Max Beauroyre
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Max Beauroyre
Han proposes contemplation outside of capitalism, because contemplation in the service of productivity is a form of auto-exploitation that defeats its purpose.
passion without boundaries will lead you to burnout.
- He started by saying that McKinsey was not a business, and we shouldn’t think of it as business.
- McKinsey was a professional service firm, he insisted, and it’s goal was to serve others .
My Secret Initiation into McKinsey
Success isn't about building tools anymore—it's about owning problems end to end.
People talk about how to build a great career, few talk about how to build a great life
- 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
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - The Decade Ahead • I. From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs
Without personal moats, we may find ourselves in a perpetually evolving, seemingly more meritocratic game.
Anu • Agency in the Age of AI
Connect this to Erik Torenberg “How to Build Moats”
I needed to figure out how to shut up and listen. I needed to cultivate the same profound curiosity she had about me if I wanted to keep her around long term. But that wasn’t who I was, was it!