A highlight at the Sohn Conference Foundation this week for me was one of the best investors I've met (@danielgross) interviewing one of the leading AI researchers (@EricSteinb) for 20 minutes.

They discuss the path to AGI through first building AI software engineer bots and how there will be a…

It took me 3 months to put 10 years of research on curiosity into a 20min presentation...

...So when Graham Duncan challenged me to compress it down to 5min for the Sohn Conference Foundation yesterday, I obviously went insane.

Here it is.

“It’s not how well you play the game, it’s deciding what game you want to play.” — Kwame Appiah

'This quote separates striving from strategy and reminds me to take a macro view of what I’m doing, like in a video game where you can zoom out and you suddenly see you’ve been…

If you're hiring, or interested in talent, this podcast is a must listen - Graham Duncan speaking to Ben Casnocha on reference checking and personality assessments podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/ref…

I think we would all be happier if spent more time introducing our friends to each other; if, to borrow Graham Duncan's phrase, we imagined that we are “head of people operations for the entire hedge fund ecosystem”; if we focused less on our criteria and more on seeing people

Is it a good time to invest Charlie?

'You have a game you can't win anyway, we're all going to die..I'm continuously invested in American equities & I've been down 50% three times. You just roll w/ it. Sometimes it's going for you & some against. It's all part of the same game.'

A random appreciation thread

tylercowen - new book is so good, I sincerely wish there was a Tyler in every field. Unbelievably prolific. Hard to imagine a more “alive” mind.

Tim Ferriss - I think he’s just past 10 years of his podcast. So prolific. He probably opened more…

I have an untaxable inflation-proof untraceable store of wealth: a massive distributed network of favours owed

one of the best collection of blog posts on the entire internet is Graham Duncan site.

i dont think enough people have read them, so i thought id share.

grahamduncan.blog

each of these are worth reading. Extremely thoughtful, insightful, useful, clear.

These are incredible questions from Graham Duncan:

What's going on here, with this human? LOVE this from Graham Duncan

grahamduncan.blog/whats-going-on…

For Julia, in the Deep Water is a great poem for anyone dropping a kid at school in the coming weeks

I’ve been banging my head against the wall trying to articulate my definition of “Life’s Work”

Then Graham Duncan pointed me to this, by the incredible poet David Whyte

Hard to imagine improving this discussion:

Jeremy Giffon The Graham Duncan tweet you are referencing is one of the most important tweets I’ve ever read

A powerful idea expressed simply:

An adjacent lens that I think about a lot: “if how I speak to my kids when they’re misbehaving will become their adult inner voice / inner critic, then how do I correct their behavior in the most loving way possible? What voice & tone do I want imprinted in their heads forever?”

One of our best conversations ever Sohn Conference Foundation yesterday: Patrick Collison interviewing Sam Altman - self-recommending.

youtu.be/1egAKCKPKCk

Excited to hear from this lineup today

Shaping up as an epic long-term struggle between technology tailwinds and macro headwinds. We’ll hear lots on both sides.

I’ll MC and then interview Karen Karniol-Tambour to wrap it up

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The phrase “Time Billionaire” was coined by investor Graham Duncan:
 
“A billion seconds is slightly over 31 years…when I see, sometimes, 20-year-olds—the thought I had was they probably have two billion seconds left. But they aren’t relating to themselves as time billionaires.”