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@eladgil Haha

Lol cdn.realfood.gov/DGA.pdf

@operationdanish Source?

We now have evidence that gentle parenting doesn’t work. Here’s an uncomfortable truth about parenting no one wants to say out loud: The data is not kind to gentle parenting. According to teenagers, strict curfews. strict bedtimes, screen limits, device drop off times, dedicated homework blocks, and sleepover restrictions IMPROVE higher relationship quality. And yes, parenting difficulty goes up. Of course it does. Leadership is harder than appeasement. For the past decade we have been sold a watered down, Instagram friendly version of “gentle parenting” that often collapses into boundary avoidance, endless negotiation and emotional processing without enforcement. Parents terrified of saying no because they do not want to rupture connection. But connection without authority is not connection. It is dependency. When parents impose structure, the relationship improves. Teenagers report better parent child relationship quality in homes with curfews and rules. Younger kids report better relationships in homes with screen limits and bedtimes. Even device drop off times correlate positively. Why? Because structure is not cruelty. Structure is love made visible. A bedtime says: your brain matters more than your entertainment. A screen limit says: your dopamine system is not fully developed and I will guard it until it is. A curfew says: your safety matters more than your social standing. That is not authoritarianism. That is caring. Boundaries create friction. Friction creates growth. The parent absorbs the short term discomfort so the child does not pay the long term cost. Children do not experience well calibrated limits as rejection. They experience them as stability. The human brain craves predictability. Predictability reduces anxiety. Reduced anxiety strengthens attachment. That is why relationship quality goes up. Notice something else in the data. The strongest effects are around time structure. Bedtime. Homework. Devices. Outside play. These are environmental constraints. They scaffold executive function. The winning formula is not tyranny. It is high warmth plus high structure. The modern failure mode is high warmth plus low structure. That is just abdication of responsibility wrapped in empathy. Children need leadership, not negotiation. They need adults who can tolerate their anger. They need boundaries that do not move every time emotions spike. They need someone whose prefrontal cortex is fully myelinated. The harder path produces the stronger bond. Because when a child feels that someone is strong enough to hold the line, they relax. And relaxed nervous systems build durable relationships.

@patrick_oshag @JoshuaKushner The last episode was the single most inspiring conversation I ever listened to about investing and venture!!!

This is my second conversation with @JoshuaKushner. Josh started Thrive in 2011 and the firm now manages ~$50 billion. We cover the iconic investments that defined it: Instagram, Stripe, GitHub, and spend a lot of time on OpenAI. He explains how Thrive thinks about investing today and the three categories they're currently focused on. Josh also talks about how he built the firm – why they keep the team so small, why concentration is core to what they do, and what he's learned from A24 about enabling artists to create their best work. Throughout the conversation, Josh shares the personal stories that shaped him, from his grandmother surviving the Holocaust to lessons from Stan Druckenmiller and Jon Winkelried at formative moments in Thrive's history. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/7nRM1E…

@patriciamou_ Still loving this post

For my birthday this year, my dad gifted me a dirty bottle of water. Not kidding. In the past he’s gifted me: a first aid kit, pepper spray, an encyclopedia, a key chain, dedicated a book he wrote to me, etc. good ol dad gifts. He told me this years gift was extra special as no money could possibly buy it: a valuable life lesson. A shaken dirty bottle of water symbolizes life when you’re flustered. Everything appears dirty. But when the mind settles, dirt only represents less than 10% of the bottle. It’s important to maintain perspective. Later that weekend I took the bottle to the ocean and poured it back in - sharing a lesson with him in the process: “You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop.” In effect, I one-upped his cliche 😌 the point of this post is that I am very obviously the child of this man.

@gradypb @mattshumer_ Can we have both @mattshumer_ and @WillManidis on @twentyminutevc @HarryStebbings

This has become a popular critique of both Something Big is Happening by @mattshumer_ and AI systems more generally. IMHO, Will gets two things right and two things wrong. Right 1: “The market for feeling productive is orders of magnitude larger than the market for being productive”. This is probably true. Very few activities actually lie on the critical path to productivity, and we are amazingly good at convincing ourselves otherwise. See exhibits A and B, the fact that I wrote this tweet and the fact that you are now reading it. Right 2: “Diffusion into the real economy will take much longer”. This is probably true. My best guess is that if you were to freeze AI capabilities right now, they would still take more than a decade to ripple through the real economy. Rate of diffusion also helps to explain why AI researchers view AI so differently than most people. They have seen the future. Most have not. Wrong 1: “Almost no one has stopped to ask whether the relationship between tokens consumed and value produced is a line, a curve, or a cloud”. Well, he may be right that it’s “almost” no one. But my partner @DavidCahn6 published "AI’s $200B Question" in September 2023 and updated it with "AI’s $600B Question" in June 2024. Wrong 2: “The essay, much like the AI it discusses, was a tool-shaped object”. This is both wrong and, ironically, a tool-shaped criticism. It is a tool-shaped criticism in that it attacks the form, not the function. It attacks the credibility of the author (“the CEO of an LLM startup that I couldn't immediately parse the function of”) and the manner in which he wrote (“the essay is slop”), while failing to acknowledge the very real and useful purpose the article has served. Something Big is Happening is, in fact, a marvelously useful tool. It has served a real purpose. It has been a wake up call for some 70M+ people. Those people are now more aware of what is coming, and more likely to make the right choice. Will you let AI wash over you, or will you put it to work? The best time to make that decision is right now. Thanks to Something Big is Happening, more people will make the right decision sooner.

@hubermanlab genes and intelligence, genes and propensity for criminal behaviour

Sitting down today to interview the premier scientist working on the relationship between genes and behavior— and abilities at every level. In humans. What do you want me to ask?

@SahilBloom Chop wood carry water!

Everyone needs to read this…. The Carpenter Principle (a visual thread)

@saranormous Source?

complete failure that education sector is lagging this badly in AI. the result of this lack of adoption is that we get many of the AI abuses folks are afraid of (eg cheating) but miss the benefits (eg personalized tutoring)

@lulumeservey ♥️

I’m afraid this is the most perfect company swag I’ve ever seen

@HarryStebbings @JoshuaKushner

Best podcast episode you have listened to in the last 7 days go…

@APompliano One battle after another

What was the best thing you read, watched, or listened to this week? Any topic is fair game.

@mamoonha @kleinerperkins @Google @p0 @IndexVentures @paraga @travers00 Such a big fan of Parallel

In 1999, @KleinerPerkins backed @Google at the Series A to index the web for humans. 26 years later, @p0 is indexing the web for its “next” user: AI agents. We’re excited to co-lead the $100M Series A with @IndexVentures. Founded by @paraga with @travers00 leading product, Parallel is building the web for agents: a native search API and index that can retrieve, organize, and rank tokens so agents are able to assemble the right context and complete real work across enrichment, research, and automation. Think insurance underwriting. A human might spend an hour clicking blue links to piece together facts. An agent declares intent and asks for high-signal tokens. That shift demands new infrastructure. @p0 is building it. I’m thrilled to join the board to support this remarkable team. More here: kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/p…

@TheHolyKau Mindblown:-)

TIL that Pat Grady is married to Sarah Guo? Whaaaaat

@johncoogan 😳

Stripe has added $70b in market cap since this post btw

@patrick_oshag Not an essay but the book Breakneck is amazing

Anyone read a great essay or article lately?

@mervenoyann Source?

@elonmusk 😍

Starlink starting to go live on United!

@mreflow 🤣

My wife saw the new Air Pods with real-time translation and she was like “I need these because I can get my nails done, pretend like I’m listening to music, and finally know if the nail ladies are talking crap.” Apple should advertise this use-case.

@HarryStebbings @WHOOP @ouraring karpathy.bearblog.dev/finding-the-be…

In my bid to become a morning person; I bought a @WHOOP and an @ouraring. Which is better and why?

@HarryStebbings @WHOOP @ouraring @karpathy did a beeakdown on this