Most people think that they need more stimulation to get smarter (including books.) They don't realize that they actually need to step back with quiet, unstimulated time alone. A mind squeezed with information cannot connect the dots.

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Your physique says a lot about your character.

Also, the Dutch are scary-good at anything they put their minds to.

It has never been easier to learn. It has never been easier to be distracted. The gap between those who know how to focus and those who don’t will keep growing.

Why be a CTO when you can be an AI Senior Fellow 😎

I wonder how long it will take for Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp to integrate OpenAI's open source speech-to-text Whisper system. I like recording & sending voice messages, but don't like receiving them (reading is faster and you can more easily search text - for now).

Will OpenAI release GPT-4 as an open foundation model?

Yes - give an LLM system access to a database and a search engine / browser.

Mass unemployment in the next 5 years (graphic designers are the canary in the coal mine) -> real estate crash x.com/johnrushx/stat…

Devs are becoming supercharged, but so are “tech-adjacent” roles: PMs, analysts, ops. Many will start building their own tools. Non-tech folks won’t build “n=1 software” themselves, but they’ll pay a few bucks to get it done. It will be fast, cheap, and soon totally normalised.