you’re only about twenty textbooks behind the most cracked person you know

"I'm not obsessed about time. I'm obsessed about energy management. If you have time, but you have no energy, you're not going to accomplish anything anyway." —Daniel Ek (Daniel Ek)

Marc Andressen literally shares the smartest way to grow your career in 2025

🚀 We just raised $180 million in Series C funding, bringing our total funding to $240 million and our valuation to $2.5 billion. Led by Accel with participation from Meritech Capital, Redpoint, Evantic Capital, Visionaries Club, T.Capital, and NVentures

"Don't take it personally!" That is terrible advice.

A message from a Kindergarten teacher: After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old: “My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.” No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s

Today we introduced Gemini Enterprise, built with our most advanced Gemini models. It allows you to chat with your company’s documents, data and apps as well as build and deploy AI agents, all grounded in your information and context. Have a look at how it helps you build an

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Remote only works with people you already know. It’s hard to build trust from scratch online. Start in-office with the core team, then request remote once trust builds. Years ago I hired an IIT batchmate who farmed out his work to remote devs while being in the office all the

I remember when Very Smart People made fun of Jared Kushner after he said he had read 25 books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The intelligent thing to do would have been to ask him for his reading list.

Is there a good guide to using the AI CLI tools for non-coders? Either for non-coding uses (data analysis, automating work) or vibe-prototyping? I don’t want to have to write one myself, but there are a ton of capabilities in computer use with files that would be useful for many

Some sources of alpha that require no real skill: - having longer time horizons than others - being much more focused or much more bundled - believing the consensus thing harder than others - placing no value on status

Ramit's Chicken and Rice Theory explains why most bodybuilders eat chicken and rice... ...and why most sophisticated individual investors buy simple index funds

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The Bangalore twitter ecosystem is magical.. True story.. 1. I ranted on Twitter about the wait times and horrible experience at hospitals in Bangalore. 2. Someone on this app told me about Superhealth, founded by Varun 3. I DMed Varun. He responded kindly without knowing

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Market research firms are cooked 😳 PyMC Labs + Colgate just published something wild. They got GPT-4o and Gemini to predict purchase intent at 90% reliability compared to actual human surveys. Zero focus groups. No survey panels. Just prompting. The method is called Semantic

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This is obviously comical to cite in hindsight. But the only way I, who've had half a dozen lives/careers by now, broke into anything new is...reading 20-30 books on it. You can indeed just do things. Most people are less competent than they seem. Everyone is winging it.