Andrew Tam

best way to get hired: tweet side projects related to where you want to work want to join a design tool company? design a mini one. want to build agents? make a small one and tweet it. people will share your work in slack and need zero imagination to picture you at the company

An interesting observation in Maslow's work on self-actualized people is that they tend to be less "introspective" than others. Meaning they spend less time thinking about themselves and their feelings. But they are more attuned to their inner compass when *acting on the world*.

In my experience successful people are successful because they have such enormous personal problems that literally becoming the best in the world is less hard than solving them. So all the productivity and health life tips are totally missing the point….

Sam Altman says that content curation and the ability to figure out what people want will be the most valuable skills in an AI-enhanced future https://t.co/qmtXKhW6SU

People would rather apply to 100 companies using the same low-effort resume and remain unemployed for six months than take the time to apply to five good companies with a solid, custom application. Everyone, and I mean literally everyone, applies to jobs using the same boring PDF document based on a free template they... See more

100k+ followers. 15k+ newsletter subs. 1,500+ paid subs. latter two in ~90 days. crazy. thanks for tuning in, & making this so much fun. being able to share ideas is the ultimate human freedom. for the past 8 months, i’ve tried to do that. now, it’s time for the next medium: software.... See more