Isaac Friedman-Heiman
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Isaac Friedman-Heiman
- The US Bureau of Labor Statistics cites the Business and Professional Services industry at 13% of US GDP making this sector alone, dominated by repetitive language tasks, ~10x the size of the software industry.
from State of the Cloud 2024
- Charlie Munger’s formula: “There is an old two-part rule that often works wonders in business, science, and elsewhere: (1) Take a simple, basic idea and (2) take it very seriously.”
from David Senra on LinkedIn: Charlie Munger’s formula: “There is an old two-part rule that often…
Real Talk
- “There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.
Committed people do what interested people won’t.”from Attention Required! | Cloudflare
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the
... See morefrom Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
Life can be so much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it.
from The Rings of Power
- Whenever you chicken out, you don't just feel the pain of cowardice; you miss out on the pleasure of courage.
from So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni
- “The greatest sign of an ill-regulated mind is to believe things because you wish them to be so.”
— Louis Pasteurfrom Attention Required! | Cloudflare
- The current fervor around robotics, particularly humanoid robots, exemplifies this shift. Investors are betting on the most generalizable approaches, driven by the idea that what works in AI will seamlessly translate to robotics. This simplified forecasting could be a testament to the improved speculative ability of modern investors to let go of th... See more
from Robotics FOMO, Scaling Laws, & Technology Forecasting - Michael Dempsey: Blog
- Vertical SaaS proved to be a sleeping giant that transformed industries during the first cloud revolution. Today, the top 20 US publicly traded vertical SaaS companies represent a combined market capitalization of ~$300 billion, with more than half of these companies having IPO'd in the last ten years.
Now the rise of large language models (LLMs) ha... See morefrom State of the Cloud 2024