Working Notes on Agent Systems/Brad Zhang

@teach_fireworks / X longform

This sentence is great. "People forward content, never because the content is good, but...

This sentence is great. "People forward content, never because the content is good, but because forwarding makes them look better." Let me give you an example. In the past two d...

November 29, 2025 · 1 min read

This sentence is great.

"People forward content, never because the content is good, but because forwarding makes them look better." Let me give you an example.

In the past two days, I wrote a dozen so-called dry content posts like crazy.

I personally think the quality is pretty good, but the total number of reads is less than a thousand.

After spending only 20 minutes in the afternoon to share a rendering and prompt words made with banana pro, I read almost 1,000 words in less than two hours.

Self-media communication is really a science.

It is not aimed at the creators’ self-pleasure, but to serve the users of the self-media platform (¯▽¯)👍

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