at openai, many people hook their chatgpt up to slack.
people really don't like when a coworker's chatgpt contacts them asking for help with a task, even when they'd be perfectly happy doing that same work if asked by that coworker.
reinforces how much people care about human relationships and helping each other, and want AI to give time back — or enhance time together — rather than become a layer separating people.
This is the man who just bought Leopold's fund, Ken Griffin and this video captures exactly the mindset that let Citadel scoop up Situational Awareness's wrecked portfolio (Save this).
Griffin keeps a $10 plaque behind his desk stating that if everyone is going to eat, someone has to sell, a blunt reminder that every part of running a firm, hiring, raising capital, winning clients, is fundamentally a sales process.
He explains that you're always selling, whether to candidates, vendors, counterparties, or customers and if you're always selling, you're going to hear no constantly.
He illustrates just how brutal that rejection can get with two stories from a single rough day in 1994, a year when Citadel was down about 4% and Griffin flew to Switzerland for a critical lunch meeting.
His lunch date sat down, realized he had the wrong Griffin, mistook him for someone else entirely, and simply got up and left.
Later that same day, a Swiss banker spent 45 minutes with him over a cigar in a beautiful office, only to end the meeting by essentially telling him he'd wasted his talent on the wrong career.
Two rejections in one day for the founder of what became one of the most successful hedge funds in history and Griffin's takeaway was that you just have to tolerate it, since you have to become accustomed to constantly marketing your ideas and what you stand for.
That mentality is exactly why Citadel could move so decisively to buy Situational Awareness's beaten down stock portfolio after Leopold's fund got hammered in the AI rout, since Griffin has spent three decades building a firm around absorbing rejection and market pain as just the cost of doing business, then capitalizing when others panic.
Just like Griffin, Milk Road Pro went shopping during the chaos and bought a bunch of beaten down stocks, if you want to see exactly what we bought, you can join us using the link below for just $1.
@elonmusk Yesterday, my Cybertruck finally drove me home without making its usual unnecessary and dangerous lane changes—like veering to the right, only to swing back to the far left just to make a turn. After a 10-month thriller, I’m hoping things have finally changed for the better.
.@danawhite says one of the keys to longevity is to block out all negativity:
“It never even crosses my mind that something's not going to work. I just keep going until it does work.”
“There's this Bruce Lee quote where he says, ‘Never say negative things about yourself or what you're working on even if you're joking, because your body doesn't know the difference.’”
“I never take in any negativity.”
Dario Amodei on Sam Altman and why he left OpenAI:
"When you feel that you can't trust someone, when you feel that their values are not what they say they are... when you see disturbing patterns of behavior..."
"Why argue with someone when you don't have the same vision and you don't trust them?"
"The way to resolve it is you go off and do your thing, they go off and do their thing."
"We'll see who wins in the market"
FT @DarioAmodei@EmilyChangTV@Bloomberg.