Samith Pich

Using X to bookmark things I like and wisdom I'd like to remember.

[Samith Pich @samithpich]

@Dearme2_ Pull up bar?

[theendeavorpath @theendeavorpath]

“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought.”

— Naval Ravikant

[E C E @eceozugur_]

40 yıl düşünsem aklıma gelmez

[Mehreen Ai @AiWithMehreen]

GOODBYE POWERPOINT.

Claude 4.7 can create a complete presentation in 60 seconds.

Use these 6 prompts and watch the magic happen.

📌 Save this — it’ll come in handy later.

[Samith Pich @samithpich]

😂😂

[Kathleen Winchell ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🇺🇸 @KathleenWinche3]

When you forget you’re forty years old! 😁😅

[The Elevating Mind @TheElevatngMind]

HIGH CORTISOL DOESN'T JUST MAKE YOU STRESSED.

it literally changes how you age. it adds 5 years to your face.

it destroys insulin, gives you a double chin and belly, and even shrinks your brain.

HERE ARE THE 7 BEST TIPS TO FIX IT: 🧵

[Mayank Vora @aiwithmayank]

Steven Pinker is a Harvard psychologist who wrote the only style guide based on how the brain actually reads.

Here are 10 writing fixes from "The Sense of Style" rooted in cognitive science, not grammar rules.

1) The curse of knowledge ruins more writing than laziness

[Karl Matt Button │ Apex Fitness Adv. @KarlApexFit]

I spent years eating "clean" and for no fat loss.

Training consistently.
No junk.
Still no results.

Then I discovered two numbers control everything.

Here's what they are — and how I use them to get lean permanently:

= Thread =

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

This is for those times when you start to feel more tired than calm.

When you keep thinking back to a time where life had more zest and wonder.

When the coffee doesn’t do anything, but you still use it because it’s a nice little security blanket.

[Hardeep @hardeep_gambhir]

i have been a big article and essay enjoyer for 7 years.

i have probably read more than 10,000+ essays online

below is a thread of my favourite essays or articles of all time (that i remember)

pls drop your favourite ones below.

[Samith Pich @samithpich]

@effthealgorithm Happy birthday Katherine! I hope it's a wonderful year ahead for you

[Aaron Cannon @AaronLCannon]

I started talking to my co-founder like Claude

[Fun Viral Vids @Fun_Viral_Vids2]

We were absolutely floored by the millions of you that watched us make silly water sillouettes on our driveway last summer. We are starting out the summer the only way we know how, and this time it’s all about movies! What else do you want to see? We have a whole summer ahead, a driveway and a hose. The possibilities are endless!!!

[Ali Yahya @alive_]

i still think about this

specialization is for insects

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Two math olympiad champions wrote a training manual in 1993 on two old Macintosh computers, and every American kid who has won a major math competition in the last decade learned to think from it.

Their names are Sandor Lehoczky and Richard Rusczyk. The book is called The Art of Problem Solving. Most people in math know it as AoPS.

Since 2015, every single member of the US International Math Olympiad team has been an AoPS student. Not most of them. Every one.

That statistic sounds impossible until you understand what the book actually does.

Lehoczky and Rusczyk were not professors. They were competitors. Lehoczky earned the sole perfect AIME score in 1990 and led the national first place team. Rusczyk was a USA Mathematical Olympiad winner and a perfect AIME scorer in 1989. They had both survived the same brutal selection process the book was designed to train students for.

And the first thing they decided was that almost every existing math textbook was teaching the wrong thing.

School math gives you formulas. You memorize them. You apply them. You pass the test. Then you sit down in front of a real competition problem and the formula does not apply, and you have nothing underneath it.

That is the gap. The gap is not knowledge. It is thinking.

The entire premise of AoPS is that problem-solving is a transferable skill, not a bag of memorized tricks. A student who genuinely understands why a technique works can adapt it, combine it with something else, and deploy it in a context they have never seen before. A student who only memorized the technique freezes the moment the problem looks different.

The book teaches the difference between a formula and a method.

A formula tells you what to compute. A method tells you how to see. The students who win olympiads are not the ones who know more formulas. They are the ones who have trained themselves to look at an unfamiliar problem and recognize its structure. To see that this problem is secretly asking the same question as a problem they solved three weeks ago, just dressed differently.

Rusczyk calls this "learning to read the problem." Not reading the words. Reading what the problem is actually asking underneath the words.

The second thing they built into the book is tolerance for being stuck.

Most students treat confusion as a signal to stop. The book treats confusion as the starting point. Every chapter pushes students past the point where the obvious approach runs out. That moment of running out is not failure. That is where the actual thinking begins.

Lehoczky once described it this way. If you can solve a problem quickly, you are not learning. You are performing. Learning only happens when you are past the edge of what you already know.

The book was written on old Macintosh computers in 1993. Rusczyk launched the AoPS website in 2003. Today the community has over one million users. Thousands of students enroll in AoPS online courses every year. Most winners of every major American math competition are AoPS alumni.

A platform built by two kids who were good at math competitions has become the infrastructure that produces the next generation of mathematicians, engineers, and scientists who are good at thinking.

The formulas you memorized in school will eventually be obsolete.

The thinking you trained will not.

What is one problem in your life right now that you have been avoiding because you do not yet know the right formula to solve it?

[Último emo vivo @concurseirolixo]

Vi um cara no IG falando que o método de estudo dele é olhar pra parede por 30min sem mais nenhum estímulo e depois estudar por 2h e repetir até bater a meta diária. Pomodoro diferenciado..

[Mitch Leeuwe @MitchLeeuwe]

Some guides I like to use:

[Jainam Parmar @aiwithjainam]

The smartest students at Harvard and Stanford aren't smarter than you.

They just stopped studying the way that feels good and started studying the way the brain actually works.

10 techniques their professors actually teach:

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Boba Cyclist 정 @BobaCyclist]

“I can’t give honest feedback when it is not honest work. I can’t help you work out how you want to think about something, how you want to be in the world, if you are not using your own brain to tell me where you are.” 👍
Any educator defending the use of AI is a scab.