there's a lot to talk about here but Ill keep this one somewhat short > you don't learn too much while failing tbh, most of my learnings have come from the last year working on Proximal > I probably should have quit earlier and joined a fast growing startup much sooner > no such thing as a overnight success, you just get to rewrite history to ignore the period before you become "successful"

One of the most important distinctions when 'playing a game' is deciding whether you are playing for fun or to win.

This is one of the most important tweets I've ever read. I quote it weekly to myself and other people. Actions per minute, specially in the AI age, is incredibly important. 400 APM at 60% efficiency beats 100 APM at 90% efficiency all day every day. If you post more than other people, meet more people, launch more often, create more products, it's impossible to fail. Learned this the hard way, and in 3 months of 10x'ing my output we are already reaping more rewards than I ever imagined at @mutuals_inc

Get in loser, we are going to evaporate the oceans.

Sometimes I wonder if the growth-stage market is so consensus-oriented right now because they're all using the same models to process and analyze their dealflow.

Which venture-backed cos are hiring former VCs right now? So many friends looking to leave...

i think it’s important to status-min. people should be surprised at how competent you are red rising speaks of this “if you’re a fox, play the hare. if you’re the hare, play the fox”

people need to status max so much more high status people saying "chasing status is bad" is such an effective way of keeping everyone below them literally the only reason why you care about a person you have not met is because they've done something publicly approved rant:

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Rant that no one asked for: My general take about consumer AI is that 99% of the things we've seen so far are super far-removed from reality Most people feel like they don't have money to spend right now, so the use-cases around agents booking flights or trips or booking reservations or shopping just don't appeal to the average American consumer I would argue that things that consumers purchase or "do" frequently enough (like ordering on Amazon, or calling Ubers, etc.) were obvious/annoying enough/frequent enough use-cases where we built amazing software UI/UX over the last decade that's been optimized to near ultimate efficiency that adding AI or agents on top would actually be making it *less* efficient. Like really *worth-it* use cases are generally "one-clickable" by great consumer products/platforms already There's a lot of magical moments/wow factors/sci-fi things with agents that come from super annoying workflows (like booking flights or wrangling personal errand stuff in gmail or etc.) but are just not frequent enough for the average person. They're actually the long-tail. For example, 20% of the world's population has flown on an airplane at least once in their lifetime, meaning 80% of people globally have never set foot on a plane. Only 11%-15% of the global population flies in any given year! This is not me saying that consumer AI is dumb, I'm actually extremely excited and optimistic, but it kind of goes back to things we've always known about consumer, which is: 1. Save/make consumers money 2. Make consumers entertained or famous (And, of course, vices) Even like, regardless of your views on prediction markets/sports betting, I think you have to understand that comes from a place of the average person feeling like they 1) don't have enough so 2) they want to do what they can to jump the socioeconomic rungs Anyway, there's an extremely *wide* space of opportunity and I'm very excited to see the absolutely insane new AI/innovative stuff that builders come up with, but also I really want to see things that aren't just dressed up versions of 2010s prosumer/productivity software (and the problems that came with it) P.S. The 90/10/1 rule still applies to consumer: most consumers want to *consume* (and lurk) rather than create!

i've got so much to tell u i needed three screens first hello • october 23 • 00:00 my first ever song. FOUR DAYS 🫠 are u staying up with me?

Many predators that hunt fail to catch prey more than they succeed. The golden eagle fails up to 80% of the time. But it does not stop. It cannot stop. It has to keep trying and it eventually it succeeds. It does not give up. Because to give up is to die.

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workwise, people waste too much time "catching up" to keep the relationship warm "just in case." people come and go, converge and diverge. no need to get in the way of nature. long term relationships in work are very give and take. meeting for implied substance once a year irl is better than catching up and small talking once a month in most cases.