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The unreliability of information sources, media misquotes, and how people form opinions based on secondhand accounts rather than firsthand experience
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I mean, if you look at the Wikipedia page for me, 70% of that's bullshit. Total bullshit. And I don't fix it. Just leave it. So people can figure out whatever they want, whatever they think.
70% of that is not true. Now, there might be some kernels of truth in there. gold hidden underneath all the shit maybe it's like they might have something but
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Debunking the myth that a good track record is enough to attract investors for a fund.
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I was down 29% after three months. Like I started July 1st and then the market crashed in September. Right. And so I was like, wow, my dream of starting a hedge fund is done after three months.
And I just kind of grinded it out and caught 09 correctly. And, but even then I, you know, I didn't get my first client, first outside investor until
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Jensen Huang’s management philosophy: using a flat organizational structure to accelerate decision-making and retain top-tier talent.
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You can drive great people away by making the speed of decision making really slow. why would great people stay in an organization where they can't get things done? Jensen will describe his flat organization structure in the book and also a bunch of interviews.
Here's an interview in one of the interviews. He actually compared how he runs his
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Shifting from control to process in trading: recognizing the illusion of prediction and embracing probabilistic thinking over outcome attachment
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That's when everything falls apart. The moment you're trying to predict, the moment you're even interested to know where something's going to go based on what you think, like, you know, based on this trade, I like the support level. So I think it's going to go up. It has to go up. All right.
The moment you equate your tool set, your practice,
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The frustrating modern customer service experience is a universal ordeal designed to wear consumers down, leading to societal resignation.
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So he reached out to the one place designed to help consumers like him with problems just like this, the customer service department. I call Ford headquarters and I'm like, OK, time to start talking about returning this car or whatever you do when it can't be fixed. And that's when they tell me, well, until we can replicate the problem, we can't
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Status anxiety, childhood emotional needs, and learning to accept ordinariness through early feelings of specialness and recognition
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It's funny you mentioned churches. I mean, the really helpful thing about religions is that they tend to tell their believers that someone really knows them and really cares about them and is looking at them.
And if you think about the impulse to be rich and famous and esteemed. It's really a desire that gets soaked up by religions.
Religions are
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A late-night host discusses the obsessive process and rationale for transcribing competing monologues to ensure comedic originality.
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You're so relaxed on your show, but it sounds like you're very obsessive about putting it together. The Rolling Stone, the cover story about you in Rolling Stone, described you as transcribing the other late night host monologues to make sure there's no similarities between your monologue and theirs. Can you talk a little bit more about why you
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The Transformer's elegance revealed a key AI principle: simple, scalable architectures powered by more data outperform complex algorithms.
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Yeah. It actually has changed the way that I look at the world because he pointed out that in nature, this is Greg, the way things usually work is the most energy efficient way they could work. Almost from an evolution perspective, that the most simple, elegant solutions are the ones that survive because they are the most efficient with their
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Mobile game monetization strategies and how high-spending players receive personalized attention similar to casino VIP treatment
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Congregate CEO presentation Wales. They talk extensively about the monetization of these games and how the monetization skews towards the higher end of the spectrum Finger to the wind I don have active recall of all the numbers but the vast majority of players will never pay a dime.
Of payers, you know, maybe 2%, most will make one transaction and
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