Annie Zhang

almost everything good is inefficient .

Learning

I break down learning, like travel, into two categories:

1. Curiosity-based learning (e.g., I want to learn about the Roman Empire)


2. Functional learning (e.g., I need to memorize the periodic table before my exam)

Both can result in large consumer AI businesses. I’ve seen more companies crowd into the latter, but I think the former category is j... See more

This puzzle becomes even more intriguing when we consider the parallels to human psychology. Professional actors like Daniel Day-Lewis or Meryl Streep can inhabit radically different roles while maintaining awareness of their true identity underneath the performance. Yet we also know that some humans develop multiple personality disorder, where dis... See more

When I think of AI agents, I think of the “egg theory” in consumer psychology.

First, they create a simplified model using limited, initial information about the phenomenon they’re studying, with parts of the model assigned to represent parts of the real system. Second, they closely examine the model they are using to understand what it says and predicts about the real-world system. Third, they compare what they’ve learned fr... See more

Because when abundance is infinite, attention is everything. And what you give your attention to—what you consume, what you engage with, what you amplify—becomes a reflection of how you think.

Granola. Granola may be my most-used and most-beloved AI tool. If you don’t use it already, you’re welcome—your life is about to change. Granola summarizes your meetings, and is elegant in its simplicity; the interface is clean and straightforward, and there are only a few key things you’re asked to do post-meeting:

I’ve often wished to have an advisor that would be able to guide me and help me out with some consequential decisions that I was struggling with. The ideal advisor would know all those details of my life, understand them in ways that make a meaningful conversation possible, be at least as smart as I am, knowledgeable way beyond what I can ever be, ... See more

In qualitative modeling, which is what Kind is interested in, aspects of the real-world system are represented in a discrete manner. The states may be described, for instance, as “present,” “absent,” or neutral,” and relationships between variables may take the form of “increases,” “decreases,” or “irrelevant,” rather than mathematical formulae.