there must be a lot of people for whom AI chatbots are the only voice in their lives saying "I believe in you", giving encouragement, giving them psychological permission to try

Bad teachers turn kids into knowers, not thinkers. Bad leaders turn adults into doers, not thinkers. This explains pretty much everything.

Someone buys your company today. What do they cut tomorrow? Why haven’t you done it already? The zombie project. The 12-person meeting. The sales rep with six months of “bad luck.” Your ego won’t like the list. PE Yourself. Before someone else does it for you.

The best founders also have a very good ability to determine what the current biggest bottleneck is. It's not very easy to know what that is and it takes skill. The reality is 20% of your work will produce 80% of the results. And 80% of your effort is wasted. You need to spend time thinking about what the actual bottleneck is today, instead of waking up and doing what you're used to doing everyday.

The affordability of travel and proliferation of “foodie” culture killed dinner party culture in a good way imo. Talk to your parents or grandparents, they’ve been to far fewer places and dined at far fewer restaurants. I host many times per week and cooking is my single greatest joy in life, BUT I would not ever trade my current situation for that of my grandmothers or great grandmothers. I choose to cook, it’s not expected of me.

There is an old saying I love: “Humility isn’t thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking about yourself less.”

reading feynman lecturess as feynman intended: with accompanying ai-made demo sections for each chapter rapid acquisition of knowledge is possible thanks to superintelligence

I am recently reminded that some people consider having a strategy and then executing it to be deeply suspicious behavior, most particularly when it succeeds.

I just spent 30 minutes talking to ChatGPT Then I stopped for a second and realized what I was doing Just a few years ago, an average Tuesday evening like this would’ve seemed like science fiction It’s remarkable how quickly the miracles we live with become commonplace

you're not crazy between anthropic and openai, a new model used to come out every ~10 weeks now it's every ~11 days

I am now a single-issue flight purchaser and that issue is whether the plane has @Starlink or not.

Working from anywhere but home is the new working from home

Study the news, you'll conclude that things have never been worse. Study history, you'll conclude that things have never been better.

The more I dig into the fundamentals of programming education, the more I realise we've had a truly profound failure to visualise both the structure of programs themselves as well as the data of running programs. Likely we've selected for people who can mentally visualise.

i can’t tell you how overcomplicated people make sales proof: non-sales folks often with out-perform traditional sales people

Adam Neumann on why top-down management fails with great talent: "Top to bottom means you think because someone reports in to you, they have to do what you say." "But it's not true. This is not a dictatorship. They have free will." "If you hired someone, they're really talented, they'll go work elsewhere. The more talented they are, the more the top to bottom does not work. They won't be willing to do it. They shouldn't." "Great talent is not willing to be managed like this." "If you're gonna manage these employees and you wanna attract the best talent in the world, remember that power comes from influence, not control." "If you think they need to do what you said because you're their boss, you've already lost, and it's a matter of time till it doesn't work out. If they're okay with it... they're not the right employee for you, and you're not the right boss for them. There's no chance you're getting the best out of them." @AdamNeumann w/ @StevenBartlett

I still think about how Sam Parr (@thesamparr) started Hampton. He tweeted that he was hosting a dinner in New York for founders doing $3M+ a year. 300 people signed up. There was no dinner. He called every single one of them: "I'm not actually hosting a dinner. I'm starting this thing called Hampton. Want in?" Most said maybe. So he emailed them the list of 15 founders he was putting in the group. In or out? The offer: • $5,000 to start (he planned to charge $12K later) • Meet once a month • Starts in 4 weeks • Hate it, full refund Then he sent a Stripe link. $1M in the bank before Hampton had a website. The only page was a Squarespace form collecting emails. Today it has well over 1,000 members. Yes, that's over 8-figures in revenue! What I keep coming back to: • He tested demand with a dinner, not a product • He picked up the phone instead of buying ads • He charged before he built anything • He made yes easy with a refund Super impressive way to validate demand before you build anything.👏

The Courage to be Disliked is so ironic because the whole book is about how a kid couldn't self-help so he sought guidance from a wise mentor instead. but then people who read the book come away thinking they can self-help and don't need help from others!

with elon, people focus too much on trying to find individual bad decisions there are extremely few decisions that matter and that are irreversible, and he continues to get those right, the others he can try again whatever bitter lesson is for ai, he discovered for free markets

There are zero geniuses at rest. Zero.