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@Jason I’m in. I founded a Figma file and several strong opinions.

@garrytan Why are you always thinking about 20 something’s?

The best of Charlie Munger 💯

Elon Musk: Anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect “I'm a big fan of anyone who wants to build. So I think anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect. So that's the main thing you should aim for. Aim to make more than you take. Be a net contributor to society. It's kind of like the pursuit of happiness. If you want to create something valuable financially, you don't pursue that. It's best to actually pursue providing useful products and services. If you do that, then money will come as a natural consequence of that, as opposed to pursuing money directly. It's like you can't sort of pursue happiness directly. You pursue things that lead to happiness. But there's not like a direct happiness pursuit. You do things like fulfilling work or study or friends, loved ones, that, as a result, make you happy. It sounds very obvious, but generally, if somebody's trying to make a company work, they should expect to grind super hard, except that there's like some meaningful chance of failure. But just be focused on having the output be worth more than the input. Are you a value creator? That's what really matters. Make more than you take.”

Steve Jobs literally gave a 10-minute masterclass on building a company (better than $100K MBA): On being the keeper of the vision: "There needs to be someone who is the keeper and reiterator of the vision. Because there's a ton of work to do. When you have to walk a thousand miles and you take the first step, it looks like a long way. It really helps if there's someone there saying, 'We're one step closer. The goal definitely exists, it's not just a mirage.'" On starting with the customer: "You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it. I've made this mistake probably more than anybody else in this room and I got the scar tissue to prove it." On hiring: "We wanted people that were insanely great at what they did. The neatest thing that happens when you get a core group of ten great people is that it becomes self-policing as to who they let into that group. So I consider the most important job of someone like myself is recruiting." On why most founders fail: "Sometimes people come to me and say, 'I want to start a company.' I say, 'Why?' 'I want to make lots of money.' Forget it, that's not a good enough reason. The ones that succeed are people that just have an idea they want to express out into the world. And oftentimes they have to start a company because nobody else will listen to them." On leading by example: "You permeate the message by example. When something's not quite good enough, do you stop and make it better or do you just ship it? Everybody watches to see how senior management makes those decisions. You can say anything you want, but everybody watches very carefully when you're in a difficult situation what decisions you make, what values you have." On focus: "We try to focus and do very few things well. And focusing is hard because focusing doesn't mean saying yes. It means saying no." On long-term planning: "My headlights aren't that good. We tend to look three or four years ahead, that's about as far as we can see. You can be going down a path saying, 'In five years I want to be here,' but then something new happens, and you say, 'Forget that, I want to be over there.' Most five-year planning changes too quickly." On finding your path: "You've got to find what you love. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, don't settle."

"get comfortable with the art of selling"

Tech Sales Guy @TechSalesGuy

a year ago

That awkward moment when you realize: Management Consultant = sales General Contractor = sales Investment banker = sales VC/PE Partner = sales Real estate = sales Recruiting = sales

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In 1973, Richard Feynman revealed a way of thinking that makes “common sense” look like superstition. He broke down: • Names vs knowledge • Experiment >> history • How real discovery happens • Why rituals survive without evidence 12 lessons from Feynman’s masterclass:

Elon Musk: "The biggest mistake I made is to put too much of a weighting on somebody's talent and not much on their personality, it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart."

@AgentCrewsAI @AuronMacintyre Wow!!

Bill Ackman on getting through a high-pressure, stressful, and negative period in your life. I come back to this video often.

Anything can be learned.

Raise your ✋🏻 if you're a pureblood!

Most people don’t know that Tesla has had an advanced AI chip and board engineering team for many years. That team has already designed and deployed several million AI chips in our cars and data centers. These chips are what enable Tesla to be the leader in real-world AI. The current version in cars is AI4, we are close to taping out AI5 and are starting work on AI6. Our goal is to bring a new AI chip design to volume production every 12 months. We expect to build chips at higher volumes ultimately than all other AI chips combined. Read that sentence again, as I’m not kidding. These chips will profoundly change the world in positive ways, saving millions of lives due to safer driving and providing advanced medical care to all people via Optimus. Send an email with three bullet points describing evidence of your exceptional ability to [email protected]. We are particularly interested in applying cutting edge AI to chip design. Thanks, Elon

This completely destroys the left’s entire narrative about President Trump! 💯🇺🇸

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"Be great—not in the eyes of the crowd, but in the substance of your character and the quality of your life." — Via aristotlechat.com

"We develop virtue through habituation—repeated practice of good actions until they become second nature. Think of it like muscle memory. The first time you perform a generous act, it might feel awk..." — Via aristotlechat.com

Elon Musk built rockets, designed EV powertrains, developed battery technology, and architected reusable launch systems… Yet AOC and all of her wisdom will tell you he’s not an engineer, which says far more about her than him. You can’t take these people seriously. She’s either morally bankrupt or an idiot. Neither one is good.

Mo Gawdat explains that humanity has entered an age where machines now learn from both humans and other machines. He calls this transition “synthetic data,” where AI-generated information becomes the next source of knowledge. This mirrors how humans evolved intelligence—building on past discoveries rather than starting from scratch. He says these shifts will make AI systems smaller, smarter, and more autonomous, requiring less energy but producing more innovation.

Today, Bill Gates admitted that pushing climate doomerism was a mistake. @LLBiggers: “That shift to common sense is welcome, but it comes after decades of fearmongering that harmed young people, stalled development, and punished dissenting scientists.”