Michael Bloomberg: “As I would learn later in my life, it’s the ‘doers,’ the lean and hungry ones, those with ambition in their eyes and fire in their bellies and no notions of social caste, who would go the furthest and achieve the most.”
come through, man. we're hanging out in a seemingly boundless grove of pomegranate trees. it's always dusk here. I have forgotten almost every detail of my past
My mentor at J.P. Morgan ripped me apart for giving him 100% certainty answers when I was only 80% sure.
I worked w/ him for 2 years and this lesson still sticks with me:
If you know something 100%, say it w/ 100% confidence.
If you don't know something 100%, say you don't know, and then go figure it out.
GPT-5: can perfectly build any website
GPT-6: can build and run a company
GPT-7: passes Turing test
GPT-8: overthrows world governments
GPT-9: fails to understand how Jira is supposed to work, gives up, asks humans for help
Finally had some time to play some video games recently. Fell in love with the PS5. The controller features are everything. Apologies for defending the Xbox for so long.
You want to fix policing? Remove their immunity so that they can be sued, and if you win, damages come out of the department's pension fund instead of from taxpayers.
They'll clean house on their own. Quickly.