Sarah Vo

Unlearner / Marketer • Social Impact Enthusiast • I work to figure out how to separate the signal from the noise

[Sarah Vo @sarahvo91]

99% of information is noise.
99% of interactions are fake.
99% of opportunities are traps.
99% of effort is wasted.

Life is a search for the 1%.

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[Dogan Ural @doganuraldesign]

If you curate your feed right, 𝕏 is your best bet for predicting the future.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my 8.5 hour conversation with @elonmusk & @neuralink team.

It is the longest podcast I've ever done! 🤯 It's a fascinating, super technical, and wide-ranging conversation.

It's here on X & everywhere else, including YouTube: https://t.co/0kYbFNj2Su

On X, it's split up into 3 parts (in replies to this post) due to the current 4 hour limit for video. I continue to push the X engineering team to increase the limit... up it to 10 hours let's go! 🤣

Thank you to Elon Musk, DJ Seo, Matthew MacDougall, and Bliss Chapman who are part of the amazing Neuralink team: @elonmusk, @djseo_, @matthewmacdoug4, and @chapman_bliss.

And thank you to Noland Arbaugh (@ModdedQuad) who is the first human to have a Neuralink device implanted in his brain.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:49 - Elon Musk
4:06 - Telepathy
10:45 - Power of human mind
15:12 - Future of Neuralink
20:27 - Ayahuasca
29:57 - Merging with AI
34:44 - xAI
36:57 - Optimus
43:47 - Elon's approach to problem-solving
1:01:23 - History and geopolitics
1:05:53 - Lessons of history
1:10:12 - Collapse of empires
1:17:55 - Time
1:20:37 - Aliens and curiosity
1:28:12 - DJ Seo
1:36:20 - Neural dust
1:43:03 - History of brain–computer interface
1:51:07 - Biophysics of neural interfaces
2:01:36 - How Neuralink works
2:07:26 - Lex with Neuralink implant
2:27:24 - Digital telepathy
2:38:27 - Retracted threads
2:44:01 - Vertical integration
2:50:55 - Safety
3:00:50 - Upgrades
3:09:53 - Future capabilities
3:39:09 - Matthew MacDougall
3:44:58 - Neuroscience
3:52:07 - Neurosurgery
4:03:11 - Neuralink surgery
4:22:20 - Brain surgery details
4:38:03 - Implanting Neuralink on self
4:53:57 - Life and death
5:03:17 - Consciousness
5:06:11 - Bliss Chapman
5:19:27 - Neural signal
5:26:19 - Latency
5:30:59 - Neuralink app
5:35:40 - Intention vs action
5:46:54 - Calibration
5:56:26 - Webgrid
6:19:28 - Neural decoder
6:40:03 - Future improvements
6:48:59 - Noland Arbaugh
6:49:08 - Becoming paralyzed
7:02:43 - First Neuralink human participant
7:06:45 - Day of surgery
7:24:31 - Moving mouse with brain
7:49:50 - Webgrid
7:57:52 - Retracted threads
8:06:16 - App improvements
8:13:01 - Gaming
8:23:59 - Future Neuralink capabilities
8:26:55 - Controlling Optimus robot
8:31:16 - God
8:33:21 - Hope

[Sarah Vo @sarahvo91]

Common causes of bad decisions:
1. Not asking, “& then what?”
2. Blindness to large trends (blind spots)
3. Assumptions based on small sample sizes
4. Conforming to expectations/authority/group
5. Wanting the world to work the way we want rather than the way it does
6. COMPROMISE

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Founders/CEOs must watch this @lexfridman interview with Jeff. I found myself vigorously nodding along in a few key parts — here's one of my favorites: why compromise is a horrible (albeit very tempting) way to make decisions in a business.

[Sarah Vo @sarahvo91]

I regularly use these AIs:
- GPT 4/4o - programming, learning, planning
- Grok - learning, news, fun, free speech
- Gemini 1.5 - working w/ huge text
- Claude 3 - natural-sounding convos
- Perplexity - for deep-dive research on topics

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The type of content you consume shapes how you think.

[Sarah Vo @sarahvo91]

Problems arise when we start compromising our own standards, those we have set for ourselves, in order to earn the admiration of others. Problems come when we choose to focus on what others think and see versus reality.

[Sarah Vo @sarahvo91]

Common causes of bad decisions:

1. Not asking, “and then what?”
2. Blindness to large trends (blind spots)
3. Assumptions based on small sample sizes
4. Conforming to expectations/authority/group
5. Wanting the world to work the way we want rather than the way it does.

[Sarah Vo @sarahvo91]

This blog & newsletter is my effort to craft a new playbook for life & marketing.

It’ll be for people who need new ways of projecting signal through noise and gaining the most freedom with the least amount of wasted effort in a totally chaotic world.

https://t.co/x4RljctgGV

[Sarah Vo @sarahvo91]

A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.

One of the most critical skills in life--and yet never taught in school--is choosing where to direct your attention.

[Sarah Vo @sarahvo91]

I created this website because I’ve seen how life changing the art of knowing exactly what to focus and what to ignore has been for me and wanted other people to have the same opportunity.

https://t.co/GQ25kHO5oS