The most attractive trait isn’t looks, wealth, or status. It’s energy. When you walk into rooms with genuine enthusiasm, interest, and curiosity, you become a magnet for the highest quality people. Energy is contagious. Spread the kind you’d want to catch.
Your entire life will change when you realize your standards decide your future. Every time you let something slide, you train yourself to accept less. That’s how goals erode. That's how principles slip. Set your standards. Then hold the line. Especially when it’s hard.
Success doesn’t truly make us happier. Why?
Our neurobiology is wired for progress, not arrival. The dopamine system rewards the pursuit. Once a goal is reached, the brain resets and the target moves.
It’s what @arthurbrooks calls the “striver’s curse.” You work relentlessly toward a goal believing it will bring lasting satisfaction, but when you get there, the feeling fades quickly. The trap is thinking the answer is more (more success, money, weight loss, etc).
A better framework: Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want.
Most people try to increase the numerator. But the more powerful lever is reducing the denominator (wanting less).
A year ago, our entire company fit into one conference room.
Now, we’ve moved offices twice to keep up with our growth. We’re a team of more than 300 people globally, across engineering, product, and operations. I’m proud of how far we’ve come, and even more energized about where we’re going.
This raise wasn’t out of necessity. Mercor is profitable and operating from strength. The round was driven by inbound investor interest, and we closed it in 5 days.
We’re hiring across nearly every function. Join us: https://t.co/9bYd7xBwZ5
Mercor (@mercor_ai) scaled from $1-500M in revenue run rate in the last 17 months, making us the fastest growing company of all time. Our growth is accelerating. We averaged 11% week over week growth in July, 18% WoW growth in August, and 19% WoW growth in September.
One trend driving this meteoric growth: the Economy is Becoming an RL Environment Machine.
Reinforcement learning is becoming so effective that agents can hillclimb any benchmark, but humans need to define the rewards to automate everything.
While everyone fears job loss, we’re creating a new category of knowledge work faster than any other time in history. The future of work will converge on training agents.
We're paying out over $1M / day to people in our marketplace and hiring experts rapidly across nearly every domain: software engineers, doctors, lawyers, consultants, bankers, and many more.
The meteoric rise of @mercor_ai becomes clear once you meet the founders. I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined their board and will be working closely with them alongside Sundeep Jain, who brings exceptional marketplace expertise. They’ve quickly established themselves as the go-to provider for top AI companies, delivering unmatched speed and quality