donnie brar

somewhere between first and second order thinking

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

Never stop working on yourself

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

Jatt on jatt crime @etheski

[Harrison Kinsley @Sentdex]

Obama is perfectly displaying the concept of hallucination with LLMs here.

He sounds so darn good and confident, while having absolutely no clue wtf he sayin.

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

To make Nike great again, they gotta make the NBA great again. With blacks not relevant anymore I dunno how they gon pull it $NKE

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

Be relentless

[Frontier @SatlujAthabasca]

“Effort” and trying your best is for school kids. If you really want something in life- throw yourself against the wall until the wall breaks or until you break.

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

@Muse @meetgranola @NotionHQ Barely any connectors available in Canada

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

@signulll Its become a left vs right discourse - people are soon gonna start cancelling each other over this shit

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

Well AI and data centers are now ideological issues. They’re only gonna get more politicized heading into 2028

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for.

That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations.

So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

“purely centralized systems fail in obvious ways. But overly distributed systems fail too, when small issues propagate across too many dependencies” 🎯

[Jean-Michel Lemieux @jmwind]

I interviewed Mark Carney for a job.

It was 2021. We were looking to bring in a board member or executive who could help us think about entrepreneurship in the context of the global economy.

I was asked to interview a guy named Mark. I Googled him. He had a decent CV.

In our call after brief introductions, he jumped straight in and said, “I see on Strava that you’re a runner and you live in...” It threw me off a bit. He had clearly done his homework. Borderline stalking. We talked about running for a while. He was good at small talk. He casually mentioned that he runs marathons now and then.

Mental note: he does his homework. Also, is he distracting me so I do not get to my questions? I started worrying he would try to schmooze me instead of getting into anything substantive.

In my defence, I had done some homework too. I had not stalked him on social media, but I had read several articles he had written. I learned that he leaned strongly globalist and believed that most of our challenges do not respect borders and will only be solved collaboratively.

I wanted to see if he could argue against his own position. More specifically, I asked when countries should invest in self-reliance. For context, I explained how, in software, we have learned that purely centralized systems fail in obvious ways. But overly distributed systems fail too, when small issues propagate across too many dependencies.

I asked whether societies behave the same way. Are we sometimes too decentralized? When should countries accept less efficiency and invest in more centralization or self-reliance?

He smiled. I could not tell whether he thought the question was childish or whether I had annoyed him. Then he broke the silence and said, “This is a great parallel. Give me a second to think about it.”

We ended up having a great conversation. That said, it took him a lot of words to make his point. Professional talker.

He liked the exercise. I could tell he had spent so long defending global collaboration that he had not fully prepared for this angle. I did not know it at the time, but he was in the middle of writing Value(s), which is essentially an ode to global cooperation.

We went over time. It did not faze him. He cared about finishing the discussion. At that point he was improvising, and it felt natural and fun. It was a genuinely thoughtful discussion. I learned a lot.

In the end, he did not join us. But we all wanted him to.

When I see him in his current gig, a small part of me laughs that I might have helped warm him up.

The more I think about that conversation, the clearer it becomes that he probably did not want his current Prime Minister role. Not in the way people want promotions or titles. Some people spend a lifetime preparing for problems they hope never arrive. When the moment shows up anyway, they step in. Not because it is appealing, but because it is necessary.

This just happened to be his moment.

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

You cannot control people’s perception of you. Just be authentic and let the world adapt to you. Don’t let the voices in your head hold you back

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

Supreme Sidhu underrated aff

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

came a long way

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

Daily practices:

- Take action to overcome fear

- Make supreme effort to put only positive thoughts in your memory bank

- Guilt acts as a counterforce to confidence. Do what your conscience tells you is right. This prevents a poisonous guilt complex from developing

[Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. @ParikPatelCFA]

You know OpenAI and Anthropic have really missed the vibe when people are rooting for Meta to win in AI

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

as someone who has a golden - this real af

[Adi el Grande @icardo8]

¿Cómo vas a tener un Golden de perro del ejército?

[Todd Cronin @toddcronin]

@MattPRD @Muse Saturdays are for musemaxxing. Redoing my entire life right now.

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

@growing_daniel can never go wrong with JC, Nuggs and McFlurry

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

Go halal go broke

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Wendy’s franchisee operating 314 locations files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as the burger chain struggles through 6 straight quarters of same-store sales declines.

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

@dharmicakaali @MikeGillYYC Nah bro it’s election season in Punjab

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

@shaqpreetkalsi @jagpreetpama martial arts >> can’t have an effective shastar on you at all times unless it’s an open carry or a 3-footy - unrealistic for a white collar guy. Singh sabha tiny kirpan is ceremonial, can’t call it a shastar - it’s a psyop

[donnie brar @donnbrar]

chess move by sad-bjp with punjab elections around the corner

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Scottish activist, Jagtar Singh Johal, will be released from prison in India after nine years, his family says.

He was arrested in 2017 in connection with alleged terror offences.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Being the easygoing one will quietly ruin your life.

The world doesn't reward silent patience. It just keeps handing heavier boxes to the person who smiles through the pain.