Andrew Conner
@connerdelights
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⛰ chasing enjoyment and curiosity. prev cofounded @Levels . 🦝 chief optimist at
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Over a decade ago, I used to bookmark whenever anyone on Reddit accidentally revealed their real first name, in like a screenshot or something.
I'd then wait several years, and randomly check those profiles. Whenever they told a personal story, I'd reply with "Greg!?"
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Publicly published my "fix your back" guide. This was a Notion doc that I shared with friends, and has an excellent (~80%) success rate at fixing back pain permanently.
Hope this will continue to help others! Link below.
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@nolemonnomelon
My best evidence for it being good (for athletes recovering): in the Tour de France docuseries, the athletes are all doing extensive massage every day after riding.
They are incentivized to be right.
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A
@movebettersam
story:
My wife, a trail runner, broke her leg skiing 16 months ago. Even with hours of PT a week, her recovery plateaued last August.
Running 5 miles was near impossible. She was worried she’d never fully recover.
one of my best contributions has been discovering
@movebettersam
and introducing him to anybody dealing with any sort of movement-related pain. I don’t know much about how to fix it. But Sam does. And by making these introductions I contribute to pain relief in the world!
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@alexkaplan0
You see this though?
Third claimed replication of LK-99. The evidence is really starting to pile up.
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@jmitch
You’re not kidding. I went through this. My favorite was when they wanted a letter saying I was allowed to work remotely. On official company letterhead.
I wrote the letter. On our, just then, brand new official letterhead.
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It was a lot, but near immediately, things started to change. A month later, she ran 13 miles on trail.
This year, she’s run Grand Canyon rim to rim and many long runs. 14ers, big climbs/descents, stacking distance.
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Working on an essay, “I beg of you, actually read the book”
Idea is that in many technical domains, 90% of people don’t go and read foundational texts to understand it (ex: ML). If you do, free alpha.
What are good examples that fit this? Mine below.
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@ATabarrok
Increase. Net demand represents cohorts of separate demand curves. Many wouldn’t fly for any price. Lowering prices has minimal increase in demand from people who are price sensitive, and makes less from price insensitive passengers.
Focus on the 1/3 of the flight that need it.
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She still does the routine regularly. It’s actually increased both of our awareness of long term preventive care — so that we can do big stuff for a long time.
Wild this isn’t standard medical care as people age. You might not have to live with all those nagging pains!
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Periodic reminder that Twitter search lets you easily see the links people you follow are sharing.
Works with lists as well. Brilliant curation machine, especially since links are so penalized in the algorithm (i.e., links that are shared tend to be more earnest).
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My attempt to distill a fascinating framework that makes a radical claim: unhappiness is a choice.
link in the doobly doo
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AI image models are so bad they can't even do the number of fingers correctl...
Prompt: A litter of golden retriever puppies playing in the snow. Their heads pop out of the snow, covered in.
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@_ali_taylor
Yeah, coming from Georgia unconnected to tech, a lot opened for me once I had a “credentialed resume”.
I would have been stuck in a way worse place if I hadn’t lucked/skilled into that first.
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Remember, she had been doing hours of in person PT a week. But, even with competent therapists, things weren’t looking good.
Sam is very good at what he does.
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One of the kindest things an expert can do when helping a learner is demonstrating the act, to calibrate base rates.
Understanding venture base rates helps founders. Watching
@andy_matuschak
learn at a pace of 15 mins per page is helping a ton with my own learning expectations.
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"The goal is not to digest information, but to layer over your reality with a fresh coat of moss."
beautiful
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@nickcammarata
Surfaces and Essences. It basically broke my ability to think in binary terms; everything is a relation.
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This is a story about deep, persistent self-love.
Link below.
All my favorite essays were written in one-go after having a great conversation with a friend. All my least favorite are about some deep insight that I was sure I wanted to share, but spent weeks trying to wrestle into something cohesive.
The "favorite" type happened today.
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@lisatomic5
It's even worse, if it's the same as the one I had at an airport once: there's a little valve at the bottom. If you push it, it dumps the contents out.
The valve, accordingly, has a warning not to push it — which makes people curious what will happen.
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@michaelcurzi
My grandfather built a retaining wall with stone he collected, concrete he hand mixed, and a rattle snake who happened to slither on the unfinished wall while he was pouring concrete.
You could see the impression of its tail.
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@Austen
I defended the paper a bit, below, because the actual finding (not the article) is kind of interesting. But I looked at their cited paper for the iAFM model, and... uh... they found the opposite?
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@aspiringpeasant
Probably also matters what type of rural person. I technically live in a rural area, but it's mostly outdoor enthusiasts. Everyone here, regardless of politics, cares about the environment.
Different than my experience in rural Georgia.
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Sam took a call with her. Immediately he knew her core issue.
“We can fix that in less than a month”
He created a routine for her. Stretching, targeted strength training, rolling, flossing. Everything detailed with videos showing the mechanism. Rolling should be slow!
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This neighborhood in the Midjourney v4 latent space is *fascinating*.
@meekaale
nice job finding this.
It even works for scenes/landscapes.
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My process to distill books/podcasts/etc into "guides" for large context large language models:
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@BrentBeshore
Everything changes on the 3rd time, and you’re over halfway there. Might as well go for it.
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I want to let you in on a little secret: one of the best ways to improve your life is to try a bunch of things that probably won't work.
The Placebo Adventurer's Guide, link below
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One of my favorite talks is Dr. Shamil Chandaria's The Bayesian Brain and Meditation.
He does two things: outlines a model of cognition that explains how we make sense of the world, which motivates a map of different meditative practices. Wish I had this years ago!
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DM me if you want to join an essay feedback group chat. Requirement is that you write, and are enthusiastically willing to provide feedback to others.
did you know that instead of publishing your s**st*ck essay into the void you can like, ping specific people and ask them for their thoughts on it??
we can like...exchange feedback??? (you can just ping me I love giving feedback)
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Built a cold plunge and wrote a guide for building your own — no PVC welding and is quite energy efficient. It runs the chiller for only ~1 hour a day, gets down below 40°F/5°C without any issue.
Biggest difference of having my own: using it every day.
Full instructions below.
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@emirquiet
3 suggestions.
Still start with Healing Back Pain, since if it works, it's the easiest.
The best functional/strength resource I've seen is
@kneesovertoesg
. He has a book and online course.
For targeted stretching, there's a Treat Your Own Knee book.
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@eigenrobot
broke: women
woke: women's degrees have been worth less
bespoke: women are doing a galaxy-brain long inflation trade, shhh
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For context, we live in a very outdoors-centric area. Running was her outlet, her social group. And PTs here are actually good!
She was worried she’d need another surgery, or that she’d always have knee and hip pain.
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It’s weird to celebrate selling a chunk of your company, but here’s what I’m ecstatic about:
We’re closer on our mission of reversing metabolic dysfunction, which is a risk factor from everything from having chronic low energy, diabetes, and even COVID.
1/
@Jeff_Jordan
and I are excited to announce that
@a16z
is leading
@Levels
$12M Seed Round to bring biowearables into the mainstream and improve metabolic health.
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@yashkaf
"It's bad on purpose to make you click" needs to be explicitly taught so people are aware that the real axis is not "I support this vs I do not support this" but "I draw mine and others attention towards this vs I ignore it"
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@the_wilderless
I was buckled up and ready to ride wherever you were going to send me.
10/10 would click again.
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@m_ashcroft
I coach kids mountain biking. A coach I was working with gave me a new appreciation for something related.
He'd stop, mid-ride, and point out something interesting (like a weather station), and have the kids guess how it works.
He would just sit there with the kids in wonder.
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Subtitles are bad on purpose to make you click, yet sometimes inspire absolute bangers.
It’s exciting to see the Atlantic do a full story on
@jhanatech
and the potential for taking jhanas to scale. .
A year ago, the biggest jhana story might have been Astral Codex Ten comments debating whether or not they’re real!
I love to see mainstream
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@this_is_silvia
I painted this mural in my office, nearly directly ripped from Kurzgesagt’s visual rendition of The Egg. Does it for me.
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@Austen
Read that paper. The article is particularly bad, but the paper shows a weaker case as well:
· Their analysis is based on 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, so we're considering the middle chunk, not the tails.
· Higher achievers have a limit to how much they can improve. They
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Built a Chrome extension that locally replaces traditional email signoffs in Gmail ("Thanks", "Best", etc) with "I'm just desperate to be loved".
Serves as a gentle reminder of the humanness of everyone else, and helps you be kinder.
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Floored by how easy setting up an LLC with
@tryfirstbase
was.
Application to EIN in 8 days, only 10 minutes of effort on my side.
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@joodalooped
Many companies that want non-determinism use their own form of string-based ID.
YouTube video IDs are random, but shorter than UUID (and not hex).
Fairly common to encrypt an internal autoinc ID in a compact way, so externally it’s an opaque string, but edge services can
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@paigefinnn
Indirectly, every job since 2012.
2012: CTO of tiny startup was tweeting about a niche programming language. Joined 3 weeks later.
2016: Google acquires that company
2019: Joined
@beondeck
via
@eriktorenberg
, met
@SamCorcos
.
@Levels
founded 3 months later.
Twitter is great.
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@coldhealing
Easy to "accidentally" (i.e. poor adult guidance, bad young adult decision making) end up far from averages.
I know someone who just dropped out and has $120k in student debt. They didn't even realize how much it was. Yeah, should have never happened, but did.
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@LouisVArge
Two lenses that I like when thinking about creativity and information diets:
1. Creativity is everywhere, but you need to be a willing vessel. (The Creative Act and Big Magic have this idea)
2. You get good at things you do a lot. Creating space for creativity reenforces that,
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@benlandautaylor
Agreed, surprised it took so long. It's design is to find annotations that appeal to people who typically disagree, and making fun of institutions like this (in this way) probably appeals to ~everyone.
Needs some Wikipedia-moderator energy around the core use case.
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@kendrictonn
In college, I dedicated a park bench to myself by getting a small plaque made. I realized it's no one's job to check park bench dedications for accuracy.
Last I heard, It's still there.
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For years I had been looking for "my" art form. Painting never resonated, music performance is ephemeral…
Finding pottery was such a fun experience. It's messy, non-cognitive, and not pretentious. Clay can be recycled infinitely if you mess up.
lastly, i was seriously unprepared for the quality of pottery Andrew is creating. this stuff is insanely beautiful. 👋
@connerdelights
, we need to chat about getting one of your earthy orbs for our home
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My notes from
@ericbahn
's (from
@HustleFundVC
) talk on pitch decks and presenting to investors. Lots of great insights.
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Weird quirk, curious if anyone else is like this.
I have very low music lyric comprehension. As in, I just don't notice the words much. I love music, and notice the "vibe", but have little idea what some of my favorite songs are about.
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Explaining what cryptocurrencies are to a mortgage broker. Wish me luck.
them: "So it's internet money?"
me: "Sort of. But it's liquid, real money. I could sell."
them: "...is it legal?"
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The solution to information overload: separate curation from consumption. Here's my strategy for consuming more of what I actually want to, and avoid falling down algorithmic feed holes.
Specific tactics linked below.
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@eshear
@nosilverv
They had physical control of the people (restricted movement in Los Alamos, compartmentalization, etc), and it was a very much war time culture (lots of motivation to stay quiet for the greater good). And no internet to freely leak details even if you wanted to.
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@m_ashcroft
@nickcammarata
@ush_antha
Our culture doesn’t have good frameworks for “this thing is good, but misused it can be very bad”.
At least in America, the default seems to be a pretty Puritan outlook (things are either all good or all bad), and alcohol gets a free pass for historical reasons.
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@ElodesNL
I do. Part was a realization that I absolutely love building stuff.
Don’t think I’d be able to do the mindless corp cog though.
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@moultano
PE targets are often micro-cap with structural problems. Failure rates are high. Add to that leverage (company could have survived, but not with debt load), and the meme persists.
Plenty of companies do fine.
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@kevinakwok
@Jobvo
@Superhuman
@keyboardmaestro
@TextExpander
@flexibits
@culturedcode
@Spotify
@Setapp
@1Password
@alfredapp
Alfred user for 6 years.
1. Clipboard history. I copy, can search going back weeks.
2. Text snippets, replacements (;rarrow to →, ;check to ✓)
3. Spell correction
4. Fast file nav
5. Contact search
6. Pinboard bookmark search
7. System controls (lock, terminal)
8. Calculator
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As a Twitter engineer I can confirm that Elon Musk just doesn’t understand the phenomenal binding problem. He keeps claiming indirect realism negates the binding problem and we keep explaining that the solution must exist inside of indirect realism.
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Here's the trick: Tyler's built a win-win community, where it's just a bunch of great people doing great things. No ego.
Founding a calm web company? Want to invest in a super interesting asset class and help founders? Talk to
@earnestcapital
. It's far more than just cash.
Pretty hard to believe it's only/already been the first year of running
@earnestcapital
. I want to take a moment to thank the Earnest Mentors who helped us make 'funding for bootstrappers' a reality.. including introducing a few new ones 👇
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A trick for landscapes is to focus on a vibe that you want, rather than describing the image.
This one uses "resting into a Lagrangian point completely at peace", which doesn't make any English sense, but is the direction I was feeling.
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First big snow of the season in town, Durango Colorado.
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Y'all were right, the Great Courses are really good. What a time to be alive.
What are some of your favorites? I want an engaging lecturer, deep into any non-common topic. ie, don't want pop "how to negotiate".
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A few weeks ago, I finished the
@artofaccomp
annual Master Class cohort.
It's expensive and requires a lot. It's not something you can take and passively absorb — it was an active, vulnerable experience. And had a massive impact on how I see the world.
Below is my review.
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ML: Murphy’s Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective
Linear Algebra: Strang
CS: many, but includes Abelson and Sussman
Physics: Feynman lectures
Cryptography: Schneier
Linguistics: Chomsky
Architecture: Christopher Alexander
Help me find ones for other domains, please!
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Every morning I check the Manifold market for LK-99, and it saves me from seeing if there was actually an update.
Most efficient news ever.
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I just finished an essay I had been stuck on for over 6 months. Wheeew, feels good.
(in review now, out soon)
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@mekkaokereke
Seeing that abject diffusion of responsibility feels *weird*.
As in, in 2021, don't we all know the non-malicious damage an intern could do would strictly be systemic? And we know that everyone knows that.
The only exec move is taking responsibility for poor leadership.
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@default_friend
Holding both:
1. Climate change is a massive risk to humanity and future well-being.
2. Very few individual behaviors matter to stop it because of tragedy of commons / principle agent, and nearly all attempts are net counter-productive.
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@SarahTheHaider
Not hostile, but I once was at a Bangalore restaurant, and I ordered something that was spicy. The waiter said “no, not for you” and recommended something with “no spice”.
I told him I love spicy food, and he reiterated that the spicy item wasn’t for me.
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One time at
@Levels
, we were sharing bucket list items. Visit Europe, run a marathon, climb El Cap. That sort of stuff.
On
@SamCorcos
's turn, he starts:
⦿ Reverse metabolic dysfunction
⦿ Fix the national debt
⦿ Fix recidivism and provide paths back into society
…
A modern to do list:
-revolutionize my industry
-buy toilet paper
-achieve spiritual enlightenment
-pick up dry cleaning
-transcend limiting beliefs
-renew driver's license
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@cashkitten420
I was once said "you know, that sense-of-self feeling behind your eyes..."
And she goes "behind your eyes!? mine is behind my mouth"
what.
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@ATabarrok
Fuel is largest cost. Run fewer, more expensive flights.
May meaningfully decrease rate of spread, as well.
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@heynibras
Burbea's Practising the Jhānas series is good, as is Right Concentration.
The clearest explanation: learn how to tap into a certain bodily sensation "buzz" that's pleasurable. loop that pleasure back on itself, into a feedback cycle. eventually it'll whoooop into the 1st jhana.
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All my favorite essays were written in one-go after having a great conversation with a friend. All my least favorite are about some deep insight that I was sure I wanted to share, but spent weeks trying to wrestle into something cohesive.
The "favorite" type happened today.
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I’m a simple guy. If you name your talk or essay “Seeing like a X”, I’ll watch/read it.
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Huge gratitude to the
@beondeck
crew. Met several new friends and changed the course of my career.
What a year 😁
Today in
@beondeck
history:
1 year ago we kicked off our first-ever multi-day event (Founder Retreat) in Lake Tahoe resulting in new founding teams and lifelong friendships.
We launched the inaugural On Deck Fellowship (ODF1) just a month later.
ODF4 starts in 33 days!
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