Benjamin P Rollert

CEO of Composer Technologies. opinions are my own / not investment advice

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

It's a beautiful day.
But don't forget - you have pending tasks in WorkDay!

[shaurya @shauseth]

“high agency high taste is the unlock these days”

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

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.

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

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

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

@rogerpscott yeah i was half joking. i def wouldn't do a VC backed startup unless graduating from Stanford and living the bay area

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

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.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

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.

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

what AI really reveals is how insanely powerful natural language is. you can express so much so compactly

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

@willdepue everything is cope - except for the diffusion argument. that part takes time

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

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.

[Ankur Nagpal @ankurnagpal]

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

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

first time it's ever hit me that art critics actually do play an important role in culture. we need them to explain why this is shit

[PJ Ace @PJaccetturo]

This is one of the best short films I've seen in years.

Very soon, we'll stop calling it "AI film" and just call it film.

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

@PJaccetturo so bad i couldn't finish it. zero substance, no meaning.

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

Billy Bishop would be the best airport on earth if it just had good food. But I guess you can't have everything

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

@YacineSibous fintech is just so brutal. I think only founders who have tried to scale a fintech co understand. Respect and sympathy

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

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).

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

@MartinShkreli eg, we've already seen plenty of token efficiencies. just makes the economic value per unit of compute higher

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

@MartinShkreli then why are older GPUs renting for more now than when they were first shipped?

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

I see little content about using claude code for data science, but it's very good at it and save a lot of time.

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

@ankurnagpal @usvc_ Bam! Amazing

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

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.