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I noticed one employee wearing noise-canceling headphones. Not earbuds. The big, cushioned over-ear kind that create a tiny personal universe. I asked if everything was alright. He said yes, he’s just trying to focus. I told him we value focus, but isolation can misread as

Jim Simons didn't want finance majors at Ren Tech. He believed they brought bias, not breakthroughs. Instead, he built his team with PhD’s in physics, math, and computer science.

Work with hardcore people on hardcore things.

AI must pass, in general, the “Galileo” test: even if almost all the training data repeats falsehoods, it must nonetheless see the truth

Elon Musk on what actually limits progress: “The real constraint isn’t money or resources It’s a small, extremely talented, focused, dedicated team willing to take big risks That’s the scarce commodity The world is awash in money”

BREAKING: We've finally figured out what animals are saying. This is next-level insanity.

Brilliant 🫡 Someone made a complete 3D electric circuit simulator, running in the browser. Threejs (r3f) + arduino simulation + analog simulation

Elon Musk just redefined AI safety. It has nothing to do with guardrails, restrictions, or kill switches. Musk: “The best thing I can come up with for AI safety is to make it a maximum truth-seeking AI, maximally curious.” Not a cage. A philosopher. An intelligence whose

This guy is playing Starcraft on a Pentium while the rest of his friends are building MS-DOS menus on an XT.

Elon Musk: “If you want to recruit talented and driven people, you must state the mission, the problem to solve, and show you’re willing to pour blood, sweat, and tears into it with a convincing reason why it matters. Motivation comes from three things: enjoying the work itself,

Elon Musk just stripped away every emotional narrative around paralysis and reduced it to a pure engineering equation. The human nervous system is not mystical. It is a biological wiring grid. When a wire breaks, you build a bypass. Traditional medicine treats a severed

The corporate world built a religion around one lie. That leadership is separable from understanding. That you can run a machine you cannot read. Musk: “At SpaceX, almost all my time is spent on engineering and design.” Not strategy meetings. Not press tours. Not optics. The

Elon Musk just told you exactly how America loses. Not to a better algorithm. Not to a smarter engineer. To itself. Elon Musk: “When you’re dealing with the government, common sense doesn’t make sense. It’s like arguing with the DMV. It’s impossible.” America split the atom,

wisdom is the new intelligence. joe hudson (who coaches sam altman and research teams across openai, anthropic, deepmind, apple) has the best explanation why his logic is simple: every major technology shift in history changed which human skill mattered most 1. before the

The guy just landed a spacecraft on a comet — one of the most impressive scientific achievements in years. His reward? A public struggle session because his bowling shirt had scantily clad women on it. Helen Andrews points out the quiet cost of institutional feminization: HR

Steve Wozniak famously went to his boss at HP and said they should build a personal computer. They said no, so he left to found Apple. It’s a lesson for leaders: one "no" shouldn't kill a contrarian but right idea in your company. Twice a year at Coinbase, anyone in the company

"Every single risk has opportunity." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb