Naval Ravikant: "Stress is when your mind has two conflicting desires at once. You want to be liked, but you want to do something selfish. You don't want to go to work, but you want to make money. You have two conflicting desires, and that's stress."
We taught the model to improve itself and it started doing it.
Oh cool. Awesome. Love that for us.
Can’t wait for v3.2.1 to patch humanity out of the loop because we were a performance bottleneck.
You people keep calling this progress. I call it the prequel montage before the documentaries start.
Software engineering used to be the pinnacle of intelligence. Now it’s the first job AI is replacing.
Jensen Huang: “Technical intelligence is becoming a commodity.”
The hard technical problems everyone worried about? Those turned out to be the easy ones. Machines solve them faster, cheaper, and without error.
So what’s left for humans?
Huang: “People who can see around corners are truly, truly smart.”
The new intelligence isn’t solving the problem in front of you. It’s sensing the problem before it exists. Connecting patterns that don’t look related. Anticipating what no one has thought to ask for yet.
That’s not logic. That’s intuition. A synthesis of experience, context, empathy, and instinct you can’t train into a model.
Huang: “My personal definition of smart is someone who sits at the intersection of technical astuteness and human empathy.”
Technical skill is table stakes now. The real edge belongs to people who read between the lines, navigate ambiguity, and synthesize across domains AI can’t bridge.
Calculation is commodity work. Synthesis is where the power lives.
The valuable people aren’t writing the code anymore. They’re seeing what needs to exist before anyone knows to ask for it.
Andrej Karpathy on Elon Musk's Secret to Success:
"I would say definitely Elon runs his companies in an extremely unique style. I don't actually think that people appreciate how unique it is.
You sort of like even read about it somewhat, you don't understand it. I like to say that he runs the biggest startups.
So he likes very small, strong, highly technical teams. I would say at companies by default, they sort of like the teams grow and they get large.
Elon was always like a force against growth. I would have to work and expend efforts to hire people. I would have to like basically plead to hire people.
And then the other thing is that big companies, usually you want, it's really hard to get rid of low performers. And I think Elon is very friendly to, by default, getting rid of low performers.
So I actually had to fight for people to keep them on the team because he would, by default, want to remove people.
So keep a small, strong, highly technical team. No middle management that is kind of like non-technical for sure.
Number two is the vibes of how everything runs and how it feels when he walks into the office. He wants it to be a vibrant place.
People are walking around, they're pacing around, they're working on exciting stuff, they're charting something, they're coding. He doesn't like stagnation.
He doesn't like for it to look that way. He doesn't like large meetings. He always encourages people to leave meetings if they're not being useful.
So actually, you do see this. you know, it's a large meeting and if you're not contributing and you're not learning, you just walk out. And this is like fully encouraged. And I think this is something that you don't normally see.
Maybe part of that also is like, I think a lot of big companies, they're like pamper employees. I think like there's much less of that.
It's like the culture of it is you're there to do your best technical work and there's the intensity and so on.
Maybe the last one that is very unique and very interesting and very strange is just how connected he is to the team.
Usually a CEO of a company is like a remote person, five layers up, who talks to their VPs, who talk to their, you know, reports and directors. And eventually you talk to your manager.
That's not how you're as companies, right?
Like he will come to the office. He will talk to the engineers. Many of the meetings that we had were like 50 people in the room with Elon.
He talks directly to the engineers. He doesn't want to talk just to the VPs and the directors.
Normally, people would talk, spend like 99% of the time maybe talking to the VPC, he spends maybe 50% of the time and he just wants to talk to the engineers.
So if the team is small and strong, then engineers and the code are the source of truth.
And so they have the source of truth, not some manager, and he wants to talk to them to understand the actual state of things and what should be done to improve it.
The degree to which he's connected with the team and not something remote is also unique. And also just like his large hammer and his willingness to exercise it within the organization.
So maybe if he talks to the engineers and they bring up that, you know, what's blocking you?
Okay, I just, I don't have enough GPUs to run my thing.
And he's like, oh, okay. And if he hears that twice, he's going to be like, okay, this is a problem. So like, what is our timeline?
And when you don't have satisfying answers, he's like, okay, I want to talk to the person in charge of the GPU cluster.
And like someone dials the phone and he's just like, Okay, double the cluster right now. Like, let's have a meeting tomorrow.
From now on, send me daily updates until the cluster is twice the size.
And then they kind of like push back and they're like, okay, well, we have this procurement set up. We have this timeline and NVIDIA says that we don't have enough GPUs and it will take six months or something.
And then you get a rise of an eyebrow. And then he's like, okay, I want to talk to Jensen.
And then he just kind of like removes bottlenecks.
So I think the extent to which he's extremely involved and removes bottlenecks and applies his hammer, I think is also like not appreciated.
So I think there's like a lot of these kinds of aspects that are very unique, I would say, and very interesting.
And honestly, like going to a normal company outside of that is definitely miss aspects of that.
I don't think I hit on all the points, but it is very unique thing and it's very interesting. And yeah, I guess that's my rant."
There are two fundamental forces constantly at work within you: self-preservation and the longing to Expand. Once you transcend the instinct of self-preservation, every cell in your body will come to Ease. #SadhguruQuotes
Gokul's best career advice: stay long enough to have an impact.
"I've been seeing people who stay at a job for 12 to 18 months and then they move to the next job and then the next job.
That is one of the biggest red flags as a hiring manager because you can't achieve anything of value. It takes minimum three to four years to have impact at a company.
So my top advice is stay long enough to have an impact. Build a network, have fun and don't be thinking about what my next job is.
If I'm seeing two or three jobs, back to back, immediate red flag. People want people who stick around and build. Who's going to hire you if they see that's your behavior. It's very short term thinking."
Personality is a burden. Be empty within. Joy then becomes your nature.
You don't need to play roles, you can be yourself - relaxed and well rested in Being.
When you don't fight to get another piece of the world, you find a place to be - You.
Being one with Self is being one with God.
Naval Ravikant on why learning to be alone is a superpower:
"All of man's problems arise because he cannot sit by himself in a room for thirty minutes alone."
Naval used to think constant stimulation was great. When the iPhone came out, boredom was dead; he'd never have to be bored again.
As he puts it:
"When I was a kid I used to try and overclock my brain, how many thoughts can I think at once. I was proud of that. I was proud that my brain was always running; this engine was always moving. And it's a disease. It's actually the road to misery."
Now? He's completely flipped:
"Now that I'm older, I realize you actually want to rest your mind. You want to learn how to settle into your mind. Now I look forward to solitary confinement. You leave me alone for a day, it'll be like the happiest day I've had in a while."
He continues:
"And that is a superpower that I think everybody can attain, the superpower of learning to be alone and enjoying it."
On why meditation is hard at first:
"When you sit down to meditate, those emails start coming back at you. Hey, what about this issue? What about that issue? Your regrets, your issues. That gets scary. People think 'it's not working, I can't clear my mind.' But really what's happening is self-therapy. You just have to sit there as those emails go through one by one until you get to inbox zero."
There comes a day when you realize: "The only things you're thinking about are the things that happened yesterday because you've processed everything else."
That's when meditation actually starts.