Javohir Akramov
@VCinTown
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vc, startups, and technology / econ @ georgetown
Joined June 2025
A while back, I wrote about AIs not asking enough clarifying questions and jumping straight into answers. I think OpenAI did something about it. But it’s asking waaaah more questions to the point where it’s annoying. Got to find some middle ground.
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You know that if you ask AI to criticize extremely well written essays, it will find mistakes and ways to improve. If you upload “Animal Farm,” it’s gonna find a way to improve it. Just because AI can find smth wrong with someone’s writing doesn’t mean it’s bad.
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Comfortable countries produce fragile people who pay to suffer. Gyms. Cold plunges. Fasting retreats. Manufacturing adversity because prosperity eliminated it naturally. Uncomfortable countries produce antifragile people who pay to avoid suffering. Air conditioning.
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Or 400 and make a podcast about what you learned so others can benefit
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Many believe that someone coming from the private sector will be business-minded & not bureaucratic. No, You get a salary (not a commission/cut) => you are a bureaucrat. CEOs are the most bureaucratic, even those on incentive, WORSE than government bureaucrats.
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Doing a startup and running a venture fund does not seem like a bad idea after all @JoshuaKushner
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the penalty for being average has never been so severe, but the payout for being extraordinary has never been higher.
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It’s so funny on X you can find people that can agree/disagree with the most disagreeable/agreeable opinion. Like even the greatest and shittiest takes get support
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Why does ChatGPT love giving “read 2 papers, 2 key lessons, and 1 mistake” type of answers. It tries to give you specific and measurable instructions like “read for 1 hour and produce 1 paper write-up” style shit which you will never follow through. Why?
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we are suffering from an epidemic of "cocktail party thought". a huge part of our country can only conceptualize the world through nice little facts and counterintuitive gotchas. they view the world like its all one big atlantic article. not a big mess of blood, flesh, and souls
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it's also fun to think about the kind of people live in each city/region for instance, what's the difference between people who live in Hawaii and those living in Austin. What kind of people does New Haven or Indianapolis has?
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Another thing that would be fun to look at is to try to figure out how did people's values change over time: are we more courageous than our ancestors? more ambitious? more greedy? what abour our descendants? how did our values change as a whole? as a society?
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Here is a thought experiment: go back decades, centuries, millenia and get yourself in the head of a man of that time what was he thinking? what were his values? his motivations? did he have a passion? ambitions? what ran through his mind?
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IMO ppl r unhealthily obsessed with “the state of the world.” This scale of focus makes sense if you are, eg, a billionaire philanthropist, famous person, or policymaker. If you’re not, I think it’s ok to just focus on the state of YOUR world. How are your friends & fam doing?
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The great thing about X is that people actually read your tweets and respond. Nowhere else can you do that)
@swyx @Superhuman Hey there! Thanks for the candid feedback. I'll DM you too to go deeper, but I also wanted to quickly share where we are on these things: - I originally decided not to do a preview pane, to keep processing single-tasking. We've recently changed our view on this since, so it's
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I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers. What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control. Once-free countries
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So I am watching this episode of Cheeky Pint by @stripe from the conversation between @pmarca and @collision, i am just fascinated how knowledgeable they are of economics; using concepts i am just learning as a junior at Georgetown maybe econ is useful after all
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