Madhur

An aspiring software craftsman

[Madhur @madhur25]

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[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

A really simple but effective hack in life is to note down literally everything you’ve agreed to do in future.

It’s astounding how often I see someone nod that something will be done, but later simply forget about it.

I doubt everyone except me is carrying a super-memory in their head; perhaps it’s a matter of habit that commitments (even to your future self) don’t matter?

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Uncertainty will always be part of the game. You can complain about your inability to handle it and call it anxiety; or you can choose to get mentally stronger until you understand that "not knowing the outcome" is actually the most fun part of the game:

[Dear Self. @Dearme2_]

You're a man. Hard workouts. Difficult books. Uncomfortable conversations. Taking Risks. That's how you grow.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

All the worst things in life come from lack of self-understanding, that's how people get married to wrong person, or struggle to connect with their kids, or stay in an environment where their soul dies before their body does, or get old without becoming who they wanted to be:

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Most of your "mental struggles" actually come from having too much free time and not having enough courage to deeply commit to any difficult goal.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Anxiety signals that you are competing where you shouldn’t. When you are smart, you focus on what you do best, you don’t mindlessly work hard out of pride. The best path you could walk makes you feel free: you are playful, relaxed, confident; you are where you are meant to be.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Anxiety is the gap between your current standards and the standards you should have.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

People don't struggle to teach emotional control to their kids, they struggle with their own, and you can't teach what you can't do.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

What most people call anxiety is usually lack of a clear goal, lack of courage to actually act, lack of honesty with themselves about the life they truly want, and in so many cases, it’s even all three at the same time.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

The only honest advice you will get from successful people is to stop asking them what once worked out for them (because it wouldn’t work the same way for them anymore, let alone for you) and just focus on your own strengths, your own accumulated efforts, your own unique journey.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Anxiety is your mind begging you to change your lifestyle.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Average minds often spend their time fixing problems they could have avoided in the first place, and they are somehow always very proud of it; smarter people make sure the problems never exist, never mention it, and no one ever notices either.

[Bhavin Turakhia @bhavintu]

AI models are idea-amplifiers and articulation engines, but “point-of-view" is a human property

Frontier models are trained on vast amounts of human text and behavior. As a result, their learned representations tend to reflect a statistical synthesis of many perspectives - an extraordinarily capable “average” of the internet, books, and shared human knowledge. This is why they can answer questions, write code, and solve complex problems so effectively. And therein lies their key limitation - they do not imbibe a singular, unique, point of view.

There’s a meaningful difference between “building a product by prompting” (e.g., asking an LLM to generate requirements and write the code for an HR tool) and building a product with a point of view.

A POV is anchored in embodiment, incentives, scars, loyalties, taste formed under constraint, and irreversible choices. Models don’t have consequences, reputational risk, hunger, boredom, shame, pride, or obsession - things that help build a distinctive POV. A point of view is not merely a list of features; it’s a consistent set of beliefs about what matters, what doesn’t, which tradeoffs are acceptable, and what should be sacrificed to preserve the core. In humans, that coherence is shaped by unique lived experiences.

An AI can generate a competent spec for a music player. It may even include clever ideas. However in order to build an ipod I would need Steve Job's point of view - his set of non-negotiables: extreme simplicity, end-to-end integration, aesthetic clarity, an intolerance for clutter. That point of view was path-dependent: it emerged from a specific life and a long sequence of choices. A general-purpose model cannot reproduce that uniqueness unless (1) it is trained or tuned on a concentrated approximation of that worldview, or (2) it is prompted with enough explicit context to act as a faithful simulator of it.

AI can demonstrate taste, but that taste is largely a function of two things: (1) patterns in its training data and (2) the constraints and goals provided in the prompt or system design. Models can express taste, but it does not own taste in the way people do. A human’s POV shows up most clearly in what they refuse to do, what they simplify aggressively, what tradeoffs they repeatedly choose, and the narrative they’re willing to bet years on.

To be clear, this is not the claim that AI cannot exhibit a point of view. Rather that each human’s point of view is intrinsically personal, shaped by unique experience, and that uniqueness has lasting value when building products for other humans.

In practice, humans will continue to differentiate on “what to build” and “why” - the values, tradeoffs, and narrative that guide design. AI is rapidly taking over much of the “how” - the buildout, and increasingly helping refine the articulation and execution of “what to build.”

Frontier models are idea-amplifiers and articulation engines, but “POV” is the property of each individual human and comes from lived constraints + long-term commitment, which models don’t possess intrinsically.

[Bhavin Turakhia @bhavintu]

Cost of Humans vs Cost of AI -

Human
* Avg rate of Speech output: 150 words per minute
* Avg wages per hour for skilled worker: $50 per hour
* Avg cost per million spoken words: $5,555

AI cost per million tokens
* GPT-5.2: $14
* GPT-5-mini: $2
* Opus 4.5: $15

Comparison Notes
* Avg humans are 396x more expensive than sophisticated models
* The above analysis is quite inaccurate and biased towards humans due to the following factors
* Humans tend to take more time to think and so actual output per minute is not close to 150 words
* If we take typing instead of speech then human output per minute reduces further
* If we then count average wages of lawyers / scientists / senior engineers / knowledge workers the cost disparity further increases
* Above and more factors likely introduce a further 10x efficiency
* In reality it seems that AI is likely 1/4000th the cost of a human for outputting the exact same number of tokens as a human for a given problem

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Most people who think they are not smart enough to build the life they want are actually struggling with emotional control: constant anxiety makes you dumb, constant anger makes you confused, constant fear makes you stagnate.

[Art of Life 🦋 @Art0fLife_]

If you have ANXIETY, you need to watch this:

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

The less you take yourself seriously, the faster you grow as a person.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Anxiety is when you are smart enough to know the life you need, but not brave enough to build it: your lack of courage makes you overthink every step along the way, you make no progress, you resent your own inaction, and mental peace never comes to you.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

When you don't take proper care of your own health, you are actually sending the message that you also don't care about your kids being able to grow up with parents who are high-energy, mentally stable, emotionally present; and as they are modeling their behavior on yours, you are actually actively failing their education.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Anxiety is also what happens when you lack the courage to speak your mind when you know you should, and have been living your whole life that way.