Blows my mind how few people look out the window during flights. These are among the most spectacular scenes ever witnessed by humanity.
Michael
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- To an LLM, a novel discovery is indistinguishable from an error.This question is even more puzzling and salient given the existence of Deep Research
- If something is too expensive for most people to buy, standardize and produce in volume. If later it becomes so cheap that people are no longer price sensitive, make an artisan version. This is an eternal commercial loop.
- Einstein worked out relativity with pure thought experiments and you need an A/B test to change some marketing copy.
- Remote international work is a bigger threat to the western middle class than automation.
- Another galaxy brain take in the wrong direction. Studio Ghibli IP is worth 1000x what it was worth yesterday.
- "In the real world, you won't always have a calculator/computer" Interesting in retrospect that the kids were right that the teachers were full of shit.
- Uncertainty is a privilege. Who has the most certainty in life? A prisoner. Who has the least? An artist.
- Overstudied: how to win. Understudied: how to choose games.This world is full of games I’d rather lose than play.
- A lot of successful people who say "work smart, not hard" worked like dogs to get established. Smart vs. hard is a false dichotomy.
- Your personal conduct is 1000X more impactful than your political opinions. People wish it were the reverse because opinions are cheap.
- Raising money is a good way to learn the weakest parts of your business plan. It’s like free consulting.
- You can predict the long term health of a relationship by whether each cut heals to 99% or 101%.
- If you learn from everything, then it starts to feel like everything happens for a reason.
