Every saturday morning for the last 6 years, I watch this obscure video.
It's Jeff Bezos talking about leadership, but really, it's the most succinct blueprint for how to achieve greatness I have ever found.
You should watch it often, but I summarized it here: (thread, sry)
The most underrated TikTok account is the dude building a giant Tesla Coil in his backyard and using it to run wireless power experiments.
He has, by his report, already been successful transmitting power 918 miles. It’s some of the best content on any platform.
It’s crazy that
@elonmusk
’s biggest impact won’t be humans on mars, Tesla, BCI etc.
It will be the millions of kids he inspired to dream bigger, build faster, and use their life to make the future a better place for humanity.
That’s Elon’s dent in the universe.
This isn’t a drone video, it’s a 3D space created just from iPhone pictures.
It’s called a NERF, & it’s massively underrated. Imagine being able to tour a home like this or play CallofDuty on a map of your office. Those are things you could build TODAY!
It’s 2020.
GameStop is the hottest stock on the market.
My friends and I ride electric scooters to work.
Pokémon cards are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The richest man in the world builds rockets.
This is exactly the future 10 year old me wanted to live in.
5. Never gonna give you up
6. Never gonna let you down
7. Never gonna run around and desert you
8. Never gonna make you cry
9. Never gonna say goodbye
10. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
11. We've known each other for so long
12. Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
13. Inside we both know what's been going on
14. We know the game and we're gonna play it
15. And if you ask me how I'm feeling
16. Don't tell me you're too blind to see
1) Never gonna give you up
2) Never gonna let you down
3) Never gonna run around and desert you
4) Never gonna make you cry
5) Never gonna say goodbye
6) Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
One of the most counter intuitive correlations I’ve seen is:
Wealth : Speed of response
Mid level employees usually take days to respond. Mark Cuban once replied to my cold email in 20 minutes. I have a small sample size but it’s almost always true.
Last night I made a website that uses GPT-4 to code any arcade game you can think of and let you play it instantly.
Here's a demo of The Infinite Arcade.
If people like it, I'll publish the site later today or tomorrow!
Over the weekend I finished the to-do list that does itself.
Everytime you add a task, a GPT-4 agent is spawned to complete it. It already has the context it needs on you and your company, and has access to your apps.
It’s called the Do Anything Machine (Link in thread)
One of the most frustrating things that holds smart people back from building great things is how uncomfortable they are looking dumb.
It’s VERY hard to build things of meaningful value unless you’re ok with people thinking your an idiot for long periods of time.
Speaking of quantum lock, Lexus once built a fully working hoverboard with superconductors.
It only worked on the part of the skatepark that had the magnetic track underneath, but fully carried people’s body weight.
The luckiest I’ve ever gotten BY FAR, is marrying this bad ass wife/mother who loves that I work 80+ hour weeks on the things I love.
Having a wildly supportive partner really is such a superpower in business.
Got rate limited again. In the meantime, I took all the lessons I learned to get ChatGPT to push the envelope and made a free ChatGPT plugin to make it easy for you to make your own! Try it here:
Here is the wild order of events:
- Mira (Interim CEO
@OpenAI
) goes team Sam & they give board 5pm PST deadline
- Deadline passes
- @ 6:31pm Kyle Vogt (Twitch co-founder) steps down as CEO of Cruise
- Two hours later, Board elects Emmett Shear, Kyle’s Twitch Co-founder, as CEO
😳
THIS IS AN AI GENERATED VIDEO.
From OpenAI's new research paper.
(Reposting becuase so many people thought this was a troll. Go check for yourself, it's not a real video)
Insane! Next week we’ll be able to say “Book me the cheapest Thursday morning flight to New York, get a niceish hotel or Airbnb near Manhattan, get reservations at a sushi restaurant after my meetings, & then text my wife to meet me there & call her an uber.”
And it just WILL!
In October, Pipedream closed a $1.6M pre-seed.
Instead of announcing, we went right to work making underground logistics possible.
Here is what we have been up to since:
(UPDATE MEGA THREAD)
1. You don't choose a passion, a passion chooses you.
It's very hard to make meaningful change on something you are not naturally passionate about. Your energy, focus, and resilience will be much higher, and you will be much more likely to succeed.
A passion is a gift. Use it.
In 1970
@Wendys
invented the Drive Thru. Today they announced they will be the first to launch
@pipedream_labs
"Instant Pickup".
We've been super open about our mission to make hyperlogistics possible this decade, but our short-term roadmap has been in stealth. Quick Thread:
2. Take pride in your effort, not your talents.
Your talents are a gift, you didn't do anything to earn them.
You should take pride in what you do w/ them. True excellence comes from combining gifts with dedication and effort. (Working & studying hard/practicing consistently)
Our ops guy
@chrswlf
’s only goal tomorrow is to figure out exactly how many of our tasks can be automated with
@zapier
+
@openai
.
At first glance it’s 95%+ of them. Will report back with real numbers.
If the computer was a bicycle for the mind, this is a teleporter.
Have been experimenting with giving ambitious kids money to just build cool stuff, calling it “tiny grants”. I held a contest on TikTok and Venmo’d $200 to this kid who used it to build a 5ft rocket with on-board camera.
I think we can scale this model up, here’s how:
The 3 most important jobs for a startup CEO are:
1. Maintain Vision
2. Recruit
3. React with a 🔥 to every single slack update that’s even remotely positive.
NOTHING. ELSE. MATTERS.
I don’t think enough people know this, but if you get 5-10 people in a group chat who blindly support each other you can pretty much make whatever you want happen.
4. Be stubborn on vision, and flexible on details
You have to be constantly experimenting. Avoid sunk cost bias at all cost. Be willing to pivot all of your work to something new when you encounter new data. The startup graveyard is filled w/ companies rigid on details.
3.2 To be right a lot, you must change your mind a lot.
Smart people rarely change their mind, lest they look stupid. This is dangerous. The world is complicated & sometimes you get new data. Take pride in changing your mind often, especially on your most deeply held beliefs.
3.1 To be right a lot, you have to listen a lot.
Most of being right a lot is about gathering as much data as possible. Good leaders listen. They develop the ability to ask good questions and to challenge bias. They seek out people with different perspectives.
If you want to get into Hard Tech, but you don't have "Hard Tech" skills, do this:
DM a bunch of hard tech founders, & tell them you will be their "just figure it out" person.
Every hard tech co needs people who will take the weirdest/hardest problems and "just figure it out".
3. Good leaders are right a lot.
This is one I think about everyday.
"Being right a lot" has nothing to do with intelligence, it's a skill that requires discipline, humility, & comfortability w/ looking like an idiot.
Here's how anyone can get good at "being right a lot":
In the last two days, I transferred
@solana
between wallets 4 times, bought and sold an NFT and paid less then a cent in gas fees TOTAL.
@solana
is what internet money is supposed to feel like.
@balajis
We really underestimate how important art is in determining the future. Almost every mechanical engineer I know points to the first Iron man movie as the reason they got into robotics.
3.2 (cont.)
This is the most important one. People may say you're a fool/don't know what you're doing. These people are wrong. Changing your mind is good & the only way to find truth. To do it consistently, you must get rid of any internal need for people to think you're smart.
3.3 To be right a lot, you must seek out info that challenge your most deeply held beliefs.
We like to consume evidence that confirms our beliefs, but you HAVE to seek out data that disconfirms your beliefs. You must find methods and ways to get this data often & consistently.
5. Without failure, there is no invention.
You must be willing to fail, publically & embarrassingly. You must be proud of your failure & seek to grow the size of your failures w/ the size of your successes. This is the hardest one to execute in SV's "crushing it" culture.
Quantum Lock (flux pinning) will be the effect we will use to build better medical imaging, particle accelerators, electric grids, magnetic levitation Trains, ship propulsion systems, high-field magnets, quantum computing etc.
If the new vid is true, the future will be insane.
For everyone wondering why all of a sudden Tech Twitter is trying to make Deep Tech seem super fun and like a good market opportunity, here is why (a thread):
Pipedream Update: July 2022
Pipedream is building network of underground pipes designed to move packages around a city faster, cheaper, and safer.
{Quick Thread on what we did this month 👇}