Melvin Melih
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Wondering how to build a coding agent like Devin? Here's a simple design pattern that you can use to build any type of reliable autonomous AI agent:
Step 1: First generate an ensemble* of candidates based on the initial LLM prompt, in this example 3 candidates (can be any
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The power of mortal thinking is that once you no longer have to worry about dying and chasing "immortal" goals, you can finally start living.
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Even atheists who don't believe in an after life, typically act immortal.
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The fact is that we're all going to die, no matter our knowledge, wealth, health, or status. It doesn't matter if we have more of something than someone else. The outcome is the same.
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Consistently avoiding mortality has consequences: it means that we're not mentally prepared to die or for our loved ones to die. So death is often met with a lot of shock, anguish, and grief, even though we should have seen it coming.
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We all pretend to be rational beings, but at every point in life we prefer to act like we're immortal, until we are forced to come to terms with our mortality. By then, it's usually too late.
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Family is another form of immortality. If you have enough family members, your family will typically outlive you. Therefore most families raise their family members to value immortality.
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Is how you're currently living your life, contributing to your legacy? If not, adjust accordingly.
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Mortal thinkers do not lie; there's no use in hiding the truth if every conversation can be your last, so why not tell people what you really think?
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How to solve any problem 💡
1) Write down the problem.
2) Think really hard.
3) Write down the solution.
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Mortal thinkers tend to be immersed into every moment: they are aware that it can be the last one they experience so they want to get the most out of it.
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Besides, life is short, magical, and wonderful; death is boring,
permanent, and inevitable; it can wait 👌
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It's also not a coincidence that society values immortal thinking because society is itself immortal. It outlives us all.
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Whenever you think you "have" to do something because you've been doing it for "so long", take a step back and be willing to walk away, throw everything out, and start over.
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It makes sense to chase immortal goals if we were in fact immortal, but the problem is that we're not.
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Thanks for reading this far and hope this has helped you become a better mortal thinker. Please share your stories of
#immortalthinking
! Follow me for more ✌️
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We hate being confronted with our mortality. Chances are that reading this much about death is currently making you uncomfortable.
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Despite being death-centric, mortal thinking has nothing to do with depression or suicidal thoughts: mortal thinkers do not want or seek to die, they just accept that they *can* die at any moment and readjust their life accordingly.
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Immortal thinking is pervasive: it is present in most cultures and religions, and is a core part of the human belief system.
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Mortal thinkers organize their life in a way that works for them personally and are quite ambitious; if you only have one life to live, and it can end at any moment, why not just do what you want to do and be who you want to be?
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Sunk cost mentality will cause you to be stuck in a suboptimal position because you are too afraid to consider the nuclear alternative of starting over. Sunk cost mentality is not a growth mentality. It's based out of fear.
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The older we get, the less we believe we're immortal. When death is looming closer and closer, we start to realize how much of our life has been wasted on pursuing meaningless immortal goals and how little time we have left. We become mortal thinkers.
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Immortal thinking causes us to chase typical "immortal" goals that we believe to be important: an education, a career, property, wealth, power, and other things we can't take to our grave.
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Mortal thinkers prioritize things they find personally important instead of what society thinks is important: spending time with their loved ones, life experiences, traveling the world, or working on things that they're passionate about.
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Unfortunately mortal thinking usually kicks in when there is not much time left. We spend most of our lives believing that we're immortal, and only realize what's truly important at the very end.
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Think about all the things you would do if you only had 1 year left to live. You would naturally prioritize things that you personally find important. That's mortal thinking.
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My morning routine:
1) Gmail
2) Slack
3) Facebook
4) Twitter
5) Hacker News
6) Snapchat (
@msuster
,
@justinkan
,
@djkhaled
)
7) Volkskrant
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Mortal thinkers also accept that their loved ones can die at any moment. Every hug, every kiss, every call, can be their last, so mortal thinkers give extra love and share their true feelings with them whenever they can.
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Another reason why we prefer immortality, is because we haven't made peace with our mortality. We do our best to ignore the fact that we're going to die and tend to avoid it as much as possible.
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Mortal thinkers realize that the only way to reach true "immortality" is by being remembered through legacy. This legacy can be small (how your loved ones remember you) or big (how the world remembers you).
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In the face of death, no material value is really that important, so mortal thinkers do not waste much time on things that other people tell them to pursue.
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“The single biggest failure of leadership is to treat adaptive challenges like technical problems” -
@RonHeifetz
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Mortal thinkers do not ignore death, in fact, they do the opposite. They accept (and expect) death at any moment.
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Mortal thinkers are not surprised, shocked or angered by sudden death. Instead of grieving, they cherish great memories with loved ones instead.
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📚 This holiday weekend, I created a GPT to instantly generate entire textbooks on any topic within ChatGPT
Why? ChatGPT is great for learning stuff, but sometimes you just want to go deep and read an entire book about something.
Try it out:
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However you can fill up a glass perfectly with water, without even leaving any room for air, because it has the right combination of flexibility and rigidness.
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If that sounds too gloomy (sorry!), here's the good news: you can become a mortal thinker at any time, by recognizing and avoiding immortal behavior and by practicing mortal thinking.
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"What is your greatest ambition in life? To become immortal… and then die." - Jean-Luc Godard
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You're not able to fill up a glass with steam either, you would literally run out of steam before getting any close.
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@levelsio
tbh less tiring to be around Americans than to be around Dutch people and their “radical honesty” within 5 minutes that nobody asks for (source: a dutch person)
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I must say, 2 weeks later, I feel very happy and productive with this
@AWSAmplify
dev stack. And it’s extremely scalable from day one!
I’ve supplemented it with a couple of golang Lambda functions in
@goserverless
for misc backend processing tasks and custom endpoints.
I've long been looking for a dev stack that can meet these "impossible" requirements: single hybrid mobile/web app with a serverless graphql backend that scales horizontally from day one.
It looks like I finally found it: React Native with AWS Amplify 👏
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Famous last words before getting fired:
@adriarichards
: "
@SendGrid
supports me. Stop trolling."
Hey
@mundanematt
, it's clear from the last 24 hours you're a bully.
@SendGrid
supports me. Stop trolling.
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