Luc Cheung
@luccheung
Luc Cheung
How Long Until I Go Viral?
Depends on how good your videos are. I posted my first video of this experiment on 12/16, and the first video that did really well was on 12/23. So it took me a week.
That said, I see many others on TikTok posting for months and never having a video do well.
In almost every case, my guess for why they aren’t succeeding is... See more
Depends on how good your videos are. I posted my first video of this experiment on 12/16, and the first video that did really well was on 12/23. So it took me a week.
That said, I see many others on TikTok posting for months and never having a video do well.
In almost every case, my guess for why they aren’t succeeding is... See more
Nat Eliason • Kickstarting TikTok: 55,500 Followers & 7m views in 6 Weeks
The key is that you’ll probably do your best work when your’ve earned your colleagues’ trust, which is the hidden value of staying put. This is especially true if your job involves making good decisions vs. doing something physical with your body. Good decisions require lots of quiet time alone in your head, maybe sitting on the couch thinking or... See more
Morgan Housel • Staying Put
Other books throughout the years kept changing my life in new and exciting ways, usually by changing the way I thought in some meaningful aspect. “Antifragile,” “Letters from a Stoic,” “Finite and Infinite Games,” “Infinite Jest,” “The Denial of Death,” “Words that Work,” “Seeing Like a State,” every now and then I’d pick up a book and come out the... See more
Nat Eliason • The Great Books Project
Anyone can say no to crappy opportunities. Only a master will say no to good opportunities. If you don’t say no to good opportunities, you’ll never have the time to pursue great opportunities.
Saying no is hard. Nobody knew that better than Steve Jobs, who said:
Saying no is hard. Nobody knew that better than Steve Jobs, who said:
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not... See more
fs.blog • The Focus to Say No
Cost of sequencing a human genome 🔬
• 2001 - $95 million
• 2008 - $342,502
• 2011 - $7,743
• 2023 - $200 with the new Illumina machine
Cc: @PeterDiamandis @azeem @erikbryn @rtnarch
Vertical Search Aggregators
Google is a great example of how the internet enabled scale and speed: every page on the web returned in an instant. But increasingly, we’re seeing this scale is at odds with a fundamental human need: relevance. Someone who wants to find the best freelance designer, or the best sushi restaurant, or the best NFT to buy... See more
Google is a great example of how the internet enabled scale and speed: every page on the web returned in an instant. But increasingly, we’re seeing this scale is at odds with a fundamental human need: relevance. Someone who wants to find the best freelance designer, or the best sushi restaurant, or the best NFT to buy... See more