Monteiro

founder way or no way

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

https://t.co/cRdL7orwcq

[Ragavan Thurairatnam @RagavanThurair]

We made the first AI model you can have a realistic conversation with that was trained entirely on speech!

Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that you can run on consumer GPUs.

This is a GPT3 moment for speech.

[Solana @solana]

BREAKING: Solana flipped Ethereum in total RWA holders for the first time, according to @RWA_xyz 🤯

[Andy @BuiltByAndy]

@solana

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Money does buy happiness, if you earned it."

@naval

[gaurav @gaxrav]

quit brainrot. unfollow trolls. read essays. go down rabbit holes. have a calendar. maintain a todo list. read old books. watch old movies. turn on dnd. walk with intent. eat without youtube. chew more. train without music. plan for 15 mins. execute. organise your desk. take something seriously. read ancient scripts. act fast. find bread. eat clean. journal. save a life. learn to code. read poetry. create art. stay composed. refine your speech. optimise for efficiency. act sincere. help people. be kind. stop doing things that waste your time. follow your intuition. craft reputation. learn persuasion. systemise your day (or don’t). write. write. write. write more. iterate violently. leave your phone at home. walk to the grocery store. talk to strangers. feed the dogs. visit bookstores. look for 1800s novels. experience art. then love. sit with a monk and offer them lunch. don't talk shit about people. embody virtue. sit alone. do something with your life. what do you want to create? turn off your mind. play. play a sport. combat sports. notice fonts in trees. fall in love. notice patterns on a table. visualise it. talk to people with respect. don't hate. be loving. be real. become yourself. cherrypick your qualities. discard the useless. rejections aren't permanent. invite what aligns. accept what does not. read great people. be different. choose different. do great work. let it consume you. lose your mind. value your time. experience life.

[Phantom @phantom]

Here are the top tokens swapped from last week👇

1. USELESS 🟠
2. TROLL 🧌
3. USCR 🪽
4. KITKAT 😿
5. PUMP 🟢

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

The goal isn’t to escape work.

It’s to escape meaningless work.

[Cassandra Unchained @michaeljburry]

Sometimes, we see bubbles.
Sometimes, there is something to do about it.
Sometimes, the only winning move is not to play.

[Monteiro @Miguel9Monteiro]

@donutsonsolana 🔥

[Naval @naval]

https://t.co/tVUPvUiN4F

Nivi: From April 2nd: “When you truly work for yourself, you won’t have hobbies, you won’t have weekends, and you won’t have vacations, but you won’t have work either.”

Naval: This is the paradox of working for yourself, which every entrepreneur or every self-employed person is familiar with, which is that when you start working for yourself, you basically sacrifice this work-life balance thing.

You sacrifice this work-life distinction. There’s no more nine-to-five. There’s no more office. There’s no one who’s telling you what to do. There’s no playbook to follow. At the same time, there’s nothing to turn off. You can’t turn it off. You are the business. You are the product. You are the work. You are the entity, and you care.

If you’re doing something that’s truly yours, you care very deeply so you can’t turn it off. And that’s the curse of the entrepreneur. But the benefit of the entrepreneur is that if you’re doing it right, if you’re doing it for the right reasons or the right people in the right way, and if you can set aside the stress of not hitting your goals, which is real and hard to set aside, then it doesn’t feel like work.

And that’s when you’re most productive. You are basically only measured on your output. And you’re only held up to the bar that you raised for yourself. So it can be extremely exhilarating and freeing. And this is why I said a long time ago that a taste of freedom can make you unemployable.

And so this is exactly that taste of freedom. It makes you unemployable in the classic sense of nine-to-five and following the playbook and having a boss. But once you have broken out of that, once you’ve walked the tight rope without a net, without a boss, without a job—and by the way, this can even happen in startups in a small team where you’re just very self-motivated. You get what look like huge negatives to the average person that you don’t have weekends, you don’t have vacations, and you don’t have time off, you don’t have work-life balance. But, at the same time, when you are working, it doesn’t feel like work. It’s something that you’re highly motivated to do and that’s the reward.

And net-net, I do think this is a one-way door. I think once people experience working on something that they care about with people that they really like in a way they’re self-motivated, they’re unemployable. They can’t go back to a normal job with a manager and a boss and check-ins and nine-to-five and “Show up this day, this week, sit in this desk, commute at this time.”

Nivi: I think there’s a hidden meaning in the tweet too, which I’m guessing is intentional. It starts off with “When you truly work for yourself,” which I’m guessing most people are going to take that to mean “You’re your own boss.” But the other way that I read it is that you are working for your self.

So your labor is an expression of who and what you are. It’s self-expression. And that’s not an easy thing to figure out.

[Naval @naval]

https://t.co/VnBK6X3y7C

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

If you have to do it, it’s work. If you want to do it, it’s play.

@naval

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

Clear writing and clear speaking are simply outputs of clear thinking.

@naval

[Naval @naval]

No entrepreneur is worried about an AI taking their job.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable."

@naval

[Mikael Pawlo @mpawlo]

”If you trained on the open web, your model should be open source.” perfect take by @naval // this is a decent way of dealing with AI’s intellectual property challenges.

[Naval @naval]

The people who start the wars don’t fight them, the people who spend the taxes don’t pay them, and the people who forgive the criminals don’t live next to them.

Of course we’re going to have too many wars, too much spending, and too much crime.

[Naval @naval]

There’s no demand for “average.”