William Tang

The lines you choose not to cross form the outline of your character.

Sensitivity to initial conditions is the hallmark of chaos.

@midwitsteven I sense a story behind this

@danielchingwq @t1namai @SatvikAgnihotri @vercinyc @LilavoisSimone Thank you for the tag Daniel :) @t1namai happy to meet up!

@t1namai @SatvikAgnihotri @vercinyc @WilliamxTang @LilavoisSimone most welcoming bunch of friends

leaving stanford to build full time in NYC (might write more about decision later. for now, hopping on a one-way flight this friday). who should i meet in the city??

Make money by making concentrated bets on yourself. Lose money by making diffuse bets on others. Invest money by betting on people you would work with, running businesses that you could run.

@Jayyanginspires These are good -- thank you

What questions do you like to ask yourself? Comment below 👇

The most powerful habit I’ve developed this year? Journaling. If you want to develop a clear mind, ask yourself these 5 questions:

"If you want to have a maximum effect on the design of a new engineering system, learn to draw. Engineers always wind up designing the vehicle to look like the initial artist's concept." - From Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

Lessons from my internship at Solugen: link.medium.com/Qp7QkYYEICb

Quality of writing = quality of thought.

You’re gonna lose sleep. You’ll doubt whether it’ll work. You’ll stress to make ends meet. You won’t finish your to do list. You’ll wonder if you made the right call - and have no way to know for years. This is what ‘hard’ feels like. And that’s okay.

@awilkinson @_harrisonnolan this might be interesting?

I hated high school. It was like being in prison. The most valuable part of it was learning how to be around difficult people. It made me hate learning and it took me years to realize that some of the topics they had tried to teach me were actually useful and interesting. As a result, I've decided I want to explore starting a private high school in Victoria, Canada (my hometown) via my foundation. A few of my ideas: - Focus on teaching skills that are applicable to 95% of people's lives (psychology, history, logic, applied math, financial literacy) vs. 5% (advanced math/physics - except for those who want to learn it). There are people who want to be academics or rocket scientists. Let them. But I think it's apparent by early high school whether that's something you want to do. Let people opt out of these silly extremes. - Pay teachers 25% above market to ensure we can get the absolute best. - Tuition is based on the income of the family. If you make $1M/year, your kids tuition will be far more expensive than someone who makes $60k/year and it will subsidize the less fortunate families. To ensure diversity, at least half the kids will come from lower income families. - Outcome based education. In order to want to learn a skill, you need to have a reason to learn it. I remember being taught calculus just...because I should know it? No explanation of cool ways I could use it or how I could apply it. As such, I could have cared less. I feel like our current education system is a bit like teaching someone to play the guitar when they've never heard Led Zeppelin. You should hear Led Zeppelin first, get inspired, and then be desperate to learn guitar. Kids should be shown a wide variety of future life possibilities/outcomes/jobs and then choose what they want to learn in order to achieve those outcomes. - Project based learning (building real things, starting businesses, etc) - Late start time (teenagers need insane amount of sleep) - Exceptionally healthy food I'd love some help finding the perfect person to run the school. Who should I hire? Must be willing to relocate to Victoria, Canada (it's beautiful).

1942: Build up Russia to fight Germany 1972: Build up China to fight Russia 2022: Build up India to fight China

If the people around you aren’t impressed by what you’ve done, it’s a good sign. Those are the people you want to be around.

@SofiasBio @Stanford Will be on campus all day tmrw :)

(🧬,🌲) New summer bio adventure @Stanford Let’s meet if you’re around! ;)

@vercinyc 👋

engage with this tweet or comment if you're in NYC and want to be social & building cool stuff — we're back to hosting concerts, dinners, studio seshs, workshops, & gallery events over the next months 👀

I’ve said that you should offer to work for free for someone to learn from them. Two caveats: 1) Go for someone 1-2 steps ahead of you, not 20. Elon musk doesn’t need someone getting his coffee. 2) Don’t offer to do stuff for free. DO IT. Don’t ask “how can I provide value?” ^It’s now costing me time to try and figure out a way for you to provide value to me. Be an adult. Do your homework. Figure out what you can do. Then DO IT. And expect that the person won’t care. Then keep doing it. And if it’s good, they’ll give you a shot. You gotta remember - you’re the one with everything to gain here. Low skilled labor is not in short supply. And training people is expensive. So - if you want someone further ahead to give you a hand, give them something they’d wanna stick out their hand for. And if no one is taking you up on your offer, you’ve gotta make it better. Simple as that. And real talk - sometimes timing isn’t right. I had someone ask to translate one of my books for me. I was distracted. And I said I don’t have time for this now. Guy took it personally. 6 months later I hired a book manager and we’re translating in a lot of languages now. If he reached out now - it would probably work out. No different effort. Just timing FOR ME. An offer I would take is something that helps me NOW. Make my life easier and faster INCLUDING the interaction w the person (hard hurdle). Real real - if you wanna do something for me you’re probably gonna have to do work for a leader in my company. Then they’ll offer you a job and I won’t be involved. Anyways - the work for free cheat sheet: 1) Target people a couple steps ahead not eons ahead. 2) Provide the value first. Don’t ask what you can do. 3) Make then an offer so good theyd feel stupid saying no: what they want, easier, faster, risk free. —>and realize that the timing may not be right - and be willing to ask more than one person or ask again in the future without getting butthurt.

I finally understood today what it means to not take yourself too seriously. Failure isn’t good or bad—it just IS. Accepting reality = inner peace.

"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75" Why? 4 reasons and solutions:

Hosting a SF #HackerHouse, this summer 🏡☀️ $900/month June 1 - September 1 🗓 Includes events, speakers, a guide to the city, plug-in to investors, and a wicked community. Interested? Shoot @SatvikAgnihotri a DM for the link #SanFrancisco #Tech

If you want to get stuff done faster, organize to create more leverage. Ex: If you want to shorten your morning routine, there are 3 things you can control. 1. The number of actions 2. The speed at which you do them 3. The order of actions Focus on 1,3, then 2.