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Sam Altman: "A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt,… Show more
Consider this: if “talk to customers” is the biggest secret to product success, then why aren’t more products successful? Why are so many founders unsuccessful? What explains PMs who’ve been talking to customers 5 times a week for years, without ever making products that win?
Shreyas Doshix.comProduct Design and Craft
Good discussion underneath
Apart from a very limited amount of state sponsorship, it was usually the prospect of commercial gain or of new lands for settlement which funded exploration – a misleading term, which usually signified the ‘mapping’ of existing trade paths through local informants. But the propulsion of economic or demographic need was spasmodic at best.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
"well, that escalated quickly."
Amazing visualization of every space launch in history by @Peterincan, guiding the simple realization that we are in the second Golden Age of space. https://t.co/o8oYGJRu46
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After working with LLMs for 2 years, I’ve noticed that humans have very different short-term context windows too.
Humans with small-to-mid sized context windows develop deep “breakdown” strategies early in life to deal with virtually everything. Ways of breaking down complex problems into smaller steps that can be... See more
Scott Stevensonx.comParallels between the how we think and how we get llms to mimic thinking
How Japan ignored climate critics and built a global natural gas empire
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Every six hours, somewhere in the world, an LNG shipment controlled by a Japanese company leaves a port. However, these tankers are only the tip of the iceberg
A thread... See more
coordination and Infrastructure Tales
So beautiful
How long does it take you to circle back?
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a
If you plan to do something for a long time, plan to do it well