A.K. Chalise

I think about this daily. Life’s work. Ikigai.

in zero sum games (status, jobs, market dominance), competition is external. in positive sum games (skill building, creativity, self-improvement), internal competition is more relevant. the trick is knowing which game you’re playing & not getting gaslit into thinking it’s one when it’s actually the other.

Zuck: Apple is “squeezing people” for money with their 30% app store fee. Also Zuck:

Hey I’m Abhishek, a Perplexity Pro member and a student at Northeastern University(Seattle). I’ve applied to become a Perplexity Ambassador. I know it's past the due timeline but its just one week in spring term. Would love to represent @AravSrinivas @GregFeingold @perplexity_ai

Most successful people I've met aren't that smart. They move fast, they take risk, they work a lot.

Guys, You don't realize how low the bar has been set these days. Just getting your body into decent shape and learning basic communication skills puts you in the top 10% of men. It literally doesn't take much to become above average.

for the zillionth time hard work has little to do with earnings. Pretty confident that construction workers work harder than engineers but make much less. Price is all about supply demand economics 🙏

we are getting AGI or a bubble that's gonna wipe the tech sector clean after this

Bro, things won't always go as planned. Learn to adapt. That's where real success is.

wrote this a few months back

Artist comes first for a reason.

The rules: (1) know precisely what you want, (2) determine the cost of what it will take to get it, (3) don't bargain over the price.

Charlie Munger on Warren Buffett’s intense focus: “Buffett’s decision to limit his activities to a few kinds and to maximize his attention to them, and to keep doing so for 50 years, was a lollapalooza. Buffett succeeded for the same reason Roger Federer became good at tennis. Buffett was, in effect, using the winning method of the famous basketball coach, John Wooden, who won most regularly after he had learned to assign virtually all playing time to his seven best players. That way opponents always faced his best players, instead of his second best. And, with the extra playing time, the best players improved more than was normal. And Buffett much out-Woodened Wooden, because in his case the exercise of skill was concentrated in one person, not seven, and his skill improved and improved as he got older and older during 50 years, instead of deteriorating like the skill of a basketball player does.”

“In the last 48 years, there has been a $50 trillion transfer of wealth from the bottom 90% to the top 1% of Americans. That transfer has decimated our middle class,” Marianne Williamson has said.

Matthew Weiner: thrive on rejection, hold on to compliments. "an important survival mechanism I've acquired is to both thrive on rejection and hold on to compliments. Rejection enrages me, but that "I'll show you!" feeling is an extremely powerful motivator."

Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you’re the least important person in the room—until you change that with results.

1/5 Interesting article about one of the consequences of "deglobalization": "You’ve gone from a situation where if you did a power tool assembly in China or Mexico, you might have 50 to 75 people on a line. " wsj.com/articles/ameri… via @WSJ

@paulg Major misallocation of capital imo. Most on this list won’t make it. Not enough talent in manufacturing & heavy industries.