Jack Burlinson
@jfbrly
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Programming with Opus 4.5 is the most fun I’ve had since the iOS 8 jailbreak in 2014
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One of the coolest things about growing up is watching some of your friends shape the world.
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One thing I haven't heard in Silicon Valley is most tasks don't benefit from additional intelligence beyond a certain point. The dropping cost of intelligence will matter way more than maximum model capabilities in the medium term.
OpenAI improved efficiency by ~400x in one year, from $4,500 per problem, now down to about $12. Another year of similar gains would get the cost down to $0.03. Notably, human labor doesn't generally become 400x cheaper in a single year.
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It’s quite sad to watch the degradation of most of our elite institutions (universities, Mag 7, venture funds) from artisan-run boutiques into daycare factories for hyper-optimizer nerds living in extended adolescence.
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Probably my favorite thing I’ve learned from Hormozi was his explanation of the difference between working with an expert vs an amateur. The difference between an expert and an amateur is simply the amount of reactive instruction required by you in order to achieve a certain
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Ryan fixed my Google ad account last year when nobody else could. He did not charge me. He did not know me. He deserves every single penny.
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Seeing a lot of comments on this and wanted to put my guess in on what’s going on: CalAI + Cohort of apps do 3.6M/mo in revenue — that’s real. That said, they’re putting a lot of that money into growth, so my guess is ~15% net margins. That means ~$500K/mo in take home,
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I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with this team. @varunabgupta @tonsing and the whole Caffeinated Crew are world class. I could not ask for better partners.
Today, we are launching a new brand identity for Caffeinated, one that we believe captures our evolution as a firm since our beginnings in 2008, the partnerships we have built with some of the world’s best founders, and our guiding philosophy.
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Grateful to be alive, for my friends, my partners, my family, and for the opportunity to pursue what I love daily.
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Complexity is cope for not getting the few things that matter right.
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At some point, you have to ask yourself if you're actually willing to become what's required to get the outcome you care about.
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One of the worst things I've ever done for my career, relationships, and health has been to listen to really smart, convincing, and often successful people who had no idea what the hell they're talking about. A very unintuitive and frustrating understanding I've developed over
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Very cool experience to watch your friends companies take off seemingly out of nowhere. "Nothing, then all at once" is real.
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Idea creation requires saying yes more and ignoring hypothetical second order effects. Idea refinement is about saying no more and being thoughtful about second order effects. Important to entirely separate the two tasks, lest you prematurely truncate great ideas from
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Been funny to see that while there are quite a few "optimization and consistency" types of successful people, there are equally as many, if not more, completely unpredictable batshit insane never-ending emotional-rollercoaster type of successful people.
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If you do not have a feedback loop in real life to reinforce your beliefs, you will seek a reinforcement loop on the internet from strangers to validate your beliefs.
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Hedge Funds + VCs write books so they can raise $$$ from LPs right as their fund's returns are starting to collapse from growing too fat. Ex: Dalio wrote Principles -> Quintupled Bridgewater's AUM despite massively underperforming the index (6% / year vs. QQQ's 18% / year)
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Favorite recurring gym character is the guy who shows up to the gym to lay in the massage chair for 20 minutes and then leaves
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All of the best marketers I know are highly empathetic -- and interestingly, they are almost all in relationships with a partner who happens to take advantage of that trait. It's almost a bit sad to see such kind people treated so poorly.
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