Hasitha Senevirathne

The two most important things in the world from here is no longer what school you went to or what your resume looks like

It is the amount of **agency** you bring to the table, and the **taste** you have that lets you get the most out of AI

Agency (prompting) and taste (evals)

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

If you were fully “in it” in the tech scene of the 2010s, it may have felt like a game you would play forever. But a lot of what was happening was short-term games and short-term optimization.

Most people did not want to participate for 30+ years or even 10+ years. They wanted to secure the bag, a literal exit, or to downshift to a more comfortable... See more

We used to pay a premium for judgment, speed, and quality. Now those come baked into the interface.This is the early signal of a bigger pattern:Designers, marketers, analysts, and engineers are all getting pulled toward a new baseline. Not because they’ve suddenly leveled up. But because the tools have.

Conviction is in much much shorter supply than intelligence. But maybe, in the absence of conviction, we can at least substitute the seduction of optionality for the disciplined pursuit of commitment.

The ads keep you alive while you wait for one of the fat tail bets to pay off.

Tournament poker is basically about finding the highest-value uses of a scarce resource, your chips. The fact that losing those chips means getting completely locked out of a shot to win major money means that their opportunity cost is high. This means it can be a big mistake to commit yourself to hands that are somewhat positive-value in... See more