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“My opinion changed when the facts changed” always means “The authority figures that I listen to changed their mind.”
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Expertise comes from solving real problems in a field—not from credentials or accolades.
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Great execution is not a moat. It’s better than a moat. Moats add leverage to great execution and attenuate the damage from inevitably poor execution.
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No one got rich because they worked hard. Lots of people work hard and get nothing. Unfortunately, you still have to work hard.
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Moats are especially important because every business eventually ends up staffed with mediocre people at best. Let the moat do the work.
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You can’t evaluate people based on their results. Only the initial evaluation of their intelligence and capabilities matters.
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Technology acceleration means traditional moats don’t last long, but they’re still critical for stratospheric valuations in the meantime.
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Definitions don’t need to be perfectly clear. They’re all infinitely incorrect.
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You’re only going to get paid for the stuff AI can’t autocomplete for you.
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i am thinking of a John Wick / Taken style vehicle starring F. Murray Abraham… the project would be suited to his particular capabilities… there would be more classic tradecraft and psychological manipulation… Interested?
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My favorite audiobooks are Blood Meridian, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Silmarillion. The narrators make it. The Age of Innocence is also very pretty.
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Someone blasphemed Blood Meridian in my mentions. Thinking of a response worse than a block. This cannot stand.
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At AngelList, we worshipped our engineers/designers and everybody else is basically overhead who also worship the engineers and designers.
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Marc Andreessen
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The only people whose expertise counts are those close to the machine. twitter.com/emilymbender/s…
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are you really grinding if you don’t wear a mouthguard at night… 😂 only true hustlers will get this one… #mindset
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Up market: Great time to build to startup. Down market: Great time to build a startup. Always a great time mate.
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This AI stuff reminds me of back when the WWW first came out and it was like something cool every day.
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This is the craziest tweet on this site. OpenAI engineer calculates the cost to build a Google killer and comes to $50m for the embedding. $50m for a ChatGPT that knows everything that’s on the internet, almost instantly. Unbelievable. twitter.com/BorisMPower/st…
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Don’t be fooled by ‘fundamental’ physics. It only explains what is possible and impossible. It does not necessarily provide other explanations.
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“When we say that the voters ‘choose’ their representative, we are using a language that is very inexact. The truth is that the representative has himself elected by the voters [or] his friends have him elected.”
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If you want ideas, speak. If you want the right answer, write, then speak again.
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Andrew Ruiz
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One surprising thing about Twitter Spaces: People who are generally very articulate when speaking don’t always write well. It’s mostly noise. Somehow writing and speaking don’t overlap as much as you’d think. Maybe because they’re controlled by different regions of the brain.
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There is no perfect world that we’re moving towards — there are, however, improvements.
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Physics is fundamental in the sense that you are always bound by it, by definition. That doesn’t mean it’s a good explanation for whatever you’re trying to figure out though.
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There is no correct form of reasoning and even ones that produce contradictions are useful.
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On Twitch, I asked ChatGPT to write an outline for a Glaswegian Cyberpunk movie (1983) then asked MidJourney to render screenshots. Pictured is variations of cyborg assassin JACK confronting our protagonist Mae. She is fighting against a gang-boss corporation called The Machine.
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Before product-market fit, if your app doesn’t hinge on polished visual and interaction design, having those kind of people on the team is just going to get in the way.
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You can ask it to write a story in emoji and then explain it back to you in English.
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Ilya Shapiro
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Gorsuch: Mr. Phillips [the cake baker in Masterpiece Cakeshop] had to go through a reeducation program, did he not? CO SG: No, it was a training to educate him about Colorado law. Gorsuch: Some would call that a reeducation program...
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