Andrej Karpathy literally shows how to build apps by prompting in 30 mins

"You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game

Unless you have 10,000 customers: Approximately no one knows who you are. Approximately no one knows your brand. Approximately no one knows your product. You can change everything, any time. Take advantage of that.

the corporation is an industrial-age artifact. AI brings us back to artisans and niche shops - just digitized.

Building in AI hasn't just got better but also more attractive. If you have been a creator of any kind, it is difficult to 'resist' building for this new world.

Humans are pattern-seeking machines. Even if the pattern is unhealthy, you’ll keep choosing it because your brain values familiarity. Until you consciously rewire that pattern, nothing changes.

As AI models increasingly one-shot anything, the limiting constraint becomes the lack of human clarity on what exactly do we want our AI-gods to do. "Garbage in, garbage out" will forever remain true. Even AGI won't solve it!

“The future belongs to the consistent. Not the talented. Not the lucky. But the ones who show up, even when it is hard. Show up. Effort does not betray you.”

The Myth of Sisyphus

"Life is much, much easier when you treat all humans as flawed and imperfect, but flawed in quite different ways." - Nassim Taleb

"The rule is: Use "BUT" as a logical operator, not to seek protection from consequences of your opinion." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It’s not the marketing, or that the world is in conspiracy against you if your product fails! You built the wrong thing. It’s too buggy. People don’t even know what they should do with it. If it was good everyone could tell the second they used it. Good software is obvious.

if you are a builder with high agency, agentic AI feels like a super power!

"It's lovely to be useful." — Jony Ive

Science supports what most of us have always known intuitively.

I just love this. The new =COPILOT() function in Excel lets you analyze, generate content, and brainstorm directly in the grid.

Move like you're late and wait like you're early.

Biggest trigger for employees to become founders is insecurity and incompetence of fellow employees.

The philosophy I’ve always had with building social apps: When someone agrees to use your app, you should consider it a miracle. Every single tap is a miracle. The moment you don’t treat each tap as scarce, you lose. Every calorie expended by a user should contribute to the