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Underrated life advice: Make yourself easy to root for. Be kind. Be reliable. Celebrate other people’s wins. Work hard without complaining. Carry good
"Until death, all defeat is psychological." - Marcus Aurelius Refuse everything that would lead most people to give up. Refuse it. Rise from the de
Underrated life advice: Learn to take a beat. Anyone can react instantly. But most damage is done in moments of impulse. Anger wants speed. Ego wants
The highest form of self-respect is making choices your future self does not have to recover from.
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a
One of the most effective ways of becoming a smarter human being is learning facts that trigger negative emotions. It will teach you that your emotio
Happiness requires struggle. Without struggle, the world would lack meaning and our joys would feel empty. Be grateful for your struggles, because wit
People on the Internet were cruel to me, but nobody was crueler to me than I was to myself.
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a
“Not everything that counts can be counted” - Einstein
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
goatherders on May 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer? Yes, there are tons of resources
Let me say it again, because it’s that important: intentionally developing your Ask muscle is a REQUIREMENT for entrepreneurial success. The question,
Raise your standards, pick up the pace, sharpen your focus, and align your people. You don't need to bring in reams of consultants to examine everythi
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
“Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.” • Thomas Edison (1889)
Even Thomas Watson is reputed to have said, in 1943, “I think there is a world market for about five computers.”
“There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.”
You must remove all subjective language from your strategy and see what’s left. What is subjective language? Anything that’s in the eye of the beholde
Error 1 – Vague, wooly, “pretty” strategies In some (or if we’re honest many) cases, the reason a strategy doesn’t demand change from a business is be
This is contrarian value. When you decide to attack or neglect something in the category that everyone else cares about and in doing so unlock new ter
"Doing things that shouldn't be done in the first place faster and cheaper does not in my view constitute progress." Kevin Gray
**Enjoy the Journey** - Enjoy the journey itself, not just the destination. - Success is a starting point, not an end point. Snipped from Creator Sc
A lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly
Focus means head down. Big picture means head up. The more you’re doing of one, the less you’re doing of the other. If you’ve been head-down on a task
What were their roots? Why had the company started? How did their backstory influence the work they did today and how might it affect their aspiration
Whether it’s articulated or not, every business is driven by one of two philosophies. A company is either competition-driven or story-driven.
I believe “what effect do you want to have on people” is one of the most important questions we should ask when we are making something. Life isn't ju
There is nothing wrong with having financial goals and achieving milestones, but these are simply means to an end. If you believe that your agency exi
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A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything. It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully avera
My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter
@emollick Put in the reps. If you aren't hitting the chatGPT cap multiple times a day, you have 0 business reading a research paper The open area of
I've been asked by few first year PhD about how to start LLM research on X, say long context modeling. My number one suggestion -- though it seems a b
“From this point on, the intelligence of LLMs… will only continue to improve. Human intelligence will not.” OpenAI’s paper on using AI to debug AI cod
Writing code from scratch is gone. This was the most exciting part of the profession. Now what remains are debugging/fixing. The same concerns graphic
Influencers (by definition and per contract) are paid to recommend; curators earn trust by choosing. Different economic incentives yield different res
Music is infinitely accessible and practically free. What we've actually lost is the curator. Someone we can trust to show us the beautiful imperfecti
There is an observation that has stayed with me. People no longer want the thing. They want the signalling mechanism around the thing. This applies to
None of them would survive on the reference alone. What separates them is the argument each is making about who they are for, what their audience need
Curate to create, there’s no other wayThere’s no creation without inspiration.Every creator throughout history has morphed his interpretation of the w
Tim Denning describes looking at headlines of popular Medium articles, modifying a few words to relate them to his own experience and expertise, and t
“What works is being different. Don’t try to be liked. Find out how you’re different. Then be that. That’s where the power is. That’s what’s new. That
“When you’re trying to be original, you sound like everyone else trying to be original.” - Dan Klein
"Failure is a data point." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
"Failure isn’t an indictment of your basic worth but rather a piece of valuable feedback." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
what I've learned about fear is that if we stop, the only way through it is towards it.
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The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur
I've started to see imposter syndrome not as a personal failing but as a natural response to the gap between our interior lives and our exterior prese
Perfectionism rarely creates perfection. You procrastinate because you’re terrified of falling short. You abandon projects because they don’t live up
A conversation between Alex Dobrenko and Douglas Rushkoff on the spiritual nature of awe, rescuing the human from the machine, and why the future depe
We've fallen for the trap of thinking something doesn't exist if it isn't on the Internet. Maria Popova: "The internet is a surface level of the oce
A person spends years trying to become beautiful online. They finally achieve the exact face, body, lifestyle, and aesthetic they once fantasized abou
He believed a handshake agreement among gentlemen was sufficient and regularly did business with no written contract.
I don’t believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It’s the most senseless use of time. When I do go ou
How to Break the Anxiety-Fear-Avoidance Cycle - Superorganizers - Every
The company is an extension of my psychology as the founder. All my strengths and knowledge get amplified and extended, but so do my weaknesses and li
The measure of my success as a leader is how minimal my intervention can be. I’m committed to stepping back and allowing others to make their own dec
I don't play zero-sum games. I noticed that whenever I was faced with a competitive, zero-sum game – a situation in which someone else had to lose in
It’s about the same trap in professional life: doing the thing for years, getting more experienced, and staying stuck at the same level. You can work
I don't know if I'm ever going to get rich doing this but I am going to keep making things that I want to exist, in a way that seems fun and to a leve
What we see as an agency in our work with creatorsWe work with a lot of creators around the world for different brands, markets and niches and the one
So who survives?First, creators who publish citable work. Newsletter writers who go deep on one thing. Analysts who publish original data. Technical w
If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun
Hindsight is 2020I don’t mean “hindsight is 20/20.” I’m talking about the year 2020.See, early in 2023, I wrote an article about starting and growing
A solid foundation requires a robust team structure. Hiring individuals who not only have the requisite skills but also align with the company’s cultu
Here is my definition of imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is the persistent, unrealistic, fear-inducing, fucking ridiculous belief that you are su
Sometimes the prize feels closer, other times farther away. Still other times it feels like we are drowning in aimlessness and exasperation. An identi
"Failure is a data point." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
"Failure isn’t an indictment of your basic worth but rather a piece of valuable feedback." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
You are TranscriptFixer, an AI who is skilled in compiling messy interview transcripts to improve their structure without losing the customer's voice.
“Here are a few journal entries about whether or not to fundraise for Every. Can you help me find patterns that can help me make a breakthrough? Be ho
The details we think matter likely don’t when we go deep enough: The “accordion” exercise we did felt like powerful psycho technology the way it compl
Don’t aim to impress. Aim to educate. As a presenter, if my intention is to impress, perform, or entertain, I’m going to be nervous because my focus i
Most AI backlash is economic anxiety coated in a veneer of social justice. Alfalfa farming consumes 19 times the water that data centers do; there’s n
“Diffusion lag” reflects a lack of product-market fit. Even AI optimists are still hitting practical roadblocks. That’s why detailed case studies are
Here are some things I’ve asked chatgpt recently: “why is Toblerone so popular at airport duty-free stores?” “give me a recipe for a chickpea tagine
"A key challenge of (LLMs) is that they do not come with a manual! They come with a “Twitter influencer manual” instead, where lots of people online l
Meta AI released LLaMA ... and they included a paper which described exactly what it was trained on. It was 5TB of data. 2/3 of it was from Common Cr
Weird GPT token for Reddit user davidjl123 , “a keen member of the /r/counting subreddit. He’s posted incremented numbers there well over 163,000 time
To a certain extent we are wasting our time. We have a perfect model of the world—it is the world! But it is too complicated. Rohan Alexander, Telling
Whenever you’re learning a new tool, for a long time, you’re going to suck… But the good news is that is typical; that’s something that happens to eve
Writing is a critical skill — perhaps the most important — of all the skills required to analyze data. The only way to get better at writing is to wri