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@tvmjames, founder of School Of Hard Knocks, has a rule: a closed mouth doesn't get fed.
he's been told no by some of the biggest billionaires alive. many of those nos became yeses, because credibility compounds. one of the best moments in our recap of 50+ divot conversations.
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@dougleone, the billionaire who ran @sequoia, wants his epitaph to read "he died a young man."
not age. spirit. the moment you think you've made it, he says, is basically being dead. it's one of the standout moments from our recap of 50+ Divot conversations.
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@justinkan on something money never fixed: no matter who you are, life hands you hard days.
after @Twitch he broke both elbows flipping over his e-bike. brutal recovery, never fully 100% again. but he survived, and now he knows he can survive anything. one of the standout moments in our 50+ episode recap.
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these are some of the people who shaped the first chapter of divot.
founders, investors, builders, creators. we pulled their best moments into one special recap.
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turns out your company's slack history might be worth millions.
@aliansarinik (founder/ceo of @micro1_ai) breaks down a market almost no one knows exists.
anonymize the data, strip the personal info, hand it to the ai labs. a few hundred k all the way to 10M+.
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everyone thinks AI is just a San Francisco bubble.
@aliansarinik (founder/ceo of @micro1_ai) says the real picture is way bigger.
hundreds of thousands of ai trainers around the world are directly shaping these models with their own judgment.
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ever wonder how human expertise actually teaches an AI model?
@aliansarinik (founder/ceo of @micro1_ai ) explains structured human judgment.
you turn what you're great at into rubrics, down to which formula goes in which cell of an LBO model.
that's the training data/
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@GuyKawasaki worked alongside Steve Jobs at Apple. his take might surprise you:
Elon Musk is the broader visionary. jobs went deep on computers, phones, tablets. musk is everywhere, cars, starlink, brain chips, tunnels under vegas. both shared one strength though: hiring great people and letting them do great work.
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counterintuitive take from @aliansarinik:
the better ai gets, the MORE valuable human taste becomes.
models learn from expert consensus on what good looks like. taste is the one thing experts never agree on
so that's where humans keep winning.
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before @Twitch, @justinkan strapped a camera to his body and streamed his life 24/7. in 2007. the show wasn't interesting, but people kept asking "how are you doing this?"
that question became the idea: a platform for anyone to broadcast anything. and that became twitch.
full ep in the replies 👇
Kim Scott, author of @candor, liked an employee too much to give him honest feedback. so she said nothing for 10 months.
when she finally let him go, he asked: "why didn't anyone tell me? i thought you all cared about me."
she calls it ruinous empathy. avoiding the truth to spare feelings does way more damage.
full ep in the replies 👇
hiring advice for the ai era from @aliansarinik (founder/ceo of @micro1_ai):
1. do you actually use codex + claude code day to day.
2. study the fundamentals. math, physics. skip the abstraction layers.
that's what really helps you understand the tools.
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