Charles

Certificates are just proof of attendance not proof of work, all you need is 2-3 niche experience and a strong portfolio!

There are some businesses that are so operationally complex that you cannot add them to your business as a way to save money. For example, it is cheaper to own your own trucks if your business needs logistics, but the attention that sub business will take from you will kill your main business. Every time you own the entire stack, you create a pocket of complexity that can be very very expensive in terms of attention need.

there isn’t a hardware company on the planet with more trade secrets worth stealing than apple. asml’s are harder, & tsmc’s are deeper but nobody’s building a consumer device out of those.

I asked people which companies have the highest density of talented people they know: 1st. Cognition - 9 votes Equal 1st. Anthropic - 9 votes 2nd. Modal - 5 votes 3rd. OpenAI - 4 votes 4th. Standard Intelligence - 3 votes 4th. Cursor - 3 votes Two votes each: - Ramp - Flapping Airplanes - DeepMind - Long Lake - Applied Compute One vote each: - SpaceXAI - SpaceX (treated separately, one vote was for the AI lab subsidiary and one was for the rocket team) - American Terawatt - Mechanize - Olix - Fluidstack - Chai Discovery - Sail Research - Etched - Core Automation - Specter - Clay - Applied Intuition - Sierra - Hivemind - Bitrig - Retro - Thinking Machines - Decagon - Precigenetics - Pangram - Reflect - Thrive Holdings - Adaption

In your career, relationship or life, there will come a time (and that time always comes) when you will want to quit. It will hit you so hard on all fronts that you will just want to just be completely done with everything. Do not quit.

Does it annoy you , when people show up at your house unannounced?