Mark Zuckerberg says Alexandr Wang is the sharpest entrepreneur of his generation: "Alex is the guy. He's the fucking guy."
"Alex and I had spent a bunch of time talking over the years, and maybe once every few months or something we'd talk. And I was always just very impressed by how he thought about things strategically."
"I kind of had this view of like, all right, currently he's doing this very operational data business, but it always felt to me like he was the sharpest entrepreneur of his generation of the ones who I had a chance to meet."
"I think maybe when we got started, a lot of people were like, okay, like how is this going to work? It's like the social media guy is working with the data guy. Like, are we going to build a frontier lab here or what?"
"My really strong conviction is because I talked to all the leaders of all the labs, all the heads of research, all this stuff, and I was like, no, Alex is the guy. Like he's the fucking guy."
"We need this kind of strategic clarity that he has around the different ways that we want to approach this, the kind of extreme focus on talent density, on the clarity of communicating the different vision which we kind of fashioned together over this period."
"And a bunch of things that I think were kind of extreme but have basically worked, like having this very flat culture was something that you were kind of really obsessed with."
Men with wives 7-9 years younger have an 11% lower mortality than men married to women their own age.
For wives, any age gap raises mortality. A husband 7-9 years younger raises it by 20%.
Study of almost 2 million Danish couples: https://t.co/v0gK693w9N
Andrej Karpathy makes a good point: as AI does more of the work, more of your job becomes reading what it produces.
His first tip caught my eye. Ask the model to explain things in ASD-STE100.
ASD-STE100 is a controlled English standard built for aircraft maintenance manuals. A mechanic anywhere in the world should read a step once and get it right.
The core rules:
1. Keep sentences short
2. One action per step
3. Say who does what
4. Give each thing one name and stick to it
AI output breaks that last rule all the time. It says "worker," then "agent," then "executor," and you can't tell if it means one component or three.
The full spec is strict. Karpathy asks for "80% of the way," and that works for daily use.
Someone turned it into an open-source skill:
https://t.co/FFqEehqVl2
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