This 1000000%. I suspect this is why the Timothée Chalamet SAG award speech was so well received.

"Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Like this a lot

i came back to thinking about this. The resurgence in architectural beauty that will come from manual labour costs trending to 0 with AI robotics is very exciting, and super underrated

Hey guys Anything, trying to work on a project in mobile app but stuck on this screen for the last 5 min.

Interesting and true quote imo. A question of trade offs

Cool post

MEDICINE: Psychosis, in the form of delusional thinking, 'can emerge in the setting of immersive AI chatbot use' in part due to the 'sycophancy of AI chatbots', according to article published in Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience journal.

"Your brain is most intelligent when you don’t instruct it on what to do—something people who take showers discover on occasion." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

Charlie Munger: “[With reading], you can take in so much, and you can take it in on your own time schedule.” “It's just God's gift. If you're into self-education, there's nothing like reading. And, of course, people who do a lot of it have an enormous advantage.”

Hey guys Quo (formerly OpenPhone) Daryna Kulya is quo having issues? My calls aren’t going through

Strongly agree

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten

“The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.”

High-agency people seem to have insane luck. They don't. They just tried 47 things while everyone else tried two and gave up. The conviction that reality is negotiable is generative, it makes you creative. Because if you believe there's always another angle, you start looking for

Have been really enjoying this account’s posts lately

There’s a scene in Mad Men I love where Don tells Peggy “Think about it deeply, then just forget it. The answer will jump out at you.” 100% true in my experience

Richard Feynman said it right: “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible.”

The watchers will always demand explanations because they construct narratives, they need things to make sense, they want your jump to fit into their framework of reasonable behavior. But the jumper is already in a different reality.

In any profession, 90% of people are clueless but work by situational imitation, narrow mimicry & semi-conscious role-playing. Except social "science" and journalism where it is 99% and 100%, respectively.