This is a good way to put it
jihad@jaesmail
I once again beg that you stop building tools for a world that you don’t want to exist.
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Matt Hartz
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Matt Hartz
@MattHartz_
I like to read and learn. Sometimes both at the same time
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Full notes for the 2004 letter can be found here: matthartz.me/p/berkshire
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The full context revolves more around Berkshire promising not to fire underwriting staff at one of their subsidiaries as they intentionally took less business for the time being. He mentinos Trump because 2004 was the time when The Apprentice was starting to air
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"This is not Donald Trump's sort of place" -- Warren Buffet, 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
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So cool to see the work that goes in behind the scenes
Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!)@visakanv
a great eg (skip to 0:48 if you want)
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@SP1NS1R I’m with you there. I also love the aspect of having different takeaways or responding to different things upon revisiting the material
Just did this with MSFM which is perhaps why I’m stanning so hard for it
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@MattHartz_ Yes and no. There is accessiblity & ramping up. But the best books are still the best, even if you have to work up to them.
Another lens: the best books have layered meaning and you can read as your first or last book and still derive (increasing) value (eg the Bible).
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This is the exact list I would expect from the 40th–60th percentile of readers.
Raises the need to offer differentiated outputs, or for entirely proprietary, or at least custom, datasets.
Eg How would “my list” of the Top 0.1% of humans answer this question?
Oskar Andermo@Oskarandermo
Since Chatgpt has read every book, this was a fun prompt: You have scanned all the books in the world. What top 5 books do you think a human should read in order to design and live a good life? @JamesClear you should be proud to be on this list (it is a great book).
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@SP1NS1R An example in my own life is Thinking Fast and Slow. If I started with that I think it might’ve been too dense.
But going from Moneyball -> The Undoing Project -> Predictably Irrational -> Blink and then finally Thinking Fast and Slow gave me the most value
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@SP1NS1R I think of it almost like a DAG. Are there a few upstream dependencies that must be satisfied before you can get to these downstream books that might have more value ultimately
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@chrisalbon One of my favorite talks from NormConf, which is a pretty high bar!
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And if you are interested in wtf a work log is and why I do it, I talked about it here: youtube.com/watch?v=HiF83i…
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One thing I've noticed with AI is that the barrier to having lots of little helper scripts is wildy lower.
I keep a work log so its easy to talk about what I worked. This script lets me open the terminal and type "log talked to james" and have it logged/timestamped. Super easy.
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@visakanv I've also heard people say, dance like you are playing the drums with your feet
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I’d love to hear more stories/examples like these if yall have any!
RJ ✨@theRJIyer
This reminds me of how, while preparing for a Bharatanatyam performance, my guru would ask us to dance for the person sitting in the furthermost row of the auditorium. He would ask us to "reach" that row with our gestures. Suddenly not only our gestures and but also our energy and facial expressions would become bigger.
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this remains possibly the best singing/vocalizing advice I’ve ever encountered. “Aah like you’re going to the doctor”. Suddenly opens up access to a level that previously seemed unreachable
Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!)@visakanv
@vinveliveera “Aah like you’re going to the doctor” 👨🏾🍳💋
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this is great, excited to go see it
weisser@julianweisser
"What do you care what other people think?" - Arline Greenbaum -- Richard Feynman --- Bob Dylan
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@patrick_oshag @FoundersPodcast We need the LBJ episodes! My notes were long, I can only imagine what @FoundersPodcast would end up having
matthartz.me/p/lessons-from…
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David (@FoundersPodcast) has done episodes on every book up until the one he’s pointing to. The rest of the books lay ahead.
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pretty interesting list. 2024 skewed more non-fiction for me, but my plan is for 2025 to be more focused on some of the "classics" within fiction
Ashwin Sharma@Ashwinreads
one year of reading 99% fiction. i learned > suffering finds meaning in its witness > everyone is a prisoner of their own mind > the glimmer of the divine is revealed when your life is turning to shit > duality is in every man. you can find a brutal criminal and a seeker of grace in the same person >you are not alone in your suffering > evil creeps in through ordinary acts of complacency > sin's ultimate goal is isolation >to do good is to expose oneself >laughter is the secure mans shield
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@movebettersam Love the passion within the rant. It is good perspective and one that is a nice change of pace from your usual posts. Not to say one version is better than the other, but it's good to hear this version of things. Press on!
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