caner

only entropy comes easy

[Donald Mitchell @DonaldPMitchell]

IBM transistor. Conductors 15 atoms thick.

[Udo @dokasto]

I have a theory that a non-negligible % of startups exist because their founders dread having to ever leetcode again.

[Sentient @sentient_agency]

A Swedish VPN company got physically raided by police who seized their servers looking for user data.

They found nothing.

Not because Mullvad got lucky. Because they built the entire company so there was never anything to find.

Since 2009 they haven't collected an email, a name, or a password from a single customer.

You sign up by generating a random 16 digit number. That number never touches your identity anywhere.

Their servers run entirely on RAM instead of disks, so the moment a server powers off, everything on it is gone.

Police can walk out with the hardware and walk away with an empty box.

The raid became their best advertisement. A company can't leak what it never had. It can't be subpoenaed for logs that don't exist.

It can't quietly hand your history to anyone, because there is no history sitting anywhere to hand over.

5 euros a month. Fully open source apps you can read line by line. 18 audits and counting.

Most VPNs promise privacy. This one got tested by an actual police raid and passed.

https://t.co/wG1DDoyx7n

[caner @canerglyy]

@DudeWhoInvests https://t.co/c113aUO7PX

[Hardik Pandya @hvpandya]

Agency.

[Naval Podcast @navalpodcast]

New:

The Logic of Violence
A podcast film

[Benedict Yorston @BMJYorston]

If your probability of success is 1/100 and you try 100 times you have a 63.4% chance of success

(1-0.99^100)

[caner @canerglyy]

@arcprize we are so back

[Xeer @Xeer]

the older i get the more i realize how much of life is just increasing your surface area for luck.

go outside more. travel when you can. try new cafés. wander into museums. take a different route home. hike a new trail. see a city you’ve never seen. bring a notebook. talk to strangers. ask better questions. start something small on the side.

in other words, give yourself more chances for something unexpected to happen.

you can literally just do things.

and strangely enough, the more you do, the more luck seems to find you.

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

the time will pass anyway

[François Chollet @fchollet]

One of the first signs of the emergence of superhuman AGI will be the emergence of a quantitative trading firm with impossible returns

[Naval @naval]

Be optimistic in general, but skeptical about the specifics.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

If you feel that you are in competition with anyone, for anything, you are a loser.

[Naval @naval]

New collected podcast. Links below.

In the Arena

0:00 Inspiration All the Way Down
2:40 Life is Lived in the Arena
4:51 If You Want to Learn, Do
6:14 In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect
7:30 When You Truly Work for Yourself
10:11 Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action
12:06 You Have to Enjoy It a Lot
14:45 Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did
16:23 Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency
21:02 It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature
25:17 The Best Authors Respect the Reader's Time
28:18 Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured
32:01 Good Products Are Hard to Vary
35:27 Find the Simplest Thing That Works

[spidey @lochan_twt]

advice for people in 20's by @naval

[tree @treeonchain]

Suddenly, you're 27.

You make your coffee, rush to work, come home around 7, and you're too tired to do anything except eat, scroll on your phone, and pass out.

Then you wake up, and do it all again.

And when Friday comes, maybe you go out, or maybe you're just too tired. Then, out of nowhere, it hits you.

How did everything pass by so quickly?

You don't even feel 27.

You still feel like that 17 year old kid who thought they had all the time in the world.

But somehow, 10 years just disappeared. And you start missing the past. The feeling of being young, excited, and clueless.

But then you realize, one day, you'll miss this, too.

Being 25, being confused, being tired, but still trying.

So maybe the trick is to slow down a bit and actually live this chapter before it also becomes just another memory.

The point is no matter what age you are, you’ll miss these days. Life gets busy sometimes and it’s always a good time to stop and smell the roses.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Hardik Pandya @hvpandya]

Agency.

[caner @canerglyy]

@jimcramer oh, Its time to cash out

[caner @canerglyy]

@DiscussingFilm no change since jobs

[caner @canerglyy]

@aisearchio nice example of the uncanny valley