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gfs face while i explain that calling her a "7" is actually saying she's 95th percentile assuming a normal distribution
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Started reading the Trader Joes book and an interesting point he makes is that a big part of why America worked well in the 50s is that most institutions were staffed by overqualified men with a ton of life experience from the great depression + war
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It's important to fuck around and spend a lot of time just doing whatever you feel like, but also to be extremely disciplined and mindful of the endless onrushing of time as it is stolen from you second by second. Hope that helps
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Adderall makes people have higher agency, but think at low level of abstraction. Common pitfalls: being too risk-loving or getting bogged down in details
Weed makes people have lower agency, and think at higher level of abstraction. Pitfalls: being lazy, finding cliches profound
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guy explaining why no one likes his tweets: it’s cause I’m thinking with too much clarity
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Always felt this is an underrated disadvantage of the idea that you need to carefully allocate the most talented people into certain high-leverage professions
A lot of benefit from having very capable people working as teachers, administrators, small-town doctors etc
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It's strange that ADHD is described as a deficiency in executive functioning, and yet ADHD personalities are overrepresented among careers like being a startup founder where the primary requirement is to make decisions quickly under pressure
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untold alpha trapped in the brains of wizened old engineers. spoke to this dude from work who’s been doing it 30+ years
- can’t understand emotions or remember names
- casually mentioned he used to work for Steve Jobs at NeXT
- went on 1hr rant abt chip design and group theory
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Mushrooms increase your agency and level of mental abstraction but they have the side effect of making you think this art is good
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this strategy unironically works very well if you just work on the right things
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On some level you gotta feel bad for QC, dude tried out being disagreeable for the first time ever and got absolutely obliterated in public for it. That’s like being afraid of flying and finally mustering up the courage for your maiden voyage and it’s 9/11
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@basedsrini
Diet Coke epitomises positive-sum abundance: it’s 80% as good as regular coke with 0 calories. It’s low hanging fruit, a net postive, a refutation of the universe’s desire for balanced tradeoffs
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@dissproportion
Pickpocketing is a crime that heavily favours the kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism that is illegal to build in most US states
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Competence = being overqualified
Opposite of the silicon valley / SBF approach of YOLOing yourself into something hard to learn as you go
the secret to being good at something is to be overqualified for it
the best software engineers could be scientists, the best bloggers could be novelists, the best salespeople could be CEOs
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to make this clearer: what i mean is that if you're very talented, you might take two approaches
- push yourself to the limit of your capabilities to deliver maximum return
- work well within your capabilities, leaving a lot of slack capacity that can have unexpected benefits
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@samswoora
Ubers secret was that engineers can ship code much faster than regulators can ship regulations
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the thing about taleb is that he hates nerds. large parts of his books are dedicated to praise of things with an air of cool aristocratic aloofness and hate for people he regards as dweebs
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@mr_yong_tau_foo
He just mentions it in passing but imo more interesting than a lot of the actual content of the book
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the secret to being good at something is to be overqualified for it
the best software engineers could be scientists, the best bloggers could be novelists, the best salespeople could be CEOs
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Marcus Aurelius was a mid emperor who journalled about his management woes and Seneca was a neurotic writer and politician. Laptop workers with career anxiety are exactly the correct audience
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Being a software engineer is an insanely good job. Work in tech sales for a year and you will realize that this is the coziest shit imaginable
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@levelsio
It’s insane the number of inventions that had to occur for AI to be possible. Invention of the internet, indexing of it via google / reddit / Wikipedia, organization of programming knowledge via GitHub and stack overflow, invention of GPUs for gaming, then some of the smartest…
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'Monk mode' is the dumbest online guru advice. You need to be extroversionmaxxing. You need to be moving to a city where you know no one, shooting your shot constantly, talking to everyone you meet
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@Liammoyers
this level of disgust can only be provoked by simultaneously insulting someone and misunderstanding statistics
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there’s something vaguely shifty about guys whose whole deal is how spiritually integrated and emotionally intelligent they are
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The problem with therapy is that it mixes up symptoms (pain) for causes (lack of moral courage). If therapists could accurately see into your life they could easily diagnose your lack of honesty, integrity, courage but instead you get sympathy for your rose tinted sympathetic…
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There should be a feature of Zoom meetings that’s like a stamina bar. As one person talks, it drains away. If they take more than 30 secs to make their point, it goes red and they’re automatically muted
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Something I wish I knew earlier: working hard means iteration. Rewriting emails, rewriting code, redesigning something a million times until it's good. It's not about hours worked
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@LindyTasteful
tell her to please avoid making any noise during the flight as i need a quiet environment to focus on playing my map games
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Surprising that Ilya Sutskever – chief scientist of OpenAI – is not credited among the authors of GPT-4, development of which was led by Greg Brockman and Jakub Pachocki
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Working as an SWE is overrated: a lot of the benefits it confers are available to anyone working at a great tech company with strong PMF (interesting work, good coworkers, flexible, good pay)
Knowing how to code and build stuff while working in other functions is underrated
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today broke up for good with my wonderful gf whom i loved deeply and had often thought i was gonna be with forever
right call, we weren't right for one another and were making each other unhappy
thankful for the time we got to spend together, she made me a better man in many…
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the reverse peter principle: anyone that's world class at something is a sandbagger
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tech people throw the term 'agency' around a lot. it basically just boils down to salesmanship
- cold messaging people
- convincing high status people to take a chance on you through bravado
- overpromising and figuring out how to deliver
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So many perceived problems (lack of discipline and motivation, bad habits, feeling burned out etc etc) are fake and go away as soon as you have something you’re completely obsessed with
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One of the things I most misunderstood about the world when I was younger was thinking that competence is the norm, when in reality it’s vanishingly rare
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This tweet falls into the genre of 'person instinctively adopts high-trust strategy in low-trust environment and becomes jaded'
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Universal basic income for women is a great idea, underrated in the Paul Skallas idea canon
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If you ever feel the urge to DM more than a single paragraph of text to a girl it's so over. You're done. You might as well be standing outside her house scorned in the pouring rain as your handwritten love letter melts in your hand
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If you're 20 – 30 and your main circle aren't discussing
- agricultural land expropriation
- export-oriented industrialization
- annual GDP growth rates of >10%
Then it's time to upgrade your circle
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the year is 2033. everyone works for one hour a day over zoom product managing a team of LLMs. the rest of your time is spent doing home improvement jobs via YouTube tutorials because hiring a plumber costs $3,000 per hour
2023: $30,000 to get a simple iPhone app created, $300 for a plumbing job.
i wonder what those relative prices will look like in 2028!
the likely coming divergence between changes to cognitive work and changes to physical work could be quite dramatic.
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@yacineMTB
lmao exactly, you can tell it’s not false modesty they’ve just seen everything under the sun
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@freshyjmp
definitely
@DanielTPorter
Yes, in fact the author's mother is a good example of that. I remember reading a good blog post about this somewhere but can't recall which
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@babarganesh
Teaching graduate school definitely, because it's bad for individuals and bad for society. Software is harder to say because it offers a lot of benefits for individuals but neglible social benefit in most cases
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Personal growth comes through pain, not introspection. People experience personal growth through trial and error, go through a subsequent period of introspection, and misattribute the former to the latter
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Did you know there are more people with genius IQs living in China than there are people of any kind living in the United States?
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now every unix command is a SAAS startup but at least ken thompson wasn't a tech bro who insisted on charging everyone $3000 per month for an enterprise license for 'greply'
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2023 done. Moved to London, moved again. Got promoted and promoted again and realised that chasing promotion at my corporate-pretending-to-still-be-a-startup job was stupid and burned out and quit. Start new gig tomorrow. Made new friends and posted on Twitter less. Started going…
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@DanielTPorter
Yes, in fact the author's mother is a good example of that. I remember reading a good blog post about this somewhere but can't recall which
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@_david_ho_
elite scientists have as little to do with the average 100IQ male as they have to do with the average woman. they're mutant freaks that happen to arise more frequently in the autistic high variance sex but that doesn't say anything you can generalise to men as a whole
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twitter is truly a bicycle for the mind: you can yeet your half-baked thoughts into the ether and have them destroyed through facts and logic by your 140 IQ followers, ultimately annealing them into unassailable truths
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if you use your laptop this way (i.e. without a stand) you're destroying your lower back for no reason. don't do it
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@stuartbuck1
@alexeyguzey
i read it as saying: humans are antifragile and benefit from small amounts of harm, criticism, and setbacks, and trying to remove suffering from people's lives isn't beneficial
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The Callard article is a good example of how philosophy is completely useless as a guide to living a good life but reasonably useful as a way of rationalising your decisions into some kind of narrative
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thats not just posturing, the reason his books are good (completely different from his tweets) is that he's erudite in the way humanities intellectuals used to be
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it's true that most of these had unfair advantages, it's just that it was the luck to be born to smart / high agency parents
roughly you can see two buckets here
buffett / gates: born to elite parents, had highly successful conventional upbringing
musk / bezos: father was a
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Marcus Aurelius literally stayed home during the Parthian war instead of leading his men so that he could journal about how manly he was for sleeping with no bedframe
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@samswoora
Sounds generally good but I’d avoid creating the LLC since it wouldn’t hold up in reference checks + might hold him back from learning self directedly
Wdyt about encouraging him to set up as a freelancer and hiring him (cheaply) for first job instead?
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although i disagree with him on this point its true that technology brothers like lex mostly underrate aesthetic power
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@himbodhisattva
sounded like a wild place to work, altho I asked him what Steve was like to work with and he said he was more open-minded and respectful to engineers than his rep would suggest
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'pro tip: never cooperate in prisoners dilemmas. instead, try defecting'
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what’s that, anon? you were unpopular growing up due to being a nerd, and missed certain crucial stages of your development? I sure hope you didn’t go on to view well-adjusted people as ‘normies’, thereby excluding yourself from the precondition of happiness
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in 'This is Water', David Foster Wallace says that learning how to tolerate mundane suffering like waiting in line at the supermarket is key to becoming a good human being. thankfully we now know that this was wrong and have automated it away with convenient delivery apps 😎
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the Roman legal system sounds like the sickest thing ever. if you successfully prosecuted someone you were entitled to take their rank and title for yourself
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We must imagine Sisyphus downing two scoops of preworkout and listening to Zyzz hardstyle edits in his car to get amped up for another day's boulder pushing
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@samswoora
evergreen
software engineers refer to actually doing 8 hours of work as "pulling an all dayer"
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Stoicism is a psyop. If you want to learn philosophy, read Aristotle. If you want to learn about human greatness read biographies of Alexander and Napoleon
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@andreikuznetsv
get on dating apps but act emotionally needy after the second date so you land in the friend zone 😈
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My productivity absolutely tanks after the first 12 hours or so of work
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Remote work is great, WFH is terrible. Essential to be constantly out and about, hunting and gathering, making new friends and enemies
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