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Father, lifelong learner, insomniac, and weenie dog connoisseur — occasionally a systems engineer.

[Leo | Phalanx Labs @SpartanPsyche]

Your prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain responsible for long-term decisions, weakens every time you act on impulse, but strengthens every time you delay gratification, and those tiny delays, even ten seconds, are literal reps that increase your ability to override emotional noise.

[Leo | Phalanx Labs @SpartanPsyche]

Neuroplasticity doesn’t care what you believe, it cares what you do. If you act disciplined, even while craving, your brain eventually adapts. That’s the beauty of recovery. You don’t need to feel strong. You just need to act like it, until the wiring agrees.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Andrew Huberman literally explained why effortless dopamine is destroying your life:

[stepfanie tyler @stepfanie]

hello i would like to report a murder

[Grey @jgreyfriend]

Ray Dalio gave a masterclass on how to think like a billionaire investor, not a gambler:

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Warren Buffett: "I like to deal with people where I feel a one-page contract will do the job. If I have to have 50 pages in there to protect me against the guy I'm dealing with, I'll always wonder whether I needed 51."

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

The absolute best advice for achieving a long term goal by Tolstoy.

[keshav @kshvyaps]

Steve Jobs: How to design insanely great products

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Peter Thiel on the importance of starting with a small market

“It’s always a big mistake going after a giant market on day 1. That’s typically evidence that you haven’t defined the categories correctly, and there’s going to be too much competition. Almost all of the successful companies in Silicon Valley had some model of starting with small markets and expanding.”

Amazon started with books

eBay started with Pez dispensers and Beanie Babies

PayPal started with power-sellers on eBay

Facebook started with Harvard

“What’s very counterintuitive about many of these companies is that they often start with markets so small that most people don’t think they’re valuable at all.”

The opposite of this is companies that start out targeting really big markets, and he uses clean tech companies in 2005-2008 trying to capture a small percentage of a trillion dollar market as an example:

“Once you’re a minnow in a vast ocean, that’s not a good place to be. It means you have tons of competitors, and you don’t even know who all of the competitors are.”

As Thiel puts it:

“You want to be a one-of-a-kind company where it’s the only one in a small ecosystem… large existing markets typically mean you have tons of competition and it’s very hard to differentiate.”

Video source: @ycombinator (2014)

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes - train and sprint, then rest and reassess."

@naval

[Sam Parr @thesamparr]

“The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”

That’s the conclusion of Harvard’s Grant Study, the longest-running study of human life ever conducted that tracked men for 80+ years from youth to old age.

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

"People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice." – Charles Bukowski

[Path of Men @PathOfMen_]

Kobe Bryant woke up at 4AM for 20 years. Not because he loved mornings but because he loved winning more than he loved sleep.

Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want now.

[Saurabh Kumar @drummatick]

Sam Altman on how to get the most of your skills

[Naval @naval]

AI is intelligent to the extent it can get you what you want.

AGI is intelligent to the extent it can get itself what it wants.

[Sam Altman @sama]

Today we are launching my favorite feature of ChatGPT so far, called Pulse. It is initially available to Pro subscribers.

Pulse works for you overnight, and keeps thinking about your interests, your connected data, your recent chats, and more. Every morning, you get a custom-generated set of stuff you might be interested in.

It performs super well if you tell ChatGPT more about what's important to you. In regular chat, you could mention “I’d like to go visit Bora Bora someday” or “My kid is 6 months old and I’m interested in developmental milestones” and in the future you might get useful updates.

Think of treating ChatGPT like a super-competent personal assistant: sometimes you ask for things you need in the moment, but if you share general preferences, it will do a good job for you proactively.

This also points to what I believe is the future of ChatGPT: a shift from being all reactive to being significantly proactive, and extremely personalized.

This is an early look, and right now only available to Pro subscribers. We will work hard to improve the quality over time and to find a way to bring it to Plus subscribers too.

Huge congrats to @ChristinaHartW, @_samirism, and the team for building this.

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Peter Thiel on what you should learn from Steve Jobs:

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

A man who cannot command himself will never command others. Discipline is the first conquest, for without mastery of impulse every order is hollow and every plan collapses under the weight of your own weakness.

[Leo | Phalanx Labs @SpartanPsyche]

The amygdala floods the body with stress hormones during withdrawal, making cravings feel like survival. But this is a false alarm, if you wait, the prefrontal cortex regains control. You’re not broken, you’re experiencing biology trying to restore balance.

[Patrick Gallagher @gridpane]

@gus_tiffer You're not supposed to have it figure out yet.

I'm more than a decade in with three kids and I still don't have it figured out.

The best advice I can give you is: be 100% present in the thing that you're choosing in that moment.

100% dad or 100% builder, not 50/50 both.