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2-4 year multiple job "sprints" is the new single employer 40-year career - earlycareers.gov
On October 29, @USOPM is opening the door for the next generation of talent to bring fresh ideas and ambition to public service. We’re recruiting 30,000+ early-career Americans. Your next move could be serving your country. 🇺🇸
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I write LinkedIn content for founders backed by Greylock and Salesforce Ventures.
Standing out has never been easier. Here's how we do it:
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If being successful requires 1000’s of decisions/actions to go your way, it wasn’t luck
The last 5 min of the Saban docuseries is gold. Reminds you why winning is so thrilling, sweet and significant beyond the outcome of winning
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"As soon as something is accessible to everyone, if anybody can do it, if any model can do it—it stops being valuable” - Louis Robson
Palantir CEO Alex Karp sits down with Louis Robson, the lead behind Palantir Sovereign, to examine why institutional knowledge and embedded individual artistry are the engine of dominance.
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Palantir CTO @ssankar: Anthropic has already been replaced at the DOW
"The department today has a wide range of model providers—from xAI and OpenAI to open weight models like Nemotron from NVIDIA."
"There's been no operational impact from that."
"Companies and the government are realizing your sovereignty and agency as an institution comes down to your ability to control: decide which models you're going to use in what context, have the ability to switch models, and to be able to control the weights themselves where you need to feel that control over them. It is your alpha."
Via @margbrennan @FaceTheNation
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp explains why your business is essentially fucked if it's not sovereign in the AI era:
“What is a business? Why can you charge more than it costs you to produce? Because you have some unique way of doing something.”
“You need to advance your unique capability, learn from the world, and never, ever expose to anyone else how you’re doing it exactly.”
“The minute someone else can do any part of those things as well as you can, your pricing parity goes down, and at some point, your value goes down.”
"Normal software is built to force you to adopt something that's parasitic. They take every one of those things, turn it into a commodity, and sell it to everyone else."
"You talk to VCs, what they wanted to hear was, 'Clients will be unhappy, but they can't get rid of you.'"
"Sticky is a metaphor for parasitic."
"I get your data, I get it into something you can't get rid of. The thing turns into something I can sell to everybody else, who then can't get rid of it, and de facto, your multiple goes down and my multiple goes up, and all of us are happy, and hope at some point you realize you're sad... Hopefully after it's too sticky."
Via @ZetaGlobal @dsteinberg10000
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Businesses no longer want to transfer their alpha to OpenAI or Anthropic
"Why are [LLMs] charging for tokens if it's so valuable?"
"If it was so valuable—let's say I can make you a billion dollars tomorrow. Wouldn't I say, 'I'll make you a billion dollars, and I want 30%?'"
"Look at our financials. The reason why everyone is chillaxing with bad financials and growth while losing money is: the client refuses to pay the true cost."
"The two places that actually make money—profit, free cash flow—are our application layer called ontology, and compute."
"We can get the frontier application to be exactly the same as a frontier model without the risk of transferring the alpha of your business to another."
Via @CNBC
Sounds trite in some circles, profound in others and unbelievable in certain circles but
SI will multiple individuals and people's grit, purpose, and ambition
Education should start there at solving the problem
Many are living life through an algorithm. It works for a reason but man .. so much of life’s most interesting and beautiful is outside the algo
We are slowly removing coincidence out of our lives. We don't pick a restaurant before even checking the ratings. We don't hear music before the algorithm ever predicts we'll like it. We don't even take a route before maps removes the wrong turn. Barely meet someone even before checking their profile. And none of that is necessarily bad. But that's what makes it interesting because every tool nowadays removes every tiny bit of uncertainty, but uncertainty is where a lot of your favorite memories came from. The place you found by accident, the friend you met because the plans changed. The street you weren't supposed to be on that ended up having the best restaurant you've ever been to. We've optimized our life so well to the point where nothing unexpected ever has room to even happen and a life with no accidents is easier to manage, but it's just harder to remember.
