Mishaal

ceo @axis_hq interested in beauty and legibility `humans for the best machines for the rest`

[Mishaal @algergawi]

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
–Henry David Thoreau

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Your talent will take you places where character must keep you.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Grit predicts success even after IQ is accounted for.

Persistence adds what talent alone does not.

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Midcult sounds like the original premium mediocre.

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This is an extraordinary title https://t.co/QyJ4zR0VRn

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Cassavetes 2026

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The Lindsay Clancy effect

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The new series “East of Eden” doesn’t try to make the character Cathy Ames “a monster,” Florence Pugh says. It was “my job to try and get you guys to sympathize and maybe fall in love with her a little bit,” Pugh adds.

https://t.co/YN8Rjzs1aY #TAF26

[Mishaal @algergawi]

We now have both.

[Diogo Almeida @CompleteSkeptic]

After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI?

I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev

• 20-200x faster
• 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free)
• Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions

AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution

[Mishaal @algergawi]

The world if @WorksInProgMag hired @emmma_camp_ to turn their essays to videos.

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If you ever said at a dinner party “my favorite time to be alive is [insert past era]” this site is for you. https://t.co/V5wb6xeHrI

[Mishaal @algergawi]

John Steinbeck in his daily journal on June 18, 1938, ~three weeks after starting the grapes of wrath:

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I was at a baby boomer’s place last weekend who is very anti ai.

I used ChatGPT to confirm a fact. Having just refilled his pool, he asked me how many gallons of water my query l used.

[Yana Welinder @yanabana]

Love this analogy because the Venn diagram of AI water-use conspiracy theorists and almond milk drinkers is almost a circle.

[Mishaal @algergawi]

You should go see The Samurai and the Prisoner then read this. https://t.co/CbqkMYpYxx

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This is good. https://t.co/n86fRgdvOq

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Every time you switch to pro

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Unclear if this is a post Covid thing but noticing people at museums increasingly talk (about the art and their personal life). They also take phone calls.

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https://t.co/V6Ig1fypBW

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My first sub*stack describes how we could see the emergence of the a new dollar regime: the machinedollar

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This is the correct take on the Clavicular phenomenon.

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Updated link https://t.co/ahl43nxuca

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Re UAE’s OPEC exit

15 years ago I wrote about how Saudi’s economic priorities would force it to have higher oil price targets to balance its budget.

[Mishaal @algergawi]

published "opportunity in the Saudi oil conundrum" in the @Gulf_News: http://bit.ly/gUZ21T

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My first article in 9 years is a love letter to the UAE. This crisis will pass and we’ll come back stronger. https://t.co/WMDfhNuZWj