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human | partial to curiosity & natural light | believes in magic

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2011
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Confidence is demonstrated ability.
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After months of writing, 'How to Unclench' is finally live! It's an interactive essay packed with stories, science & guided practices to help you unclench. → howtounclench.com
one of the best ways you can experience this is turn on a cold shower, and notice what happens to your body as you’re about to go in, then train yourself to unbrace… and then apply that same move to everything in increasingly subtle ways
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C. S. Lewis, quit worrying and go do something real
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People are now using AI to do the wrong thing, efficiently.
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one of the hardest lessons to learn is that people tell you that which they wish to be true way more than they tell you that which is true. people who “don’t care about money” are dollar obsessed firms that “never break handshakes” will retrade constantly, etc
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Take More Risks
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Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.? Because we gave them that L in 1776.
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Replying to @greg16676935420
We played 36 minutes a man down and still beat two countries.
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“England historically has struggled here in Massachusetts” — #WorldCup announcer on Fox 👀
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Maybe the secret to having a good life is realizing how good it already is
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Roger Federer on the kind of talent you can practice:
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Anthropic knows they are weeks away from AGI, which is why they are working with companies like Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, and others to build "joint centers of Excellence" and training and certifying 30,000 PwC professionals on Claude.
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Jeff Bezos: Slow decisions are worse than bad decisions
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Claude Code: "You've hit your limit · resets 7pm" Me from 5-6.59pm
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When you ask a Software CEO why they won't be disrupted by AI
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You fear mediocrity so much that you procrastinate endlessly, not realizing that procrastination is the very thing making you mediocre.
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Most people want to be founders. Very few want to sit alone long enough to find something worth building.
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An extremely cogent endorsement of it. Wow.
Magnus Carlsen gives a great explanation of the extraordinary power of what @DavidDeutschOxf has coined the 'fun criterion'... and the perils of its negation.
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new blog: stop working so hard
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