Andrew Tam

Pursuing a CAREER in the arts — any art, pick the art — takes a certain amount of delusion. Not as a hobby. Not for fun. But in the pursuit of an all-the-chips-in career. And I don't mean delusion in a derogatory manner. In this sense, it's a skill.

sam altman on how to be successful https://t.co/TyIDiD7ru7

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

This is an important point. A lot of the most successful people, not just in startups but in many fields, do what they do because there's something they want to exist, or some mystery they want solved, and no one else is working on it.

The only way for life to not feel so hard is to just see how it goes The opposite of this is believing things are supposed to be a certain way, and that it's somehow bad if things are not You're this age, with this much money, at this stage, etc. Nothing is ever objectively… Show more

I'm drawn to the idea of building a "Calm" Company: • Sustainable growth • Working with friends • Small core team (<10 people) • Remote-first • No fixed work hours • Asynchronous communication • Very few meetings • No managers or PMs • Transparent decision-making • Profit-sharing among the team • Annual equity liquidity windows • Purpose-driven • ... See more

My flow chart on the decision process I go through when deciding whether I want to do something. I’m making #dailyart https://t.co/rdkktjpYhb