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- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule9 savers
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- MATS - Calendar - Week of December 14, 20252 savers
- Value is created by doing - Sam Altman5 savers
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- The future of AI is already written | Mechanize Inc.8 savers
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- Active vs. Lazy Thinking - by Alexandr Wang5 savers
- DO TOO MUCH - by Alexandr Wang2 savers
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- will depue on X: "A Stargate for Data Labs are on a trajectory towards >$100B/year of data spend by 2030. As we begin the trillion-dollar compute project, we need to think about the equivalent civilizational-scale effort for the other core ingredient: data. At the foundation of the scaling" / X2 savers
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- Jim Fan on X: "Today, we give robots a /skills library that self-evolves and compounds indefinitely! Introducing ASPIRE: a robot solving its 100th task is no longer as clueless as solving its first. Coding agents observe multimodal sensory traces from simulation and real robots, launch an https://t.co/57JC05VN54" / X2 savers
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- Productivity - Sam Altman57 savers
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Ideas get harder to find and there are diminishing returns, so the intelligence explosion will quickly fizzle
II. From AGI to Superintelligence: the Intelligence Explosion - SITUATIONAL AWARENESSOne of the big concepts in RL is that you always want to be “on-policy”: instead of mimicking other people’s successful trajectories, you should take your own actions and learn from the reward given by the environment. Obviously imitation learning is useful to bootstrap to nonzero pass rate initially, but once you can take reasonable trajectories, we generally avoid imitation learning because the best way to leverage the model’s own strengths (which are different from humans) is to only learn from its own trajectories. A well-accepted instantiation of this is that RL is a better way to train l…
Life lessons from reinforcement learning — Jason WeiSuccessful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions
Successful people - Sam AltmanThe third is a great work environment. This consists of two things--cultural values and team. Cultural values are difficult to figure out, but worth the effort--it's easy to get lost as you grow, and if you set the values that the company hires for early, you can keep the culture you want for a long time.
Employee Retention - Sam AltmanOn the other hand, founders with a deep love of programming often struggle to focus on other areas of the business. Programming defines them, it’s what they’ve been doing since they were a teenager, it’s why they got into this business, it’s been part of every day of their working life.
The Great CEO WithinTop computer science grads in 2025 are twice as likely to call themselves a founder compared to the 2022 class, and 45% less likely to land a job at a Tech Major*.
SignalFire's State of Tech Talent Report - 2026Hiring at the large tech companies is running at 25% below the 2019 baseline (on a trailing-12-month basis), the lowest level since the huge 2023 crash.
SignalFire's State of Tech Talent Report - 2026The tech company of 2021 was built for an era of abundance: cheap capital, hyper-scaled hiring, endless coordination layers, and highly specialized micro-roles. The tech company of 2026 is being rebuilt for leverage.
SignalFire's State of Tech Talent Report - 2026Background: I recently took the GMAT and scored a 770 on my first and only try. Long story short, I studied and took the exam under conditions that would not be considered ideal by most people.
How to Ace the GMAT with Minimal Effort while Working in Investment Banking | Wall Street OasisLearning how to reflexively avoid stupidity is a key ingredient to attaining great heights with any skill. It's amazing how many hours you can piss away trying add new and interesting techniques to your repertoire before you've really mopped up the basics.
How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit - Josh's PosterousThe experience of improving so quickly and so much by "eliminating stupid shit" was profound. After some reflection, I found that it applied to so many other areas of my life.
How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit - Josh's PosterousThere are four major approaches to decision-making: deliberative, reactive, procedural and opportunistic.
The Fine Art of Opportunism — RibbonfarmDeciding where to put something — in the prickly part or the gooey part — depends on what game you're playing and how much you want to win.
Prickles and Goo | Melting Asphalt"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Prickles and Goo | Melting AsphaltBut the result of having a smaller self is that... you feel larger!
Prickles and Goo | Melting AsphaltThe prickly people are tough-minded, rigorous, and precise, and like to stress differences and divisions between things.... The gooey people are tender-minded romanticists who love wide generalizations and grand syntheses.... Prickly philosophers consider the gooey ones rather disgusting — undisciplined, vague dreamers who slide over hard facts like an intellectual slime which threatens to engulf the whole universe in an "undifferentiated aesthetic continuum".... But gooey philosophers think of their prickly colleagues as animated skeletons that rattle and click without any flesh or vital juic…
Prickles and Goo | Melting AsphaltNo, his fear comes from a different place. Drugs and alcohol scare him because they threaten his sense of personal identity.
Prickles and Goo | Melting AsphaltNeither is it a fear of "frying his brain" or "putting holes in it."
Prickles and Goo | Melting AsphaltThe only mistake available at this stage is treating the windfall as the business instead of as the financing for the business.
Vikram Aditya on X: "The goldmine business of selling data to frontier labs" / XWhen a market’s number one customer is building your replacement while paying your invoices, your product is not the moat. Your position is.
Vikram Aditya on X: "The goldmine business of selling data to frontier labs" / XNone of this means the data wave is fake.
Vikram Aditya on X: "The goldmine business of selling data to frontier labs" / XA high-fidelity clone of an enterprise tool with expert-written tasks runs . Individual tasks price between $200 and $2k, and exclusivity multiplies everything 4-5x, because a task your rival also trains on teaches you nothing about beating them.
Vikram Aditya on X: "The goldmine business of selling data to frontier labs" / XData vendors sell what's needed to power that treadmill. Their revenue does not require picking a winner. It is a tax on nobody winning.
Vikram Aditya on X: "The goldmine business of selling data to frontier labs" / XUnder capitalism, power is concentrated under the rich and under the political class.
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogThis is unlike a political class where you only get in the door if you kiss enough ass and backstab a critical mass of individuals.
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogCapital allows you to participate in the debate over the future of humanity.
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogCapital is Meritocratic Allocation of Power Over The Future
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogIf you have your life savings invested in your field, you are likely to have a tremendous knowledge of the field and a great incentive to steer it in the direction you believe is right.
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogBattling in the Free Market Of Ideas Leads to Better Results
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogAnyone can acquire enough shares of any company to have more of a say in the management of that company than they do in the management of their country.
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogThe reason this fails is that if you know less than someone in a particular field, you are not the best judge of their skill in that field. You cannot grade a math test if you know less than the students taking the test.
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogUnder our current democracy, every voter has roughly even say in all issues.
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogAllocate Capital to Issues You Care About
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogUnlike money, capital is allocated, not spent. Put more simply, capital is money that turns into more money over time.
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogAn investor can put capital into a project and receive more capital in return - they receive the same exact resource they put in.
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogBecause money is fundamentally both an input and output, we don’t need to consider it in the same way we consider other inputs.
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogHowever, the most important difference between money and other resources is that money is both an input and an output of all production processes.
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogMoney quantifies inputs into production processes and is often treated as an input itself.
Why You Should Accumulate Capital | Christopher Kalitin BlogPan-Africanism as summitry and protocols, and little more
Why is it so difficult (and crazy expensive) to fly within Africa?the data and deployment layer
microagi raises $55 million seed round to power Europe’s robotic reindustrialisation · microagiMy research interest lies in robotic learning with a special focus on scalable robot training data generation with motion planning, reinforcement learning and VLMs.
Mingxuan YanWhen we are successful at Scale, it is usually the result of active thinking
Active vs. Lazy Thinking - by Alexandr WangIt is easy to fall into the trap of making changes which are too small to yield large impacts, but convince yourself that you are making meaningful progress towards goals.
Active vs. Lazy Thinking - by Alexandr Wangcannot and should not trust that the black box will work
Active vs. Lazy Thinking - by Alexandr WangBelieving in the purity of abstraction layers in your mental model is lazy thinking.
Active vs. Lazy Thinking - by Alexandr WangThe fourth, and perhaps most hidden, is that organizations believe in clean abstraction layers, and confuse them for reality.
Active vs. Lazy Thinking - by Alexandr WangWhile it is a comforting thought to trust that others that are smarter or more focused can think about all of the problems, this often leads to a tragedy of the commons where nobody is thinking about it.
Active vs. Lazy Thinking - by Alexandr Wangphilosopher syndrome
Active vs. Lazy Thinking - by Alexandr WangThe second is that people often become shielded from outcomes and therefore do not see any data.
Active vs. Lazy Thinking - by Alexandr WangOn important matters, it is imperative that you uphold others to be precise and verifiable in their thinking, and raise the flag when it is not true.
Active vs. Lazy Thinking - by Alexandr Wang