A few days ago, while vibe coding a web app, I stopped for a few seconds and looked at my small notebook that I usually keep with me to write some ideas down.

But in that specific moment I focused on the picture printed on it, a clear picture of a blue sky and some clouds. In that moment my brain created an association that bothers me for a few days now:

Claude - cloud

For some reason, in my head now I pronounce them similarly, even thou they have different pronunciations. But why claude and cloud?

Well, the process of creation is like dreaming — head in the clouds, from which I derived that; while vibe coding I was mostly daydreaming rather than actually being here and I felt lost or unfocused.

This thing also made me feel a bit angry or sad, because I don’t really like the current process, even thought I love Claude Code. I think the process of using Claude thru terminal is a bit unsatisfying because of how fast I need to focus and defocus. I am thinking like a machine gun at maximum power with unlimited bullets. It can shoot, until it breaks from the heat of it’s own bullets.

Crazy, but this is how my mind feels now. The current process is just killing people’s attention even more than TikTok and other apps, maybe even more than porn or nicotine.

The process should be adapted to something new, a gamified way, with 2 people speaking and feeling near each other, like when explaining the code to a colleague or solving a bug together. When this happens you feel okay, not rushing to get the answer from an agent; you just do it until it gets right, without the need of changing windows, thinking that to do, think or analyze. It just flows and you feel good.

That’s how Claude Code should feel; not 2 different LLMs talking to each other, one creating the prompt, one the code and the human just supervises them like a small child waiting for it to get the right answer and getting angry when it doesn’t listen.

While continuing to vibe code, even now, having 6 terminals open on my secondary monitor, stopped, but waiting for my input(actually Gemini’s input xd) to start coding. The process feels a bit too much over the edge of human concentration capacity, even thou the results are amazing.

What do you think of this?

Howdy,

For a long time, I truly believed I was efficient at communicating things to other people and that others understood me well.

Working with more and more people, and with a few projects in the last year, more and more people started saying that sometimes I don’t make my statements clear.

More and more, this problem started arising, and I started questioning my abilities. So this is the moment I realized the real cause of my miscommunication.

Fear

The fear of being rejected and misunderstood.

This is a modern problem in our society. Besides that, certain people don’t want to get into confrontations with others, and this was one of the causes (but not the main one).

So, how are communication and fear of rejection related?

First of all, we are social creatures, and we highly value the approval of others. We dislike being rejected by nature. It’s like the kid at school who is always rejected by groups because he’s too different or weird.

The concept of social proof explains this.

Social proof is when a human starts thinking that something is correct because everyone considers it that way.

You then face the problem of sharing your opinion and fearing that you will get rejected; as a result, you back off.

While talking to people, certain people miscommunicate because they fear rejection, and always agree with the group. At the same time, there are people who don’t agree but at the same time don’t communicate what’s wrong.

Now it’s a bigger problem because how the fuck are you supposed to understand someone who doesn’t agree with you and doesn’t say a thing?

Now, what do you do if you’re in this situation?

The first step is accepting that not everyone is going to accept you. It’s the sad reality. It’s not easy at first, but it’s the most important thing while changing the way you talk to others.

Another important thing here:

LISTEN MORE, SPEAK LESS

This helps because you have to be concise.

The second step is to start, little by little, to share your thoughts with others, no matter what response you will get. You should have no expectations about their response. In the end

After doing step 2 for a while, you can start observing some changes in the way you speak to others. Baby steps toward a better goal.

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These days, I have been thinking much about the automation of certain tasks in the video editing field, which consume a lot of time when done manually. The reason is that, at the beginning, you don’t have a lot of money to hire a video editor, so you rely on yourself for this task.

The easiest solution is to use an AI tool to edit your videos quickly and easily. Most of them are great for starting content creators, but they won’t replace an experienced video editor.

The best tools I’ve found on the market are

• Opus Clip
• Descript

Both are available for free, but with a watermark. They are paid, yet are a cheaper alternative to a video editor.

Why and for what do I use AI video editing tools?

I started using OpusClip, but I only use it for Reels or TikToks. Opus Clip is a great tool that can cut your videos (of course, not perfectly) and make them short-form content.

OpusClip is a paid solution that costs 12$/month, for those who create long-form content and want to easily post on Instagram or TikTok.

One tip I gave to many people is to start creating short videos first to test their hypothesis and then make it available in long format (but if the content was tested by others, and it works for them, then you don’t have to test anything).

On the other side, Descript is a more complex solution that costs 24$/month, but has more features included, like background blur, removing filter words, and removing retakes.

I enjoy OpusClip more because of its simplicity and ease of use, and I will share the steps I take to create videos with it.

How to use OpusClip?

One thing to keep in mind while using OpusClip is that this AI isn’t aware of the video and doesn’t understand the logical web that a video can go through (maybe it can in English, but in Romanian, the language my videos are recorded in, it doesn’t work well enough).

The first step I take is to edit my videos quickly in CapCut on my phone or in Shotcut/DaVinci. Yes, for me, there is some video editing I do manually, but hear me out. As said earlier, it doesn’t understand the overall context, and I want to do some stuff manually, so when I upload it to Opus Clip, I don’t have to do anything else.

Personally, it works better for me to cut it in CapCut or Shotcut than to cut it in OpusClip.

The second step is to upload the video in OpusClip, wait for it to do its magic, and then, boom, a video with almost perfect captions. Of course, you have to watch 1–2 times to be sure there aren’t any grammar mistakes.

Below you can see their video editing timeline, which is very simplistic, though very useful.

When I finally settle on the details, such as text color, font, and other specific elements I want to add in the video, I can export it extremely quickly on social media or save it in Full HD format.

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Howdy, I’m Angroys, a starting creator in the space of tech and education. For most of my teenage years, I’ve struggled to create content, though I always wanted to do it.

The 2 most important things that matter are:
Consistency
Consistent improvement

This thing is probably the main cause of most people failing.

But let’s understand what a content creator is.

What is a content creator?

The definition found on the Adobe website works best!

A content creator is someone who creates entertaining or educational material to be expressed through any medium or channel.

From this explanation, you can assume that someone who creates photos, videos, or any digital content is a Content Creator.

Is that all? Yes. And no. A content creator is more than a creator. A creator shares emotions through their videos and, most importantly, believes that his/her content is worth its time (but it isn’t always the case).

The actual state of content creation?

Talking about stuff like the attention economy, we went from creating content worth its time to full-on dopamine videos posted just for the sake of views.

For example, TikTok videos are worthless most of the time. There are great videos, too, but mediums like Reels, TikTok, and Shorts have become pointless from the perspective of education, skipping the dopamine part, which makes things worse.

These days, people generate 2.5 million terabytes/day, and most of the content is bad or mediocre, including mine (for now, hehe); hence, the most thrilling content will shine.

Use modern tools to create content

One of the most important things in 2025 is to use state-of-the-art technologies. I don’t talk about hardware, but tools for audio and video editing. There are a lot of free and paid tools. For the most part, you can start with the free tools, as you don’t currently need a lot of the stuff the paid ones have to offer.

The tools I currently use are DaVinci Resolve & Premier Pro, Final Cut Camera, and Obsidian.

• DaVinci Resolve is the tool I use and insist on using for video editing. It’s easy to use (even for a beginner), and it is 100% free.
• I also use Premier Pro, which costs around $60 a month. DaVinci is enough at first. Remember, you don’t have to throw a bunch of money on the window at the beginning
• Final Cut Camera is my go-to camera app for recording videos. It gives me a lot more control over the ISO, brightness, and other video controls, features inaccessible in the main camera app.
• Obsidian is my go-to graph creator, to-do list app, and docs app. I switched from Notion because, personally, it is a little too much for me and lacks the control that I get in Obsidian. Also, Obsidian is a free app, but Notion has limitations hidden behind a paywall.

Most of the experience I gather comes from 2 sources:

• Practice
• Learning from others

I will talk only about Practice:

Because continuous learning without any practice is just a way to avoid work. You have to stop just learning, you have to do it at some point; you can’t learn indefinitely; it’s just nonsense. Theory is a great part, too, but because of our anxiety and fear, we forget to stop learning and do something. Besides the fact that practicing is the 2nd easiest way to learn something, it also gives you awareness of a lot of tiny details someone may skip. There are nuances you can only learn from practice.

Scientifically, making mistakes is a proven way to make you learn faster. The more mistakes you make, the faster you learn. If you want to learn more about faster ways to learn, check out Andrew Huberman’s Podcast.

While practicing, I made fundamental errors, for example, focusing on the wrong object at the wrong time with the phone. It was a real mess at the start, even though I watched a hella lot of tutorials.

Even more, your videos may look like someone just threw something together and called it a video. It’s life. It happened to all.

Just watch the first videos of MrBeast, MrWhosTheBoss, or MKBHD. They all started with crappy content, audio, and video quality. The single factor that made them succeed was their consistency.

If you look at the first video posted by MKBHD, it’s a video about golf. I was shocked when I found out.

This is a great example of iterating and being consistent.

He went from golf videos to tutorials about different apps to review videos. And for the most part, he was consistent with what he was doing for almost 2 decades. 2 decades of recording videos. Can you imagine?

In the end, it always comes down to consistency in everything, and many people are strong proof of this.

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For a long time, almost 7 years, I’ve been doing a lot of videos (inconsistently, of course). So why am I not popular today?

This is a very good question, for which I found the answers a few days ago. If you are here just to find out what the best and most popular topics are in 2025, you won’t find the answer. BUT WAIT. Please read a little more and then decide if you want to stop reading.

As I said, I recorded videos for a long time but never became popular. I now have more than 4 channels across multiple platforms, and neither is even close to 1k followers (at the time of writing this).

After wondering for a few weeks, I found the problem and also the solution (both of which I knew for a very long time but never put too much thought into it). I considered myself a person who gave a fuck about what others think about me, but without being cautious, I’ve fallen into a very dangerous trap of my own.

Subconsciously, I’ve feared all the time what people think about me, never putting a second thought on why I’m thinking about this or that. For me it was normal, but after posting a video, after a very long time, one that used my voice in it on my personal social media accounts, it showed me in reality how anxious I am about what others think about me.

Just think one moment about this: I’ve always said that IDGAF about what others think but never shared almost anything about me or the things I did. I just kept it all inside. Now answer this question.

How can you fear something that can’t do anything to you? I mean, directly, most of my colleagues and so-called “friends” knew nothing about me. That’s why I didn’t fear anything because I created a world where there was nothing to fear except myself.

How did I find that flaw in my personality? By reading a book that was randomly given to me on my birthday by one of my female friends (thank you, btw, if you’re reading this).

The book is called “The Magic of Thinking Big” by David Schartwz. You may say that theory is not the same thing as practice or reality, but from my perspective, reading self-help books and then testing them in reality is the best thing you can do. As the old Russian proverb goes:

Trust, but verify.

A thing that I learned from this book was that the main source of my problems was my mind, and after reading for a while the book (which I disliked at the start), I took a new perspective, and it no, it didn’t change my life immediately, but now, after 2–3 weeks, I feel a huge difference in my life.

I was taught that people are bad. This is how many people in my country are taught, and most people don’t put a second thought into it. Being conditioned to think like this made me see this world as the worst thing I could live in. Like really. Changing my thoughts for a while made me see this world in a new, brighter light.

My opinion has shifted from "He is so rude." to “He’s smart and a great guy.” I’ve started to like people I disliked for a long time, which has allowed me to speak with them freely and easily. They now seem less frustrated and less arrogant, but the real change has been in my beliefs.

My opinion has changed from “He is so rude” to “He’s smart and a great guy.” I’ve started to like people I disliked for a long time, which has allowed me to speak with them freely and easily. They now seem less frustrated and less arrogant, but the real change has been in my beliefs.

He’s still rude, but the things described above allow me, and also him to communicate openly and voluntarily (he now sends me reels on Instagram regularly and checks my stories regularly, lmao).

This is the end of this story. :)

Howdy, I’m Max, a 17 y.o. guy from a small country, named Moldova. For the past few years, I’ve been working hard to achieve “something”. That “something” has changed drastically over the years, but what hasn’t changed is the fact that I continue to change drastically and improve my life day by day.

But the fact is, when I started changing my life, drastically, I didn’t know what I should do, but it is normal to feel that way at the start. I just did something, and that helped me find what I love today.

The thing I did was leave my home. Just that. I went into my city’s Youth Center to spend my time. At the time, I was crying over that I didn’t have any friends and that my life was shit. But leaving home was a good enough solution to make me feel that somehow I belonged somewhere.

Starting early will give you a head start against your peers and will give you the opportunity to take examples from people better than you and apply those examples to your life because. As early as possible, give you the opportunity to change more easily because, neurologically, you’re more prone to change when you’re under 25. How to do it? As an example, I started volunteering a year and 4 months ago as a PR Manager at an NGO. After this much time, I became the NGO CMO (Chief Marketing Officer). This position gave me some awareness about all that was going on inside the organization. Besides all that, people started to notice me on social media and at events because I was in an executive position and cause I’m currently the youngest one on the Board and have the most free time. Just go somewhere. Find a youth center, an NGO, or a startup. You don’t always need to have extraordinary skills, you just have to do something and show yourself, as the saying goes, “to take a seat at the table.”. You don’t have to be the best at that table, you just have to be there. But, you can become the best and one day change to a better table.

But this is not the only reason why starting early is extremely cool

Starting young or being the youngest in the team in a specific domain will allow you to be a kiddo in that sphere, and if you can remain a kiddo even if you grow up, that would be amazing. While you’re younger than 20–25 years, people won’t put much responsibility on you, but you don’t have to be irresponsible and do what you want. Being more responsible than others’ expectations and, at the same time, having the opportunity to be considered a kiddo will give you a lot of respect from others and will open a lot of doors, People will believe in you, and it will give you opportunities.

Making mistakes is one of the best things to do in life.

Making mistakes is a good thing, and because you’re younger, you are more prone to change, adapt, and learn from mistakes. Because people don’t put a lot of pressure and responsibility on you, you’ll be able to make a lot of fuckups, and those fuckups will teach you something. But don’t forget: Don’t make the same mistakes twice, and don’t do it intentionally.

After starting at age 14 with volunteering, after 3 years, I’ve come to be the CMO of an organization, working fully remotely, being at the same time as a Project Assistant at one of the biggest IT hubs in my country, and also attending more than 20+ paid events in the months without spending a penny. This is an example why you should start early and why it is so important.

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Have you ever had the problem of not reading a book you’ve bought and, after somehow reading it after 1 year, thinking, “Wow, I should have read it earlier?”

A year ago, at an event I participated in organizing, named AI Open Day, I received a gift card for a book store, and as a book lover who had no money at that time, I just needed that gift.

Oh, dear, that gift was amazing. The gift was the book I bought with it, named “Babel” by R.F. Kuang

A novel like other novels at the start. Personally, the first part of the book (the first book, as the 540-page book is divided into 4 books) wasn’t boring, but it wasn’t as exciting as other books.

Still, after 8 months, I finished it, and it got me thinking:
“I should have read it earlier” Why?

Firstly, I love the book because it somehow creates a story behind a story. Even the words had a story, something enigmatic behind them. The “words” were a big part of the story because they gave meaning to one of the most important things, the silver bars.

Even if “words” gave an important meaning to the story, they were just one piece of the puzzle.

In reality, “Babel” isn’t the full title. “Babel or The Necessity of Violence” shares the real meaning of the story.

I finished this book because it could bring together an okayish story, in combination with linguistics, which made this novel exciting to read. This book somehow combined those two, into something that gave me some understanding of scientific knowledge in linguistics and also shared a story about starting a revolution at a faculty.

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Hackathons are one of the best ways to test your skills, not only in programming but in other domains too. A hackathon is a lifestyle in itself.

I got into this activity as a teenager because one of my best friends did it. I didn’t participate in many hackathons, no more than 10 in the last year. Still, as a person who likes to question everything, I observed some mistakes I made at the last hackathons.

What is a hackathon, you may ask?

A hackathon is a 24- to 48-hour contest, where you meet other people and create a team, or you come with your team, and under the offered time you design a new product based on a given topic. These events are created at the request of companies that need new ideas for a specific topic or just by organizations to attract people in this domain.

Below, I will highlight the main mistakes I and my teammates made.

First, at most hackathons, we are given a topic or a problem, but most of the time this problem is described generally, and many times we searched what to do based on the given topic instead of picking a specific niche that had a serious problem in that topic.

What do I mean by that? Well, at the last hackathon, we were given the “Tourism” topic, and for the non-tech companies, one of the given problems was “promote eco-tourism” or something like that.

The problem was that me and my team focused so much on the given problem described in the document, that we forgot to solve a real-life problem. We focused so much on promoting eco-tourism, that we forgot to find a problem and solve it. I realized after the hackathon that with our solution, we didn’t solve any real-life problems.

As I saw, many of the people there didn’t solve any problems; they just took the given topic and made a solution, that may or may not be used.

The second mistake I made, as someone who is very competitive and aggressive at hackathons and sometimes at work generally, was that after a few hackathons, I really should have created my team.

I was in a team with two girls last weekend, one of them was the first time at a hackathon, and the second seemed too theoretical. I don’t like very theoretic people, and I was just debating continuously with her and she didn’t like it very much.

Thus, this was not the first time I didn’t like my team at a hackathon. Two months ago, in May 2024, I went into another hackathon, my teammates weren’t so accustomed to the hackathon vibe, and it was the first time I observed that I needed a team.

A third mistake, I observed at hackathons, and not only in me but in my teammates too, is that they don’t know what a hackathon is. Faced with the fact that a hackathon isn’t just generating ideas; it’s working and not sleeping, it’s programming.

People can’t adapt. A hackathon is a good way to see if you like the startup life. The one when you work 24/7 to create your product. The hackathon can be the start of this life.

As an example, I had a hackathon in May where we generated the idea of YouthHub. I won’t describe what this idea is, but now I’m working at this alone (currently searching for a team), and I really think that this idea has great potential.

Many of the ideas generated at hackathons have great potential if the teams that created them would implement those ideas, but many of the ideas are forgotten, and that’s bad.

This is the experience I gained as a teenager in hackathons in the past years. If you liked my article don't forget to follow my blog.

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I’ve heard a few times about impostor syndrome in the last few months. The first time I found out what this syndrome was, I was at work and I had an event, and the event manager said that he had this syndrome while we were speaking.

I searched and read what this impostor syndrome is about, and I thought, “I may have it", but I came to another conclusion after a few months.

As a teenager, it is normal to doubt yourself, but I still see this as one of the things that I don’t want to lose. I do a lot of things that I want to learn, like design, writing, programming and engineering.

And while learning and doing this stuff, I encountered that there will always be something that won’t go away. A little detail solved will create another, and so on.

While working, having the “every detail matters” mindset and the fact that I think that it will never be enough, I realized that this is actually a pretty useful skill.

I’m talking about the skill of seeing every little detail, in your work and improving it. I don’t know if this is a real skill or if I just invented it. It may not always matter, but it is so good to see that your work can become better day to day because of this, even if you don’t feel like it’s enough.

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For most of my teenage years, I didn’t like reading or learning theory. It was and it is still one of the things that I hate when I learn something new. Why?

Well, recently, I was speaking to one of my friends and I asked about a book. The book was about programming, and while speaking to him, he said that if you want to learn programming, you actually need to code. It was the one thing I forgot about. Don’t think I wasn’t programming at all, but it was less than a year ago.

Reading is an important part too, but don’t forget, doing is the best way to learn something new. You can’t understand it until you use it in real life. This is the thing, that many schools in Moldova, are failing to achieve. Practice is the best way to start doing something.

Once, I was trying to do a lot of newbie stuff. I was doing more than just learning. I tried making applications to serve my needs like every programmer does, like a book app where I could store all the data about the books I read.

But starting high school, I left this work behind and I focused on other things like volunteering, reading, and other stuff. I changed the things I was focusing on.

This was a good and a bad decision. I was programming less, but I still managed to participate in hackathons. Two this year, as I remember. This was decent, but while trying to maintain consistency, I started reading more than actually doing it.

While reading, I didn’t have any path or reason to use this info, but actually, thinking about something that pisses me off, I had to find a solution, and then I had to think about how I could solve it by coding.

Writing and sharing about your experience is a great way to see how you evolved! Did you like my article? Don’t forget to leave a comment and a clap.

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