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Open thread — what does your morning routine look like for deep work?
Curious what actually works for people, not the Twitter thread version. I've tried the 5am wake-up thing and it just makes me hate myself by Wednesday. Currently experimenting with starting at 10am after a slow coffee.
Self Introduction
Hello, my name is YuKun. I am someone who likes to think carefully before taking action, but once I decide to do something, I prefer to move forward with focus and patience. I may not be the most talkative person when I first meet people, but I am not distant. I simply like to observe, understand the situation, and then express my thoughts in a clear way. I am interested in technology, artificial intelligence, product design, websites, and content creation. When I see a useful app or a well designed website, I often pay attention to the details. I look at the layout, the colors, the user experience, and the way each function is arranged. To me, a good product is not only beautiful on the surface. It should also feel smooth, practical, and easy to understand. I enjoy learning new things, especially when they can help me build something real. I do not like empty talk very much. I prefer ideas that can be tested, improved, and finally turned into something useful. Sometimes I have many ideas at the same time, and not every idea becomes a finished project, but I still think this kind of curiosity is valuable. It keeps me sensitive to opportunities and helps me see problems from different angles. In my personality, there is a practical side and also a creative side. The practical side makes me care about results, efficiency, and whether something can truly work. The creative side makes me care about style, details, and originality. I do not want to make things that only barely function. I hope the things I create can have a clean structure, a clear purpose, and a feeling that people can remember. I also value honest and direct communication. I like working with people who are reliable, serious, and willing to solve problems instead of avoiding them. I believe good communication does not need to be complicated. It should make things clearer, not more confusing. In the future, I hope to keep improving myself step by step. I want to become better at turning ideas into real products, better at judging what is worth doing, and better at building things that are useful to others. I know growth does not happen suddenly. It comes from daily learning, repeated practice, and the courage to correct mistakes. Overall, I would describe myself as a person who is curious, realistic, and willing to keep moving forward. I may not always move fast, but I try to move in the right direction. My goal is to keep learning, keep building, and slowly create work that has value, quality, and my own personal style.
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Just shipped our new community guidelines — would love your feedback
After six weeks of working with the moderator team, we've rewritten the community guidelines from scratch. The goal: less legalese, more clarity. We trimmed 4,300 words down to 1,100. The new structure is three sections: how we talk to each other, how we share work, and what to do when something goes wrong. Each section is one screen on a phone. I think most of you will read it in under three minutes. A few hard calls we made: we kept the no-self-promotion rule but loosened it on Fridays, where anything goes. We removed the prior ban on link drops as long as the link is the post — no "check this out" with no context. And we made reporting easier by adding a one-tap flag on every post and comment. Read the draft below and drop comments where it's confusing, where you'd push back, or where you think we're missing something. If we make changes based on your note, you'll be tagged in the changelog.
How I went from 0 to 1,000 paying members in 6 months
Long post incoming. I'm going to share every channel I tried, the cost per acquisition for each, what worked, and what was an absolute waste of money. TL;DR — three things mattered, and you'd never guess the second one.
Weekly reading: 7 essays on building in public
This week's picks are heavier on craft than usual. Includes Patrick McKenzie's classic on salary negotiation, a Sahil Lavingia piece on default-alive companies, and a wonderful new essay by Jasmine Sun on internet criticism.