent. moved my workflows over to dogfood our app & my muscle memory now reaches for ours over theirs. still a very close call but HOLY SHIT.
Nothing teaches you modesty like building a competitor to a product you use daily. You think you understand a space but you've barely scratched the surface. Man. It's such a privilege to be in the arena and such a shame that most will never enter.
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the "right about everything" award goes to @AbigailShrier. the book below is "Bad Therapy." can't recommend it highly enough:
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everything they say about gen z is true. invited some 24–32yo friends over for a book club. a 27yo brought two boxes of capri-sun. you've never seen such childlike excitement in so many non-child eyes.
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RT @ChanningAllen: A paradox I've noticed about stress-tolerant people vs anxious people:. Stress-tolerant people can handle high levels of….
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There's a Chinese proverb that it's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war. 9–5ers are gardeners who've been trained to expect market stability. Entrepreneurs are warriors who've learned to expect or even bring about market INSTABILITY. AI is the war.
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A paradox I've noticed about stress-tolerant people vs anxious people:. Stress-tolerant people can handle high levels of stress *if they have to*, but they go out of their way to avoid unnecessary stress. But anxious people get *destroyed* by ordinary levels of stress, yet they.
I have a friend whose stress tolerance absolutely marvels me, 100% a psychopath because no normal person could tolerate that much stress and not completely crumble, handles it all with charisma and swagger too, truly exceptional and definitely someone to look up to in that.
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Your 30s go by much faster than your 20s. The variety of your 20s gives those years texture. Texture dilates time. Hitting your stride by your 30s means… your 30s are one long stride. Or maybe 2–3 strides if you have a flair for the dramatic.
Nobody prepares you for how fast you go from age 22–29. It feels like 3 years, max. • 22–24: tutorial island - first years out of college, experiencing adulthood and independence for the first time. • 24-27: finally finding your stride. you start to get some career success,.
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RT @ChanningAllen: anyone doubting the potential of AI astrology apps simply doesn't know any women between ages 20–40 in coastal US cities….
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is it just me or did listicle-style tweet threads basically disappear overnight?.
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RT @ChanningAllen: Nothing teaches you modesty like building a competitor to a product you use daily. You think you understand a space but….
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If you think entrepreneurs put themselves on too much of a pedestal. Just wait till you read this take from the 20th century's most famous communist intellectual (Antonio Gramsci):
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anyone doubting the potential of AI astrology apps simply doesn't know any women between ages 20–40 in coastal US cities. how do i get in on this seed round.
I am excited to announce that Arcarae has $2.5M in funding and I am finally hiring. Arcarae’s mission is to help humanity remember and unlock the power each individual holds within themself so they can bring into reality their unique, authentic expression of self without fear or
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I'm a super low key person but one thing that triggers me is the bigotry of low expectations masquerading as empathy. Brown guy: "I changed.". Leftist white guy: "Not everybody's born with those abilities… You have to be white, tall, 6'4 or whatever."
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The replies to this tweet are why affluent people will always have fewer children. Negative arguments 35+ years out ("you'll regret not having kids when you're 80!") aren't persuasive to happy singles. Positive arguments are better e.g. "Kids make your life 10x more meaningful".
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we rightly poke fun at performative hustle porn but i'm ~2 months into being super disciplined again like i was in the old days, and it honestly does make me feel like superman by late afternoon.
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Nothing teaches you modesty like building a competitor to a product you use daily. You think you understand a space but you've barely scratched the surface. Man. It's such a privilege to be in the arena and such a shame that most will never enter.
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I finished that $10k project on time, but just barely. Literally submitted the contract ~1 hour before the deadline. Probably the craziest thing I've ever done. Forced me to develop a productivity system that I wrote about a few days after recovering:
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A successful founder shares his productivity system. Learn the best way to make plans, execute on them, and learn from your results.
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