when I moved from Montreal - where the taxes are highest in all of Canada - to NY, my average tax rate went up, not down.
And NYC has *way* higher taxes than say, Alberta.
People love to talk about how Canada dropped the ball in commercializing AI, but conveniently leave out fact that Canada dominates when it comes to vape shops per capita
he's 100% correct. being optimistic doesn't mean throwing away base rates and any sort of Bayesian reasoning.
the most succesful founders overwhelmingly went to Stanford (and graduated).
Go to Stanford.
It's a fallacy to think you should drop out of college because you have an idea that has to be implemented right now, or it will be too late. If you stay in school you'll have other and better ideas.
Your entire life will change when you realize that nobody is thinking about you. I often wonder how many extraordinary people waste their entire lives fearing the judgement of people who were never even thinking about them in the first place. Fearing a spotlight that was never even on. Performing for an audience that was never even there. Because the truth is that you aren't afraid of failure. Not really. You're afraid of other people seeing you fail. You're afraid of what other people will think of you if you fail. But nobody is thinking about you. Everybody is too busy thinking about themselves. So, that thing you've always wanted to do? Go do it.
One of the under appreciated reasons Americans are wealthy relative to the rest of the world:
Access to the US financial markets
Regular rich people around the world have not had any part of their net worth in an asset compounding 10% annually
Hell yeah. Social media is a dead end technology that destroys human society. We are slowly learning to adapt to this new technology (by.not using it).
if you're claude coding and getting useful output, then give yourself more credit. You're probably doing a lot more and thinking a lot more than you realize.