Isaac Friedman-Heiman

David Ogilvy’s 1982 advice on how to write Including point 4, that using jargon is the “hallmark of a pretentious ass” https://t.co/RDRRMb1KsI

This little line from a 1665 book lives rent free in my mind https://t.co/VB6mraRbxP

You waste years by not being able to waste hours.

as usual @cdixon was right about this 10 yrs ago (see: btc, dl, biomonitoring...) its also obvious something my smartest friends have been doing on weekends since 2020 is context bonsai i.e creating/trimming/tending their local garden/repo of data for their future personal AIs to fine tune on

“There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.

Committed people do what interested people won’t.”

The laziest engineers I went to school with and later worked with were always so damn good https://t.co/QHU9TSKTV6

from “If” by Rudyard Kipling the highlighted stanzas are written inside the Wimbledon Centre Court players’ entrance https://t.co/zZm7MFUtcZ

Whenever you chicken out, you don't just feel the pain of cowardice; you miss out on the pleasure of courage.