There are two people in you. The one who talks and the one who listens. The one who talks is always changing. The one who listens is always the same. You are the one who listens.

"One property of living things above all makes them seem almost miraculously different from nonliving matter: they create and maintain order, in a universe that is tending always to a greater disorder." - Molecular Biology of the Cell

In the forearms, there is one very small muscle that contracts only when lifting the pinky; otherwise, it is invisible. Michelangelo's Moses is lifting the pinky. Therefore, that tiny muscle is contracted - a small part of the many details of this masterpiece. Moses (c.

a college professor once said to me, "just because your brain thinks something, and you know you're very smart, does not mean it's true" i remember him daily.

"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy" is a surprisingly profound quote. When I ask people who've pulled off remarkable things, it's interesting how many confirm that they wouldn't have started if they'd know how long and

The best place to relax is near water. After just 2 minutes of viewing water outdoors, blood pressure and heart rate drop. It's more calming to look at a lake, pool, or stream than trees or grass. Beaches are popular for a reason. Wider bodies of water bring more tranquility.

.Naval on the most important things in life - material needs (money / creation / leverage) - fit body - calm mind - house full of love

Ben Horowitz of a16z talks about delegation

"All benefits in life come from compound interest, whether in money, relationships, love, health, activities, or habits." — Naval Ravikant

Ephemeralization - the ability of technological advancement to do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.

Large molecule models will become the foundation of drug design. Just as LLMs are becoming the foundation of productivity, communication, education and media.

@awcrabbe you are made of von neumann probes. the image is a cell.

That Hermann Hesse line "learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest" basically sums up my entire life philosophy in twelve words

.Naval: Knowledge is not just stored-up capital in the classic Marxist sense—capital versus labor—but also knowledge on what to do with that capital. The cavemen or the Paleolithic ancestors had access to all the same resources we did. They were living on the same earth, and by

"I would love to be paid purely for my judgment, not for any work. I want a robot, capital, or computer to do the work, but I want to be paid for my judgment." Naval

Framing this picture when I hit $1m NW $PDD $BABA

Regret Minimization Framework by Jeff Bezos:

You can’t eat microchips. Social media can’t heal the sick. B2B SaaS will never love you The final measure of any technology is the value it creates, directly or indirectly, for living things. In this sense, biology is everyone’s mission

the goal of life is to be excited to go to work and excited to go home

I spent 1.5 years at MIT designing a new undergraduate program in Genetic Engineering. One of our theses in designing that program (which I’ll share more about soon; I'm writing a long essay about it) was that undergraduate students could be trained to be excellent genetic