Mohamed Doucouré

A pattern I’ve noticed in successful people - that didn’t sacrifice their life for success - is that they physically worked very little, yet people see them as hard workers. Mentally, they were always thinking, plotting, and scheming. They worked in their mind. And once they were clear on their idea, they executed with speed that others couldn’t... See more

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 as if you had 10X agency?

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This is called “optical compression”. It reminds me of a funny idea from June of this year to save money on OpenAI transcriptions: before uploading the audio, run it through ffmpeg to speed it up by 2x. The model is smart enough to still pull out the text, and with one simple trick you’ve cut your inference costs and time by half. Optical... See more

The simplest success formula: Do one thing for longer than seems reasonable. Everyone's switching strategies every month. Meanwhile, someone doing basics for five years is getting rich. Patience is arbitrage.