La paradoja de la elección es que cuanto más libres somos para no depender de nadie, más difícil parece arraigarnos.
El estado del bienestar, nos hizo más libres para elegir, porque la supervivencia estaba asegurada, y dió paso al individualismo y las opciones infinitas, que han debilitado la necesidad de pareja, familia e hijos. (Menos mal por otro lado, somos 8.000M de estómagos)
Arraigarse exige elegir, y cuando tomas una elección, renuncias a otra.
Bauman lo llamó modernidad líquida, una sociedad con todas las puertas abiertas corre el riesgo de no entrar en ninguna.
The GOAT conversation between Michael Jordan and LeBron James is officially OVER and I’m ending it.
🏆 Championships: MJ 6 | LeBron 4
🔥 Finals record: MJ 6-0 | LeBron 4-6
🏆 Finals MVPs: MJ 6 | LeBron 4
🏅 MVPs: MJ 5 | LeBron 4
🎯 Scoring titles: MJ 10 | LeBron 1
🛡️ DPOY: MJ 1 | LeBron 0
👉 Steals titles: MJ 3 | LeBron 0
📈 Career PPG: MJ 30.1 | LeBron 27.0
👑 Three-peats: MJ 2 | LeBron 0
And FOUR times Jordan won MVP, the scoring title, the NBA championship, Finals MVP AND made All-Defensive First Team in the SAME season.
LeBron had the longer run.
Jordan had the greater one.
🐐 MICHAEL JORDAN.
END OF DEBATE.
#MichaelJordan #LebronJames
Acabo de escuchar la expresión más castiza, rencorosa y elegante a la vez que he oído en mi vida: ya quisieras saber tú todo lo que a mí se me ha olvidado.
—Tío, con la pasta que tienes, ¿por qué usas el metro?
Se ríe.
38 años.
12,5 millones de patrimonio.
Honda de 2012.
Apartamento sin lujos.
Vida normal.
No hay Rolex.
Ni Lambo.
Ni ático con piscina en la azotea.
En lo que se lo gasta no se puede vender:
viajes.
cenas largas.
conciertos.
tiempo.
Le pincho:
—Pero algo de postureo habrá, ¿no?
Si no, ¿para qué tanto dinero?
Encoge los hombros.
—Me hice rico para ser libre, no para que me miren en un semáforo.
Y ahí te quedas tú, en silencio.
Pensando en:
el BMW financiado.
la hipoteca que ahoga.
el móvil a plazos.
las vacaciones a crédito.
Gente sin un duro llamando “tacaños” a los que no necesitan demostrar nada.
Gente que no es rica intentando parecerlo.
Gente que, si mañana le suben 200€ el alquiler, se hunde.
La mayoría no quiere dinero.
Quiere parecer rica en redes sociales.
Unos compran cosas para tapar el vacío.
Otros compran libertad para llenarse la vida.
Así que la pregunta incómoda es esta:
Si mañana te cae 1 millón en la cuenta,
¿qué cambias primero?
¿El coche?
¿O tu horario?
¿El reloj?
¿O el tiempo con tu familia?
¿La foto que subes?
¿O la vida que ya no necesitas enseñar?
Ahí se ve quién quiere ser rico…
y quién solo quiere parecerlo.
I saw a girl say that when she feels stuck, she imagines she's 85 years old and gets one chance to come back to her younger self for one day, suddenly, everything feels like magic again, the walk, the music, the sunlight, live everyday like that.
wow. im doing this DAILY now.
A final piece of advice from Holly Butcher - written the day before she passed away from cancer at just 27:
“It’s a strange thing knowing you’re going to die young.
At 26, I thought I had time…
To fall in love.
Start a family.
Grow old.
But cancer doesn’t care about plans.
Now, I understand how fragile life really is. Every single day is a gift, not a guarantee.
I’m not writing this to scare you. I’m writing to remind you: really live.
Stop stressing over little things. Be kind to your body- move it, nourish it, stop criticizing it. One day you’ll wish you had appreciated it.
Go outside.
Look at the sky.
Feel the sun.
Just be.
Spend less time chasing “stuff” - more time making memories. Don’t skip moments with people you love.
Laugh more.
Write a note.
Tell someone you love them.
Complain less.
Give more.
Helping others brings more joy than anything you can buy.
Be present.
Put your phone down.
Show up - really show up.
You don’t need to have it all figured out. You don’t need a perfect body, or a perfect life.
Just follow what makes your heart light up. Say no to what drains you. Make changes when you need to.
And please - donate blood. I wouldn’t have had that extra year without it. And that year gave me memories I’ll hold close… forever.
Thank you for reading this.
Live your life well.
And maybe… we’ll meet again someday.”
Holly 🩷
Repost & share Holly’s important advice. ❤️
The Head of Claude Code at Anthropic said he hasn’t written code by hand in months.
In 2 days he shipped 49 full features. All written 100% by AI.
He just dropped a 30 min talk on exactly how he does it.
Worth more than any $500 vibe coding course. Bookmark it:
Muy interesante el proyecto https://t.co/Xr5a1g4vml que recoge más de 1.700 startups de YC que han muerto. Con post mortem superdetallados y quién resolvió después el mismo problema con éxito.
Además también ofrece un playbook para revivir esos proyectos (con una parte de pago), pero aun así, mucha valiosa información libre.
Posterous murió. Substack llegó después. Webvan no sobrevivió. Instacart sí. Y como estas, un montón.
Las ideas no mueren, evolucionan.
El timing y la ejecución sí importan, y mucho.
Hay más recursos parecidos: https://t.co/3tccfPf08x (todo lo que Google lanzó y abandonó), https://t.co/bxoS7z0tuT (400+ startups fallidas filtradas por industria y causa), o https://t.co/Bu0wdezucC (de pago, de Greg Isenberg, convierte tendencias de Reddit en ideas con demanda real).
Lo que me parece interesante de todo esto con el potencial que hoy nos ofrecen las herramientas de IA es que el coste de explorar esas ideas se ha desplomado.
Muchas fallaron por timing, no porque la idea fuese mala. La infraestructura no estaba lista, el usuario no había madurado, el coste de construcción era inasumible para un equipo pequeño.
Esas tres barreras han bajado mucho.
Me da que en los próximos años vamos a ver bastantes relanzamientos de ideas que murieron entre 2010 y 2020.
No copias. Adaptaciones con equipos de 2-3 personas como mucho donde antes hacían falta 20.
Estos "cementerios" son en realidad bancos de ideas con autopsias incluidas.
I don't think people understand what this actually means.
Every application on earth can now build an agent that teaches ITSELF how to use the application through the UI.
Not through API integrations. Not through documentation. Through the actual interface, the same way a human learns.
Here's the loop:
You define what success looks like (an eval). You point Claude at your application via Computer usage. Claude tries to complete the task through the UI. It fails. It writes what it learned to a skill file. It tries again. Recursively. Hundreds of times.
This is Karpathy's auto-research method applied to software usage.
Let me make this concrete.
I built a company called CoinLedger — crypto tax software, ~1 million users. The product is powerful but complicated. Users have to import wallets, classify transactions, handle edge cases, and generate accurate tax reports. The learning curve is our single biggest challenge.
With Claude computer use, I can hand it public wallet addresses and CSV files and say: use CoinLedger to produce an accurate capital gains report with no errors.
Claude opens the app. Navigates the import flow. Hits an error. Documents the failure. Adjusts. Tries again.
Each cycle produces better skill files. Each skill file captures how to properly use a specific part of the app. After enough iterations, Claude has built a complete agent harness — a set of instructions that lets it use CoinLedger as well as our best power user.
Then I ship that agent to every user who struggles with the platform.
The biggest friction in a million-user product, solved by an AI that grinded through the learning curve so humans don't have to.
Now multiply this across every complex application. Every SaaS product with a steep onboarding curve. Every enterprise tool where 90% of users touch 10% of features.
The first applications that build these recursive agent harnesses will compound in ways their competitors can't catch.
It’s weird how rarely you hear what it actually feels like to be a Dad.
This answer to ‘who are you jealous of?’ from Bob Odenkirk had me blaming dust & onions.
Bryan Johnson reveals what you MUST do to get the best sleep possible
''Reading a book for 10 minutes before bed is as powerful as sleep medication, on some metrics it's even more powerful than sleep meds''
''Have your final meal of the day 4 hours before bed, it gives your body time to digest, and when your body has that distance it will lower its body temperature, your blood glucose will be down, melatonin is produced and it gets the body in a more relaxed state''
''You need like an hour wind down routine, if your bedtime is 10 PM, when 9 PM comes turn off all the screens and spend that hour doing things that relax you, read a book, breath work, meditation, hang out with a friend, anything but be on your screen''