Max Beauroyre

People prefer podcasts because they are not filtered and scripted. They don’t play it safe.

This is ultimate reality. The audience wants open dialogue. Give them a choice, and they will pick open over closed every time. And those same audience members are also voters. They don’t want to see hosts and guests silenced or muzzled.

• What a modern LLM does during training is, essentially, very very quickly skim the textbook, the words just flying by , not spending much brain power on it.


• Rather, when you or I read that math textbook, we read a couple pages slowly; then have an internal monologue about the material in our heads and talk about it with a few study-buddies; read

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The way this pans out? As they got bigger, they gradually shifted from building for users toward building for buyers, hoping to optimize for revenue growth. Over time, that killed their word-of-mouth growth, which caused them to have to work harder for each sale. So they got more salesy, and so on. They became companies that focused on making a... See more

The distortion is exacerbated by the fact that people building profitable companies outside the sphere of the VC dominion have little systemic need to tell their story. VCs, on the other hand, needs the continuous PR campaign to meet their recruiting goals. They can’t just bag a single win and be content henceforth

Light things shape culture, but rarely shape us.

I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people to find me, and then I hung out with them. We did projects together.

I kept iterating—paying attention to the context, removing things that frustrated me, and expanding things that made me feel alive.

Eventually, I looked up and noticed... See more

At the current rate of technological advance, all reliable ways of validating truth will soon be gone. My best guess is that we have another 12 months to enjoy some degree of confidence in our shared sense of reality.

They are less likely to identify as “conservative” and mostly voted for him because they wanted a better economy. To keep banging on the drum - the back half of this generation is graduating into a land of uncertainty.

Embracing that state of impermanence is at the core of the Japanese philosophy of Wabi-Sabi, which teaches us to accept the world as imperfect, unfinished, and transient, and then go deeper in embodying that reality.