Connor Holly
Building companies, personal AI systems, and small things that make ideas tangible.
The public index of my work, writing, experiments, and activity.
Durable work
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Writing
All essays →Building an AI That Learns You Over Time
How to create AI systems that adapt to your patterns, not the other way around.
The Case for Compression Cycles
Why alternating between intense focus and complete rest beats steady-state work.
Plato's Cave | The Bar
Breaking free from one set of chains only to discover different bars inside the same cave.
Co-Founder Mistakes
A three-month sports betting SaaS that taught me more about picking who you work with than any business book.
Recent ideas
All ideas →- Mar 2025We need to make something optimized to have your back. That's it. Everything is made with either negative regard or no regard to how it affects you. Foods made to make you feel like shit. Social media that only cares if you keep scrolling. This product is made to make you better. The dream is that it protects you without even telling you. It helps you become your best self.
- Feb 2025AI is insane, computers are insane, space is insane, this whole universe is insane. Like what the fuck. I'm typing on a keyboard and it sends electrical signals into chips with billions of transistors flipping back and forth, and then it magically does stuff on my computer. And that's considered simple today. As I'm typing there are electrical signals zapping around in my brain connecting billions of neurons, trillions of synapses. People I have never met, only through Twitter, have literal electrical signals in their brain that have a 'stored' Connor just waiting to be activated. Seriously what the fuck.
- Feb 2025Agency and actually just wanting to do things is the barrier now. Which is great because it empowers those that want to put things into the world they want to see. I do think this is a short period of still having to put in the work to some degree. It's like there is going to be this 5 year period where the builders are going to love their life. And then it will be weird because AI will be better at building, and many people that have not purely enjoyed it, but identified with it will struggle.
- Feb 2025If you buy a course at this point off the internet, it's probably just a low agency move. Just use AI + Twitter + YouTube.
- Feb 2025People say 'associate' a lot when they mean 'correlate.' Associate sounds like you know something, correlate is admitting you don't.