# DeveloPassion's Newsletter 116 - Keep Going ## Welcome to the 116th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I've spent a lot of time working on Knowii. I'll tell you more in the lab section. I've also officially appointed ChatGPT as my co-pilot. I use it A LOT! For instance, I've used it to help me build [a small Python app](https://github.com/dsebastien/sharit) to share interesting links more easily with my communities on Reddit, Slack and Twitter. I wouldn't say that the experience was perfect, but it did help me to develop it somewhat faster. I wrote about that experience on [Twitter](https://x.com/dSebastien/status/1641706612434845696). Alright, let's gooooo 🚀 ## The lab **🧪** This week, I've continued working on Knowii. I've continued iterating on the data model, implemented and tested the signup and signin flows, and deployed a first version on Vercel. I've also started thinking about the "elevator pitch". Phases that I envision for Knowii: - Phase 1: A modern social bookmarking tool for communities - Phase 2: A community content curation solution - Phase 3: A community knowledge management solution Over time, I want Knowii to let users curate all sorts of content, create collaborative summaries, and ultimately turn it into a full-blown knowledge management solution. But I have to start somewhere, and that's link sharing. At first, communities will be able to capture, tag, organize, and share interesting links (resources). At that stage, Knowii will thus be akin to the long gone del.icio.us, or Pinboard. The major difference is that Knowii will put the focus on people and communities. For this phase, I've identified the following concepts: - Communities: public or private groups that will collect, organize and share resources - Resource collections: regroup a number of resources - Resources: at first bookmarks only, but those will later expand to include support for videos, tweets, and posts of all sorts - Tags - People: Community members and users. This will include users of the platform that create/share content, but also people that aren't using the platform but who are the creators of the resources. The people and communities parts are key, as the idea is to put them front and center throughout the platform. People and users will both have public profiles where their contributions will be visible. That will provide an interesting way to explore content shared on the platform. I still haven't made up my mind about going Open Source or not. It's a tough decision. But I think that the community-first approach will probably be enough to ensure that the [instance of Knowii](https://www.dsebastien.net/developassions-newsletter-115-moving-forward/) that I will host will be the most interesting to be a part of. The more communities there will be on Knowii, and the more value there will be. Aside from that, I've noticed that I'm losing more and more momentum with my existing products and articles. That's why I want to ask you again to support my work. I hate asking this, but it's the only way for me to make this activity sustainable in the long run: ## New articles [The value of timeless concepts](https://www.dsebastien.net/the-value-of-timeless-concepts//) ## Quotes of the week - "You only need to know the direction, not the destination. The direction is enough to make the next choice" — James Clear - "Culture isn't about what you say. It's about what you do" ## How cool is that?! [The Deep Sea](https://neal.fun/deep-sea/) > Today is GPT-4's 2-week anniversary. > > Here are the top 20 most incredible things created by GPT-4 already: > > (history unraveling before our very eyes) > — Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) [March 28, 2023](https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1640739027887202305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ## Thinking and learning [ Master divergent and convergent thinking A productivity expert explains how you can be creative and a powerhouse of productivity. Big ThinkTiago Forte  ](https://bigthink.com/series/explain-it-like-im-smart/divergent-and-convergent-thinking)[ Feel first, think second: Is our brain really cut out for the modern world? The brain evolved to deal with immediate risks, like hunger and danger, not complicated, creeping risks, like obesity and climate change. Big ThinkRoss Pomeroy  ](https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/feel-first-think-second-is-our-brain-really-cut-out-for-the-modern-world/)[ Takeaways From Daily Writing Embrace Writing and Produce Valuable Content MediumClayton Miller  ](https://curiouse.co/takeaways-from-daily-writing-6c9abf4ce7c3) [https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-uniqueness-of-human-recursive-thinking](https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-uniqueness-of-human-recursive-thinking) [Cross-Domain Thinking Drives Insights & Innovation](https://markmcneilly.substack.com/p/cross-domain-thinking-drives-insights) ## Indie Hacking and bootstrapping [ Quit Monkey, Grit Monkey The thing you’ve been pouring yourself into isn’t working. Now what? Cory Zue  ](https://www.coryzue.com/writing/quit-monkey-grit-monkey/)[ Revenue is easy, profit is harder The fundamentals needed to run a business in the next economic cycle. Entrepreneur's EdgeRyan Waliany  ](https://www.edge.ceo/p/revenue-is-easy-profit-is-harder)[ The One Thing Large Creators Do Differently To Build An Audience Why Showing Up In Your Power Is The Key To Long-Term Growth As A Creator MediumEv Chapman  ](https://evchapman.medium.com/the-one-thing-large-creators-do-differently-to-build-an-audience-c2f6fa66cce1)[ 4 things i learned after getting users last month, i posted about my website basement community on hacker news and it sorta blew up. you can view the post here. it blew up so much, i was totally u… front page | basement community  ](https://basementcommunity.bearblog.dev/things-i-learned/)[ How to promote your book on Substack Nothing sells books like a great Substack. Read top tips from writers at all stages of the publishing process On SubstackOn Substack  ](https://on.substack.com/p/how-to-promote-your-book-on-substack)[ How to Find Your Niche and Own It in 3 Simple Steps | Entrepreneur Here are the three steps you need to take to find the right business niche for you. EntrepreneurAndres Tovar  ](https://www.entrepreneur.com/starting-a-business/how-to-find-your-niche-and-own-it-in-3-simple-steps/441261) ## Tech [ Signals in Angular: The Future of Change Detection - ANGULARarchitects Angular is going to rely on a reactive mechanism called signal to make change detection more lightweight and powerful. ANGULARarchitectsManfred Steyer, GDE  ](https://www.angulararchitects.io/aktuelles/angular-signals)[ Choosing a Postgres Primary Key Turns out the question of which identifier to use as a Primary Key is complicated -- we’re going to dive into some of the complexity and inherent trade-offs, and figure things out Supabase  ](https://supabase.com/blog/choosing-a-postgres-primary-key)[ offsec.tools - A vast collection of security tools A vast collection of security tools for bug bounty, pentest and red teaming offsec.tools  ](https://offsec.tools/)[ Every Repo is a Monorepo When comparing “regular” repos and monorepos we imagine this: Nx DevtoolsVictor Savkin  ](https://blog.nrwl.io/every-repo-is-a-monorepo-88deb4d63d80) ## AI [ Cheating is All You Need There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is. Sourcegraph  ](https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need)[ GitHub - npiv/chatblade: A CLI Swiss Army Knife for ChatGPT A CLI Swiss Army Knife for ChatGPT. Contribute to npiv/chatblade development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHubnpiv  ](https://github.com/npiv/chatblade)[ And Yet It Understands In high-dimensional vector spaces, numerical optimization is omnipotent. Fernando BorrettiFernando Borretti  ](https://borretti.me/article/and-yet-it-understands)[ The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI Proving you’re a human on a web flooded with generative AI content Maggie AppletonLuciano Strika  ](https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest)[ Generative AI is good at cooperating with people and bad at full automation Random variety is fun but not great for repetitive tasks Skybrian’s Blogskybrian  ](https://skybrian.substack.com/p/generative-ai-is-good-at-cooperating)[ Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI | The Mozilla Blog We’re committing $30M to build Mozilla.ai: A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem. We’re o The Mozilla BlogMark Surman  ](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing-mozilla-ai-investing-in-trustworthy-ai/)[ Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. Future of Life Institute  ](https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/) LINK: - [[10 Essential Knowledge Management Methods Every Professional Should Master (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/10-essential-knowledge-management-methods-every-professional-should-master/-every-professional-should-master// LINK: - [[Why Obsidian is All You Need - From Simple Notes to Complete Productivity (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/why-obsidian-is-all-you-need-from-simple-notes-to-complete-productivity// LINK: - [[The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Obsidian (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/the-ultimate-beginners-guide-to-obsidian// LINK: - [[Knowii Community]] - https://www.store.dsebastien.net//product/knowii-community