If I could send my 18 year old self a message, it would have three parts:
1. Prestige is often mistaken. Follow curiosity instead.
2. There's no way to avoid hard work. It's not sufficient, but it is necessary.
3. Don't take your parents for granted.
I'm 63.
I'm a Harvard-trained psychologist who works with ultra-successful individuals...
And I hate to tell you, but the cost of overthinking and anxiety is the life you could have lived.
Here's the 3-step protocol that actually works: 🧵
Prompt engineering is dead.
But there's something far more powerful taking its place.
And it's changing how we build, align, and scale AI.. forever.
Follow the 🧵:
But there's another even more important reason to learn to program. That's how you get ideas for startups: when you look around the world with a programmer's eye, you see all the things that could be built but haven't been yet.
The most dangerous thought in life is “if only…” Nothing that follows those words comes true. Embrace reality. Think. Pick a course of action & execute. The amount of time & energy people waste wishing things & others were different instead of leaning into their agency is sad.