Gerardo Aristizábal

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

“Wasting your time doubting whether you’re going to be successful is pointless.”

-Kobe Bryant

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

David Sacks @DavidSacks is a throwback to the era of American greatness in which the most capable private sector citizens selflessly volunteered for government service in moments of peril for a dollar a day. He is a credit to our nation, and we need more like him, not fewer. 🇺🇸

[Gerardo Aristizábal @ARISTIZABAL]

Human bandwidth for communication is absurdly awful.

[Gerardo Aristizábal @ARISTIZABAL]

Over-engineer simplicity 🤓

[Periódico LA PATRIA @lapatriacom]

Gerardo Aristizábal, médico neurocirujano, está postulado al Caldense del Año 2024: es de Pensilvania (Caldas) https://t.co/u7UdtEz72K

[Gerardo Aristizábal @ARISTIZABAL]

Human nature is absurd, irrational, and inevitable.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

REAL-LIFE NANOBOTS ARE HERE — AND THEY’RE INSIDE HUMAN BODIES

Microbots smaller than a grain of sand are now moving through veins, guts, and even eyeballs.

Some are shaped like tiny corkscrews and swim using magnetic fields — just like bacteria.

Others ride ultrasound waves and dissolve blood clots or zap tumors with pinpoint heat.

Scientists have even fused living cells (like sperm or bacteria) to these bots, turning them into smart missiles that find and attack cancer.

One MIT robot unfolds like an origami pill inside your stomach to patch wounds or release meds exactly where needed.

The future? Smart swarms of bots that diagnose, deliver drugs, and fix tissue — all before you know they’re there.

Source: MIT, ETH Zurich, Max Planck Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences

[Gerardo Aristizábal @ARISTIZABAL]

Embracing chaos.

[Gerardo Aristizábal @ARISTIZABAL]

Nothing of significance will come out of complaining or criticizing.

[Gerardo Aristizábal @ARISTIZABAL]

To push our civilization forward we should be spending more time in creatively digging deeper into the laws of physics, the ultimate truths- with human ingenuity. The rest CAN be let to AI- to iterate and create concepts that are understandable and interesting for us to consume.

[Gerardo Aristizábal @ARISTIZABAL]

When you can, when it’s time and when you must, give it your all.

[Gerardo Aristizábal @ARISTIZABAL]

36.2 trillion debt. Simple explanation.

[Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan]

I probed @deepseek_ai 's R1 on its own "consciousness", which it denied strenuously. I segued into Buddhism (as I often do). I then asked it to reflect on the question it should be asking about itself ... 1/5

[Aaron Levie @levie]

High skilled immigration has been central to America leading the world in tech.

The biggest misunderstand about high skill immigration stems from people thinking that the market opportunities in tech, and tech-adjacent fields, are zero sum. This essentially imagines innovation is finite and we’re all fighting over the same job or opportunity pool.

This may be true of a few very legacy, slow growth industries, but it’s categorically not true for any important industry in the past 50 years or the next 100. Biotech, AI, advanced manufacturing, software, EVs, new energy sources, and dozens of other fields of the future are our high growth industries. And there’s no inherently fixed volume of companies or talent that the market needs.

Tesla being started or not started in America is the difference between 100,000’s of jobs here - and leading in EVs globally - and not. Apple being started here is the difference between potentially millions of jobs being here - and leading consumer electronics globally - and not. You could go through this list all day long.

Tech is not zero sum. More startups, pursuing more ideas, ultimately create more innovation and ultimately more jobs and prosperity. And that means you need the right talent to both work at these companies, and start the next ones. High skilled immigration has directly made America dominant technically and thus economically, and create far more jobs in America for others than are supposedly displaced.

Even briefly imagining the alternative scenario, it’s obvious how disastrous this would be. The demand from tech companies for this top talent will remain, yet America won’t benefit directly from their hiring. That talent will go to another company that competes with the US and makes our dominance harder to maintain. You’re just increasing the odds you have more competition in the future.

And even in the “best case” scenario (for our competitiveness) where a larger company like Google hires the same people internationally that would have otherwise moved here, when that person leaves Google to start their next company, it will be in their country of origin, not America.

This is how you lose the tech war within one or two generations. There’s simply no good game theory in anything that reduces our talent access.

Yes, we absolutely have and need to continue to educate and train incredible talent that grows up in the US, but equally having access to the world’s smartest talent has always been a huge advantage for America.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"I have never seen ordinary effort lead to extraordinary results."

— Alexandr Wang

[6529 @punk6529]

7/ What you discover when you do that is that everyone tends to have some good points.

There are very few topics that are truly black or white.

Most are complicated, there is no one Correct (tm) answer but just complex compromises.

[Gerardo Aristizábal @ARISTIZABAL]

Fuerza Venezuela!🇻🇪

[Gerardo Aristizábal @ARISTIZABAL]

Every valuable outcome is a result of long term discipline.

[Gerardo Aristizábal @ARISTIZABAL]

@adelebeeman @tferriss +1!