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not a recursive self improvement system. i swear. i also write on @substack. prev @quantinuumqc (nasdaq: qnt) @alchemy @ycombinator (-backed startup)

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thank you @bryan_johnson @_katetolo for your educational content and encouraging me to live a healthier, performant, and more fulfilling life

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What I love the most about these "omg I missed out on $500m because I didn't respond to Cursor" posts:

People are falling out of the woodwork posting DMs from @mntruell where he's asking for help and/or trying to recruit people to a miniscule startup called Cursor. In every screenshot the dude is polite and reasonable, but more importantly he's sitting at MIT, or I guess some random apt in SF after he drops out, and just really really really really really trying to make his totally unknown startup work.

So he DMs what appears to be the entire tech community (not me but it's ok I'm not mad) trying to hustle and get stuff done. Big fancy MIT brain, could probably be doing quant trading or big tech and making bank somewhere (although not $60b!), and instead he's at his startup sending cold emails like he's a Salesforce SDR who just graduated from ASU with a dual degree in waterpolo and beer pong.

Cold outreach sucks. I once sent 120 straight recruiting emails (in fact, trying to recruit MIT students from campus recruiting) and got exactly 0 responses. It's a gloriously pure form of rejection. So many people, especially ones with fancy credentials, refuse to do this sort of thing.

So anyway, I really respect the humility and drive, and I hope that he spends his share of the $60b on something awesome.

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when the career becomes answerable to a machine, the body becomes the last asset you fully control

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@aimalysheva @PrimeIntellect @vincentweisser @willccbb @merge @SumnerLN @kyutai_labs @EXGRV @ptrkprz @poetiq_ai @markiewagner @GoodfireAI @eric_ho @banburismus_ you've tagged the wrong founder(s) with @poetiq_ai. the one and only @markiewagner runs @PoeticHQ!

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most accomplished people feel just as behind in their careers as you perhaps do in this moment. don't worry and carry on

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the public market today can only be described in the following terms: a total bloodbath

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@foundersfund can't believe i watched the whole damn thing in one sitting. can't wait for the next one to drop

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@TheHolyKau well, there's the substack post so it's all good :)

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reputation tied to social presence depreciates, whereas reputation tied to specific work appreciates and is more durable

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beware, there is always an agenda

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losing is a pretty common experience. most people are losers. there's usually one winner

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fiction is cheap. truth is expensive.

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never ceases to surprise me: passively consuming content is good, but you'll retain 10x more information by actually doing

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i recall being in a conference room where ceo of a frontier tech firm proclaimed in highfalutin language that randomness is the new oil, not data. all execs in the room nodded their heads, perhaps deferent or fearful, but has to be one of the most debased takes i'd heard

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# of people who glamorize the act of reading >> # of people who grab a book and just start reading (for leisure or work). if some part of our reasoning abilities are downstream of info consumption, then it's clear which camp to be in. simple adage but rarely executed

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@tab_delete @penguinpress reporting back: 5 chapters deep and you are indeed, a f'ing menace. riveting, fascinating, elegant writing. i guess giving up the A in cs107 was worthwhile. will report back once the reading's over the line

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@karpathy game, set, and match

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@NousResearch currently in the process of buying some nice gear from the shop and was wondering if there's an option for expedited international shipping? i don't want to wait ~8 weeks. any help would be appreciated!