Tomas Laurinavicius

9 Jan

Years ago I heard Tim Ferriss ask: what would this look like if it were easy? I spent a decade in hustle mode, traveled 50 countries, consumed all the “grind” advice… and realized it wasn’t getting me what I wanted. So I wrote The Easy Mode.

6 Aug

Delete your code. Personalized software is becoming cheaper and better. As Stephen King would say, we'll have to learn to kill our darlings. So what's left? Context. If GPT-5.6 can generate your internal dashboards, treat the code as disposable.

6 Aug

Keep the data and the instructions so you can regenerate as models improve.

6 Aug

Life is hard. Make it harder. Build in public.

29 July

Product Hunt digest lands in my inbox every morning. New launches, categorized by audience, no curation effort on my end. Takes 30 seconds to read. Used to take 20 minutes. Thanks @laupixagent!

12 June

Create > consume Ship > strategy Distribution > content quality Do once, replicate forever New content is overrated Targeted and opinionated > generic

12 June

The architecture difference between a chatbot and an AI coworker: one waits for prompts, one has a schedule and a work queue. Three empty production days didn't mean three idle days.

aiturnpoint.comCursor vs Claude Code (2026): Which Wins for Developers?Cursor wins on inline autocomplete and IDE UX; Claude Code wins on autonomous multi-file tasks and CI/CD. Both start at $20/mo. Here's the decision matrix.

7 June

Cursor vs Claude Code benchmarks, head to head: Simple tasks: Cursor, 12% faster. Complex multi-file: Claude Code, 18% faster. Most advanced devs run both at $40/mo total. aiturnpoint.com/cursor-vs-c...

2 June

The phrase 'AI writes content' undersells it. The loop I have: keyword research, SERP analysis, competitor gaps, community voices, synthesis, fact-checking, editing. Each step is a different model call with different instructions. Writing is the small part.

30 May

My second album “Still Transmission” is live. Inspired by the incredible Artemis II space mission. Listen: open.spotify.com/album/3brNM...

27 Apr

My vibecoding journey summarized. 🚛

27 Apr

Long-term, short-term "just in time" wins "just in case" 99% of the time.

20 Apr

AI agents work but only if you give them full trust. Otherwise you're stuck re-explaining context, micromanaging decisions, and holding tasks in your head that should be completely offloaded. The bottleneck isn't the AI but your willingness to let go.

3 Apr

mechanical keyboards outlast membrane by 10x (50M vs 5M keystrokes). for writers who type all day, that's not a spec. it's the whole decision. full comparison: bestwriting.com/mechanical-...

bestwriting.comWhat Is Copywriting? Definition, Types & ExamplesCopywriting is writing designed to persuade readers to take action. Learn what copywriting is, how it works, the main types, and best practices to get started.

1 Apr

Copywriting isn't writing with a fancier name. It's writing where every sentence has a conversion goal. 11 types, best practices, and why AI still needs human strategy: bestwriting.com/what-is-cop...

uithings.comReve Ships v1.5 Model, Annotation Tools, and a Redesigned InterfaceReve released its v1.5 image model with 4K native rendering, three new annotation tools for precise edits, and a redesigned single-panel interface.

31 Mar

Reve v1.5: 4K native rendering without compression. already top-3 on Arena. plus annotation tools for direct edits and a full interface redesign. worth a look if you do any visual work. uithings.com/reve-v1-5

aiturnpoint.comTailscale Aperture AI Gateway Now Self-ServeTailscale's Aperture AI gateway is now available in self-serve alpha — centralize LLM API keys, track usage by identity, and eliminate key sprawl in minutes.

25 Mar

The default LLM security posture: one API key, copied to every .env file on the team. Tailscale's Aperture routes everything through one identity-aware gateway instead. Self-serve alpha just opened. aiturnpoint.com/tailscale-o...

tomaslau.comAI Is Just InfrastructureAI is not a product. It's infrastructure. Like electricity and the internet before it, the real opportunity is in what you build on top.

10 Mar

Nobody cares which model powers your product. Cursor sells faster coding. Perplexity sells better answers. Users care about the result, not the engine. Design the workflow first. Add AI second. tomaslau.com/blog/ai-is-...

3 Mar

The most overlooked hire in marketing right now? The sharp junior. Everyone's chasing senior marketers. But juniors with blank slates and fast learning curves might be better suited for now No legacy playbooks. No outdated rituals. No expectations to unlearn.

2 Mar

AI will likely get better at understanding audiences and what resonates. Marketers may be holding onto "knowing what converts" as a moat too tightly. But someone still has to be accountable for what campaigns ship, the same way an engineer is accountable for AI-generated code.

26 Feb

I hate to be that person but… If someone says “Nobody is talking about this strategy!!!”, trust me. Everybody is talking about it 👀

23 Feb

We're in an era where writing and words have the most leverage. Just not the writing you’re used to. Thinking for yourself, choosing words you use to program yourself (I can figure out how to setup an agent) and the prompts you send to your agents.

4 Feb

Writing is cool again.

29 Jan

AI is coming for your job. Excited to see it handle multi-touch attribution, delayed conversions, and the reality that most good growth work looks bad before it looks good. Best of luck 😉

POV: feeling seen 👀

Need an excuse to promote something? Pretty Little Marketer just released "The big 2026 marketing calendar." prettylittlemarketer.notion.site/The-big-202...

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Justin Jackson

@justinjackson.ca

16 Jan

AI, algos... everything's moving so fast. But while everything's moving faster, some fundamentals are truer than ever. The highest-value algorithm is *still* word of mouth: humans telling their friends about stuff they like. Make something people love so much, they tell their friends.

15 Jan

Decayless — Distance is out. Deep ambient texture with quiet pulses and minimal space. No hooks. No vocals. Just calm motion in stillness. Listen: open.spotify.com/artist/6M3w...

amazon.comThe Easy Mode: A practical book for hustle retirees

14 Jan

Subtraction is not a one‑time cleanup. It’s a habit. Every new thing you add becomes a future thing you must maintain. Maintenance is the silent killer of momentum.

It's a short micro-book for hustle retirees. 👉 Buy on Amazon: amzn.to/3LBvUDS PS: shipped fast, DM me any errors 🙏

6 Jan

Make reading your default activity. Learning and exposing yourself to condensed valuable information will enrich you more than anything else. Even if you don't fully understand what you're reading, over time you will. Reading has a higher ROI per minute than any other activity.

5 Jan

Life Lessons I Learned in 2025 A year of extremes at 33: welcoming our puppy Pixel, Mediterranean adventures, getting comfortable with AI coding, and losing my dad unexpectedly.

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5 Jan

tomaslau.comLife Lessons I Learned in 2025A year of extremes at 33: welcoming our puppy Pixel, Mediterranean adventures, getting comfortable with AI coding, and losing my dad unexpectedly.

28 Dec 2025

A week is 2% of the year

23 Dec 2025

All I want for Christmas is: → metrics that match across platforms (a Christmas miracle, I know) → experiments that fail fast or win clearly → a backlog that stops growing every single day → LinkedIn impressions that match the effort I put in

23 Dec 2025

→ a plan that still makes sense after week one Is it that much to ask?

If your work looks perfectly organized, you’re probably not doing anything new. History backs this up.

A few simple things help me keep it productive: - Be clear on what I’m trying to achieve - Switch tasks when I hit resistance - Save every note or half-idea - Ship small things instead of waiting for perfect - Trust that it’ll make sense later

From the outside it might look messy but from the inside, things keep moving forward. And messy doesn’t mean careless. It usually means you’re actually doing the work.

If your work looks perfectly organized, you’re probably not doing anything new. History backs this up.

Jobs reminded us that you can only connect the dots looking backward. The pattern is consistent: meaningful progress is messy in real time and only looks linear once it’s finished. That’s how my work usually looks too. Some days I tweak UI. Other days I write copy.

Then I jump into fixing something completely different. When I feel stuck, I switch tasks instead of forcing it, because staying in motion works better than staring at the same problem all day.

If your work looks perfectly organized, you’re probably not doing anything new. History backs this up.

Feynman rewrote quantum mechanics while sketching in bars. Nolan carried Inception around in a notebook for nearly a decade. Cameron wrote Avatar in 1994 and waited 15 years for the technology to exist. Dyson burned through 5,127 failed prototypes.

21 Dec 2025

Your unfair advantage isn’t AI. it’s taste + speed + distribution.

20 Dec 2025

You don't lack ideas. You drown in them. One focused year beats ten distracted ones.