The truth is obtained by varying the viewpoint dynamically and letting the invariants reveal themselves No single vantage point can yield truth

Turns out the world is run by like 50 main characters, everyone else just follows

One of the greatest novels starts like this.

never apologise for being obsessed. read all day. work all day. run for hours. forget time exists. be everywhere but be a ghost. turn off the world and create your own. let craft become compulsion. positive obsession is a gift, disguised as a curse.

After the age of 24 you start collecting anecdotal evidence for every single piece of wisdom your parents once told you long ago that you brushed off as outdated platitudes irrelevant to your oh so modern times

Thiel did a fireside chat my freshman year (2014) of college where someone asked: “Could the next Zuckerberg be in this room?” Thiel: “He would never show up to an event like this.”

Imagine being this woman, Beverly Aiken. Growing up poor in an abusive home and a dying Rust Belt city, little stability and even less opportunity. You have a couple kids at a young age, but it’s not easy being a single mom in Middletown, Ohio, so you send JD and Lindsay to live

These photos are just 100 years apart

I still cannot believe that I can: - look at a world map and tap anywhere to zoom in at street level - instantly access any song, book, movie, tv show, or podcast ever made - have any conceivable question and get an immediate answer or video explanation - take a photo or

Really exceptional. Jeff Bezos

Pain is a moat

The next time you want to give up, think of this image:

"Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else" - David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

"Likability is a Jail" by Alex Karp, Co-founder and CEO of Palantir

the great tactician is capable of winning difficult battles that the great strategist knows how to avoid entirely

i think the problem is that a name gives an idea a body to die in

The avant garde matters more than ever because generative tools replicate what’s been done. To stand out, you need to gesture at what hasn’t happened yet. You need to feel the cultural shift before it becomes visible. The new prompt engineering resembles divination

how you write is how you think how you think is how you’ll be

the penalty for being average has never been so severe, but the payout for being extraordinary has never been higher.