# hard thing (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover hard thing. Page: Feed: --- ## [🦾 A Billion People Have The Same App](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/a-billion-people-have-the-same-app) _2026-08-18 · Better Human_ The tool stopped being the edge. You are what is left. ## [Turkish cats and other spectacles](https://tekhne.dev/spectacles-001/) _2026-08-15 · tekhne · tékhnē.dev_ A few things I saw lately ## [🦾 Is AI A Bubble?](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/is-ai-a-bubble) _2026-08-14 · Better Human_ Big Tech committed roughly 3 trillion dollars this week. Here is why I am not worried about it. ## [Mental Clutter](https://thefocusbee.substack.com/p/mental-clutter) _2026-08-12 · Katie Stoddart · The Focus Bee_ How To Clear Your Mind And Create Inner Space. ## [🦾 Play stupid games... win stupid prizes](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/play-stupid-games-win-stupid-prizes) _2026-08-10 · Better Human_ The backlash is normal. Getting sucked into it is the mistake. ## [🦾 The Economy Lost 23,000 Jobs Yet The Market Hit a Record](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/the-economy-lost-23000-jobs-yet-the) _2026-08-08 · Better Human_ The July payroll math, straight. No spin. ## [🦾 -$160 billion after 4 employees left (what does it mean)](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/160-billion-after-4-employees-left) _2026-08-07 · Better Human_ Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le all walked out of Google the same week. ## [🦾 Every BIZ / HUMAN ON Earth Is About To Ask For Help](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/every-biz-human-on-earth-is-about) _2026-08-05 · Better Human_ A percent of a percent of the world can actually run these tools. Start now. ## [🦾 Up 200x Then Wiped Out](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/up-200x-then-wiped-out) _2026-08-04 · Better Human_ You can't ban math. And you can absolutely blow yourself up being right. ## [🦾 The Great Job Repricing](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/the-great-job-repricing) _2026-08-03 · Better Human_ Your job isn’t being automated. It’s being repriced. Plus: 13,000 EU regulations and where the builders went. ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/449Kpoi0zHsw) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [🦾 Sell picks and shovels](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/sell-picks-and-shovels) _2026-08-01 · Better Human_ It used weak passwords, not genius. Supervising agents is the new skill. ## [🦾 Create Your Gap Then Be Careful What You Fill It With](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/create-your-gap-then-be-careful-what) _2026-07-31 · Better Human_ AI gives you hours back. What you pour in decides the next decade. ## [🦾 NOW IS THE TIME: Build The AI Mind](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/now-is-the-tiem-build-the-ai-mind) _2026-07-29 · Better Human_ Every app is collapsing into one intelligence. Your edge will be your brand, your relationships, and your taste. Start now. ## [🦾 The Five-Minute Agent](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/the-five-minute-agent) _2026-07-28 · Better Human_ Your first AI agent should take 5 minutes, not a weekend. Small and running beats big and imaginary. ## [🦾 Stop living in your head](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/stop-living-in-your-head) _2026-07-27 · Better Human_ Your memory is the bottleneck. The system remembers so you can think. ## [🦾 Tunnel Vision](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/tunnel-vision) _2026-07-26 · Better Human_ Jobs said you have to give up other lives you could be living. I'm handing off or icing every business I started so I can actually focus. ## [🦾 How AI Compounds You (if you start now)](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/how-ai-compounds-you-if-you-start) _2026-07-25 · Better Human_ Start with the simplest thing that works, keep giving it feedback, and let the compounding do the work. ## [🦾 The Morning Tax](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/the-morning-tax) _2026-07-24 · Better Human_ The 40 minutes you pay every morning before you even start, and how to make your AI pay it for you. ## [🦾 Agents Are Just Text Files](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/agents-are-just-text-files) _2026-07-23 · Better Human_ Everyone's gatekeeping a word. Here's what a skill actually is, and how to write your first one today. ## [🦾 What Will You Ignore?](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/what-will-you-ignore) _2026-07-22 · Better Human_ Less is more is about to be everything. Focus is the question of the next phase. ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yuY4Lkph8x5u) _2026-07-22 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [🦾 Do The Hard Thing](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/do-the-hard-thing) _2026-07-21 · Better Human_ AI clears out your easy work. The trap is filling the vacuum with shiny new things instead of doing the one hard thing that actually matters. ## [🦾 AI needs to know who you are](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/ai-needs-to-know-who-you-are) _2026-07-20 · Better Human_ Your AI is brilliant IF it knows you. ## [🦾 The Power of One](https://betterhumans.substack.com/p/the-power-of-one) _2026-07-19 · Better Human_ One founder, one customer, one channel, one agent, one goal. Then one hundred million tokens to run it all. ## [Goal Aversion](https://thefocusbee.substack.com/p/goal-aversion) _2026-07-08 · Katie Stoddart · The Focus Bee_ Why we struggle to reach our goals (and what to do about it) ## [Can we not 'skip to the good part'?](https://blog.surkar.in/can-we-not-skip-to-the-good-part) _2026-06-22 · Manthan Surkar · Manthan Surkar_ There is a song by AJR called "The Good Part" with a line that goes "it's so hard, can we skip to the good part?" In the song it is about life, he is tired of the slow uncertain middle and just wants ## [What do you want, without apology or explanation?](https://thedailypracticespace.substack.com/p/what-do-you-want-without-apology) _2026-06-14 · @thedailypracticespace · The Daily Practice Space_ I wasn't sure I knew anymore. ## [Intentional Living](https://thefocusbee.substack.com/p/intentional-living) _2026-06-03 · Katie Stoddart · The Focus Bee_ How to live with intention & purpose ## [I know what it cost you](https://thedailypracticespace.substack.com/p/i-know-what-it-cost-you) _2026-05-29 · @thedailypracticespace · The Daily Practice Space_ It cost us all. ## [build a library](https://arnau.bearblog.dev/build-a-library/) _2026-05-24 · arnau · arnau diaz_ Eight months ago I started dumping everything I read into Apple Notes. Every day. At the end of the month I review it, keep what's worth keeping, merge it into a file, push it to a forge. That's it. I didn't do this to build a "second brain". I wanted to solve a simpler problem: remember what I read. A few months later, something else started happening. I had references. When talking with… ## [Welcome to The Daily Practice Space](https://thedailypracticespace.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-daily-practice-space) _2026-05-22 · @thedailypracticespace · The Daily Practice Space_ Seven practices that have actually held me together ## [Screen Share With Real Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9UXZLYAnIOJR) _2026-05-22 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control — open source, like Screenhero. ## [Founders' Guilt](https://thefocusbee.substack.com/p/founders-guilt) _2026-05-13 · Katie Stoddart · The Focus Bee_ Why Guilt Drives Founders And What To Do About It ## [offline](https://arnau.bearblog.dev/offline/) _2026-05-08 · arnau · arnau diaz_ If my development environment needs the internet to work, that's a dependency bug. The network is the least reliable resource I have. Keep it out of the critical path. I test this by turning Wi-Fi off. If the build fails, or the tests stop, or the docs disappear, something still lives outside the machine. That's the thing to fix. A good development loop works offline. cargo build builds. cargo… ## [The day I recognized myself](https://thedailypracticespace.substack.com/p/the-day-i-recognized-myself) _2026-04-17 · @thedailypracticespace · The Daily Practice Space_ On quiet, competence, and what a whole day alone can reveal ## [Inner Peace](https://thefocusbee.substack.com/p/inner-peace) _2026-04-08 · Katie Stoddart · The Focus Bee_ How To Feel More Peace in Your Life ## [The grace found in the long middle](https://thedailypracticespace.substack.com/p/the-grace-found-in-the-long-middle) _2026-03-18 · @thedailypracticespace · The Daily Practice Space_ Reflections from the long middle ## [The Fast Food Problem with AI Coding](https://blog.surkar.in/the-fast-food-problem-with-ai-coding) _2026-03-15 · Manthan Surkar · Manthan Surkar_ I am about to compare AI-assisted coding (vibe coding in some sense, but not necessarily all forms of it) to fast food. I know that sounds odd, and it is not an obvious parallel. This is not an AI ske ## [When the view gets wider](https://thedailypracticespace.substack.com/p/when-the-view-gets-wider) _2026-03-12 · @thedailypracticespace · The Daily Practice Space_ Reflections on the longer arc ## [Openess and Upheaval](https://thedailypracticespace.substack.com/p/on-the-difference-between-openness) _2026-03-09 · @thedailypracticespace · The Daily Practice Space_ Reflections on the kind of change I am living inside ## [Yapması bir saat, öğrenmesi bir ömür](https://tekhne.dev/hayret/) _2026-03-06 · tekhne · tékhnē.dev_ Zor şeyler yapmak hakkında düşünceler ## [Minutes to do, decades to learn](https://tekhne.dev/savour/) _2026-03-06 · tekhne · tékhnē.dev_ Thoughts on doing hard things ## [Re-Entering the Ordinary](https://thedailypracticespace.substack.com/p/re-entering-the-ordinary) _2026-03-04 · @thedailypracticespace · The Daily Practice Space_ On returning to daily life ## [The Gap and The Gain](https://thefocusbee.substack.com/p/the-gap-and-the-gain) _2026-03-01 · Katie Stoddart · The Focus Bee_ How to Gain Momentum by Focusing on the Gain! ## [Finding Rhythm Without Obligation](https://thedailypracticespace.substack.com/p/finding-rhythm-without-obligation) _2026-02-26 · @thedailypracticespace · The Daily Practice Space_ Notes on what quietly holds a day ## [A small shift](https://thedailypracticespace.substack.com/p/a-small-shift) _2026-02-18 · @thedailypracticespace · The Daily Practice Space_ Bringing my work back under one substack ## [stress your tests](https://arnau.bearblog.dev/stress-your-tests/) _2026-02-09 · arnau · arnau diaz_ Most integration tests can be load tests. I don’t see this done enough. Good testing advice is clear. " Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration. " I add a layer: most tests can be stress tests. Or load tests, if you prefer. A load test is not defined by tooling, but by intent. It saturates a constrained resource (CPU, memory, disk, network) until limits are reached. Assertions move past… ## [ADHD Entrepreneur](https://thefocusbee.substack.com/p/adhd-entrepreneur) _2026-02-01 · Katie Stoddart · The Focus Bee_ The Double Edged Sword of ADHD for Entrepreneurs ## [you will be google](https://arnau.bearblog.dev/you-will-be-google/) _2026-01-28 · arnau · arnau diaz_ Early in my career I worked with a Google team on an open-source project. I didn't like it . Strict reviews, rigid style, heavy testing discipline. Everything felt slow and overengineered. A waste of time. I moved on, and everyone said the obvious thing: you’re not Google, you don’t need to do what Google does. That’s true. But it’s incomplete. Teams don’t stay small and stable. People move.… ## [user experience is the tool](https://arnau.bearblog.dev/user-experience-is-the-tool/) _2026-01-26 · arnau · arnau diaz_ Tools When I use a tool, I want the tool to care about me. I want it to be good. I want it to explain itself. I don't want to search Google for documentation, skim blog posts, or click through SEO just to remember how something works. I want examples. I want clarity. Everything I need should be part of the tool itself. That's not how most software works anymore. Everything is monetized. Everything… ## [New Year, New Start!](https://thefocusbee.substack.com/p/new-year-new-start) _2026-01-01 · Katie Stoddart · The Focus Bee_ 7 Steps To Successfully Kick off The New Year ## [one test to rule them all](https://arnau.bearblog.dev/one-test-to-rule-them-all/) _2025-12-30 · arnau · arnau diaz_ What I'm aiming for: make test One test harness everywhere . If wiring it to a new environment needs special glue, the issue is almost always in your system boundaries, not the tests. And it doesn't need to be make . It could be cargo , go , bazel . One entry point . Let config handle the differences. Sometimes it's simple: ENV=local make test ENV=ci make test ENV=staging make test ENV=prod make…