Today’s computing: networks of multicore clusters: network protocols among clusters, message passing among machines in a cluster, shared memory among processors within a chip.
Speed is not determinant of company's success. It is velocity, speed in a given direction.
Early distribution → start with a wide funnel & maximize views -> signups. With traction, you’ll identify who sees your product as indispensable, & that’s where you build meaningful retention.
Science is prove it, and I’ll believe you. Faith is believe it, and I will prove you.
The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they’re the ones who try the most.
Lazy people spend their time thinking about how they can get other people to accomplish things for them.
Driven people spend their time thinking about how they can accomplish things for themselves and others.
Entrepreneurs think about how they can get driven people to accomplish things for lazy people while paying the driven people X and charging the lazy people X + 25%.
The people who build wealth in this world help both lazy people and driven people accomplish their goals and make a killing while they’re at it.
Your brain is not merely a record of the past, it’s also the map of the future. It goes where attention flows.
Time is not endless, but we could say it’s constant for the majority. How you experience time varies. One can live a more fulfilled life by being more present.
A brand is created when your values resonate with people.
A stronger LLM should evaluate the weaker one.
The most important mindset shift Europeans can adapt from Americans is that those who are delusional enough about what is possible are the ones who actually change the world.
We're all running on borrowed time.
Men use conversation for factuality checks, women use conversation to relieve their insecurities, to validate their feelings.
We all maximize feeling good — what the ego feeds the mind to do to protect itself. We feel good when our likelihood of future survival is high. I long couldn’t connect the two.
Intelligence may be how well an entity can govern its conditional probability to maximize an objective, most likely for human beings is to maximize entropy production. It seems there's some higher-level mechanics optimization at play. Similar answer for why life needs to survive. Perhaps life emerging is a natural byproduct of 1000s of experiments of prokaryutes entering higher-entropy states.
I believe that one of the biggest misconceptions of Silicon Valley is that you pick a vertical niche, solve a problem better, then scale. Google didn't just make search 1.5x better for any particular niche. You win by building something 10 magnitudes better than anything seen before.
Companies claiming to disrupt the $100T real-estate market are missing a fundamental piece. I think Silicon Valley is in a thought bubble thinking technology can solve the world 100%. We do not live in a digital world. That would be the metaverse. We live in a physical world. We can say we live in a digitally-complemented world (frankly to a high-degree). Even if you perfectly increase productivity of 50% of real-estate operations, you will get 20% of wealth created in real-estate because whoever owns properties is giving you that margin out of his profits. Value exchanges still belong to people. Tech just facilitates them (sometimes).
My entire life philosophy is when you laugh, you laugh the hardest, when you hug someone, you hug them the strongest, when you speak to someone, you attend to them fully, when you work, you work, when you kiss your lady, you kiss her like it’s your last time, and when you live, you live to the max. You give it your all.
What I look for in people: high integrity, high intelligence, high energy, lowest of expectations for what life should be.
Boys are interested in games and objects while girls are interested in people and relationships.
You can’t actually train for 5 hours straight. There’s not enough muscle volume to be exerted. Building muscle is oddly a capped game — but there’s still so much you can maximize — sleep, diet, training technique.
You have to start forgiving people, starting with yourself, because they didn’t know better, and neither did you. You acted based on what you knew. Before we can judge each other, we must understand each other. And once we understand each other, we will not be able to judge.
The Sun’s own gravity is so strong atoms in Sun’s core clash nuclei together — helium from hydrogen(fusion) — and that’s why it’s so hot — because heat is just molecules moving fast.
I believe that on a long-enough time frame you will be given what you deserve. Some may call it karma.
By watching some of the masters of their crafts(business, fitness, tech, art), I have learned that the game is always 100% mental. They are in fact masters of the internal self-dialogue. There is nowhere their mind cannot go. What successful people have in common is an unbreakable mindset - the narrative they tell themselves during each situation is a winner's one. Some people find every opportunity to come up with an excuse, some every obstacle to win.
When choosing what to do, people often neglect the value of working at the edge of your intellectual capacity. That factor alone will bring your fulfilment.
I think a good goal to strive for in life is to have the freedom to be yourself in all situations; to never wear a mask for anyone. Seems authentic in theory, but you do serve different roles to different people.
Moving water truly does have a hypnotic charm.
Life is whatever you want it to be. You can make your mind believe anything. We’re all trying to make some sense of it. You might as well convince your mind to live a life of abundance, happiness, success, impact, tremendous joy, laughter, and experience. Anyway, that’s what I’m choosing to believe. It’s what has created this life I have.
I feel people who’ve never done anything spend years petrified making a move and when they do, it doesn’t match their ideal expectations and they quit. Really, they’re scared of what people will say of them if they commit and fail.
RAG is just putting up the user query in the same embedding space as the vectors in a document (vector db's) and finding top matches (top_k).
I can understand why people born into wealth find their lives meaningless. It’s because their characters hadn’t experienced the other side of the spectrum. They can attribute no meaning to their suffering. There is no light without the dark. I can walk into any beach bar in the world and be absolutely amazed at every single detail of what my eyes capture — from the way the bar’s wooden shafts were built, the way the light reflects the waitresses sunglasses to the way the sea sparkles back at me. I’m in absolute awe. I’m alive.
The first step to being an adult is recognizing you and only you can take care of yourself. The second step is understanding you are also the sole person responsible for your happiness.
People wish you what they think is best for you.
Religion is people making sense of the world — a moral set of principles — a compass. But if it helps you, good for you. Who am I to judge your faith? I am of the belief that if your faith makes you a more functional human being, I allow you your faith whatever it is.
We first respond emotionally, then support & rationalize our responses with logic. That’s how the monkey and human brain work together.
Technology is making human, material, and capital resources go to work to create higher end value.
Global capitalism allows poor countries to skip several degrees of technology adoption. Kenya has gone directly into mobile banking, skipping physical banking infra.
Beliefs are placebos. We believe whatever supports our emotions. You’ll find evidence to support your beliefs. You can always choose what you believe. Then stacking evidence against that belief.
A startup is not a company: it's an experiment to see if a company deserves to exist. Until product-market fit, the speed of hypothesis testing trumps everything. Startups die when they spend faster than they learn.
The blessing of capitalism is that in order to get rich, powerful, and manipulative, you have to do it in response to the value in goods you provide to other people. The greater the value, the greater the wealth. That’s a beautiful thing. Win-win.
If we hate monopolies, like Starbucks, instead of eccentric coffee shops, we should express that with our purchasing power. Capitalism will adjust.
From Capitalist Manifesto: People from all over the world work together for your sake, individuals with every conceivable colour on their skin and beliefs in their hearts, people who are attracted to the opposite sex or their own, both or none. These are individuals living in urban and rural areas, vegetarians and carnivores, rightists and leftists, synth-kids or heavy metal fans. Most of them have never met and do not know of each other’s existence. Many would not like each other if they actually met. Some of them may be mortal enemies on Twitter. Still, they cooperate, and the prejudiced person who suddenly refused to finance, work for, hire, buy or sell to a person who belongs to the ‘wrong’ group, even though it would have been the financially smart choice to do so, would lose out.
Coming to the conclusion that I would rather read the Bibles of each intellectual study 10x over, than all the other books. Current list:
Atiya’s Outlive on health and longevity
The End of Alchemy on banking and macro finance
MIT’s Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs on programming
Sapiens & Nexus on anthropology by Harrari
Male and female brain on the sexes
Capitalist Manifesto on the importance of capitalism
Principles of Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
Millionaire Fastlane and Millionaire Mastermind on wealth creation