Packy McCormick
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And while competence may be the ultimate competitive advantage to an individual, it is the property of the individual, not the company.
reactionwheel.net • A Taxonomy of Moats | Reaction Wheel
In an attempt to avoid an impasse during the negotiations, one of Cognition’s founders proposed a contest: either he would play Thiel in chess or Ta in poker. If he won, Founders Fund would cede to his demands, and vice versa.
The Generalist • Founders Fund: The Kingdom
It is not easy to remain original and successful. The world moves on around you. It takes your best ideas and digests them: The future has stagnated; startups are monarchies; democracy is disappointing; we need to build in the world of atoms, not bits; we do this thing called “scapegoating”; all, truly all, is mimetic desire, and not one of us esca... See more
The Generalist • Founders Fund: The Kingdom
If Thiel were pure bombast, he would not be nearly so interesting. Beyond rhetorical flair, he has a rare willingness to follow a thought no matter where it leads. This is not true for most people.
The Gospel of Founders Fund
These are all displacement behaviors, ways of not sitting with the problem.
Andy Matuschak • Cultivating Depth and Stillness in Research
Becoming unLLMable with Sari Azout (Hyperlegible 011)
youtube.comSublime’s very own Sari Azout on Hyperlegible, talking about how humans can, and why humans must, become unLLMable.
"When I first started using AIs, I feared that machines were becoming more human. And yes, it is getting harder to tell the difference. But that's not just because machines are becoming more humanlike, but because humans are becoming more like machines."
"We worry AI will replace writers but have you seen most of what's online? Half the internet is engagement farmers on LinkedIn selling you five steps to 10x your productivity by 6 a.m."
"Create unlimited presentations in seconds... like who wants to create unlimited presentations in seconds? Who wants to go from a half-baked thought to like a fully baked mediocre idea in like five seconds?"
"I think like ambition is a part of us, and I think the ways in which we will channel our ambition might change and I think that's extremely exciting."
“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”