One of my favorite quotes:

This is how you hire an org of superstars. People first, roles/process second. There are many ways to put the puzzle together, but you want to prioritize top talent above all. It’s easier to deal with the chaos of non-standardized processes than it is to find & convince top

Keith Rabois has a line that is timely and important and still lives rent-free in my head: “Most companies hire bullets when they really need cannons.” The first time I heard that, it stung a little. Because I could immediately see exactly where I’d done it. A “bullet” is

Develop a taste for yourself in the world— art, books, films, inspiring figures. Find that everything you're drawn towards is a piece of you that's attempting to speak back.

a pattern I observed in the lives of great people and achieving greatness is paranormal learning. not normal learning. not linear accumulation. not syllabus → credential → compliance. paranormal learning is learning that looks irrational from the outside. it’s when you

Computer science is returning to the hands of physicists, mathematicians, and electrical engineers as LLMs automate much of what is currently defined as software engineering. The center of gravity is shifting away from manual code writing and toward deeper theoretical,

Every single day I become more convinced that the next winners in vertical software won’t have a UI. They will be API-first/Agent-first products that integrate directly into a company’s Slack, Teams, Email or browser. Sales team doesn’t want another dashboard. They want deals

in an AI world, your ability to clearly describe what you want is about to become the most valuable skill on the planet

The most powerful passage from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius:

Modern success is enough money to stop worrying, enough time to be bored, and enough leverage to speak your mind without consequence.

Max Levchin on how to disagree

The most important quality for a smart person is courage because without it their intellect will be leveraged to rationalize their fears and concoct the most convincing excuses not to act.

ironically the first thing ai killed was no-code everyone is now coding

Before AI, I had 3 unfinished projects. Now i have 12.

the generation that refused to accept cookies. is now giving AI access to their desktops, files, and bank accounts.

Don’t touch anything. I know where everything is!

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.