If you are reasonably optimistic about your future and have done sufficiently difficult things in life - you learn early on that stress often overinflates the severity of the problems you are FEELING.
Things do get better, and time is an excellent salve for everything.
Knowing this, one might be tempted to "skip forward" to the times where everything is "better". The problem with this is that all sufficiently ambitious projects have a string of problems that reveal themselves only when a previous problem is "better".
Thus, thinking this way guarantees a life where you are fast-forwarded to your death bed.
You are in the good old days; even if it doesn't feel like it.
On a day to day basis you will often feel like you are expending effort to the void.
Some days will feel especially like it’s all for naught.
But this is a gentle reminder that you can only observe progress in the long run.
What the girl in red dress is doing is called jumping guard and actually has a high chance of breaking daddy’s knees.
Not recommended to be used on training partners, train safe out there.
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For most people in life, if I could share one small piece of advice, it is to gather the courage to be more aggressive.
There are many times in life where there will be a show of force by people and circumstances in your life, and you will be given an option to cower and give in; or dig in and fight.
At least once in a while, if fighting is not your first instinct, you should muster whatever courage and spirit you have in you to rage.
It does wonders for your soul to understand you have agency to RAGE against circumstances in life.
"Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
What this says is that our internal image of ourselves determine how much we enjoy our lives.
Happy Internal Messaging:
1. I have a lot of fun in all that I do
2. i am high energy
3. I am the master of my fate, captain of my soul
Sad Internal Messaging:
1. I am all alone
2. Everything in life is boring
3. I have no control over anything in life
Every fiber of my body is telling me to build consumer apps that demand attention in 10min intervals, targeting people who are restless from having interspersed pockets of time.
This is a window into how frontier labs are thinking about distillation from a legal perspective.
I’ve consistently found that Daniel brings the greatest mix of legal expertise and entrepreneurial spirit to all matters discussed.
This article is both entertaining (as a non-legal professional) and educational.
In the age of AI, you either do something that gets better as AI gets better, or you do something completely orthogonal to AI.
Never felt like a better time to start a boxing gym.