John Raymonds

Looking for the unique and outstanding in our everyday world - investor, moviemaker, crypto believer, e/acc, /dd, and geek philosopher.

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Charlie Kirk — On Outliers, Loss, and the Seeds They Leave Behind ⬇️

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@Kalshi 🚀

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I was really hoping to hear that the next macOS release would be called Humboldt.

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@FedExHelp @RaquelOlmos10 Here is I ne simple change to the FedEx experience would be welcome. Yeah, I’m not saying it would do anything but when you get a “delivered” photo of a place that’s obviously not your house there should be a damn option to report it as such.

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The Interview That Never Happened — Part IX: What You Actually Get to Keep — Wealth is not what you make-it's what you don't owe 🧵

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@garyvee

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True. And they are going to be even more impossible to understand because of our limitations as humans locked inside language. It’s not a bad thing. True magic is just around the corner.

[a16z @a16z]

World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words."

"Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate."

"Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow the laws of physics."

"Language gave machines a way to talk about that world. World models are how machines will finally come to understand, imagine, reason and interact with it."

Full piece: https://t.co/C9qOJg5wuc

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

Nick Bilton is NOT messing around.

GOOD for him as first test of leadership doing what he must to prevent the mobs, intolerance, incivility and dishonest demagoguery taking over as they did at other news orgs @nickbilton 💪 @bariweiss

[Miles Deutscher @milesdeutscher]

The K-shaped economy is playing out in real-time.

If you're not on the right side of it, I'd be very worried.

AI is splitting every industry into two camps:

a) People who are genuinely great at their craft are becoming exponentially more valuable.

b) People who were average are becoming virtually worthless overnight.

Anyone can build a website in 10 minutes with AI now.

If you were a mediocre web designer, you're done.

Anyone can write decent copy with Claude.

If you were an average copywriter, the market doesn't need you anymore.

But here's the other side of the K-shape:

The truly great web designer is now 10x more productive and commands higher rates than ever.

The elite copywriter who uses AI to strategize, think, and come up with great ideas is now worth more than ever.

The uncomfortable question to ask yourself:

Am I genuinely great at what I do - or was I just good enough to get by?

Because "good enough" no longer has a market.

The window to move from the bottom of the K to the top is still open.

But it won't be forever.

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The Interview That Never Happened — Part VIII: The Role You Didn’t Know You Were Playing — You don't scale a business until you understand your role in it. 🧵

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The Interview That Never Happened — Part VII: The House, The Buyer, and The Mirror — Attractiveness isn't declared. It's discovered over time, by the right people. 🧵

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@TulsiGabbard @DataRepublican @ODNIgov Thank you for your service 🇺🇸

[Naval @naval]

The latest IQ test involves data centers and water.

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The Interview That Never Happened — Part VI: Value Before Volume — Growth is what shows up. Value is what makes it inevitable. 🧵

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True.

[Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️ @GarrettPetersen]

Wife works as a data scientist at a major tech company. She says some 10x engineers are now 100x engineers, while other people have completely missed the memo and are still doing things by hand. Huge disparity in adoption, but the adopters are massively productive.

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

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A truly amazing version of this song. 🙏🏼

[KidRock @KidRock]

This song - and now video, means more to me than most will ever know. There was no way to include everyone I love who has been so important in my life, so apologies in advance if anyone feels left out - just know I love you all and dearly miss all of you who are no longer with us. God Is Good. ✝️
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