say it with me now. experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world, everything is designed by people no smarter than you, and courage is in shorter supply than genius

hanElon’s razor

less yapping, more shipping

Intelligence is on tap now so agency is even more important

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

everything in life is easy, except if you are tricked into that thing being hard remember that all people who are really good at something have huge incentives to tell you how hard it is, as that is the only thing that makes them special

>70% of people are in permanent slight suffering because they are allergic to making ANY mentally tough decision when there is also an option to do nothing. rant:

AMD 💕 the tiny corp we are looking forward to working closely with the tiny corp to help commoditize the petaflop geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/u…

I am inviting someone with an active Bloomberg Terminal subscription to work with us. Together we will build the future of finance research and make it widely accessible. The alpha should be based on who knows to use AI, not who’s paying more for the legacy tools. DMs open.

Thank you for doing this Patrick Collison Jony: “When you care, it shows up in everything.” Design is an act of responsibility. You’re deciding how someone will feel when they encounter it. That level of care isn’t extra, it’s our job.

Jony mentions the Quakers, and his message is in some sense a Quaker exhortation. "Work as though you are being watched by God and for the good of mankind."

There’s the joke when you ask a dev or dev team how much of the project is done: “We’re done with 90% of it roughly.” The correct answer is: “OK, so what I’m hearing is first 90% done, only second 90% is left” It’s actually not a joke. It’s *often* the reality with software

Work doesn’t suck when you have purpose. It’s shockingly fun and makes you realize what can truly be accomplished in the 24 hour period of a day. Measuring that day in minutes (not hours) based on your (real) output is the true reflection of your impact. Grinding until 0330

they say people fall back down to the level of their training but I think people fall back down to their incentives.

Our Work Is Never Over

i love deleting code

YOU CANNOT COMPETE WITH SOMEONE WHO IS HAVING FUN

timely reminder. okay bye

distilled my notes into a writeup on how SQL parsers work. nishchith.com/sql-parsers