Bashir

Learning to write without fear and to edit without mercy.Busy building the financial world I want to live in.
Nullius in Verba

[Bashir @bayevels]

3 First Principals to live by

[Naval @naval]

Existence itself is a miracle - the rest is science.

There is no single meaning to existence - if there were, we’d be slaves to it.

Within existence, there are rules of logic and science. If it was magic, the world would be un-navigable.

Truly the best of all possible worlds.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

My conversation with Eric Glyman (@eglyman), co-founder of Ramp (@tryramp).

0:00 Smarter Financial Infrastructure To Run Your Business
4:01 The North Star Is Time And Money
10:15 A Determined Generalist Can Now Do More Than Ever
11:58 I'm The Best Doctor I've Ever Been
13:20 The Tower Of Babel Inside Big Companies
16:00 The Kid Who Paid For College On Minecraft
19:10 Everyone Is The Hero Of Their Own Story
22:31 You Don't Get There In A Hundred Hours
23:52 Buffett And Munger Stopped Needing To Call Each Other
25:03 The Damage Of Letting People Free-Ride
27:40 Consumer-Grade Design In B2B Software
28:34 The Breville Toaster And The Bit-More Button
31:47 We Win When Our Customers Win
35:18 Put The Scoreboard On The Wall
37:07 A Company Is Just A Fiction With A Common Purpose
38:19 Focus On The Things That Don't Change
40:02 Is This Time Actually Different
40:50 Air Conditioning Made Las Vegas, Not Fortunes
43:52 1% Of US GDP Will Be Token Spend
45:28 A Six-Month Lag To A Model A Hundred Times Cheaper
46:46 Agents Negotiating With Agents To Buy Things
49:22 Making Sure The Highest-Return Dollar Gets The Dollar
51:17 The Dream Of Being At The Table That Matters
54:14 Why The Labs Are Ramp's Real Competitor
55:44 Banks Sell Money, Ramp Sells Time
56:27 When Intelligence Becomes Functionally Free

Includes paid partnerships.

[Ilir Aliu @IlirAliu_]

Peter Corke won the highest honor in robotics.
His entire robotics curriculum is free online.
📌 Has been for 10 years. 👇️

You visit his website and find 200+ free lessons, an open-source toolbox used by researchers worldwide, and a full textbook that runs in Google Colab. Zero install.

He broke his knee before semester started in 2015. Recorded his lectures at home. Put them on YouTube. 70,000 views in one semester.

He never stopped.
→ 200+ free robotics and robotic vision lessons
→ Full Python textbook... runs in Google Colab
→ Open-source Robotics Toolbox for research and teaching
→ Taken by millions of students globally

From kinematics to deep learning. From arm robots to autonomous systems.

Free. No login.
[https://t.co/6qFLkCFKLo]

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[Founders Inc @fdotinc]

Two years ago, @VictorWBoyd and @robonafisi bought a used forklift and a shed to build the first autonomous forklift.

It's now built to move everything without humans.

Here's their story:

[Habib Fall @hfall667]

A must-read.

[Ross Simmonds @TheCoolestCool]

This is the playbook.

I’m pretty sure someone will watch this and it will change the trajectory of their life…

[Karan @karankendre]

https://t.co/HTfMB1oJJq

[Andrew Wilkinson @awilkinson]

My friend Ben Wilson got diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and has 4 young children.

He's fighting hard, and has an amazing attitude, but if any of you have enjoyed his podcasts or are fans of My First Million (he was the OG producer), please consider donating to his GoFundMe.

Also, if any of you know how to get him access to clinical trials for neuroendocrine cancer, please reach out to him.

[Naval @naval]

The problem with truth is, once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Wise words from Ben Wilson:

"I actually don't think live like you are dying is very helpful advice. Live like you are living. Live like you got your whole life in front of you, and just be your strongest, healthiest, and best self.

Everything that I have told you is just more and more confirmed to me. Try to take over the world.

Try to accomplish everything that you can in this life. Use your strength to its greatest ends that you can.

Everyone dies. Rich people, wealthy people. Julius Caesar's dead. Alexander the Great is dead. Achilles is dead. My grandpa is dead.

It's not that romantic. I'm not that special because I'm dying. It's actually one of the most common, unremarkable facts of life,

I have a family that I love very much. I have four wonderful children and a tremendously supportive wife.

I have found my vocation in life, my calling. I have loved being a podcaster and speaking to all of you and sharing what I have learned. And so I would just say, don't let death catch you unprepared."

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Ben caught a raw deal: He has stage 4 cancer and he has 4 small children at home. Watch the video he made and please help in any way you can — including helping spread the word:

[Ben Wilson @BenWilsonTweets]

GoFundMe: https://t.co/kJN7pArRIO

Supercast: https://t.co/Up8ZCUV35q

Email: [email protected]

[Sam Parr @thesamparr]

I’m reading a book that’s so depressing that it has made me happy.

Its called 4000 Weeks. 4000 weeks is roughly the average human life.

The premise of the book is:
1. We’ll all die any minute now.
2. Time efficiency hacks just make you more busy.
3. Accept you can do very few things in life and commit to only a few things.

The last thing on commitment, I think is the most important:

“And not only should you settle: ideally, you should settle in a way that makes it harder to back out, such as moving in together, or getting married, or having a child.

The great irony of all our efforts to avoid facing finitude - to carry on believing that it might be possible not to have to choose between mutually exclusive options - is that when people finally do choose, in a relatively irreversible way, they're usually much happier as a result.

We'll do almost anything to avoid burning our bridges, to keep alive the fantasy of a future unconstrained by limitation, yet having burned them, we're generally pleased that we did so.”

[akshay @AkshayNarisetti]

8 months ago, we shipped the first Pocket. Today, 100,000 people use it to be present in their most important conversations.

Grateful to have @Accel, @peakxvpartners, @ycombinator, @rauchg, @mati, and @nejatian behind us for what comes next.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Read the full chapter here: https://t.co/cFNrnBD2zW

[Tom Dörr @tom_doerr]

Fitness dataset with animation GIFs and bilingual instructions

https://t.co/JsCroM0Lye

[Furqan Rydhan @FurqanR]

We saw this coming nine months ago and built Nebula cloud first.

Now it's the most capable cloud agent and also has access to your local device.

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Scott Wu is one of the most impressive young founders I’ve spent time with. Reminds me of a young Bill Gates in the book Hard Drive. Highly recommend listening to this:

[Dhilip Subramanian @sdhilip]

I've dictated almost everything for 6 months with Wispr Flow. 44,414 words, 161 wpm, top 0.1% of users.

Last week I tried FluidVoice. Open source, runs local on my Mac, corrects as I speak with no API key, and handles slang better than I expected.

Cancelled my paid plan. If you're on a Mac, this one's for you: https://t.co/tCij9UroGs

@ALTIC_DEV

[Ndongo 𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕦x SAMB @tonux_samb]

Un ami mom néna dou calcule il a créé un suivi en ligne
https://t.co/ZBKFavYOtI

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

My favorite thing @om wrote was actually an interview with Brunello Cucinelli in 2015. And to this day, I think it’s the single best thing you can read on running a business. Better than any book, better than any article.

Read it:
https://t.co/Nq8cmtxILT