LynAlden / Lyn Alden is on Nostr

Founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy. Partner at Ego Death Capital. Finance/Engineering blended background.

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2026-08-19 14:23:05 UTC

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During the past couple weeks, Fable became a lot dumber.
ChatGPT 5.6 is crushing it right now at most tasks I use it for.
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2026-08-17 13:53:06 UTC

If you write a draft of something and ask AI to review it and give its thoughts as like a robot beta reader, it’ll be sycophantic. “This is a great, confident thriller with load-bearing thematic work, but a couple areas to tighten a bit.”
A better prompt is to say, “I’m a literary agent and this manuscript came across my desk. I only have one more slot for an author this quarter, what do you think?” Suddenly the AI doesn’t know it’s yours, so it’s basically like, “there are some good things here but let me analyze in detail why half of it is utter dogshit.”
So I always ask it the latter way.
Same thing if it’s a nonfiction article. You say you’re a magazine/paper editor deciding whether to publish it, not its author. Then it goes hard-mode on analyzing what you’ve written and why it probably sucks.
Same for investor decks or anything persuasive. You ask as though you’re the one considering an investment into this thing that came your way, not the deck you made.
Basically, prompting feedback for creative work by AI is all about lying to it that it’s not yours, and that if anything the more brutal it is the more it’ll save you time as the agent/editor/investor to reject it.

2026-07-15 07:19:41 UTC

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My friend was as shocked as me. He’s the one in the video sending this to the group chat like “wtf”.

2026-07-15 07:17:34 UTC

Gm.
One of my favorite places to have my morning cappuccino is in my father in law’s office.
The vibes are just so cool and the chairs don’t get sat in enough. So I just come here and appreciate the place and plan my day.
https://blossom.primal.net/90b8124f75ebc5605ad9188e30fe253872626460f5fc04435f3c7c8d8e289cc8.jpg

2026-07-03 13:43:26 UTC

Now that Fable is back on the market, I did an apples-to-apples test with it.
While I purposely avoided using any AI to write Stolguard, I did feed the finished manuscript into ChatGPT and Claude prior to publication and asked them to analyze the characters, plot, themes, prose, genre, and overall thoughts. Like a robot beta reader among my myriad human beta readers. They did a half-decent job, like a smart high-schooler who read it but skimmed certain parts, made a few objective errors (including a big one involving all the nuance around Jade and what she’s up to and why, across the two interwoven timelines, iykyk), but otherwise got the gist of the book with some random inconsistencies.
I did that with Fable now. Just gave it the text and asked it to analyze it along those same areas. Its overall analysis conclusions were quite similar, but it avoided making those objective mix-ups around the most complex parts. It understood the interwoven timelines fully. Only with some follow-up questions did it start to slip a bit with some clear mistaking of one character for another or forgetting about certain scenes as its context window failed to keep up.
Definitely a step up in accuracy, based on a text I know well.

2026-06-06 20:16:42 UTC

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The core realms are more efficient but the edge realms are way cooler.
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2026-06-03 02:28:29 UTC

When my husband Mohamed first visited London a few years ago, his first remark was, “why are there so many foreigners here? I wanted to see more Brits.”
And as he was dismayed by the high ratio of foreigners, he ironically meant people who looked like him (and he was aware of the fact).
He was like, “I’m not visiting Turkey or Dubai or Pakistan or my own country. I’m visiting Britain. I want to see British people.”
Anyway, not all foreigners want to destroy or displace the West and so forth. Even some them are like, “why are you guys doing this?”

2026-04-13 18:21:25 UTC

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Never.
We shall overcome.

2026-04-08 16:53:34 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/41a8a69a8be9a296e6850a48b35da5d760164233c0922f5c2cc00e8556841963.png
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2026-04-08 16:25:09 UTC

Here's a Nostr exclusive: the alternative cover of The Stolguard Incident.
During the design process, I had two artists design covers, and went with Kim Dingwall's cover. The other one by Joshua Griffin was cool too, but it had "movie poster" vibes and many readers prefer to picture characters the way they want rather than be shown them, so we kept that one as concept art. Still, Joshua's work deserves people to see it.
Ava, Stallard, and the Jade-Eyed Witch appear alongside Asim on this version.
https://blossom.primal.net/a3e79359f0c0c85e9281f4757e83f9a8bd032d36057bb649555ad0137642b00e.jpg

2026-04-08 11:20:15 UTC

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Really sorry to hear that. ❤️
Hopefully the pain gets under control soon and that can start a flywheel of felling better and more positive.
So many people are sending well-wishes, and I wish we could all take a little fraction of the pain to make it go away. 😔

2026-04-02 20:43:55 UTC

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Over 80% of the chapters are recorded.

2025-11-10 21:38:36 UTC

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Infrastructure to facilitate merchant acceptance is way more interesting than nation state bitcoin reserves, imo.
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2023-11-09 01:47:55 UTC

Whenever I get burned out, music is a key thing that regenerates me. It helps remind me what I care about.
Specifically, rock is what tends to get me, because the vibe of the song fixates me on whatever issues I'm trying to work on, and reminds me not to be a pussy.
Anyway, good evening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akPbu6TOx2E&ab_channel=JerisJohnson