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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
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Getting rid of milk chocolate sooner is better, and people can gradually adapt to darker chocolate.
The faster you get rid of milk chocolate the better, you can slowly adapt yourself to darker and darker chocolate
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By committing yourself in what you do, big and small, to being a giver. To value other people more than yourself. To value what is right more than your life. To give the full measure of our devotion, that’s what we’re…
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daymark — Publish to your own site as fast as you'd post to a social app — photos, videos, voice notes, and quick thoughts, all from your phone, all truly yours.
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quick friday task for you stop scrolling and tell yourself this "today your day is going to be full of wins and luck will follow you" then see how the day unfolds
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Spending enough time in San Francisco tends to make people want to start their own company.
No matter how much fun you're having at your W-2 job, spend enough time in San Francisco and you may find yourself itching to build something of your own.
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Trying to shortcut past necessary personal work always backfires, and real progress requires confronting oneself directly.
anything that feels like a way to get out of doing the work will come back to bite you. You have to go through yourself to get anywhere good.
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Certainly in the beginning you might think that money is the answer. After that, you might think that more time is the answer. After that, you might think, I simply need to care more for the physical vehicle, or I want…
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If you are not willing to try hard, do things yourself and dig deeper, you should know what you are getting yourself into before betting a career on tech.
The only reason I suggested that even in the title was that I think if you have an attitude of like you don't want to try hard, or you don't like you don't want to do things yourself, and you don't want to to dig deeper…
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One of the biggest copes I hear from solo technical founders: “I don’t need to validate it. I’m building it for myself, so even if nobody else uses it, it’s still a success.” No. If you want to build something for…
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You can now simply ask for the desktop tools you want and have them built, instead of finding or writing them yourself.
You can literally just wish for the tools you want now. Omarchy has every skill to make them. It’s magical.
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"Welcome, everyone. Please sit anywhere you like, including the couch we've had sex on and the chairs we're gone to third base on. Drinks are in the kitchen on the counter that we fornicate atop. Bathroom down the hall…
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Emotion regulation is not a private skill: you regulate other people's emotions and they regulate yours.
is it's interpersonal. It's between people. You regulate other people's emotions and you have to pick up on other people's emotions and you influence other people's emotions.
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A founder should take half the valuation if it buys all of the control, because the right to be wrong in your own way is what founding was for.
you've gone through so much to be here. You owe it to yourself to bet on your instinct. You owe it to yourself to lose because of yourself. It's your right to be wrong. You, as a founder, owe it to yourself to control…
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Past the beginning, learn from whatever you actually care about rather than from material written for learners.
Don’t limit yourself to material designed for language learners. Read and listen to content that you genuinely care about.
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Taste can be trained deliberately: write down what you think will matter in twelve months, then go back in twelve months and score yourself.
Um, another way you can get more experience for yourself is to just write down a bunch of things you think might be important in the next 12 months. And maybe you pick one of them to work on, but go back and evaluate in…
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You cannot make good macro decisions without the micro, which means a leader has to sit alongside the individual contributors.
if you don't actually push yourself down to sit alongside your IC engineers and your IC designers and your IC PMs, you don't actually know that stuff. So you can't make good macro decisions without the micro.
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Programming, not diagramming, is where an engineer actually learns, because code is the point at which you can no longer fool yourself about what you understand.
and I thought programming sitting fingers on keyboard staring at code that's that's where I do my learning because that's where you can no longer fool yourself that you actually understand either you compute the correct…
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one quick answer to the question of what's the most successful strategy is the earlier you can stop that process, the better. And so, in the first place, don't get yourself into a situation where you're going to be…
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The alternative to burning tokens is a zero-token architecture: learn the thing, think for yourself, and finish the task.
Now, I post things like, "Hey, I'm adopting the zero token architecture." People like, "What's zero token architecture?" as like instead of burning tokens, you learn things and you think for yourself and just complete…
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Last call! Enrollment for Cohort 2 of The AI Second Brain closes tonight at midnight PT Our next (and last) cohort this year starts Thursday Here's what you'll walk away with: • Stop re-explaining yourself to every new…
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Knowing something yourself will stay faster than asking a model for it, because a lookup in your own head beats a round trip to an agent.
That's a hell of a lot slower than knowing it in cognitive L1 cache. And you can have way more round trips in your brain than you can, you know, muttering through, you know, super whisper or typing it out or whatever.
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Mass AI-written outreach fails on its own terms: playing the same numbers game as everyone else adds to the noise you then drown in.
Don't expect a response to an AI-written email, or a templated email. I get it, you think it's a numbers game: send a tweaked email out to 100 podcasts, and hope that at least one replies. In reality, by playing the…
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It is very hard to actually get stuck, because the action space is always larger than it appears.
Now, the good news is that in my experience, it's very difficult to actually get stuck. Um, you can get yourself into trouble and the action space is always larger than it appears.
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There’s an impulse in American politics, a set of tactics and drives that has proven very effective at extinguishing speech. We once called it McCarthyism. Another time we called it Wokeism. One day in the future we…
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To you and yours! đź’ś
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You have to keep enough understanding of how a system works to fix it yourself, because the alternative is hoping and praying the agent can figure it out.
I think that we still need to understand enough about how things work so that if something does go wrong, we're actually able to fix it and not just hope and pray that the agent is able to figure things out.
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Contradictions between useful philosophies are only a problem for someone who expects reality to be philosophically consistent.
Useful philosophies disagree with each other sometimes, and this is only an issue if you expect yourself, or reality, to be philosophically consistent.
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I think "being real with yourself" is the most underrated cognitive skill for the AI age — AI makes it too easy to lie to yourself: to self-congratulate for the illusion of thinking, productivity, etc. But you gotta…
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it's just right team, right project, cuz if you don't get the right project, there's no way you can prove yourself. You could be a 10x, 100x engineer, and if you're working on relatively easy stuff, you can't really say…
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Mathematicians are unhappy about OpenAI. The gist of their argument is that they form a community that trains young people. When AI started producing breakthroughs on hard mathematical problems, I asked what a very…
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While I really like prototypes, because you can convey ideas easier by interacting with the real thing, it’s also important to know when not to do them. Prototypes have this flaw that because everything is already…
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AI does a good job of generating a design and still cannot express what the design is supposed to do; that part is the engineer's.
And often I found with my clients I have to tell them like it's doing a good job at generating the actual design, but in actually expressing what the design is supposed to do, it cannot do that yet. You have to do that…
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There's a fairly common assumption that to know yourself better, you should attend to yourself more—journal, introspect, meditate on your patterns. And there's something to this. But also. The more you make yourself an…
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The unsafe keyword does not switch the borrow checker off; it only unlocks a few operations you then have to justify yourself.
And it's interesting to point out here that unsafe does not disable the borrow checker or anything like that. It just gives you a few more operations you can perform that are not safe in general.
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Reaching a senior level requires putting oneself on the critical path, but excelling beyond it requires removing oneself from it.
To get to principal, you need to put yourself on the critical path. To be effective as a principal and go beyond it, you need to actively remove yourself from it.
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More broadly, nobody is going to teach you to think for yourself. A large fraction of what people around you believe is mistaken. Internalize this and practice coming up with your own worldview.
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And so you have been part of the change to other industries and other people yourself. What did you think about that? Did you even think about it at all? So let's not be surprised if you find no sympathy from all the…
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Everything other than talking to a native speaker is auxiliary, and none of it will get you speaking on its own.
All auxiliary tasks can help move you in the right direction, but will not ultimately help you speak unless you find a native, put yourself in front of them and force yourself to start to communicate.
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Farzapedia, personal wikipedia of Farza, good example following my Wiki LLM tweet. I really like this approach to personalization in a number of ways, compared to "status quo" of an AI that allegedly gets better the…
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Every founder on standard documents has already signed a charter obliging them to sell their company to the buyer they would least want to have it.
did you know that according to the legal documents you yourself signed, your company's literal charter that you have right now, and this is not some hypothetical future thing, you've already put in motion, a rule that…
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And I don't know how you're going to get yourself there, but you've got to be in this place that you're thinking, you're also thinking, "What if everything goes right? What does right look like? How am I ready for…
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Was it ever the right time? No, it is never the right time to do this. If you put this off, you will eventually find yourself in a situation where you can no longer do it. You will have lost the leverage. Success will…
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Belief and behavior run in both directions, so the more reliable way to change what someone believes about themselves is to act first.
behavior and belief is like two-way street. You know, what you believe will influence the actions that you take, but the actions that you take can also influence what you believe about yourself. And you know, every time…
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Podcasting works best as edutainment, and fails when it becomes too highbrow or purely educational.
Podcasting is edutainment. If you try to have too highbrow a view of yourself, and only do education, you will lose.
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What’s one thing you can do to help yourself, other engineers, and even agents better understand a codebase? Add comments to your code. Such a basic practice that comes up on nearly _every_ pull request I review.
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If AI can make you irrelevant, what you were doing was work slightly too complicated to automate before, not programming.
And if you truly make yourself irrelevant, I would challenge you that you're just doing something that was just slightly too complicated to automate.
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Living according to a genuine purpose brings sacrifice, stress and pain rather than constant enjoyment.
Because when you believe in something, when you become obsessed with something, you sacrifice yourself to it. And that sacrifice actually feels like pain and stress and doubt. Not fun.
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Efficiency and real invention are at odds, because genuine invention requires wandering and you have to give yourself permission to do it.
Efficiency and invention are sort of at odds, because real invention, Not incremental improvement... Incremental improvement is so important in every endeavor, in everything you do, you have to work hard on also just…
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Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship — Terry Real
Stop working on yourself as an individual and start working on your relationship as a couple.
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Creativity is a choice: extending empathy to the person being served and announcing something into the future that might not work.
It means that you have to extend yourself with empathy to the person you're seeking to serve, to the person who the work is for. And you have to extend yourself not just through space, but through time into the future,…
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A self-destructive habit is best broken by naming the version of yourself that has it and taking its authority to decide away.
Identify a version of you that is responsible for self destructive behavior and give them a name
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Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition — Paul Millerd
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.
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Relying more and more on one's existing strengths eventually stops being a winning strategy.
There comes a time when you have to realize that more of the same aspect of yourself isn't always a winning strategy.
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Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It — Tara Booth
Booth's formally trained (and her grandparents are watercolor artists!) but her use of color is just so free and unexpected, it makes you want to experiment yourself and join along in the fun.
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You only retain what you were pushed to your limit on: if learning feels like coasting, you are not learning.
So that’s why I think this is a thing that I come back to over and over again, is that you will retain information better if you’re constantly pushing yourself to your limit. If you are feeling like you’re coasting,…
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Making a living from your own open source means running it as a business and acquiring business skills, not waiting to be funded.
And yes, you are building a business. You need to start thinking of your project as a business and of yourself as a business owner.
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Delegation: When being helpful is actually hurting
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What's the right level of detail when shaping?
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An AI you rent from a big company in the cloud is fundamentally aligned to that company and not to you, which is why the hardware has to be yours.
Of course, when you talk to an AI that’s made by a big company in the cloud, the AI fundamentally is aligned to them, not to you. And that’s why you have to buy a tiny box. So you make sure the AI stays aligned to you.
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Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization — Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
. Understanding how we grow and develop will help you become a better leader and a more empathetic colleague. More accessible than his academic work, this book also provides a framework for understanding underlying…
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Taste necessarily implies judgment — that some things are good and some are bad — and you have to be willing to say so.
And there is something about judgment in there too. you know, uh, implied in taste is that some things are good and some things are bad. So, I think you have to be willing to lean into that yourself in terms of uh,…
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The Rattle Bag — Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes
The Rattle Bag edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes - In an age of LLM-generated poetry and machine learning curation (even coming from yours truly sometimes), it's refreshing to have real people who love poetry…
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Anyone who wants to understand games should learn to play the compulsive ones and, in the same motion, learn how to stop.
But I also think that, if you really want to understand games, you should learn how to play these games. Which means learning how to stop playing them. You should learn how to disappear into them, how to let them…
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The Misbehavior of Markets — Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson
Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson are the authors of the influential book The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence. I suggest you read this book for yourself (even though it is not an easy book to…
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An AI copy of a person is worth building while they are alive, to meet demand for their attention, not as a way to talk to the dead.
So at some point, I think making it so that you could build an AI version of yourself that could interact with people not after you die, but while you're here to help people fulfill this desire to interact with you and…
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A method you hate will end in burnout however well it works for other people, so it should be abandoned rather than endured.
For your health and sanity, do not force yourself to learn a language using a method you hate, no matter how good other people say it is. Trying to do so will only lead to disappointment, and ultimately burnout.
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The biggest enemies of freedom are fear and greed; make peace with the worst that can happen and there is nothing left to be afraid of.
Well, the biggest enemies of freedom are fear and greed, so you make sure that they don't stand in your way. If you imagine the worst thing that can happen to you and then make yourself be comfortable with it, there is…
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Aim for moonshots: they attract the best people, leave you the path to yourself, and even sixty to eighty percent of one is a terrific success.
Number three, even if you end up quite not accomplishing what you set out to do and you end up doing 60, 80% of it, it'll end up being a terrific success. So that's the advice I would give people, right? I think it's…
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Yeah. I still think math is essential. It's something that shapes your brain, it teaches you to rely on your logical thinking to split big problems into smaller parts, put them in the right sequence, solve them…
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I kind of went from 80/20 of like, you know, uh to like 20/80 of writing code by myself versus just delegating to agents. And I don't even think it's 20/80 by now. I think it's a lot more than that. I don't think I've…
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The productivity AI creates should be shared out as a universal basic provision, with rare skills still buying you more than that.
Including things like universal basic provision or something like that where a lot of the increased productivity gets shared out and distributed to society and maybe in the form of services and other things where if you…
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Happy — Derren Brown
Brilliant and profound yet totally entertaining philosophy book by one of my favorite people. Gives an approachable overview of past philosophies and shows how they apply to your life today better than the harmful…