If you want something from someone, make it clear what. It's not imposing to ask explicitly for something; it's imposing to be vague and make the recipient work to figure out what you want.
AI still can't do these:
- vision
- critical thinking
- taste
- individuality
- passion
- creative problem-solving
- ambition
- inspiration
That's still up to you, folks 🙌
Wealth used to follow geography, it then shifted to the best education. Now? It follows curiosity. The most curious person in any room is the most valuable person in any room.
Wealth used to follow geography, it then shifted to the best education. Now? It follows curiosity. The most curious person in any room is the most valuable person in any room.
It's much more dangerous to offend Jessica than to offend me, because she's more polite and has a better memory for misdeeds. So she can be smiling at someone while simultaneously thinking about the bad thing they did 10 years ago.
A startup is a lonely place.
You are working on something that no one believes in, that you’ve been told time and time again will never work.
It’s you against the world.
But the reality is that you can’t really do it on your own.
You need to enlist help. Bring others around to your way of thinking.
Let them share in your enthusiasm.
At 22, work–life balance doesn’t matter.
The cost of low ambition isn’t obvious yet at that age, but your ambitious friends will drift away with better jobs, start companies, move, etc
Slowly, your circle becomes all low-ambition people. Nobody is there to pull you up.
A founder kept saying "if only we had money we'd do X."
Money is not the fire. Money is gasoline you pour on a fire that already exists.
You don't have a funding problem. You have a "people don't want it yet" problem. Go make the first fire.
The only unbreakable moat is a founder who literally cannot imagine doing anything else.
Competitors can copy your features and VCs can fund your rivals, but they can't replicate the stubborn refusal to let a specific future die.
The thesis is simple: the future belongs to individuals who build compounding AI systems, not to individuals who use corporate-owned centralized AI tools.
I'm trying to build these in open source so you can have them for free. That's what GBrain is.
We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.
This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.