Eric Shively

@chamath Elon, multiple time Meta Gala attender and father of 14, described as "almost monastic"...

When your working life rewards you, it’s easy to ratchet up the complexity: homes, cars, travel, possessions etc. I have found that all that complexity comes at the sake of your most fleeting asset: your time. Instead of building things, all of a sudden you’re dealing with minutiae and logistics. Instead of talking mostly to engineers, you’re talking mostly to non-engineers. The building stops…the business of managing self inflicted complexity begins. It’s worth noting that the best players in the game (Buffett, Elon) have kept their life extremely basic, almost monastic/nomadic, as success ratcheted them ever higher. I think it’s the biggest secret hiding in plain sight: When the world upgrades your status, downgrade your complexity.

@harjtaggar Paul Christiano invented RLHF: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Chri…

Those who can, do; those who can’t, get really into AI safety.

@ESYudkowsky @potatosnmutton @nearcyan You may have already tried this but... what about running? The absolute caloric burn is incredibly high and it's much easier than most people think within a couple months.

@potatosnmutton @nearcyan I'm fine with anyone who prefaces "You may have already tried this but..." Just those few simple words instead of blind arrogant condescension.

does anyone know how sleep works. my circadian rhythm is hard-set to 5.5 hours of sleep and im biologically incapable of naps. after another year of work and thousands of dollars and many doctors and medications i have learned almost nothing of value. i wish we knew stuff.

@oanaolt I really like BirdNET

Does anyone use Shazam for birds? What’s the best one

@eriktorenberg Congrats Erik, well deserved!

I’m excited to share that: 1.⁠ ⁠I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner. 2.⁠ ⁠a16z has acquired Turpentine. Everything I’ve worked on over my career has been around investing and building products/networks/media for founders — a16z is the perfect place for me to do this work at the highest level. I’ve long admired the firm’s endless ambition and startup mentality. When I was thinking about starting a firm and asked Ben for advice on how to build the next a16z, he told me “the next a16z is…a16z”. When I told Marc my plans to marry investing, media, and networks, he said “do it all here, but bigger” and crafted the right role to make it all work. As for Turpentine, the shows will continue. I’m proud of what we built and excited to have more resources for supporting our hosts and growing the network. Today I’m feeling deeply grateful for all the entrepreneurs I’ve backed and my incredible team members at each chapter — and fortunate to now work with all the brilliant people at a16z. I’m stoked to partner with the next generation of great entrepreneurs and also hire even more fantastic people into the firm. DMs are open and my email is et@a16z.com.

@rrhoover Buy real estate mainly applies to your own land that you live on for a livable price. Not sure who meant it as a luxury condo to rent out for $10k/mth

Buy real estate, they said. It's wise, they said. 😅

@mxstbr @loganbartshow is great

which podcasts am I missing that have interesting episodes every now and then? nothing daily/background noise; I only listen to podcasts intentionally.

@nikitabier @paulg It's user-hostile behavior. It's not good for growth hacking but it's good for the open web, the reason we're on here rather than "deprioritized" Instagram

Aside from link-sharing sites (i.e., reddit, HN), virtually all social networks don’t allow links—and those that do (Facebook) deprioritize them in the feed. When something has such a negative impact to time spent, it’s hard to justify surfacing those posts at equal weight. And for what it’s worth, this predated Elon.

There are a lot of people attributing crazy beliefs to Elon lately, but to me the clearest sign that he's not entirely rational is the continued deprioritization of tweets with links in them. Everyone can see that this makes Twitter worse.

@ditzikow Eh, not as much as the 29cal Michelob Ultra Zero's but it does have some of the hoppiness of IPA's. Still leans kind of sparkling water-y because it's hard to have that carb feeling without any carbs. Light beers already remove most carbs and taste more like water

@EricShively Winner winner Does it taste like beer?

Why has no one made the diet coke of non alcoholic beer? Is it that difficult to make a zero calorie version?

@RhysSullivan Sapiens, Zero To One, World Order, Meditations, Master and Margarita, Brave New World

Trying to read more, send me your recommendations

@_robyn_smith belief is a powerful thing. I think you'd be surprised how much you get done if you try

@EricShively Eric, I’m dumb

what's the best way for a non-technical gal like myself to build a personal website that isn't ugly

@tszzl and if alignment doesn't get solved?

solve alignment both the demands of capital and the lightness of fun will want for fewer and fewer humans in the loop, so make an ai you can trust even more than a human

right now Operator and similar are painfully slow for many tasks. they will improve, there will be a period of like a month where they do their stuff at human speed, and then quickly move into the regime where we can’t follow what’s happening

@RhysSullivan Consumer freemium ~2% conversion (think Dropbox), so 2k MAU for $2k/mth means you're paying $1 on ~$10/month, that's 10% margin on just your auth when you have to pay compute, payment cuts, marketing, devs, etc. You can't give out 10% margin to every part of your stack

If you have a product that has 100,000 monthly active signed in users and you can’t afford $2k/mo for auth something is wrong with your monetization

@zeeg Super Duper easily clears, no question

Can’t believe some people think there’s a better burger than Five Guys

@rauchg CockroachDB punching the air rn

What you name your product matters more than people give it credit. It's your first and most universal UI to the world. Designing a good name requires multi-dimensional thinking and is full of edge cases, much like designing software.

@thdxr youtube.com/watch?v=ZNiEPP…

we did a lot of crazy shit with cars as teenagers but the fastest thing we had access to was BMW or equivalent what do teenagers do nowadays with access to teslas which are the equivalent to a super car from when i was that age

@tobobo @FernBallew Illegal? That’s a solid nollie bs tail. Pretty hard to do on a small ledge

@EricShively @FernBallew Illegal or no? 🤔

@tobobo @FernBallew Are you skating, just the next few hours? I'm pretty busy until 5 today 😢

@EricShively @FernBallew Not yet but I was actually about to text you- about to drive to Fremont!