Ben Cyrus

For fun, I close my eyes and imagine the world 100 years from now to see what’s the coolest thing in it :)

[Ben Cyrus @realbencyrus]

@jesslivingston Love the series! I already feel so connected just listening, but watching the guests and you makes it massively better. Is there a platform where we can watch the full video, not just the audio?

[Ben Cyrus @realbencyrus]

@codewithantonio @newto97 @nextjs @leeerob @steventey Have you set up subdomain in NextJS in any of your videos? If so, which one? If not, do you have any resources other than the sample NextJS has?

[Ben Cyrus @realbencyrus]

@leokellr 3

[Ben Cyrus @realbencyrus]

@codewithantonio Amazing!!! Can’t wait!
When will the video be released?

[Ben Cyrus @realbencyrus]

@moshhamedani Golang, Postgres

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Tips on writing:

How to Write Usefully: https://t.co/Bu41gy8Fmx

The Age of the Essay: https://t.co/HdUSjESNGl

Write Like You Talk: https://t.co/pcEpHBRsXR

[Ben Cyrus @realbencyrus]

@traversymedia @linode Idk if you are into it but there is a lack of hands-on content for Golang.
There are some tutorials by @tsawler that are awesome, but not a complete project based course. Also if you could do a Golang+React project someday that would be awesome.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In the back of a comedy club, a struggling comedian got a chance to talk to Jerry Seinfeld.

He said he’d been struggling and sacrificing for about 10 years to “make it” as a comedian. Approaching his 30s, he was worried he’d taken the wrong path.

Seinfeld gave him this advice:

“This [pointing at the stage] is such a special thing,” Seinfeld says. “This has nothing to do with ‘making it.’”

“But did you ever stop and compare your life?” the struggling comedian says. “I see my friends, and they’re making a lot of money. They’re moving up. They’re all married. They’re all having kids. They have houses. They have a sense of normality.”

Seinfeld makes a disgusted face and then says, “let me tell you a story. This is my favorite story about show business.”

“Glenn Miller's orchestra is doing a gig...They can't land the plane because it's winter, a snowy night—they have to land in this field and walk to the gig.

They're dressed in their suits. They’re carrying their instruments. They’re walking through the snow—it's wet and slushy.

And in the distance they see this little house…They go up to the house and look in the window.

Inside they see this family.

There's a guy and his wife—she’s beautiful. There's two kids, and they're all sitting around the table. They’re smiling. They're laughing. There's a fire in the fireplace...

These guys are standing there in their suits. They're wet and shivering, holding their instruments, and they're watching this incredible Norman Rockwell scene.

And one guy turns to another guy and goes, 'How do people live like that?'

That's what it's about.”

Takeaway 1:

Comparison, it is said, is the thief of joy.

James Altucher has written about a cure for comparison.

Usually, when we compare ourselves to someone, we compare ourselves to a select few aspects of their life (their house, their good looks, or their professional success, etc.).

Instead, James writes, “picture that you can change places in every way with them. But then it’s forever...Would you do it.”

Usually—as Seinfeld’s story illustrates—the answer is…no, you wouldn’t want their whole life.

Takeaway 2:

One of the differences between Seinfeld and the struggling comedian is the way in which they view comedy.

The struggling comedian sees comedy as a means to some end—there’s some amount of money or celebrity that would make him feel like he “made it.”

For Seinfeld, comedy is an end in itself. “[It] has nothing to do with ‘making it,’” as he said.

For Seinfeld, as Ryan Holiday once told me, “The work is the win.”

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“The set I get to do tonight at 7:20 PM is the win. I get to do comedy—I won. It being predicated on doing X or being bigger than Y—no, no, no. To me, it’s always just been about the work. I’m on house money, full-time.” — Hasan Minhaj

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[Paul Graham @paulg]

Some assume that economic growth is inherently at odds with saving the planet. Actually it's closer to the other way round. Economic growth often takes the form of new technology, and new technology usually does less damage to the environment.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

What hasn't been invented, but needs to be ASAP?

[Ben Cyrus @realbencyrus]

@kooshiar I scan for the very small part I actually need to read!

[Sam Altman @sama]

A version of college replacement I'm super interested in:

Find the smartest and most driven 18 year olds in the world, and give them 'tenure'--say a decade+ of salary, resources to work on whatever they want, and a smart peer group--in exchange for small % of future earnings.