T2x

Human (not machine) in search of truth.

[🫧 @xautvu]

I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, "Never play fair in a game where others cheat." It doesn't mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they'll throw dirt.
Sometimes wisdom is not revenge.
Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.

[T2x @T2XFactor]

@readswithravi How would you evidence learning? Is it just self-learning, or does there have to be some artifacts and some kind of an output of learning created to justify learning (both sides: the organization as well as the individual)?

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Kobe says blaming circumstance is an excuse, every person gets a different puzzle

“The key factor for me wasn’t whether or not I was ready. It was the fact that if I wasn’t ready, I was determined to figure out how to get ready. And ultimately, even if I was ready, I still needed to improve anyway.”

“The work’s not going to stop. It was just a matter of, do you want to come to the league and learn from the best? I’m doing the math in my head. I’m looking at Stockton, how many years is he playing? Drexler, how many years is he playing? MJ, how many years? Hakeem?”

“These are players that I studied growing up. The best way to learn from them is to have that jump off the film, jump off the page, and see it face-to-face. That is the greatest form of education that I could possibly receive.”

“Sounds like excuses to me. You’ve got to figure it out. If you really have an obsession to figure it out, you will figure it out.”

“Every puzzle is constructed differently. Everybody has a different puzzle, man. You’ve just got to figure out your own puzzle.”

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Stanford University charges $65,127 per year in tuition. A 4-year degree costs roughly $260,000 before room, board, and fees. The acceptance rate is 3.6%. For every 100 students who apply, 96 are told no.

Stanford has also published for free, online, accessible to anyone on Earth with an internet connection over 2,100 courses, the complete AI curriculum its graduate students use, hundreds of full lecture series on YouTube, one of the most comprehensive philosophy references ever written, a design thinking toolkit used by Google and Nike, medical school health courses, business strategy lectures from Stanford GSB, entrepreneurship resources from the university that produced Google, Netflix, Instagram, LinkedIn, and PayPal and research papers that have shaped entire industries.

A Stanford professor told a friend: "Most people think Stanford's knowledge is locked behind a $65,000/year gate. It's not. The gate is the degree the credential, the campus, the network, the diploma. The knowledge has been free for over a decade published on YouTube, Coursera, edX, and Stanford's own website. The same lectures I give to students who paid $65,000 are sitting on a YouTube channel with 4 million subscribers. Most people have never searched for them because they assumed a university this expensive would never give anything away."

She said: "Why would Stanford give it away?"

"Because the degree is the product not the knowledge. The knowledge is the marketing. A free Stanford course that changes your life is the best advertisement for a $260,000 degree. And the research the papers, the encyclopedias, the toolkits exists to advance human knowledge, not to generate tuition revenue. Stanford publishes freely because the mission has always been public. The price tag is for the credential. The education has been free since the moment they uploaded the first lecture."

He showed her 11 free Stanford resources most people don't know exist resources that replaced $3,000 in textbooks, $10,000 in professional workshops, and $100,000 in degree programs.

"Stanford's reputation is behind a gate. Stanford's knowledge is not."

Here are the 11 resources 🧵

[T2x @T2XFactor]

@jspujji Paaji,Weight sprouting involves placing a heavy object on top of soaked seeds wrapped in damp cloth. The downward pressure forces the shoots to grow thicker, crisper, and sturdier. Similar is what u r saying

[Jesse Pujji @jspujji]

Seedstrapping works because constrained capital forces you to find creative growth channels.

[T2x @T2XFactor]

@thedankoe So true. The mind keeps on searching so that its entropy is not destroyed, because after a while of knowledge, you need to go ahead and act and execute

[T2x @T2XFactor]

@brodieseo @CyrusShepard How does AI content impact the whole survey, and what is the correlation? Are we seeing some interesting patterns or observations?

[T2x @T2XFactor]

@DarioAmodei It doesn't add up and appears fishy. All this while everyone was chasing the race, and now suddenly this doesn't add up. There is a lot more inside.

[T2x @T2XFactor]

@hnshah How do they operate? Do they use their own money, or do they have external investors? How do they calculate returns, and what's the long-term returns model, or listing, or just dividends? How does this work?

[T2x @T2XFactor]

@Kellblog @hnshah Curious, sir, to learn what this is about Computer Associates. Could you please tell me?

[T2x @T2XFactor]

@davidsenra Is he referring to no titles at Bending Spoons or each of his portfolio companies? If a brand has distribution channel partners and all, not having titles doesn't work. Again, the lack of acceptance between external titles and internal titles might create dissonance

[Bala 🧤 @BalaiBB]

TL;DR:

step 1: write down an impossible target with an impossible deadline that you personally chose (often starting with money or fitness because they unlock everything else)

step 2: ruthlessly drop every habit, client, and obligation that does not serve that target

step 3: hunt only the highest-leverage actions that could actually close the gap

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

In anything you do, once the progress-to-work ratio gets too low, you’re going to lose interest and focus on other endeavors where your progress-to-work ratio is higher.

That's why maximizing learning efficiency is such a big lever in maximizing student potential.

Learning efficiency keeps the progress-to-work ratio as high as possible, keeping students on the rails as far as possible. Students not only make faster progress, but also reach higher levels than they would otherwise.

[Dhanian 🗯️ @e_opore]

Backend Interview Questions:

1. Explain the architecture of a backend application you have worked on.
2. What is the difference between REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs?
3. How do you design a scalable REST API?
4. What are HTTP methods, and when would you use GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE?
5. What are HTTP status codes, and which ones do you commonly use in backend development?
6. How do you handle authentication and authorization in a backend application?
7. What is the difference between session-based authentication and JWT authentication?
8. How do you securely store passwords in a database?
9. What is middleware, and how is it used in backend applications?
10. How do you handle errors and exceptions in a backend service?
11. What is the difference between synchronous and asynchronous processing?
12. How do you improve the performance of a slow API?
13. What is database indexing, and when should you use it?
14. What is the difference between SQL and NoSQL databases?
15. How do you design database schemas for scalable applications?
16. What are database transactions, and why are ACID properties important?
17. What is connection pooling, and why is it important?
18. How do you prevent SQL injection and other common backend security vulnerabilities?
19. What is caching, and where would you use Redis in a backend system?
20. What is a message queue, and when would you use Kafka, RabbitMQ, or another queue?
21. How do you design a backend system that can handle millions of requests?
22. What is horizontal scaling vs. vertical scaling?
23. What are microservices, and when would you choose them over a monolithic architecture?
24. How do microservices communicate with each other?
25. How do you handle API versioning without breaking existing clients?
26. How do you implement logging, monitoring, and observability for backend services?
27. How do you test backend applications? Explain unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
28. How do you handle background jobs and scheduled tasks in a backend application?
29. Write a backend API that performs CRUD operations and explain your implementation.
30. If a production API suddenly becomes slow or starts returning errors, how would you troubleshoot it?

Note: These are not final questions, every interview is different, and it's based on the position. Please be prepared accordingly. Thank you!!

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[Big Brain Business @BigBrainBizness]

Jeff Bezos swears by a two part rule: under 40, never hire your friends, and over 40, only hire your friends.

[T2x @T2XFactor]

@BrianFeroldi This professional approach can be practiced and will work wonders in nearly every decision we make

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

Whenever you invest, write down:

📅 The date
💲 How much you've invested
📝 Your thesis
⚖️ The valuation
😱 What would cause you to sell

This will be incredibly useful information later on.

[Dimitry Nakhla | Babylon Capital® @DimitryNakhla]

10 legendary investors. Their biggest lesson, one sentence each.

1. Nick Sleep: Find businesses that share their scale advantages with customers, then give the flywheel decades to work.

2. Warren Buffett: Buy a wonderful company at a fair price and let time do the compounding.

3. Charlie Munger: Avoid obvious stupidity, wait for the fat pitch, and sit on your hands.

4. Chris Hohn: Concentrate in a few exceptional businesses and use ownership to make them stronger.

5. Bill Miller: Value is the cash a business will produce, not a low multiple — go where the crowd refuses to look.

6. Li Lu: Demand a margin of safety, then own businesses that can compound for a very long time.

7. Peter Lynch: Start with what you actually understand, then do the work most people skip.

8. Chuck Akre: Find a great business, great people, and a long runway to reinvest — then don’t interrupt it.

9. John Templeton: Buy at maximum pessimism, then let time prove the crowd wrong.

10. Mark Massey: Own a handful of exceptional businesses and do almost nothing else.

Notice how many of them need time: a holding period long enough for the investment to play out and for compounding to do its magic.

[Startup Wisdom @StartupWisdom_]

Steve Jobs on why most people waste their potential: