Reminders for myself
Agency > Intelligence
I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting... See more
Andrej Karpathyx.comif you say you're ambitious, but you don't have a body of work you can point at, you should STFU and build the body of work first. even if it's a bunch of notes and drafts and crappy prototypes or whatever. code your apps, write your plays and poems. I will die on this hill.
Visakan Veerasamyx.comRemember the words of Feynman: “what one fool can do, another can”.
Forgive Everyone Everything
Forgive Everyone Everything
I can hear Jesus saying, “Get your hands dirty to build a human society for human beings.” Christianity is not passive but active, energetic, alive, going beyond despair.
Just a moment...
It is neither wealth nor poverty that keeps people out of the kingdom— it is pride .
Just a moment...

The strongest indicators that you're about to make a terrible decision:
1. Endless overthinking of pros and cons
2. Chasing certainty
3. Chasing even more data instead of feeling your emotions
4. Trying to manage outcomes vs being who you are
Let me... See more