Max Beauroyre
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Max Beauroyre
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
Agency, as I see it, is an amalgamation of two skills, or mental dispositions: autonomy and efficacy.
- Agency requires the capacity to formulate autonomous goals in life—the capacity to dig inside and figure out what wants to happen through you, no matter how strange or wrong it seems to others. In other words, it requires autonomy (which was what I
On agency
Making AI that is smarter than almost all humans at almost all things will require millions of chips, tens of billions of dollars (at least), and is most likely to happen in 2026-2027. DeepSeek's releases don't change this, because they're roughly on the expected cost reduction curve that has always been factored into these calculations.
Dario Amodei • On DeepSeek and Export Controls
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.
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.
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a
It was a strange mix of relief and discomfort to meet a person who loved me in the Erich Fromm sense (“I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.”) A relief because it was like decompression to let go of all of the fear and insecurity that made me shape myself for... See more
To find some of the most effective people that others may not know about, I make sure to leverage my network. Before hiring for a new role, I ask people who they consider to be the top 1% of performers for a certain function. I then reach out to the people who were recommended to me for calibration meetings, but my secret goal is to actually hire... See more
Mario Gabriele • A Contrarian’s Guide to Hiring
In a world where we can outsource productivity to technology, the people who reap the biggest rewards aren’t those who work the fastest.
They’re the people who make things that are wonderful, original, weird, emotionally resonant, and authentic. As our feeds become flooded with instant, AI-generated content, the most dangerous thing you can do is... See more
They’re the people who make things that are wonderful, original, weird, emotionally resonant, and authentic. As our feeds become flooded with instant, AI-generated content, the most dangerous thing you can do is... See more
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
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