Chad Aaron Hall

It's the only way to bring some positive energy to politics4. Not about right or left or ideologies writ in stone, but about competence. Building something meaningful and bulldozing what's in your way to get it done5. This is a strong positive vision of what the world could be, and it needs a champion. We should embrace it.

Making a better product is a good way for a startup to die. Incumbents are so powerful that in order to challenge them, startups usually need to offer something radically different rather than simply something superior to what already exists. The only way to win is to completely alter the paradigm in such a way that incumbents can’t reconcile it... See more

With path problems, the solver can usually assess how close the current state of the system is to the goal state. Most machine learning algorithms depend on this assessment. With insight problems, it is often difficult to determine whether any progress at all has been made until the problem is essentially solved. They’re often associated with the... See more

Michael Lewis published his first book, Liar’s Poker, in 1989. It was a huge hit. But his next book didn’t come for another decade. He later explained his hiatuses and why he fills his time with hobbies:

Writers can get in this mindset where they feel they have to write another book ... the publisher’s on you afterwards and they’re ready to get you

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Stamets believes the Lion’s Mane, psilocybin and niacin stacking formula should be considered, and made available, as any other vitamin for supplement, claiming that its neurogenerative effect (over several generations) has the potential to initiate ‘the next quantum leap in human consciousness.’

Mozart felt the same way:

When I am traveling in a carriage or walking after a good meal or during the night when I cannot sleep–it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.