"Go all the way until it hurts. If you're doing something and it's easy, it's not valuable." - @travisk
"If anyone says a strategic thing was easy, I'm like, 'You messed up. You could have gone way further. More competitive advantage. More differentiation. Get it together.'"
"We're trying to hire as many new grads as we can. We're finding that a lot of young people are agentmaxxing." - Replit founder @amasad
Amjad says that despite the “doom and gloom” around entry-level jobs, this is actually a “golden era” for young people who know how to use AI tools:
"The roles are collapsing. We have designers shipping code, engineers shipping design, and salespeople shipping code."
"The particular skill is not the bottleneck anymore. It is how ambitious you are, how generative you are, how creative you are, and how good you are at utilizing these tools."
"So I think it's really a golden era for a lot of young people coming up right now in the job market. In our time, you would go and interview and become a Java J2EE software engineer doing global migrations. That was your title, right? It's no longer the case. We just want people to come and do things, and I think that's incredibly exciting."
Ottoman masters didn't randomly choose where to place these *sparrow palaces*on a building. To keep the birds from freezing in the winter,they carefully calculated their locations, looking for sheltered spots that blocked the north wind and got plenty of sun -- usually on south-facing facades. They also made sure to put them high enough so cats and dogs couldn't reach them.
This was important work.There were charitable foundations that set aside money for birdseed so the birds wouldn't go hungry. People believed that caring for birds was a good deed and destroying their nests was a sin, and that this kind of charity would keep earning a person spiritual rewards even after death.
Alex Honnold: "Nobody achieves anything great because they're happy and cozy. It's about being a warrior. It doesn't matter what the cause is. This is your path, and you'll pursue it with excellence. You face your fear because your goal demands it."