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In the era of algorithmic distraction, the ability to maintain a single thread of thought for four hours is a superpower. It is the only way to solve hard problems.
Turns out with claude code, my decades long strategy of NOT deeply learning:
- regexs
- sql
- nginx confs
- elaborate shell commands
- advanced shell scripting
- any javascript framework
- perf optimization
- webpack, cdns, bundlers
- 1000 other things
...was entirely correct.
Just listened to Peter Thiel complain about how hard it is to have mega companies in Europe and how everyone wants to sell and go on vacation. I am glad Europe exists as a counterpoint to the rat race that is the US. I absolutely love how life can be slow here, how money isn’t everything. How in much of Europe no one cares if you are a venture capitalist with a gazillion dollars to spend. How people don’t need to work themselves to death to prove a point. How on a Wednesday afternoon you can find people just enjoying the sun and not fretting about deliverables. How trains work. How guns are not everywhere. How road rage doesn’t not immediately lead to someone shooting you in the chest. How cities are walkable. How people are not obsessed with marriage and who pays on dates. How little purity culture there is. How people are not terrified of a naked body in public. Because in the end after you make all that money, after you build that mega company, what is it all for? What is all your success worth if in this brief life you cannot enjoy the things that make life worth living, the little things, the lakes and rivers and oceans, the mountains, the colors of nature, the taste of food, the smiles of humans who are not all judging each other based on which patch of land they own, which piece of equipment they have, and what imaginary figures they have in banks? What is human progress for if not for the enjoyment of this one brief life? And yes Europe has its problems. A lot of them. But it would be a disaster if Europe became like the US.
I said this before. Kanye made sure to take CyHi verse off this song because when he heard it, I’m certain he said “yeah we not getting outshined by him again bruh fuck that”. He SMOKED this.
pov: back in 2021 you responded to an instant message on your Bloomberg Terminal from a user you didn’t recognize located in Hangzhou, probing you about the Multifractal Lévy-Stable Process Adversarial Graph Neural Network Covariates Copula-Driven Spatial Autocorrelation Smoothing algorithm that only you and two other quants in New York were supposedly working on for hyper-optimized trans-Pacific drone-freight routes, leveraging
stratospheric UAVs with real-time wind shear adjustments and machine-learned port congestion predictors.
The message contained a date and the coordinates of a Tsim Sha Tsui dive bar in Singapore, where you exchanged the algos architecture under the table for $30M in Bitcoin private keys split three ways, then went ghost for 4 years.
Now it’s 2026, you’re living in Hong Kong in the summer, Seoul in the winter, views of Victoria Harbour, doomscrolling on 𝕏 every night.