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data + design @ sundial / ex @every
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Joined November 2020
@soychotic it’d be good to have two additional cohorts .> windows users who remained on windows .> windows users who switched to mac.
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there's a special kind of confidence that comes not from being the best, but from loving your craft so much that comparison becomes irrelevant. find that.
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paul graham's whole life:.> "i need money to paint".> learns programming, falls in love with lisp.> works briefly at interleaf .> starts viaweb to fund his painting lifestyle.> sells to yahoo for life-changing money.> moves to california, then new york.> tries painting, can't
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i actually love swiggy a lot more now. they build in silence, stay in the background, quiet, in their lane, undistracted.
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two signs of intelligence:.1. getting what you want .2. figuring out what you want.
The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.
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from the archives, i present the most unhinged font designer on the planet
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i was the chief of staff who got fired after the first year. you will be my replacement. my first task was to redesign the zomato logo - i actually really think i did a great job, ngl . pro tip: don't order from swiggy when the ceo sits in front of your desk
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turns out the founder of anthropic used to be a geophysicist, a phd student in computational neuroscience at princeton, a consultant, and then literally invented gpt-3 at openai. insane arc
Was just thinking about a guy I know who decided to start his career over and devote his life to AI research like 10 years ago, and is now one of the founders of Anthropic.
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the best career moves i've seen came from people who treated their job titles like a starting point in a video game. they kept collecting skills like power-ups, solving harder problems at each stage, never letting themselves get boxed into one role.
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til, Ilya sutskever gave john carmack this reading list of approx 30 research papers and said, ‘If you really learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today.’ .
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does anyone know a movie like whiplash? with the underlying theme of obsession
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consuming youtube tutorials, podcasts, online courses only delays the essential: studying the original books, papers, and documentation that form their basis. engage with primary sources directly, not their interpretations.
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his life is almost comical - every time he gets the freedom to paint, he ends up creating something influential in tech instead.
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peter thiel: ai will make verbal skills more valuable than math in society
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the tragedy of modern work isn't the hours or the stress. it’s sitting in bed at night wondering if you're even working on the right things. athletes doubt their ability but never their direction. we doubt both, constantly. and it only gets worse with time.
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breaking: mkbhd, the world's best tech reviewer led usa to world champs in ultimate frisbee. american dynamism is so back
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the hardest part of transformation isn't the work. it's the willingness to let go of the person you used to be. we hold onto old identities because they're familiar, but real change happens when we're ready to rewrite who we are from the inside out. it's about understanding that
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andrej karpathy on taste, being ambitious, and solving hard problems
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karpathy dropped another gem - “the general point is that you have to recognize that you are dumb, accept it, come to terms with it, and forgive yourself. only then can you trick yourself into becoming smarter.”
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pg is basically living the "guy who keeps postponing his true passion" meme except he accidentally revolutionizes startup funding and web apps while procrastinating on painting.
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we don't pick our passions—our wounds do. anxiety becomes attention to detail, insecurity becomes ambition, helplessness becomes control. excellence is often just pain that found a purpose. every step forward carries the echo of what we're healing.
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the order in which i'd learn computer science today.> quantum field theory .> elementary particles (quarks, leptons) .> subatomic particles (protons, neutrons, electrons) .> atomic structure .> quantum mechanics and electron behaviour .> semiconductor physics .> transistor-level.
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every startup needs two types of people:. 1. terminally online. first to know everything. x company launched y? they knew before the official announcement. 2. completely off social. no idea what’s happening online. reads a physical newspaper on sunday, immersed in books. one.
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reading books early in your career is often a distraction masquerading as productivity. your time would be better spent mastering your craft. the most valuable insights for your field usually live at the cutting edge, and by the time they’re distilled into a book, they’ve often.
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andrej karpathy, one of the best ai researchers of this generation, is now a founder. going to buy all eureka labs courses
⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs. The announcement:. ---.We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native. How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case
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the opening scene that created an entire generation of founders
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relationships, jobs, projects—all survive difficulty if there's a compelling narrative about why the struggle matters. people don't leave when things are bad. they leave when they lose the story about why it's worth staying. meaning beats happiness every time.
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i’m now convinced that the world is going to shift in favor of generalists and the highest roi thing you can do at this point is to learn a little about everything.
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chamath palihapitiya on money and advice for young founders at stanford gsb
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chris dixon on the idea maze for ai startups. (visual map in the thread)
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broadly, four types of users are installing @nikitabier's app:.1. pms who work at snapchat.2. pms at other companies analyzing his growth strategies.3. aspiring PMs studying his hacks.4. execs at companies planning to acquire the app.
Ladies and gentlemen, I pleased to announce my latest app:. Introducing Explode.· Send disappearing texts & photos inside iMessage.· Only the sender needs the app: Drop them right into your chats .· Screenshots are blocked too. Why did we build it? Explode is a spite app. Yes, an
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bangalore tech bro essentials:.1. mokobara bag.2. uniqlo oversized black t-shirt.3. white nike air force 1s.4. levis 555 relaxed straight fit jeans
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@zebriez the key to great cold emails.> don't say hi.> don't write your name in the beginning (they can already see it from gmail).> don't repeat yourself.> use the subject to specify your ask/intent.> proofread carefully (typos kill credibility).> all lowercase for vibes.
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aravind srinivas, the founder of perplexity, on advice for startups
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we waste years being taught to "become someone" while no one teaches us how to create value. we're pushed to pick careers like items from a menu, then spend decades in boxes we didn't design. no wonder we're stuck playing roles instead of solving things that matter.
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as ai gets better at answering questions, the ability to see non-obvious connections will become a moat. every industry will need people who can spot patterns across fields that never talked to each other before. the value now shifts to asking the right questions.
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i fear the man who’s not on twitter, instagram, linkedin, or youtube. completely offline, with paper, pencil and books.
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all men want is a tesla with the body of a classic 1965 ford mustang
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the bar is so low that a tiny boost in effort, an extra polish or a quick thoughtful email can skyrocket you past the bare minimum. you're basically competing with only 100 people in your field if you're putting in the hours.
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omg, did scarlett johansson, samantha (sama), just join openai as founding actress?
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four people dream team .> waterloo cs engineer .> french designer .> stanford ml researcher .> nikita bier.
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imagine a team of 10 of the world’s best:.> elon musk.> mark zuckerberg.> jensen huang.> jeff bezos.> satya nadella.> geoffrey hinton.> demis hassabis.> andrej karpathy.> ilya sutskever.> paul graham.
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instagram will now recommend original content when it detects duplicates
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in an uncertain future, your best bet is to excel in all three: engineering, design, and taste. your taste will generate novel thoughts for you, your design skills will translate them, and your engineering skills will help you ship them in a product.
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introducing spiral. an ai tool that automates 80% of repetitive writing, thinking, and decision-making tasks . been working on it with @danshipper for the past two months, and so excited to release it to you. more details in the thread.
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"good design is as little design as possible.".- some german philosopher.
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the skills that create generational wealth are usually learned through expensive mistakes and pattern matching. this is why the best investors & founders rarely have the "perfect" background. you can't speed run experience. you need to learn to navigate without a map.
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sam altman did an ama on reddit 3 days ago on r/chatgpt. a thread of all the highlights . recommend bookmarking this if you’re interested in human-ai interaction
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the next decade belongs to the obsessives. those willing to dig so deep into fundamental problems that solutions become inevitable. while the world chases shortcuts, double down on the long path. that's where the real leverage lives.
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