How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

Working smart isn't about finding a magic bullet. It's about cultivating a mindset of constant improvement.

If you don't shamelessly promote your work, every day for the next 10-20 years, you will get stuck doing someone else's work until you realize that nobody is going to pay you if they have no idea who you are.

I wrote a quick new post on "Digital Hygiene". Basically there are some no-brainer decisions you can make in your life to dramatically improve the privacy and security of your computing and this post goes over some of them. Blog post link in the reply, but copy pasting below

If you want to be mediocre then definitely don't read this. There's a lot of advice in here that, if followed, will move you away from your goal of mediocrity.

this is gold

"If the work doesn’t require creativity, delegate it, automate it, or leave it." Naval

ok I figured out how this works. People who think that social interaction is confusing & the rules are random keep trying to figure out the rules, but there is a layer of underlying rules that is much more predictable

Ilya’s top 30 paper recommendation is actually cracked, i knew about it but i just got a chance to skim the titles and dude! it has cracked papers by G. Hinton, Karpathy, Chris Olah, covering nlp, vision, rnns, lstm, fundamental deep learning, and so much more.

Habits that have a high rate of return in life:

Don't try to memorize—let it loop. Let it feel strange. Understanding may come later, when the pattern has you. This is an essay about how intelligence bootstraps itself into being. You are part of the demonstration.

🔚 safety derived from accumulating wealth 🔜 safety derived from participating in resilient networks

Life becomes so fun when you start to see your actions as seeds. Send a message to someone you think is cool. Compliment a bunch of people throughout the day. Throw some spare money at a project that intrigues you You have an infinite supply at any given time. Plant them

I wish more people understood that life is all about patterns. You’re not broken. You’re repeating something. A thought. A reaction. A story. Change the pattern, and you change your life.

Disagreeableness has become the most important psychological trait. Everyday there is propaganda to ignore, psyops to reject, perversities to stay out of. The skill and speed with which you say "no" will determine how far you go

Most people avoid work, change jobs, do sabbatical, etc. to get "freedom from" an old way of being. This is helpful and needed But too many stay there and avoid hard things. With a sense of safety, you can build a "freedom to" do things, regardless of how it feels

I'm no longer using claude, chatgpt, or perplexity. I'm only using claude code. For literally everything. And I keep everything organized locally. The Claude Code + Obsidian combo is actually bonkers for content creation / research. (Shout out Mckay Wrigley, his latest video

You’re not addicted to your phone. You simply have an unfulfilling life and you try to fill the void with endless scrolling. It takes only one fulfilling day to realise this.