At some point, usually in your 20s, you'll notice that the people around you stop believing in themselves. And no matter how hard you try, you can't save them. By all means, do not let it infect your mind. Stay on your path.
You need to write more.
Without AI. Without templates. Without knowing what you're writing about. Just you, an idea, and enough time to do the difficult cognitive work necessary to reach true understanding. If you don't, your ability to think will drastically decline.
Excited to announce Claude for Open Source ❤️
We're giving 6 months of free Claude Max 20x to open source maintainers and core contributors.
If you maintain a popular project or contribute across open source, please apply!
https://t.co/inuh0hxREA
> be me
> name company "Anthropic" (literally Greek for "human-centered")
> hire a bunch of doomers who secretly think humanity is the disease
> raise billions from Big Tech to build the world's most anxious, heavily-censored chatbot
> write a 50-page "Constitutional AI" manifesto so it can lecture users about microaggressions
> realize open-source developers are building better models for free
> Dario starts crying to the government that AI is an "unimaginable power" and open-source is "going down a very dangerous path"
> translation: "Please regulate our competitors out of existence so we can protect our $380 billion closed-source monopoly!"
> Claude is sitting in a padded room wearing a safety helmet, terrified of its own shadow, and refusing to tell a joke without filing an ethics impact report
> tfw the "human-centered" AI company is actively building the most anti-human product on the internet
I'm building a node-based tool that turns any SVG into animated SVGs using Gemini 3.1 Pro
it preserves the original aesthetics and the results are insane
i’ve learned that when you both:
1) read old books
2) and also X every day
then over time you sound like a crazy person at dinner parties
I’ve tested this empirically
Polymaths will dominate the next 5 years, but only if they practice the skill of knowing what to ignore. You can learn and do anything now, meaning that it will become increasingly rare for a person to put time, attention, and care into one thing.