The hardest part of all of this isn't shipping code Or winning the deal Or raising capital It's getting really, really good at recruiting

Sam Altman Math and fiction. Programming approaches math if you're doing something very pure. Essays are a bit easier than fiction because you don't have to keep making things up. Startups were easy enough that I could work all the time I wasn't eating or sleeping.

There was no sign of a teen mental illness epidemic until around 2012. Then liberal girls' rates started increasing. Then everyone else. Why? Greg Lukianoff nailed it: Reverse CBT, as I explain here: jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-healt…

I am a survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution. Here are some of his revolution features and tactics. You can judge yourself if these look similar with today's American woke cultural revolution. 1. Mao started Cultural Revolution to purge his political enemies and become a

I meant that originally as a sort of joke. But after saying it out loud, as it were, I realized that with current models of AI, at least, the more people shift to using AI, the more influence accrues to those who don't.

Considering how much most people hate and fear writing, I can imagine a future in which a few thousand organic writers generate the data used to train the AIs used by all the rest.

Elon is the only account I follow with the bell on, yet the twitter algorithm shows me less of his tweets than any other account I follow. Why?

Friends are good for your health. In case you thought that wasn’t a major concern because you’re an alpha-sigma-giga-lone-chad-wolf who don’t need no one around them… “By far the biggest medical surprise of the past decade has been the extraordinary number of studies showing

there is an extremely high correlation with response rate and success

In regard to the matter of the importance of speed in fundamental research: Hitler failed to get the atom bomb only because of things like: Heisenberg made an uncharacteristic rookie error in calculating chain reactions; and some 1939 paper had a mistake measuring cross-sections.

Between 2000 and 2010, America received more immigrant inventors than every other country combined. Now with long waits and anti-immigrant policies, a BCG study confirmed Canada has replaced the U.S. as the most desirable location for skilled immigrants. We need to fix this

"Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

Some of their first products: Samsung: fish Nokia: toilet paper Sony: electric rice cookers Lego: wooden toy ducks Colgate: candles Toyota: looms IKEA: pens Wriggled: soap Nintendo: playing cards Tiffany & Co: stationery Lamborghini: tractors Hasbro: textiles DuPont: gunpowder

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow boingboing.net/2023/04/19/kur…

3 interesting findings: 1. The average age of a founder of a highly profitable tech company is 42.3 years old. The media-driven belief that successful founders tend to be young is untrue—older founders consistently have higher probabilities of success.

Building a startup is 10x easier with a co-founder, but better do it solo than with the wrong person. This list of questions will help you avoid big mistakes. Though Julien Lemoine & I already knew each other well, we still covered many before committing. ycombinator.com/blog/10-questi…

Be around for the future and your return on life investment may be 10x or 100x or 1000x

🚨 News: 70 national security officials just sent a letter to the new House China Select Committee on the importance of STEM talent for American security. The officials urge Congress to streamline visas for international talent to maintain technological leadership over China.

Startups are hard Personally: - My cofounder walked out the door - I spent all the money - I had to sign at $750k note - Our product failed at our top customer - My VPS told my board I was incompetent - My family didn't understand - I went through recessions Could have quit