Max Beauroyre

This suggests that how people fare psychologically with their post-AGI unemployment will depend heavily on how they use their time, not how much of it there is—there is a path to positive well-being, if people spend time exercising, playing with their kids, spending time with friends, and so on

Every year, I write down a vision of what I want and review it weekly. More often than not, the things I envisioned start to happen—not because I read them each week but because I took small steps towards them.

“there was a loud and clear desire (1) to consolidate even more parts of the finance stack and (2) for Ramp to be that consolidation partner.”

People are inclined to want to do great work for really rich and successful people. They see it as their ticket. Drawing that out of people before most even know about your company, on the other hand... that’s a skill worth studying.

At the root of this terrible confusion is a failure of our education system—and our media—to give the next generation a proper history education.

perhaps young people today are drawn to get-rich-faster schemes precisely because middle-class hallmarks, such as homeownership and children, feel like luxuries that require the sort of unlikely windfalls that only come from risky speculation.

passion without boundaries will lead you to burnout.

A 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