Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge.

“It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” — Epictetus

"Decisions:• If you can’t decide, the answer is no.• If two equally difficult paths, choose the one more painful in the short term (pain avoidance is creating an illusion of equality).• Choose the path that leaves you more equanimous in the long term." - Naval

Visit all the places, eat all the food, read all the books, make all the friends, gather all the fame, support all the causes, build all the products, earn all the money... ...to see that the quality of your life is what it is when you are doing nothing.

"Decisions:• If you can’t decide, the answer is no.• If two equally difficult paths, choose the one more painful in the short term (pain avoidance is creating an illusion of equality).• Choose the path that leaves you more equanimous in the long term." - Naval

I HATE BEING QUARANTINED STUCK IN ONE STUPID BUILDING ALL THE TIME I WOULD RATHER GO BETWEEN THE SAME TWO OR THREE BUILDINGS REPEATEDLY DOING THE SAME ACTIVITIES IN AN ALMOST IDENTICAL ORDER NOW THATS LIVING

"A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control." - Naval

Obama on call-out culture is such an anthem for our times.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

I signed the Harpers letter because there were lots of people who also signed the Harpers letter whose views I disagreed with. I thought that was the point of the Harpers letter.

r/wallstreetbets is now the largest hedge fund in the world. Excepts it’s completely decentralized and entirely democratic.

Let Ethereum sleep; for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

"We say “peace of mind” but really what we want is peace from mind." Naval

7 years ago this week Saman Farid Adam Kell Melissa Pancoast and I co-founded Comet Labs. Comet was an early-stage VC firm and accelerator, backed by Baidu and Lenovo, investing in AI startups in SF/the US. It’s hard to believe where AI and China-US relations are at today…

We’ve seen a gazillion startups using OpenAI APIs to do “co-pilot for X”. What’s next? Enter *physical* co-pilot! Here’s a compelling demo: you improvise by playing a “low resolution” piano, and the co-pilot compiles it real-time to Hi-Fi music! It unleashes our inner pianist.🧵

The 2-year yield is down 85 bps in the last 3 trading days (from Wed, Mar 8 close, the day Powell finished testimony). In the last 40 years only 1 time has the 2-year declined this much over 3 days, the 1987 stock market crash. Also last Wed the market was pricing a 80%

My favorite Charlie Munger story: In 1953, Munger was 29 years old. Recently divorced. Lost the house. Huge social stigma of divorce back then. His 8-year-old son, Teddy, was diagnosed with cancer. The leukemia was incurable. No medical insurance - Munger paid for all

America’s top universities should abandon their long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning. My take:

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