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"The scarce PM skill right now is elevating other people's ambition." — @tarstarr
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From one piece Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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it's not that they lack ambition, it's more like they've been trained not to show it. Because when you're young you're often in situations where you're supposed to be obedient. You're not supposed to like go off and do what you want.
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we knew that it was grueling. And you need you need something to drive you through all those obstacles and honestly being dutiful is not enough.
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Ambition in founders is mostly inborn, which is why stories of a founder acquiring it during a batch are rare.Their words
Those stories are rare because most of this quality is inborn.
30 August
26 August
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That was premised on humans doing the modifications. I think it is an open question to which degree this still matters. Now, it does matter, and the reason I say that, at least for the moment, is that tokens are still scarce. At this moment in time, we are all token limited.
24 August
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But when they looked at the happiness levels of these people, it was the average person who actually would self-report the highest levels of happiness. So ambition doesn't necessarily equate with happiness, which I think many people would agree with with that.
20 August
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10 August
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So this speaks of a very important fact that um AI learns from patterns. When the patterns are not abundant, then we have to be careful. We have to know how to use AI or how not to use AI.
4 August
30 July
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When agents do the building, the scarce skill is taste: choosing which problem is worth the time at all.Their words
Yeah, I mean I think it's really having incredibly good taste in what you ask your agents to work on, right? That is the the crux of you know from my background uh a research problem. You know, a researcher can have all the tools and all the techniques, but often most of the battle is what problem are you gonna spend your time on?
29 July
From one piece Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I truly believe these these models are already just incredibly powerful. Like they should they should be so powerful to fuel, you know, um many many points of expansion of GDP growth and I think it's like up to smart people with vision and ambition to make all that happen.
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This is a once-in-a-civilization opportunity to have a vision and impose it on the world by building something.Their words
it's probably a like once in a civilization opportunity to be a dreamer and to have a vision and to have ambition and to impose a view of how the future world should look by building something amazing.
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The scarce resource is about to stop being intelligence or agency and become vision and ambition.Their words
all of a sudden, the scarce resource isn't going to be intelligence or agency. I really think it's going to be vision and ambition.
19 July
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I have a hard time picturing entertainment that doesn't have humans at the heart of it. So that that's humans in the creation of the storytelling, which I think is a scarce and valuable skill.
16 June
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Without densification restrictions, housing shortages will only ever be serious in cities where land is really intensely scarce, as in Hong Kong.
14 June
From one piece The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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if you're truly ambitious, burn your resume. If you and if you define your ambition in the eyes of your consumer, not your peers, you're not trying to win awards and respect from your peers.
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it's to build an internet treasure which is a service we can't remember life before or imagine life without. And I believe as product makers that that's the greatest ambition and the greatest thing that we can offer the world.
4 June
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Something like the relational sector, which is what I defined as, um, you know, basically services and goods where the fact that the human was in the loop was actually part of the value of that product.
2 June
10 May
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Execution is only as good as the goal and the verification you give it. Ambition without verification is just a wish.
15 April
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Because it's it's a bad business practice. You you set your price. You set your price and then and then people decide to buy it or not. And and um uh there there I I understand that that others in the chip industry um uh change their prices when demand is higher. Uh but we just don't we just don't that's just never been a practice of ours.
20 March
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So, we're now in a situation where suddenly people can generate thousands of theories for a given scientific problem. And now we have to to verify them, evaluate them and this is something which we we have to to change our structures of science to actually sort this out.
4 March
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The scarce skill is now context switching across parallel agents, not sustained deep work.Their words
It’s not so much about deep work, it’s about how good I am at context switching and jumping across multiple different contexts very quickly.
12 February
From one piece Speed Can Reindustrialize America 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Industrial policy almost inevitably consumes more skilled labor and reduces what we can produce.
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An industrial robot does not replace labour, it shifts labour from hourly workers to scarce skilled ones.Their words
The key is that robot arms are not labor-replacing, but labor-shifting.
16 December 2025
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The Secret of Our SuccessTheir words
Not every plank in his argument is convincing, and the research has evolved since the book first came out a decade ago, but the ambition is impressive and the framework holds up.
31 October 2025
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So you have to be, in your mind, you’re spending large amounts of someone else’s money. You have to try and make it back for them. But at the same time, my argument with myself was, well, if we… The way to make it back is try and make something great. So both pressures are pointing in the same direction.
13 August 2025
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In the US, capital controls politics, one could argue. In China, it has to be the other way around. Capital must be reigned in by politics. As part of the capitalist class, do not have the ambition to exceed the powers of the political class, is really at the core of it, I’d say, is the biggest difference between US and China.
7 August 2025
21 March 2025
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Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed WorldTheir words
A more how-to pragmatic version of carving your own path. Includes some personal story of reinvention but more on experimentation that challenges our default scripts of success and ambition.
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Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner AmbitionTheir words
A personal exploration of how to reclaim that fire inside of you and steer it toward your 'good work' while still being true to yourself.
12 February 2025
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On changing their mind
As I set out last time, the usual story — that this was caused by deforestation, making firewood so scarce that people resorted to burning an inferior but cheaper fuel — simply does not stack up.
10 January 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Shaped the Internet Age and Dot-Com BoomTheir words
See an excerpt explaining why I loved reading this book.
20 August 2024
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Price gouging is wonderful for all the reasons that letting supply equals demand is wonderful. When there is a limited supply, then a sharply higher price directs that supply to those who really need it.
2 June 2024
14 December 2023
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That's an inventor's greatest dream, is that their inventions are so successful that they are one day taken for granted. Nobody thinks of Amazon as an invention anymore. Nobody thinks of customer reviews as an invention.
30 October 2023
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