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20 September
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Banks cannot globalize like software companies because banking is tightly bound to national monetary sovereignty.Their words
banks can't globalize the way other firms can because the banking system is so close to a form of sovereignty: governments very carefully guard the privilege to create more money, and when they give it out, there are strings attached.
12 September
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Using time for this sounds boring, but time synchronization is unironically one of the most complicated things in computing.
26 August
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We cannot say what a junior engineer is worth because we cannot say what any engineer is worth; it is all vibes.Their words
The hardest thing about quantifying the value of junior engineers is that we don't know how to quantify the value of any engineer. So it's all vibes.
10 August
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Second of all is I hope you worked on your personal brand and on visibility because in this day and age there's so much noise out there that your hardest problem is not the tech, it's not the software, not even the people. The hardest problem now is like getting eyeballs.
2 August
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rather than mapping PMs to teams where you kind of assume that the PM will always do that, we tend to map them to kind of problems or kind of like core projects.
9 July
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you've got these other generalists doing design, you've got engineers doing design, product staff doing design, but I'm actually pretty long on design or designers because they tend to have taste and I think that is something that is much more difficult to imagine being automated away.
30 June
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CalDigit TS5+Their words
I had a TS4 before it, and the TS5+ adds 10Gb ethernet, which is amazing when moving files on/off my network-attached storage.
16 June
4 June
From one piece Do the hardest thing 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Your hardest idea is often your best idea, the one with the most potential.
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The most valuable problem to pursue is the hardest one someone is genuinely positioned to solve.Their words
Doing "the hard thing" means pursuing the highest-value problem you can find that still sits inside your zone of expertise; the hardest problem you're personally in a position to win.
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Building the hardest feature in a product yields disproportionately greater returns than easier ones.Their words
Choosing to tackle "the hardest feature" generally produces power-law-level returns, as opposed to tackling something less hard.
3 June
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The hardest problem a company full of brilliant engineers has is not how to build something — it is what to build.Their words
So you have a lot of smart Googlers. These people are brilliant. I mean extremely brilliant to the point where the hardest problem Google had in my opinion was what to build. Not how to build it, what to build.
2 June
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I I definitely think I'm so aware of the fine line between success and failure, especially on your first company. And and and it's so it pains me how much founders and es especially I see it in men, not all men. And I have four sisters and a bunch of daughters. But I would say I see it in a lot in men and and friends, college friends, people I've grown up with that if they had an initial failure, if they had failures, they get attached to it and they start feeling defined by it
29 April
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When you get angry fast, it usually is not because you are "too much." It is often because your nervous system learned to live on alert.
25 April
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Decision markets are the idea of mine with the biggest expected impact, though not the deepestTheir words
It’s not my deepest, grandest, beautiful, or hardest won insight, just the one with the biggest expected impact.
6 April
1 April
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that was the most brilliant thing because by doing the hardest thing first once you launch that everything else is downhill from there
26 March
20 March
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Um so yeah, the the the um the core of what I do, like actually solving um the most difficult part of of a math problem, that hasn't changed too much. I still use pen and paper for that.
13 February
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One is at every moment of this exponential, the extent to which the world outside it didn't understand it. This is This is a bias that's often present in history where anything that actually happened looks inevitable in retrospect.
10 February
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The economics of orbital “datacenters” or essentially glorified Starlink satellites with a bunch of GPUs attached are likely to be even better than Starlink.
Space AI: I guess we’re doing Moon factories nowcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com
9 February
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Simply making fossil fuels more expensive without having affordable alternatives just makes energy more expensive, which hits the poorest hardest.
Do subsidies make meat much cheaper?hannahritchie.substack.com
1 January
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We do more work with AI. I'm working the hardest I've ever worked.
22 November 2025
13 August 2025
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Industrial policy was heavily criticized and again, if I talk to my Harvard professors, they’ll be very, very, very skeptical about the role of the state, especially in such a major way. But if you look at the Chinese experience, the evidence for success is all there. The cities that have pushed the most on supporting that particular sector ultimately did the best in terms of production, but also in terms of innovation, measured by patents. It’s all in the data.
23 July 2025
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So picking the right question is the hardest part of science and making the right hypothesis. And that's what today's systems definitely they can't do. So I often say it's harder to come up with a conjecture, a really good conjecture than it is to solve it.
22 May 2025
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Chasing HopeTheir words
Chasing Hope made me think a lot about what kind of person chooses to run toward the hardest problems—and keep going back until they’re solved.
5 May 2025
From one piece Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions | Lex Fridman Podcast #468 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The hardest step on the road from chemistry to us was multicellularity, and it was strictly a problem of energetics.Their words
I would say, multicellularity which is strictly an energy problem, I think. Again, it’s just like can electrons flow the right way. And is it energetically favorable for multicellularity to exist because if it’s energetically expensive, it’s not going to succeed.
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So I think we’re very attached to imagining creatures like us, that manipulate technology, and I think we have to be way more imaginative if we’re going to really take seriously life in the universe.
23 March 2025
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And as it turns out the best games are constructed out of toys. Why? Because then they are fun on both levels. the toy and the game itself.
25 September 2024
20 August 2024
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But more deeply, if distributional consequences of a shock are important, then hand out cash. So long as everyone faces the same prices.
18 July 2024
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One of the hardest things about debugging is running a program backward: there's a data structure with a bad value, or the control flow has zigged instead of zagged, and it's very difficult to understand how it could have gotten into that state.
19 June 2024
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It’s less about access to a model’s weights, it’s more access to compute that is putting the world in more concentration of power and few individuals. Because not everyone’s going to be able to afford this much amount of compute to answer the hardest questions.
2 April 2024
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Discussions of housing policy often focus on issues of zoning, regulation, and other supply restrictions which manifest as increased land prices, but for most American housing, the largest cost comes from building the physical structure itself.
20 February 2024
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The most difficult analysis to do as an investor is that, is kind of figuring out how wide is the moat, how much at risk is the business to disruption? And we're in, I would say, the greatest period of disruptability in history.
4 October 2023
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But while I have seen no evidence (and Chris provides none) that higher food prices alleviate global hunger, there is a wealth of evidence that they exacerbate it.
2 August 2023
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