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[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later).

Your life has seasons.

Each one is unique. Characterized by its own distinct desires, struggles, opportunities, and identity.

But one reflection I've had recently is just how easy it is to completely disassociate with the present season.

To give all your time and energy toward a longing for some nostalgic memory of a prior season or an anticipation for some beautiful state of a future season.

You look back at the past and all you see is sunshine. Because it all worked out. You forget (or glaze over) the struggle you endured. You're here today. You made it. You're alive. You're doing fine.

You look forward at the future and dream on what could be. You'll have so much more. More freedom. More purpose. More health. More deep connection. More everything.

The past is beautiful and the future feels limitless. So, logically, you slowly start to treat everything about the present as the bridge. A dash connecting your past and your future. A gap to be crossed as quickly as possible.

Everything you do today is in anticipation of some eventual end state.

I'm doing this now, so that I can have that later.

Unfortunately, the danger of that dissociation with the present is significant. You may spend your entire life living for a future that has a decidedly mirage-like property. You inch closer, but when it's right in front of you, it disappears and reappears on the horizon.

You may spend your entire life skipping through the present, deferring your presence, your joy, and your very humanity to a future that never comes.

In a classic French fable, a young boy is gifted with a magic ball of golden thread. He's told that if he simply pulls on the thread, time will leap forward. The catch, of course, is that once it's pulled, it can never be put back.

The young boy takes advantage of the newfound powers. Each time he's faced with a boring day at school, a frustrating set of chores, or a scolding from his parents, he pulls the thread, skipping through to the good parts.

As an adult, he continues, leaping through mundane struggles in his marriage, the friction of having a newborn, and the boredom at work. He finds himself pulling on the thread more and more, avoiding even the most minor inconveniences of his life.

But when he wakes up one day and sees an old man looking back at him in the mirror, he's filled with regret. He realizes in that moment that as he chose to skip through the boredom, struggles, and friction, so too did he miss the real texture of being alive.

How often do we all do the same? How easily do we default into this disassociation? Disconnecting from the present in anticipation of some future.

A mentor recently asked me this:

"Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?"

It hit me hard.

And to be honest, I haven't stopped replaying those words since he said them.

Why are you in such a rush?

The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.

In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.

In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.

Be in the season you're in. Don't romanticize the past, don't fantasize the future. Be here. Be now. Be in this. All of its texture, depth, and struggle. All of its joy, tension, and pain. Sit with the uncertainty. Become friends with it. Fall in love with it.

Because every single thing you do today is something your younger self dreamed of and something your older self will wish they could go back and do.

The good old days are happening, right now.

And the next time you find yourself skipping through the present, remember these words:

Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?

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[David Marcus @davidmarcus]

Good overview by @DavidSacks of what the DSA stands for. Like I wrote yesterday, use your voice, and vote, or cry on the tombstone of American exceptionalism sooner than you think. https://t.co/LaZuGW6pPQ

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@kgaidis @seraleev It changed radically after we left. But the meta point of trying to restore morale with snack is 🤡 clowtown

[david friedberg @friedberg]

if @elonmusk paid 100% of his net worth ($1.4 trillion) as a tax it would only cover federal government spending for 77 days. this isn’t a tax problem…

[Vardges @_v]

FSD is out of this world! Hard to believe it actually exists

[Tesla North America @tesla_na]

A Model Y driver started experiencing a medical emergency with chest pain mid-drive & called his son.

His son then remotely rerouted the car – which had FSD Supervised enabled – to the nearest hospital & let them know the vehicle was en route. ER staff were standing by on arrival.

Doctors later confirmed the quick reroute likely saved his life.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Elon is the closest thing we have to a real life superhero.

[Daksh Gupta @dakshgup]

boris cherny goes on a podcast every three months and says something like “i’ve stopped breathing now i just wrote a breath.md” and the next day everyone in sf stops breathing

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@kgaidis maybe you just define the business goal, model reads it and spits out the said task list? and the loops consume the tasks?

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@kgaidis what is the loop for Peter&Boris's loops? as in one level up that we should think about now to build towards that

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@kgaidis Yeah the entitlement to absolute results is crazy

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@kgaidis Definitely, and it’s only going to get better

[Vardges @_v]

“The agent frontloads all the progress, then gives you a slot machine lever to pull to hope it gets the polish done.”
True. You spend a lot of time on the last 10%. Still worth it, cause you get significantly more done in a unit of time (long enough to include several of the last 10%s)

[george hotz archive @geohotarchive]

The Eternal Sloptember https://t.co/kFIW7LNhNd

[@jason @Jason]

They should have just taken a classic deign and made it an EV — retro styling with modern technology for $250k

They would have sold out 10,000 instantly 🤷

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@dwarkesh_sp @dccommonsense

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I feel exposed

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Marc Andreessen reveals “AI vampires” are emerging in Silicon Valley — coders getting so little sleep because they stay up all night building with agents.

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@Dimillian Turned out, we didn’t turn it on for the enterprise account

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@Dimillian a bug it doesn’t work with enterprise accounts yet?

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@Dimillian 🙏

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@Dimillian Have to break the app down into isolated but meaningful pieces, that can run independently in “shell” app. Iterate on each in parallel. Have an architect that makes it very likely if it works in a shell app, it’ll work a main app too.