Austin Armstrong

I am curious about the world. Here are my notes about what I find.

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

Coming out of stealth mode.

We are building Autonomi Books.

Excited to start sharing our build, market, and future ideas of this company.

Check us out: https://t.co/PNVEMll3Yd

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

With all of these new AI products, the headache seems to be connecting all of your apps and setting up a new environment on the new ever evolving platforms.

Someone should create something like:

Credentials.md where all of your businesses’ logins, passwords, APIs/keys etc and make it security proof.

So then it’s basically copying yourself/business into a new platform and starting from 1 instead of 0.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.

From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.

0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.

Bonus points if you get your blood checked.

Start here, it will change your life.

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

@carter_lathrop @FracSlap Yep, we build our own internal tool. Looking to see if people are interested in single party auth for recording in states where single party is acceptable.

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

Here is where we are looking to take it and make it valuable:

“Likely business logic = the schema, rules, and CRM context layered on top of raw transcripts so they auto-populate Monday fields, trigger pipeline actions (BAMFAM checks, disqualifier flags), and give agents queryable context. Not just a text blob. They’re saying they’re going from a transcript output to “the CRM updated itself and the right next action fired.”

Current plan, working on executing.

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

@impactfbdata Shutup😂

[Happy Captain @EODHappyCaptain]

Counterpoint: it shouldn’t take a major event to get a city clean.

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

@jordan_ross_8F OS

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The future belongs to men and women of peace. Justice will always triumph over injustice in the end, just as violence will never have the last word, despite all appearances. #ApostolicJourney #Algeria https://t.co/Jp7UTUWUzj

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

@kamal_razzak @binghott @iamshackelford @DenneyDara @sourfraser @MatthewGattozzi @pkennedy93 @thedennis @harrydelmege_ @heyitsalexP Strat

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

AI isn't replacing teams; it's letting individuals operate like teams.

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

@BowtiedBum Work in healthcare

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

@cbwritescopy D100

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

@drgurner @OpenAI So the ones being regulated writing the regulation is the TLDR of this one huh? Seems to be a conflict of interest in my opinion.

[moneyfetishist @moneyfetishist]

spent the last few hours answering questions from strangers on the internet while sitting on a plane and the thing that keeps striking me is how similar every question sounds once you strip away the context

the BB analyst making $200K wants to know if his life has meaning. the 20-year-old in a frat wants to know if he is on the right path. the guy running a $15M environmental services company cannot sleep because his leverage ratio scares him even though his covenants are fine. the first-year law student wants someone to tell him the career pivot will work out. the immigrant who got laid off wants to know he is not falling behind permanently

the details are different. the feeling underneath is identical. am I going to be okay

we pretend that money and status and titles fix this. they do not. I sit in rooms with people who control nine-figure portfolios and they are nervous about the same things as everyone else. they just have more expensive language for it. the fund manager calls it "risk management." the analyst calls it "career strategy." the 20-year-old calls it "figuring out my path." same anxiety wearing different suits

I watched a grown man worth more than most people will earn in ten lifetimes throw a tantrum in a conference room because someone questioned his assumption in a model. not his competence. not his track record. an assumption in a spreadsheet. a cell in Excel. he turned red and raised his voice because for 15 seconds he felt like he might be wrong about something and his entire identity could not absorb that possibility

that is not a professional disagreement. that is a kid on a playground who got told he is not the fastest runner

Schopenhauer wrote that humans are not rational beings who occasionally feel emotions. we are emotional beings who occasionally think rationally. the rationality is the exception. the feeling is the baseline. every framework we build in finance and in business and in life is an attempt to impose order on a brain that is fundamentally running on fear and desire and the need to be seen as competent by other people who are also running on fear and desire

the most dangerous version of this is the person who thinks they have outgrown it. the one who believes that enough success or enough money or enough status has made them rational. that person is not more rational. they are less accountable. nobody around them pushes back anymore so the irrational impulses go unchecked and get rebranded as conviction and vision and leadership

the best operators I know are the ones who understand that they are still unreasonable kids underneath everything. they lose their temper over small things. they take criticism personally even when it is constructive. they make emotional decisions and reverse-engineer a logical justification after the fact. the difference is they know they do this. they have systems to catch it. they hire people who are allowed to tell them when they are being stupid. they build in a 24-hour delay before any decision made while angry

the worst operators are the ones who think they have evolved past it. they confuse pattern recognition with wisdom. they confuse wealth with emotional maturity. they confuse the silence of the people around them with agreement when it is actually just fear

Nietzsche said that the most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do. I think the more common form is forgetting what one is. which is a complicated animal that learned to use spreadsheets but never stopped being afraid of the dark

none of us outgrow being unreasonable. the question is whether we build a life that accounts for it or one that pretends it does not exist

thanks for the questions today. you are all going to be fine. even the ones who do not feel like it right now

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

@chrisbriem @SamMacD86958750 Agree Sam, only problem is:

- people want to work here (strong blue collar roots)
- quality education is rampant in Pittsburgh, Pitt, CMU, etc
- affordable housing is also available, but shifting.

So I agree with Chris here, curious what the counterfactual actually is.

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

@chrisbriem Can’t wait to read this!

[Austin Armstrong @Austin_2020]

Be bored more often.

Reflecting on your thoughts and observing what your mind desires, without external input, provides a deeper understanding of yourself.

We are overtaken by outside opinions through social media.

Then we start to morph into our "Favorite Creators" instead of being our own "Favorite Creator."