‌Paul Graham (Twitter)

A first-person account of a professor's fascinatingly mundane strategies for dealing with symptoms of schizophrenia. I don't think I've ever read anything so British.

‌Paul Graham (Twitter)

"Allegations that Israel is deliberately hampering the flow of food and basic supplies into Gaza lie at the heart of South Africa’s high-profile genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice."

Paul Graham (Twitter)

We've noticed the Taft has an interesting property: you can use him as an oracle. You can propose an idea to him, and he'll either smile or frown. I think this is because the image is ambiguous. His brow is looks like he's frowning, but his mustache seems to be smiling.

‌Reid Hoffman (Twitter)

RT @robertwrighter: I had a great chat with @reidhoffman about why he co-founded @inflectionAI (maker of @heypi_ai), why he's less worried about AI than I am, and lots of related stuff. You can watch here or listen on my Nonzero Podcast.

Paul Graham (Twitter)

I was trying to explain to 11 yo what a priestly caste was. Eventually I settled on: a kind of hereditary union.

Paul Graham (Twitter)

RT @Liv_Boeree: AI apparently now at Math Olympiad levels in geometry 👀

Deepmind’s “AlphaGeometry”, uses a language model + deduction engine to solve complex geometry problems.

Also, it uses a similar dual-thinking method as humans (analogous to intuition & logic in the book “thinking fast and slow”)!

Shreyas Doshi (Twitter)

RT @levie: US politicians don’t seem to comprehend the level and scale of talent that we’re keeping out of the country. The primary way to ensure our global position in tech, and the jobs that go along with it, is to have that talent here. This is why high skill immigration is so critical.

Orange Book 🍊📖 (Twitter)

Never expect someone who never had the courage to walk on a truly different path to understand why you are doing it.

Reid Hoffman (Twitter)

And here is @kerrywashington's reaction to this AI version of me:

Reid Hoffman (Twitter)

This week on the Possible podcast, I share a clip of an AI version of me. What do you think?

Thanks to @HourOneAI for working on this — and for bringing a few lines from my @TheAtlantic article to life.

Shreyas Doshi (Twitter)

Many B2B / SaaS pivots happening as it becomes clear that the original product won’t scale beyond the very early adopters.

Be sure to consider these questions for whatever you are pivoting to now:

1. What problem are you solving

2. How important is this problem

3. Who gets fired if this problem is not solved -or-

4. Who gets promoted if this problem is solved

5. How easy or difficult will it be to justify paying for this product

6. What are the technical & human impediments to roll out your product

7. How easy or difficult will it be for competitors to steal a typical account by undercutting your pricing

There is of course a lot more to it and I suggest you also pay attention to your intuition, but you will at least give yourself a good chance by being rigorous with your answers this time around.

Rigorous = take the customer perspective + do your research + try your best to be honest + don’t believe your own pitch deck

Orange Book 🍊📖 (Twitter)

It’s funny how people who are most worried about “doing something with their lives,” often end up doing nothing at all, because their anxiety interrupted their focus, because their lack of mental clarity prevented them from being smart. You want progress, learn to relax.

Naval (Twitter)

Why doesn’t someone take all of the medical papers on Sci-Hub, dump them into an LLM, rip off the “safeguards,” and build the world’s best doctor?

Orange Book 🍊📖 (Twitter)

If you simply manage to stay physically healthy and mentally stable over the course of a decade, and steadily invest in yourself, in loving relationships, in your financial freedom, one day you will step back, look around, realize there is no competition, and that life is good.

Paul Graham (Twitter)

Interestingly, you can see in this graph the tapering off of the first incarnation of political correctness around 2005 (things didn't get better, but they at least stopped getting worse) and then its return, as wokeness, starting in about 2015.

Paul Graham (Twitter)

You can also see that the slope of increasing intolerance in the woke era is steeper than in the previous one, either because of social media or because wokeness is inherently more militant. The slope is as steep as in the hippie days of the early 70s, but in reverse.

Paul Graham (Twitter)

According to this graph by @jean_twenge, college students were less in favor of free speech in 2019 than in any previous year. The peak of free speech was in the 1970s and 80s. It has been all downhill since the late 1980s, when political correctness first arose.

Orange Book 🍊📖 (Twitter)

You can have your whole daily routine optimized, and still feel unhappy if you have no one around to listen, to care, to love you. Too many people have forgotten the importance of family, friends, community. Your mental health follows the quality of your closest relationships.

‌Shreyas Doshi (Twitter)

Lots of great opportunities in here – hearing of many folks connecting and some hiring managers filling open roles via past such threads I’ve initiated. Check it out if you are hiring product managers or looking for a role.

‌Paul Graham (Twitter)

"No one’s family name was changed, altered, shortened, butchered, or 'written down wrong' at Ellis Island or any American port. That idea is an urban legend."

Wow. I didn't realize this till now.

Paul Graham (Twitter)

RT @amasad: Education and everything that builds a good life and an aspiration for a better future is the way out of the cycle of violence. Needlessly destroying civil society guarantees more violence. https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1747734676800684361#m