Jun 29
youtube.com/watch?v=y56WxOQA… this summer, we are frictionmaxxing
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Jun 28
Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre.
The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming.
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.
Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel.
If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.
The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits.
There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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Jun 28
i remember this moment in 2023, a few months after chatgpt went mainstream. i'd been trying to incorporate it into my workflows, including writing. i told myself it was fine. i wasn't outsourcing the entire task to it, only asking it to help me brainstorm and refine.
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Jun 28
here's the article i was referring to: substack.com/@harsehaj/p-201… (thanks for the thought-provoking piece @harsehaj!)
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Jun 28
@friends yes be prepared for me to annoyingly overuse "epistemic hygiene" and "good cognitive citizenship" in coming months :)
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Jun 26
youtube.com/watch?v=1yQqRGDq… bring respectfulness and eloquence back to political discourse 2026
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Jun 26
just learnt from my brother (currently melting in the Amsterdam heat wave) that human productivity peaks around 22°C and drops ~2% per °C above that....SF suddenly makes so much sense
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Jun 13
hot take (though maybe not on tech twitter): this is the example to emulate.
yes, elon became the world’s first trillionaire this week. but why should that fact alone move anyone — when he pulled 4,400 people, most of whom never expected to witness wealth like this, into that world with him? welders, technicians, cafeteria staff, paid in equity for two decades instead of higher salaries.
our entire economy is predicated on wealth not being zero-sum. i remain a tech evangelist because technology is the most direct path to the growth that makes that premise real — the actual engine behind any serious abundance agenda.
the instinct to read every fortune as something taken from someone else is the thing keeping us from building more of these.
Jun 12
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
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Jun 13
the question that struck me most: "Who would you bloom into, if you had that gift of freedom?"
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May 28
Favorite line from @Princeton's Class Day addresses this weekend:
"Before my freshman year, I saw Lady Gaga at MetLife Stadium. She told the crowd, 'I've had some of the worst nights of my life in New Jersey. I've also had some of the best nights of my life in Jersey.' I knew then and there that she was speaking directly to 18 y/o me, and by God, was she right."
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