i used to be excited to learn interesting topics in school. and then i went to class.

observed: the cost of not making a decision is often greater than the cost of making the second best decision. decisiveness yields dividends in the form of both data and momentum. and momentum helps you iterate bad decisions quickly…

Locked in:

the moment you’re categorized with some group, assume they’d run a million circles around you. someone is likely smarter and more knowledgeable than you. you cannot win. instead, pause. take a step back. look within. journal and write. follows your curiosity. read textbooks,

reminders to self: “You escape competition through authenticity.” - @naval "Don't aim to be the best. Be the only." — Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly)

List of Phenomenal AI Tools: Perplexity comet (Assistant tool takes over your screen) @comet Wispr Flow (don't touch my keyboard when emailing, coding, texting) @WisprFlow Claude Code (self-explanatory) @claudeai Poke (integrations with AI, claude code via custom MCP,

Jeff Bezos to retailers: “Your margin is my opportunity.” AI to humans: “Your error is my field.”

List of New Podcasts I'm Listening to that are Phenomenal: - Tetragrammaton @RickRubin - Dialectic @DialecticPod - Relentless @relentless - Founders @FoundersPodcast - David Senra @davidsenra - Core Memory @corememory - How to Take Over the World @HTTOTW - Lenny's

List of New Substacks I'm Reading that are Phenomenal: - Pirate Wires @PirateWires - Rob Henderson @robkhenderson - Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche @SteveStuWill - Cremieux Recueil @cremieuxrecueil - The Prism @G_S_Bhogal - Fundamentally Sound @ManuInvests - Not Boring @packyM -

You either die a disruptor, or live long enough to see yourself become an incumbent

We need more rugged individualism, not less. Build on the frontier. Be independent. Decentralize power. Accelerate civilizational progress. Celebrate economic freedom.

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Claude Code was a side project at Anthropic. ChatGPT was a side project at OpenAI. PyTorch was a side project at Meta. Gmail was a side project at Google. Side projects are the only place where taste, curiosity, and agency fully compound.

Define your minimum viable action (MVA): the tiniest step that counts as “showing up,” no matter how crappy life gets. Good days? Crush it. Bad days? Do the MVA.

learning can become a dangerous form of procrastination. you spend all day inside reading books, watching lectures, listening to podcasts, but never step outside and put it to use. knowledge requires reality. without it, it's just trivia.

Most communication is just status signaling, not actual exchange of ideas.

“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” - E.O. Wilson