Sage advice from Buffett:

Great piece - fun to reminisce on our (still very short) journey. And it captured Augusta’s ethos really well.

very good: jacksondahl.com/Posts/Taste%2C… "Taste honors someone’s standards of quality, but also the distinctive way the world bounces off a person. It reflects what they know about how the world works, and also what they’re working with in their inner worlds. When we recognize true

starting with services fundamentally meant that "talent is the product" and thus it forced brutal clarity - right from the jump - on how talent truly is all that matters. no matter what we're building mental model switched from "what's the idea?" to "who's the best human we can

I know a great product when it forces me to rethink my assumptions on how the world should work I notice the very best products always do this - they deeply carry the founders’ distinct vision for how the world ought to be. And thus get me thinking @cobotco did just that

i like this idea from Martin Shkreli: creating your own trophies explains why he bought the wu tang clan album for $2M - like many, he likes music (much more than impressionist art) - so instead of buying a Monet, he decided to pay a lot for an unreleased album he liked ($2M vs

one must be radically authentic - not just choosing a game, rather trying hard to reshape its rules so it can be played fully as yourself augusta for example does not play by any single defined set of rules i believe this is the path to live the best possible life

work of art

under the hood, augusta labs is fundamentally a vehicle to make the best young people achieve their highest potential we equip them with tech, culture and the best old people so they can compete at the highest level, in the greatest technological shift of our time and thus

we are building a chaebol. a chaebol for AI

never forget that relentless.com still redirects to amazon's website

I love life this is insane

we've ripped through 20b tokens on OpenAI this year. where are our 2 medals? Sam Altman

should probably start filming the documentary

poetry

this is the most important thing one should understand about Augusta

yes Augusta Labs

'research & deployment' 🤔 I have an idea

R(ea)L environments

software incumbents own decades of decision traces this partnership will set the gold standard on turning that incumbency into real RL environments, and from there into best-in-class AI capabilities very very excited for what's to come