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16 September
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sometimes it's alright to have the ceo vibe slop his way to success.
15 September
7 September
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There's an illusion here though that anyone will make it, which I've never portrayed to be true, entrepreneurship is one of the most challenging endeavours, kinda like pro sports
3 September
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You know what actually motivates founders day-to-day? The fear of failure. Even though they're doing this thing that if they succeed they'll be super rich. Um that does motivate them but the thing that motivates them at the at any given moment is the fear of like disaster or looking like a fool, the server crashing, right?
2 September
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Every attempt, even an unsuccessful one, is an alignment failure.
1 September
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So it seemed like they were willing to embark on quests that might take weeks to succeed um in order to cheat.
20 August
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Moonshots succeed more often than Silicon Valley's use of the word admits -- we actually got to the moon.Their words
It's like, you know, when we went to the moon, we did it. And so, historically, the success rate of moonshots is higher than I think people give them credit for.
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Well-functioning systems succeed through continuous debugging rather than perfect initial design.Their words
When things work well, it's usually not because they were designed perfectly, but because they are constantly being debugged.
19 August
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And that embrace of people are going to use whatever tech they want to use. You can't tell people what to use very often. They're going to use whatever they want, and your job is to help them be successful on your platform, and to help your users have a great time.
17 August
10 August
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Many startups are racing to create foundational world models, but I think the first ones to succeed will likely be the platforms in control of this data bank.
7 August
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And so um in order to succeed your judgment has to be differentiatedly good. Now the reality might be that you don't know if your judgment is good yet. And so um one way or another you will have to find out and that means making decisions that make sense to you even when you are totally alone in that realization.
31 July
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I think you need to ask the uh, the sort of converse of that, uh, what if you succeed? And you know, you raise money and you've customers and you've employees and a whole thing. Like are you going to be are you going to enjoy that? Are you going to want to work on that for 10 years, for 17 years, for 30 years?
30 July
From one piece Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And often you can actually make the model work better and succeed at that kind of problem by not just adjusting the model parameters which is hard to do from the outside but from you know creating better guidelines for the model you know writing skills for the model to know how to use different tools that would be incredibly useful for solving this particular class of problem.
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And if they're completely failing, that's probably a good sign. If they're kind of able to do some of it but not very well, that's maybe not a great sign because that's a probably a a sign that the capability is starting to be present in those models and with more training data or larger scale models or or whatever it's likely to get better. So um you know look for something where the model succeeds 0% or 1% of the time not not 20%.
2 June
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Most business advice is necessary but not sufficient on its own to achieve success.
27 March
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Whether or not they succeed is going to be decided by decisions that we all make as a community in the coming months.
24 March
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Putting the children most likely to succeed into one school is segregation, not educational excellence.Their words
Simply creating artificial separation between different students is not a strategy for “educational excellence.” It’s just segregation.
20 March
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um you know, these tools they either succeed or they fail um and they they've been really bad at creating sort of partial progress or identifying intermediate um um stages that you should you should focus on first.
22 January
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This is the hard problem of alignment we need to solve in order to succeed at building superintelligence, and to this day it is an unsolved problem.
16 January
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Successful founders are distinguished by knowing what to give up and when, not by refusing to ever quit.Their words
The founders who succeed aren't the ones who never give up-they're the ones who know what to give up and when.
15 January
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Local-first software will not become the dominant architecture, and that is an acceptable outcome.Their words
Local-first is not going to win, but that's okay We'll explore the complexities of traditional stack (db-server-frontend), develop a theory of software evolution: which systems succeed and why.
8 September 2025
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But with education and intelligence, we’re unwilling to countenance the simple reality that some people are better equipped to succeed and some worse.
13 August 2025
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Another big misunderstanding, and a fundamental one, is that people somehow think that the state suppresses the private sector. It’s not at all as simple as that. For the most part, if we look at the local government’s incentive system, they want to help the best, private companies, which are the most promising, because it makes them look good.
5 May 2025
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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.
19 January 2025
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My big motto like life motto in growth is that you have to fail to learn. You can't just constantly succeed. Success is an output of a lot of failures.
6 January 2025
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I suspect that both Substack and OnlyFans may become a Girardian bubble. Everyone joins after hearing from the few people who succeed; the thousands who slink away after months of effort netted them a mere 17 subscribers usually do so quietly.
27 December 2024
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Smarter Faster BetterTheir words
My second book is about the science of productivity, and how to succeed with less stress and struggle, to get more done without sacrificing what we care about most.
9 August 2024
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New things tend to not work, or you have to change them drastically.
26 November 2023
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Mars Sample Return as designed is too complicated, too slow and too expensive to succeed.Their words
The brief summary is that MSR’s architecture, pictured below, is incredibly complicated, slow, and expensive.
What is going on with Mars Sample Return?caseyhandmer.wordpress.com
17 November 2023
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I'm not a defensive realist, I'm an offensive realist. And my argument is that states look for opportunities to gain more power, and every time they see, or almost every time they see an opportunity to gain more power, and they think the likelihood of success is high and the cost will not be great, they'll jump at that opportunity.
25 May 2023
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But we do not have enough data and we do not have enough insight to use AI/ML to pick better targets that have a higher chance of succeeding in the clinic.
9 August 2022
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Now, some decisions may have been good decisions that didn't work through no fault of the employee. And some may have been bad decisions that worked because the employee got lucky. So, you can't just look at the outcome, but you have to look at what What was the person thinking about when they made the decision?
12 July 2022
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The students who ultimately succeed in learning R are not the ones who force themselves to memorize functions or do a bunch of coding drills.
3 February 2022
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