Max Beauroyre
@maxbeauroyre
Max Beauroyre
Hiring new programmers has nearly stopped, but there’s never been a better time to be a consultant on integrating AI into your business.
Daniel Kokotajlo • Ai 2027
In reality, the homepage is a marketing asset — and even more specifically, it is a product marketing asset .
For startups of all sizes, its purpose is to answer fundamental questions like...
For startups of all sizes, its purpose is to answer fundamental questions like...
- What does the product do?
- How does it work?
- What does it look like?
- When would I use it?
- How does it help me make progress in what I’m trying to accomplish?
Kyle Poyar • The definitive SaaS homepage framework
Our central bet is that software and systems for SMBs can replicate the benefits of scale and consolidation without sacrificing independence: profits, competition, and growth in a more decentralized economy.
Of course, money is now the main reward that drives habits. A monkey can be trained to seek and work for an intrinsically worthless token as if it were a banana if the token is routinely exchangeable for a banana. So it is with humans working for money, only more so, because human money is exchangeable for many desired things in addition to food, a
... See moreA renowned AI researcher once told me that he is practicing for post-AGI by taking up activities that he is not particularly good at: jiu-jitsu, surfing, and so on, and savoring the doing even without excellence. This is how we can prepare for our future where we will have to do things from joy rather than need, where we will no longer be the best ... See more
Avital Balwit • My Last Five Years of Work
In advanced human civilization, culture greatly increases the effectiveness of curiosity in advancing knowledge. For instance, Athens (including its colony, Alexandria) developed much math and science out of pure curiosity, while the Romans made almost no contribution to either math or science. They instead concentrated their attention on the "prac
... See more“There is a natural human tendency to make the next step an upward one. He ends up falling for a common trap highlighted by behavioral economists: people tend to systematically overvalue near term over long term rewards. This effect seems to be even stronger in more ambitious people. Their ambition seems to make it hard for them to forgo the nearby... See more
I can continue to do hard work, and continue to learn outside of the scope of Abacum. It's not my only arena, it's just a corner of an arena, in a universe of arenas.
Realizing this is important
I so often meet people who focused on maximizing a narrow set of life outcomes instead of forming their identity, and that becomes much harder to do when you’re locked in mid-career. Youth is a privilege: use it to experiment, test the boundaries of the world, and make stupid mistakes.