Applied AI Society

Inspiration Wall

Tweet by Damian Player (@damianplayer): the biggest AI opportunity right now is mid-market companies ($5M-$50M+ revenue):  

• too big for cookie-cutter solutio
Tweet by Suhail Kakar (@SuhailKakar): in 2026, 

every company will be looking for “ai nerds”

not data scientists. not ml engineers. just people who know how
Tweet by Damian Player (@damianplayer): go to grok and paste a profile url.   

ask it “scrape tweets above 1k likes about [keyword]” for any account in your ni
Tweet by Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan): Leaders have to rebuild their intuitions

"A lot of leaders have built intuitions over 10 or 15 years, and they are high
Tweet by Machina (@EXM7777): the fastest way to learn AI automations is combining n8n's template library with a Claude project...

here's the system:
Tweet by mitsuri (@0xmitsurii): Jensen Huang: I want my engineers to stop coding. https://t.co/mpJvjmbCoR
Tweet by Damian Player (@damianplayer): this is fucking wild… 

nobody is selling claude-as-a-service to corporate boomers.. 

and it’s THE most obvious arbitra
Tweet by Applied AI Society (@AppliedAISoc): Google co-founder Eric Schmidt's advice for making money in AI right now:  "Found an agentic AI company. Not one designi
Tweet by kepano (@kepano): cloud apps have locked generations of people into self-limiting beliefs about what a computer can do
Tweet by The Boring Marketer (@boringmarketer): we're probably not far from a 1-person agency run by someone that lives in the terminal doing $100,000 per month with 4
Tweet by Florian Darroman (@floriandarroman): This is how to make money fast in 2026.

(he runs a $10M/year startup) https://t.co/Cy10ZIB2Nc
Tweet by Haider. (@slow_developer): Stephen Wolfram says AI won't end work, but it will make learning low-level mechanics obsolete

We moved from assembler
Tweet by Mᜋtt (@MMatt14): Linus is Vibecoding now

It's literally over, they might vibe-code the Linux kernel now https://t.co/DhW5vT6Fo5
Tweet by James Shields (@scaling_shields): found a guy charging dentists $3,500/year to file paperwork

$2.4 million last year

zero followers

the glitch:

every
Tweet by Damian Player (@damianplayer): Mark Cuban’s advice to people trying to get into AI is simple. help businesses implement.

SMBs have budget but zero exp
Tweet by Allie K. Miller (@alliekmiller): Every individual AI consultant I talk to (including myself) is massively changing their business approach in 2026. 

202
Tweet by Gary Sheng - The Applied AI Guy (@garysheng): LESSONS FROM DELL ON HOW TO IMPLEMENT AI IN A WAY THAT INCREASES BOTTOM LINE

just came from a private equity and AI eve
Tweet by Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista): I started my AI transformation business 9 months ago. 

Friends think I'm nuts when I tell them we will hit >150 peop
Tweet by a16z (@a16z): Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says AI is ushering in a "job singularity" – a Cambrian explosion of new job families across ev
Tweet by Damian Player (@damianplayer): stop trying to innovate with AI. every business runs on the same 5-6 core processes.

the bones are identical across ind
Tweet by Alia Wu (@o_wutang): @martin_casado @noufalsoghyar @lateinteraction The bottleneck is underinvestment on the human capital side.

Most people
Tweet by Damian Player (@damianplayer): who’s selling claude-as-a-service?

there’s insane demand for all things Claude right now. 

boomers would pay you serio
Tweet by The Transcript (@TheTranscript_): DeepMind CEO @demishassabis 's advice to young people on AI skills:

"If I was to advise the youth of today, you tell th
Tweet by Nozz (@NoahEpstein_): someone's about to make $50K/month teaching people how to use Claude Cowork.

not building with it. teaching it.

becaus
Tweet by Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg): The world belongs to the fast
Tweet by Gary Sheng - The Applied AI Guy (@garysheng): people ask me how to make money in applied AI and they're usually thinking about one thing: workflow automation.

that's
Tweet by nader dabit (@dabit3): Wow, after 14 years of being a software developer I would have never guessed in a million years that writing, specs, and
Tweet by Damian Player (@damianplayer): go to linkedin. search "we're hiring" posts from companies in your target industry. 

hiring = growth. 
growth = systems
Tweet by TBPN (@tbpn): Mark Cuban on the next big job students should focus on:

Most companies don’t know how to implement AI, especially smal
Tweet by Mark Cuban (@mcuban): There will be 2 types of companies in the future.   

Those that are great at AI, and those that used to be in business
Tweet by Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista): This is our entire bet at @tenex_labs. 

AI is a generational technology, yet the journey from AI-absent to AI-native fo
Tweet by Drew Bredvick (@DBredvick): Add to your H1 roadmap: start an internal applied AI team.

Steal folks from existing teams to found it:

- Engineers th
Tweet by James Camp 🛠,🛠 (@JamesonCamp): $10M is easy if you leave this bubble

If you know what Claude Code, clipping, or MCPs are- you're in a bubble

X is a m
Tweet by Damian Player (@damianplayer): local in-person AI classes for corporate boomers. 

easily a $10K/mo opportunity.

rent a presentation room. run meta ad
Tweet by Gary Sheng - The Applied AI Guy (@garysheng): a great, relatively new way for certain (well connected) engineers to make good money right now: build personal software
Tweet by Jake (@JustJake): If you're a stellar builder, the economics of your labor just changed

Any organization that isn't empowering you to mov
Tweet by Sahil Lavingia (@shl): Automate Something People Don’t Want To Do