Thought and Ponder

Think for yourself.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad." - George Orwell, 1984

[Z Fellows @zfellows]

How to do Great Work by @paulg

[Thought and Ponder @Thoughtandp]

@mimi10v3 Martial arts

[Thought and Ponder @Thoughtandp]

@lightxvision Martial arts

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

For almost any big project, my two most common unblocking questions are:

1. How would I do this, as intelligently as possible, with years of time and unlimited money?

2. How would I do this, as stupidly as possible, in very little time and with very little money?

[Nick @nickcammarata]

invest in founders with secrets and monopolies who know the one special truth, but run from any meditation and spiritual people that do

[Yohei @yoheinakajima]

For anyone curious, this took 13 prompts in chatgpt to build this with some yohei-in-the-loop.

Since I get asked this often, and for educational purposes, here's a link to my full ChatGPT session that built this: https://t.co/FoaBE2ccLs

[brett goldstein @thatguybg]

how do you create things no one else can?

stop being mimetic and ask yourself what do you know that no one else does

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@david_perell The sons of Hermes love to play,
And only do their best when they
Are told they oughtn't;
Apollo's children never shrink
From boring jobs but have to think
Their work important.

– W. H. Auden, Under Which Lyre

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

We must be willing to roll the dice and lose. Prepare, at the end of the day, for none of it to work.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

You and your ragtag team of engineers likely won’t be able to create something that is competitive with any big incumbent product.

However, you can build features, seed content, and brand it in a way that is so obnoxiously relevant for a particular group of people that their only possible reaction is “Well, fuck. You got me. I have to download this now.”

So, if you ever find yourself overwhelmed by all the things you need to build to make something worth switching, you should just try narrowing your audience.

Sure the initial market will be smaller, but you can use it as a wedge to make it incrementally more useful to a broader audience.

After all, Airbnb was initially a way to find air mattresses to sleep on while at design conferences. Now you use it to rent a castle in the South of France.

[banananananananananananananananana @interpretantion]

Really makes you think

[Z Fellows @zfellows]

pinning this onto my wall

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Most people who do evil believe they are doing good.

So for everyone here who is absolutely certain that you are on the side of good should perhaps step back and consider the possibility that you are wrong.

This is difficult, but necessary.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

It is unfair for Elon to take credit for his inventions because he didn't personally:
• Build the computer that was used
• Generate the electricity & mine the necessary raw materials himself
• Establish the nation state in which the invention occurred
• Invent the field of mathematics

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

If nothing bad is happening to you now, wait a bit and it will. That is just reality. My approach to life is that it is what it is and the important thing is for me to figure out what to do about it and not spend time moaning about how I wish it were different. Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." You will come to enjoy this process of careening between success and failure because it will determine your trajectory.

It makes no sense to get frustrated when there's so much that you can do, and when life offers so many things to savor. Your path through any problem is outlined in these principles--and in others you'll discover yourself. There's nothing you can't accomplish if you think creatively and have the character to do the difficult things. #principleoftheday

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

As a general rule, if you believe *everything* your political party says, you are an idiot

[Z Fellows @zfellows]

Sam Altman: "The biggest economic misunderstanding of my childhood was that people got rich from high salaries."

[roon @tszzl]

say it with me now. experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world, everything is designed by people no smarter than you, and courage is in shorter supply than genius