Hi friends,
Greetings from the hive!
Added these four questions to my weekly review process:
What am I avoiding that, if I tackled it this week, would have the biggest impact?
What's the smallest step I could take toward the thing I'm avoiding?
What is bothering you?
What's one thing I can control about this situation?
I will also create a channel in the Hive Five Discord for tiny experiments to help keep me accountable.
Let's take this week by swarm!
π The Bee's Knees
Smartphones are creating a new form of inequality where wealthy families shield their kids from devices while others lose literacy skills. The result: an elite class that can still think deeply versus a post-literate majority vulnerable to manipulation. MORE
Jessica Mah became Y Combinator's youngest female founder at 19 after teaching herself to code at 10 and dropping out of high school at 15. She built inDinero from the ground up, graced Inc. magazine covers, then stepped down as CEO to start her venture studio Mahway. MORE
Nobody loved the library more than Dan. He maintained a meticulous list from 1962 to 2025, cataloging all the books he read from the Columbus Metropolitan Library. This list, shared by his daughter, spans 109 pages. MORE
Intent Over Tactics: A CISO's Guide to Protecting Your Crown Jewels. A practical guide to protecting your most critical assets when budget, head-count, and political capital are tight. MORE
Anthropic's "Code with Claude 2025" recordings are live. This hands-on developer event in San Francisco featured workshops on AI implementation, API best practices, and the Model Context Protocol. MORE
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The Verge and other publications are pivoting to newsletters as a way to cut out the middle man: "Our plan is to build direct traffic to our site. and newsletters just one kind of direct traffic in the end. I donβt intend to ever rely on someone elseβs distribution ever again ;)" MORE
ProjectDiscovery released v1.3.0 with a redesigned dashboard, enhanced vulnerability intelligence, and improved performance for security teams. The update includes better asset discovery, AI-assisted grouping, and streamlined workflows to help teams identify and respond to vulnerabilities faster. MORE
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π° Career
SaaS companies hit growth ceilings sooner than expected due to churn eating away at new revenue gains. The "Max MRR" metric predicts exactly when your revenue will plateau by dividing new monthly revenue by your cancellation rate, helping you focus on retention over acquisition. MORE
The most effective DevRel professionals today are "Master Builders" who inspire developers by demonstrating what's possible with their company's tools, similar to how LEGO's Master Model Builders create excitement through creative demonstrations. MORE
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A NYC entrepreneur shares how they built KARO into a 500k+ business by taking calculated risks and betting on their own vision. The video reveals key strategies for turning tech ideas into profitable ventures through smart decision-making and persistence. MORE
π Productivity
Your brainβs hard drive is full: Start a journal. Your mind feels full because it is. Journaling is the reset button you didnβt know you needed. Learn simple, proven methods to declutter your thoughts and regain focus. MORE
Block built a custom AI agent that boosts productivity across sales, data, and engineering teams by automating routine tasks and providing intelligent insights. MORE
Scott explores how working with AI agents has transformed him into an "octopus developer", running multiple parallel projects simultaneously like an octopus with independent arm-brains. He describes building APM, a command center tool to manage this new reality of parallel development workflows where context switching becomes "visiting" rather than exhausting multitasking. MORE
Tyler Cowen shares his daily intellectual training routine, including writing every day, analyzing weak responses after talks, and cracking cultural codes. He challenges knowledge workers to develop deliberate practice habits comparable to athletes training scales, arguing that systematic intellectual exercise can dramatically improve thinking abilities. MORE
Homerow brings Vim-style keyboard navigation to your entire Mac, letting you click any UI element by typing shortcuts instead of reaching for your mouse. Press ββ§Space to label clickable elements, search and scroll through apps, and keep your hands on the keyboard for maximum productivity. MORE
π Community
β‘οΈ Zeitgeist
Michael Blake announced his departure from his security engineer role at Headspace to pursue full-time bug bounty hunting. MORE
HackAICon 2025 is the first conference merging AI and ethical hacking, bringing together security pros and researchers in Lisbon on September 25th. MORE
Adam Wathan argues that 50-90% of daily work is tedious busywork, not meaningful tasks. He suggests using AI to handle the grunt work so you can focus 95% of your time on interesting, skill-building projects instead. MORE
Bug bounty hunter Justin shares how channeling Frans RosΓ©n's mindset helps him break out of his client-side comfort zone to discover powerful server-side vulnerabilities. MORE
Typecraft shares their deeply personal journey from an isolated, gaming-obsessed kid struggling with mental health issues in college to eventually discovering web development through DHH's famous Rails tutorial. The thread reveals how finding programming transformed their life, leading them from job-hopping to giving workshops at RailsWorld. MORE
π Level up
π° Read
Beyond the Bands: Exploiting TiTilerβs Expression Parser for Remote Code Execution. A methodical analysis of TiTiler's API endpoints and its expression parser, leading to arbitrary Python code execution on the server. MORE
Geoffrey argues we need AI interfaces that enhance human awareness like airplane HUDs, not chatty copilots that grab attention. Instead of virtual assistants, build tools that give users new superpowers and ambient understanding of their work. MORE
CVE-2025-48384: Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE. On Unix-like platforms, if you use git clone --recursive on an untrusted repo, it could achieve remote code execution. Update to a fixed version of Git and other software that embeds Git (including GitHub Desktop). MORE
How Assetnote accidentally discovered a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in ETQ Reliance. MORE
Canalun on why XSS persists in this frameworks era, as it remains one of the top vulnerabilities in terms of both severity and frequency. MORE
π‘ Tips
Web developer Dave shares his shocking budget reality check after summer trips, discovering fast food now costs $50-60 per family instead of his outdated $20 estimate. A relatable look at how inflation has quietly demolished our mental price anchors, forcing painful spending recalibrations. MORE
Simple exercises to improve squat mobility, particularly targeting those who struggle with proper form due to limited ankle and hip flexibility. MORE
Maintain a running document titled "Things Iβm Not Doing Anymore" and review it monthly. It's a simple way to lead a happier and more productive life. MORE
π§ Wisdom
Positive repetition is the key to manifestation, referencing Neville Goddard's teachings on affirmations. MORE
Cate Hall shares 50 hard-won life lessons covering relationships, productivity, decision-making, and personal growth. Key insights include why fewer opinions lead to better thinking, how childhood impacts persist despite our beliefs otherwise, and why service is the only lasting path to fulfillment. MORE
Arnold's Protein Guide: A simple, no-BS roadmap to help you understand how protein works, why it matters, and how to use itβno matter your age or ftness level. MORE
Seth Godin shares 65 powerful insights for tech professionals, from "reliability is a superpower" to "ideas that spread, win." These bite-sized wisdom nuggets cover everything from customer focus and system thinking to leadership and personal growth. MORE
Just make it exist. The book, the business, the product, the idea. When something exists, you can improve on it. You can learn from how good or bad it is. But when it doesn't exist, there's nothing to improve on. There's no chance of getting any kind of result because it's trapped inside your head. So don't try to make something good. Your only job right now is to make it real instead of a passing thought. MORE
π Resources
Hacker News discussion reveals the software subscriptions tech professionals actually find worth paying for, with popular choices including Kagi search, FastMail, ChatGPT, and YouTube Premium. MORE
This comprehensive guide offers 50 practical ways to break free from digital addiction and reclaim authentic human experiences, from reading physical books to hosting phone-free dinner parties. MORE
Hacking Minecraft Realms: Spoofing Realms Owner (Crashing Minecraft). MORE
The PoC Pollution Problem: How AI-Generated Exploits Are Poisoning Detection Engineering. AI-generated PoCs are flooding security repositories with broken exploits that waste detection engineersβ time and create dangerous blind spots. Learn to identify fake exploits. MORE
This guide shows how to analyze hour-long audio recordings in just 5 minutes using a 4-step AI workflow: compress audio files, transcribe with Google's NotebookLM, analyze themes with Claude Pro, and create readable narratives with Gemini Flash. MORE
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