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July 2023 If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it. Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any…

I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up...

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July 2023 If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it. Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any…

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I turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I'd figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on. I'm somewhat hesitant to publish this because I think these lists usually seem...

I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips. So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compound growth gets...

Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

July 2023 If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it. Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any…

Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair

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Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas

When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.

thinking about scary things • examples from Wave • examples from elsewhere • finding a buddy • getting the timing right • a list of abyss questions

The context is smarter than you.

The following essay originally appeared in print in Palladium 04. To receive original content in future print editions, subscribe here. Iquit my engineering job in 2014. I was good at it and it was good to me, but it wasn’t the future. I was still working…

How AI Could Transform the World for the Better

The Bitter Lesson Rich Sutton March 13, 2019 The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin. The ultimate reason for this is Moore's…

Designing media to reflect how people think and learn

I am increasingly convinced that the difference between effective and ineffective people is their skill at developing a theory of change. Theory of change is a funny phrase — I first heard it in the nonprofit community, but it’s also widespread in politics…

a collection of 40 life stories

If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering…

in choosing who you spend time with you choose who you are

In these interactions, whether I’m meeting new classmates, setting up coffee chats, interviewing for jobs, or ✨networking✨ in general, I find myself recounting the exact same list of experiences. Almost through rote repetition, I have my answer to “tell me…

Thirty Observations at Thirty published November 30th, 2023 1. Marry well and early: I’ve found that being married makes you far more selfless, a longer term thinker, and if you marry well, you end up absorbing some of your spouse’s best traits. While…

Every now and again, someone emails me and asks for very general advice. ("How do I change the world?") With the caveat that I've only lived a fraction of one life, and am still trying to figure things out, here's the advice I'd give past me.

The online book featuring speeches, quotes, emails, and photographs from the Steve Jobs Archive.

isolation is easy; living is hard

College campuses are filled with entrepreneurship LARPers.

Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are...

Our career path is how we spend our time, how we support our lifestyles, how we make our impact, and even sometimes how we define our identity. Let’s make sure we’re on the right track.

alternate paths

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

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The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you’ll finish more stuff per unit time. But there’s more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you’ll be inclined to do more.

Alternatively: A hitchhiker’s guide to independent research Here’s to the ones who dream Foolish as they may seem She told me ”A bit of madness is key To give us new colors to see Who knows where it will lead us? And that’s why they need us” La La Land -…

The philosopher Kwame Appiah writes that “in life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.” When I try to figure out what game I’m playing, I see that for the last 25…

In this essay, I provide some advice to up-and-coming researchers in machine learning (ML), based on my experience doing research and advising others. The advice covers how to choose problems and organize your time. I also recommend the following prior…

Don’t surround yourself with “smarter” people. The trick is to surround yourself with people who are free in ways you’re not. (Ribbonfarm) I’ve been living by this concept before I could consciously articulate it.

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A list of things you're allowed to do that you thought you weren't, or didn't even know you could.

Are these simple things keeping you broke? Alex Hormozi reveals the biggest business lies you’ve been told and the formula to turn $1,000 into $100 million Alex Hormozi is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and founder of…

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