Angel Sahagun

1/ Excited to announce our $45M round for @albomx - a major milestone for us and the biggest Series B in Mexico for a fintech* company ever! techcrunch.com/2020/12/08/mex…

Working on something ambitious is like climbing a mountain that’s covered in fog. You can't see a clear path to the top. You have to take a few steps into the unknown to be able to see the next few steps in front of you. Inevitably, sometimes you’ll end up a local maximum and have to backtrack. That’s fine, just keep moving.

Humans will delegate all boring things to agents and keep interesting things for themselves.

The temptation of an entrepreneur is to wait until you have things figured out . . . but of course if you wait that long, its almost always too late. Do things that are imperfect.

This is one of the most underrated observations in tech right now. if AI commoditizes software, what's actually safe? - regulated and liability-bearing businesses (someone has to be on the hook) - anything touching the physical world (hardware, manufacturing, energy) - proprietary data sets (AI makes your data more valuable, not less) - marketplaces and businesses with network effects (liquidity > software) - operationally intense businesses (the "bad" businesses become the best ones) - cybersecurity and physical security (more AI = more attack surface)

AI is adapting to us faster than we are adapting to it.

Alan Watts gives some of the most insightful thoughts on life. [🎞️ grahamcweaver]

The most successful people I know all have an almost irrational belief that everything will work out And I just recently learned the word for it: Pronoia. It means the opposite of paranoia. The belief that the world is secretly conspiring in your favor. The funny thing about Pronoia is that it's self-fulfilling. When you believe things will work out, you try harder. You persist longer, and you see opportunities where others see dead ends. What's that quote again? "Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." – Nat Friedman We all need a little more pronoia in our lives.

The biggest myth in medicine is that aging is separate from disease

the market is currently severely mispricing human life. right now, the consensus trade is to spend down biological assets (your body+mind) to acquire fiat currency and status. soon biological persistence will become the most valued asset.

Can you believe Rand wrote this 70 years ago??

You need silence to find ou what you think. Many people are uncomfortable with silence. They fill every moment with sound ... music, podcasts, TV. But this constant input leaves no room for output. Give your mind the space it needs to speak to you.

how good your life is. is directly correlated by how small your gap is between decision and execution.

We're going to be the generation that will redefine what it means to be human.

Lifestyle and environment explain ~17% of our mortality risk; genetics less than ~2%. Your life is more shaped by your actions than your ancestry

The best advice I’ve heard this year: Be careful who you give read/write access to your brain.

Sleep hits harder when you’re exhausted. Food tastes better when you’ve gone hungry. Water tastes sweeter when you’ve been grinding. Music hits deeper when you’ve been in silence. Deprivation sharpens pleasure. Don’t run from suffering. That’s what gives life its color.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s best career advice: “Passion isn’t enough, you’ve got to endure.”

Feedback from other people is usually fake. Awards are fake. Critics are fake. Kudos from your friends and family are fake. They might try to be genuine, but it’s lost in such a sea of fakeness that you’re not going to get real feedback. Real feedback comes from free markets and nature. Physics is harsh: either your product worked, or it didn’t. Free markets are harsh: either people buy it, or they don’t. But feedback from other people is fake. You can’t get good feedback from groups because groups are just trying to get along. Individuals search for truth, groups search for consensus. A group that doesn’t get along decoheres. It falls apart. And the larger the group, the less good feedback you’re going to get from it. You don’t want to necessarily rely on feedback from your mom or your friends or your family, or even from award ceremonies and award systems. If you’re optimizing your company to end up on the cover of a magazine, or to win an industry award, you’re failing. You need customers. That’s your real feedback. You need feedback from nature. Did your rocket launch? Did your drone fly? Did your 3D printer print the object within the tolerances that it was supposed to, in the time it was supposed to, in the cost budget that it was supposed to? It’s very easy to fool yourself. It’s very easy to be fooled by others. It is impossible to fool Mother Nature.

Knowledge is like an ocean, vast and infinite. The further you venture, the deeper you realize it goes. Yet, if you only stand at the shore, you may falsely believe you've seen its entirety.

Everything you do, and everything you touch... That's your signature in the world.