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No risk, no gains. Challenge the uncertainty for more certainty.

[Adele Bloch @adele_bloch]

how to flirt with life:

(as a professional life flirter)

> go to things alone! you'll end up in more spontaneous situations
> talk to strangers - at coffee shops, events, literally anywhere. serendipity maxx
> be 5% more silly in your life. dance in your room, sing badly in the car, crack a bad joke. it's not that serious. grow the silly muscle
> playing it cool is overrated and people will never be able to know the real you
> make a bucket list and work your way through said bucket list!!
> try to find the good/kindness/love in every single person that you come across. get curious about this human in front of you that's filled with endless stories, thoughts, and perspectives
> stop dimming your light to make others comfortable. not everyone will be for you & that's okay. it's not that deep!
> start a random hobby just for fun - pottery, dance, improv, cooking. not everything needs to "be productive" ok??
> react authentically - laugh loudly, get animated, show emotion, be YOU!
> do something random *JUST BECAUSE* you feel like it - take the long way home, extend the walk, buy the chocolate, eat the ice cream
> surround yourself with people and spaces that light you up & make you feel like the BEST version of you
> compliment people genuinely. "you seem really interesting" beats small talk any day. you can catch me giving out at least 1 compliment per day
> surround yourself with people who make you feel lighter - your time and energy is precious

flirt with LIFE!!!

it's beautiful out there

let life surprise you!!!

dare yourself to enjoy it for the short time that we're all here - you got nothing to lose!!!

[blue @bluewmist]

i don't know who needs to hear this but your ability to create the reality that you want is directly determined by your willingness to experience its opposite.

- saving money will have you feeling broke while it's actually making you rich.
- setting boundaries will have you feeling alone while you're creating new healthy relationships in your life.
- digging up your trauma will have you feeling broken while it's actually healing you.
- working out has you feeling weak while it's really making you strong.
- learning something new makes you feel dumb while it's making you more intelligent.

your ability to attain the thing that you want is directly correlated with how willing you are to experience its opposite. you have to be ok with being uncomfortable to truly achieve success!

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was fired from his own company while flying to his honeymoon.

September 2000. He boarded a plane with his new wife, finally taking a break. While he was in the air, unreachable, the PayPal board held an emergency vote and removed him as CEO. Executives he had hired organized the coup, timed precisely for the hours he couldn't defend himself. He landed to discover he no longer ran his own company.

He flew back immediately and tried to fight it. The board held firm. The coup stood.

Here's where the story becomes about him and not them. He didn't sue. He didn't burn it down. He didn't spend years in litigation like most founders would. He stayed on the board, kept his shares, and kept advising the men who knifed him. When asked why, he said the mission mattered more than his ego, and his shares mattered more than revenge.

Two years later PayPal sold to eBay for $1.5 billion. Because he'd stayed instead of raging, his stake had grown into $180 million. The betrayal became the exact capital that funded SpaceX and Tesla.

The men who fired him made him the richest founder in the building. Every rocket that launches today was paid for by a coup that was supposed to end him.

Revenge is expensive. Equity is patient. He chose the one that compounds, and the people who wronged him ended up financing his empire.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Good move by @JensenHuang. The Nvidia letter is well written and worth reading. As we saw with the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, we need open models and harnesses for defense.

Lets stop believing the PR that closed models are safer. - that's just regulatory capture.

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecosystem—the best open and closed models, force-multiplied by a global community.

During the Hugging Face incident, closed AI blocked essential forensics. An open-weight frontier model helped contain the intrusion.

That’s why we created the Open Secure AI Alliance.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”

it was called project panama.

here's exactly what happened:

1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”

2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy.

it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.”

3: that piracy created a massive legal risk.

so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.”

4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs.

those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers.

5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months.

6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them.

a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling.

7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data.

the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

Until death, all defeat is psychological.

[The Astronomy Guy @astrooalert]

JUST IN🚨: Neuroscience considers metacognition the highest form of Intelligence..... "The ability to think about your own thinking."

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

There’s an old Chinese proverb that I love:

“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.”

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.

Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”

— Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang

[Chicken Genius @chickengenius]

Last time shorts was this high? $sats did a 3X

$spcx now at $200 = $sats NAV @ $230

Not much shares left to short. Haven't been this excited for a long time 😎

GAMMA SQUEEZE

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is the the quote I've been citing a lot recently.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Just a baby beaver cleaning his chubby belly 🦫

[Jesse @d0wnsideofme]

holy fucking shit

[Marko (Nerd and Jock Comics) @MarkoRaassina]

New year, a new day to keep trying again

[Guy @nosilverv]

Ages ago I read a meditation book. In it it had some contrarian advice that I tried out and which turned out to be one of the simplest, but most useful, things I got from any book, ever. I’ve been trying to find the book ever since, to share it, with no success.

Fast forward a few months.

I was at a dinner with ‘Dharma Friends’. The person hosting had just moved in or was going to move out, I’m not sure. But, because of that, they were doing a giveaway. I saw a book. Could it be? It was. Read carefully:

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

When I was 19 years old I dropped out of college to try to escape a bad situation, and I ended up at my grandparent's dairy farm. I spent many days making and selling cheese, doing deliveries, milking cows, and keeping the shop open. Then I'd go back to my room and write at night. It was the first time in a long time I felt some kind of peace.

I ended up leaving to go to Austin because I was scared of leading a mediocre, insular life. In those years since I've published 5 books, been a game designer at multiple companies, got married, and had a child. But now I can see how every decision has led me back here. Back home to the farm my grandparent's left behind for me. Back to starting up my grandfather's cheese business again. Back home to a life that is not mediocre, as I'd presumed before, but instead infinite in its depth.

Anyway, I hope you like this cheddar I made for you.

[Grow Rich Bets @GrowRichBets]

@NVIDIAGeForce Geforce day

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

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