Another scroll can’t do the compounding for you. Another self-help book can’t do the compounding for you. AI can’t do the compounding for you. But you can.

boston bound they’ll never see it coming

going into freshman year of college next week, crowdsourcing a bucket list - sunrise/night run in Boston - 4hr dorm room conversations - win 10 games of poker - crash out over a pset - read 5 books with >500 pages - get a job what am I missing?

no LLMs will be the new no social media no social media was the new no smartphones no smartphones was the new no computers some things never change

didn’t think I’d see the day when dean deming was plugging AI startups

why is Garry Tan plugging his sauna at HackMIT 😭😭😭

We’re currently at HackMIT, And we’re building the public square for improving SF’s quality of life. Check it out: threeoneone[dot]org (A thread🧵)

You get what you measure

There is no “right” way to do things, no conventional path that leads to success. No college, class schedule, or summer internship, will guarantee you that. Focus on range and obsession; everything else will fall into the right place, as it always has, and always will.

Naming a startup is hard. Usually it's chaos: throw words on a whiteboard, argue, and as fatigue hits, settle on good enough. Untitled offers another way. I turned the method I used to name dozens of startups into an app. It's free to try and uses the latest AI models.

Reminder that you can just do things Rainmaker makes some of the best company merch I've seen in a while, bought a hoodie a week ago And the company is fascinating too store.rainmaker.com

Haven't seen anything remotely comparable with Nike, Adidas, Garmin, Strava, etc in the past year. Zach and his team executes with taste. Very difficult to replicate by legacy corporations. Lore is insane and I'm sure this is only the beginning.

there is no replacement for passion

In case you didn’t know, I received my computer science bachelor’s degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) three years ago. However, the vast majority of the knowledge I’ve found useful to this day was self-taught. lesswrong.com/posts/ZFeEtLmf…

always remember that the world is scheming in your favor let that momentum consume you

YC has adopted the characteristics of a typical educational institution YC early decision, promise of better opportunities, network of founders, selective admissions, etc… Pitching as the “anti-college”, oddly enough, has turned YC into a college in itself