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Turning 27 today and got myself a flip phone. I've determined that a smartphone has become a net negative for my life. Excited for this new phase!

Just gave Kate oral sex. Goodnight everyone.

chatGPT thinks I’m 7.8/10 hot that’s about a 5 in sf but a 10 in nyc. i’ll take it! prompt below 👇

Loved this morning. Included a nap in today's routine. May start napping more. > asleep before 9 pm > up at 5 am > 8h sleep, no wake events > work 2 hrs with fresh mind > 50 min strength > 12 min HIIT (30 sec sprints, 1 min recovery) > 10 min flexibility > 43 min, 200°F dry sauna > hit core body temp 102.8°F / 39.4°C > breakfast + work > 1 hr nap Sauna at 200°F for 43 min is intense, coupled with exercise, induces strong sleepiness. I was lights out for that 1hr nap. Woke up feeling it was 10/10 quality sleep. The nap is a longevity therapy: supporting growth hormone release, glymphatic clearance, muscle protein synthesis, and cognitive consolidation. I'd been skipping it because once the morning protocol ends, I'm dialed in as a builder. But I may be a better builder and rejuvenation athlete if naps are part of the daily routine. Especially on high exertion days.

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Another week on the road meeting with a couple dozen IT and AI leaders from large enterprises across banking, media, retail, healthcare, consulting, tech, and sports, to discuss agents in the enterprise. Some quick takeaways: * Clear that we’re moving from chat era of AI to agents that use tools, process data, and start to execute real work in the enterprise. Complementing this, enterprises are often evolving from “let a thousand flowers bloom” approach to adoption to targeted automation efforts applied to specific areas of work and workflow. * Change management still will remain one of the biggest topics for enterprises. Most workflows aren’t setup to just drop agents directly in, and enterprises will need a ton of help to drive these efforts (both internally and from partners). One company has a head of AI in every business unit that roles up to a central team, just to keep all the functions coordinated. * Tokenmaxxing! Most companies operate with very strict OpEx budgets get locked in for the year ahead, so they’re going through very real trade-off discussions right now on how to budget for tokens. One company recently had an idea for a “shark tank” style way of pitching for compute budget. Others are trying to figure out how to ration compute to the best use-cases internally through some hierarchy of needs (my words not theirs). * Fixing fragmented and legacy systems remain a huge priority right now. Most enterprises are dealing with decades of either on-prem systems or systems they moved to the cloud but that still haven’t been modernized in any meaningful way. This means agents can’t easily tap into these data sources in a unified way yet, so companies are focused on how they modernize these. * Most companies are *not* talking about replacing jobs due to agents. The major use-cases for agents are things that the company wasn’t able to do before or couldn’t prioritize. Software upgrades, automating back office processes that were constraining other workflows, processing large amounts of documents to get new business or client insights, and so on. More emphasis on ways to make money vs. cut costs. * Headless software dominated my conversations. Enterprises need to be able to ensure all of their software works across any set of agents they choose. They will kick out vendors that don’t make this technically or economically easy. * Clear sense that it can be hard to standardize on anything right now given how fast things are moving. Blessing and a curse of the innovation curve right now - no one wants to get stuck in a paradigm that locks them into the wrong architecture. One other result of this is that companies realize they’re in a multi-agent world, which means that interoperability becomes paramount across systems. * Unanimous sense that everyone is working more than ever before. AI is not causing anyone to do less work right now, and similar to Silicon Valley people feel their teams are the busiest they’ve ever been. One final meta observation not called out explicitly. It seems that despite Silicon Valley’s sense that AI has made hard things easy, the most powerful ways to use agents is more “technical” than prior eras of software. Skills, MCP, CLIs, etc. may be simple concepts for tech, but in the real world these are all esoteric concepts that will require technical people to help bring to life in the enterprise. This both means diffusion will take real work and time, but also everyone’s estimation of engineering jobs is totally off. Engineers may not be “writing” software, but they will certainly be the ones to setup and operate the systems that actually automate most work in the enterprise.

Another leak from Anthropic They created a lovable-like feature where you can build full-stack apps easily They are coming after everthing

When your working life rewards you, it’s easy to ratchet up the complexity: homes, cars, travel, possessions etc. I have found that all that complexity comes at the sake of your most fleeting asset: your time. Instead of building things, all of a sudden you’re dealing with minutiae and logistics. Instead of talking mostly to engineers, you’re talking mostly to non-engineers. The building stops…the business of managing self inflicted complexity begins. It’s worth noting that the best players in the game (Buffett, Elon) have kept their life extremely basic, almost monastic/nomadic, as success ratcheted them ever higher. I think it’s the biggest secret hiding in plain sight: When the world upgrades your status, downgrade your complexity.

JUST IN: Netherlands approves Tesla’s Full Self-Driving, the first European country to do so.

There is not a single country in Europe with a fertility rate above the replacement rate. As median age of women in Europe is 46, it’s too late to reverse it. Assume two things: 1. Your real estate will lose value 2. Your pension won’t be enough to keep your living standard

A senior engineer in EU earns less than a junior engineer in the US and If you're in tech & working from EU be it like a dev/gtm or any other role you’ve 4 choices: - Accept low salary & keep doing nothing - Move to US (hard choice and not everyone can afford it but if you can you should give it a shot, SF is crazy seen these days) - Try to find a well paid remote job from a US company (hard but not impossible many people in my network doing it and working for SF startups and earning over $200k easily) - Create your own company/agency and work with US clients and earn over $500k - $1M per year ( yes possible if you’re demand and know your market and can operate like an entrepreneur) but yes I was always shocked by the discrepancy between US and EU salaries because these days even India have higher salaries than EU!