Max Beauroyre
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Max Beauroyre
This influenced what Indian society chose to celebrate and reward. When societies want to encourage certain outcomes, they need concrete, visible proxies they can reliably celebrate. In market economies, wealth often serves as a reasonable proxy for value creation - while imperfect, it's generally difficult to accumulate wealth without providing... See more
a philosophy for organizing knowledge work efforts in a sustainable and meaningful manner, based on the following three principles:
1. Do few things.
2. Work at a natural pace.
3. Obsess over quality.
Slow Productivity - Michael Karnjanaprakorn
Why didn’t I see that it would be easy to fund essay writing in this way? It was, as I’ve said, partly a lack of imagination, partly a fear of looking stupid. But it was also that my thinking was bundled . I had conflated “being a writer” with “having a publisher” and “getting a salary from my writing.” These are not the same thing.
Brian Eno (quoted by Henrik Karlsson) • On agency
When it comes to business and careers, the more interesting people will succeed and capture more upside than ever before.
Because the uninteresting ones will get commoditized (hello 🤖).
And by interesting I mean being capable of analyzing, deciding, and executing in a way few others can.
Generating more unique ideas, understanding complex things
... See moreCraft is culture. If you care about craft, you’ve done the hard part.
Alex Danco • Craft is Culture
Listen, Understand, Answer.” To encourage employees to answer questions accurately and efficiently, he has the “LUA” shortcut. If someone is delivering a rambling answer or failing to answer Huang’s question, he will interject with this acronym. It stands for “Listen, Understand, Answer.” As with Bezos and Musk, there’s a mechanical quality to this... See more
All of this is to say that DeepSeek-V3 is not a unique breakthrough or something that fundamentally changes the economics of LLM’s; it’s an expected point on an ongoing cost reduction curve. What’s different this time is that the company that was first to demonstrate the expected cost reductions was Chinese.