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Undiscovered #107: Getting Started with Claude Skills, Student of the Game, Build Something in a Weekend
#107: Getting Started with Claude Skills, Student of the Game, Build Something in a WeekendHi All! We are pleased to welcome you to this week's edition of Undiscovered, a newsletter with exclusive resources and insights expanding from the material found on our main site - becketu.com. This week, we will take a look at how to get started with Claude Skills, an event showing you how to complete a product build in a weekend and earn your first $1, a restored 1920's restaurant, and more. Let's dive in: Getting Started with Claude Skills@eptwts and @EXM7777 are two of the many voices who have recommended learning Claude Skills in the last week. @EXM7777- "this is probably the highest leverage play you can make with LLMs i don't think any other feature is as impactful rn" @eptwts - claude skills = SOP's for AI So where do you begin with learning Claude Skills? Many tutorials are floating around, but the two best resources are the docs from Anthropic as well as this article from Lenny's Newsletter titled, "Claude Skills explained: How to create reusable AI workflows" Claude Skills save time and boost productivity because you can package your favorite prompts or processes once and reuse them everywhere, allowing you get more done with way less hassle. Student of the GameBlake Robbins is a partner at Hidden Capital and co-host of the Gamecraft podcast, where he chats about the business side of video games and how the industry has evolved over the years. He recently wrote a short article on the Hidden website, called "Student of the Game", where he talks about the importance of studying the histories of various industries. It garnered over 300,000 views on Twitter: Most founders see incumbents as slow, bloated targets. They never ask the real questions.
Why did Ramp win corporate cards when dozens failed? How could OpenAI emerge despite Google's head start?
These aren't accidents.
Five minutes into an old Invest Like the Best episode, Patrick O'Shaughnessy asks John Collison about conglomerates.
John doesn't pause.
TransDigm. Danaher. Vail Resorts. Dominos. He rattles off how each one compounds value: aerospace rollups, operating systems, acquisition playbooks.
Patrick redirects him. John could go for hours.
This is the difference.
Most founders won't even study their own market. John studies everything.
Your competition thinks history is academic. They're wrong.
Can you explain why your market's dominant player won? Not what they did, but why it worked? Which conditions still exist? If you can't, you're guessing.
The game you're playing has been played before. Someone won and left clues everywhere. Every market leaves patterns, incentives, blind spots.
Study the tape.
"Make something in a weekend"Farza Majeed is the founder behind the late company, Buildspace. It was described as "the biggest school in the world for people working on their own ideas". With an incredible social media presence, there were even podcasts featuring Farza where they would describe the company as the "$100 Million Startup Building Hogwarts IRL". Farza shut down Buildspace for personal reasons, but he still continues to help guide people in their quest to become builders. He recently tweeted, "My buddy (non-technical) texted me asking how he can use Claude Code to build his first legit product. I didn't see any good resources out there. So I gave him a 20m tutorial and recorded it." After sharing this video, it passed 200k views and over 3k likes. This inspired him to run an entirely new challenge, "make something in a weekend". In his words, 'next saturday im gonna do a call with my little brother and show him how to build his idea with the latest coding agents + make his first $1 on the internet.' If this sounds like something you would be interested in, you may sign up on his Partiful invite. 11 Truths from Duke Dropout turned YC Founder@CoffeeWithOne is a 24-year old Duke dropout turned founder of the YC-backed company, Octolane. He recently shared 11 of his most valuable insights of 'what actually happens when you go all in' on your own company. Here are a few of my favorites, along with a brief explanation:
3. Runway is a countdown to your personal failure: Every month that clock ticks down isn't just money. it's proof you haven't figured it out yet. The stress is less about going broke and more about confronting whether you're actually good enough. 6. Your burn rate is the only number that matters: Revenue is vanity. Profit is sanity. Runway is reality. You can survive slow growth. You can't survive running out of money. Every dollar you spend is oxygen you just burned. 7. The best features are the ones you don't build: Every feature is debt. Support debt. Maintenance debt. Complexity debt. The companies that win aren't the ones with the most features, they're the ones that said no to everything except the one thing that matters. 10. The day you launch is the least important day: You'll spend months planning launch day. It'll come and go. You'll get some Twitter engagement. Then nothing changes. Building a company is 1,000 boring Tuesdays, not one epic launch. Beautifully Restored 1920's RestaurantWhile scrolling on Twxtter I came across this beautifully restored 1920's-era restaurant. I love the booths, the wood panelling, and soft overhead pendant light. Sometimes, seeing something well designed in other industries inspires you within your own:
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