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- i'm generally bullish on the cohort of people who turned 26 in 2022 (plus or minus a few years). young enough to be ai native, senior enough to have solid judgement, and still had normal prefrontal cortex. also got through middle and most of high school without their brightestjust read this in an investor update "older engineers who graduated from college pre-GPT are actually the best-suited for our purposes. They have fundamental programming ability that's lost amongst most of the current-gen." the AI-induced thinking/skills decay has begun wild
- happy civ 7 eve to all who celebrate
- Replying to @JoshuaSteinmanApple prefers a monolithic grand curtain reveal, doesn't really like the ship-and-iterate motion. My guess is they're waiting on hardware dependencies and it'll be better for the business to tie it to iPhone 19 sales
- Satya is a great capital allocator with good game theory instinct. But statements like this reveal zero interest in the end user and how products can make life better for real people. Spiritual venture capitalist. Not that that’s a bad thing. Passions should be followedI’ve been thinking a lot about what the net benefit of the AI platform wave is. The real question is how to empower every company out there to get more out of this platform shift and build their own AI native capabilities and enterprise value (vs inadvertently just transfer their
- Replying to @bubbleboi1) People don't spend enough time learning 2) Companies can't scale high-quality interviews 3) Companies don't train well
- The problem with async communication isn't the volume or sheer number of messages, but the insane context switching to spend 10 seconds per thread when each thread is about a totally different topic bc the feed is sorted by recency I think the first AI push here can just beSam Altman says Slack has many positives, but it creates endless fake work We need an AI-native productivity suite to replace docs, slides, email, and Slack Not add-on features, but trusted agents that handle work and only escalate when needed This finally feels within reach
00:00 - people with strong lifeforce build beautiful thingsIt can all be so much more beautiful. Even the simple things... the soaps, the sinks, the lamps, and even the door knobs. All of it could delight us, if only we cared a little more. The problem isn't a lack of money. The problem is apathy. Making something beautiful begins with
- I think that most everyone being permanently unemployed while the top 10% have robot businesses is not going to work. Many of the SV elite ppl make an implicit assumption that everyone we should care about has the potential to be a successful entrepreneur. But to create goodReplying to @RoKhannawhat if the AI creates/enables/unlocks new higher-paying jobs? by trying to prevent organizational evolution due to technology, you are limiting technology’s ability to create more value for workers. if you had done this with the emergence of the tractor to protect loss of jobs
- The reason that life is too expensive for young people is that Amazon has given up as a company 1) Cheap, healthy fast food: Anyone should be able to sign up for a meal delivery program based on their budget, nutritional goals, and taste preferences. Would be a simple productPeter Thiel today: “Boomers are strangely uncurious about how the world is not really working for their kids. It’s always hard to know how much bad faith there is or how bad the actors are. I think it’s odd that people thought it was odd that I was complaining about student debt
- Some great observations here. One thing I'd add: most gifted youth eventually hit a graduation problem, and how they handle it defines their real success. It usually shows up as either burnout or a lifelong reliance on adult daycare environments: campuses, big tech, Jane StreetMost people don't actually know the lengths parents will go to try to raise an academic superstar. In this post, I will detail the life of the average thoroughbred in STEM PhD programs at a top university. The thoroughbred lives a difficult life full of enormous amounts of
- I think our civilization and population size can only support 8 oom levels of wealth. Also the power law proportion of people at each numbered level has remained fairly constant. The existence of a trillionaire will imply that any human on the planet will be able to trivially"It's going to be weird to live in the world of the trillionaire. But we are getting close. Definitely within the next decade." On the heels of Elon's $1T pay package, John discusses the cultural shifts we might see as billionaires are 'replaced' by trillionaires:
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