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@buckeyevn Really great article. Thank you.

@patio11 Have you tried @warpdotdev ?

The many replies "just use Claude Code" have caused me to a) try that b) have an absolutely mindblowing experience and c) have even greater desire to write a check into this hypothetical company than previously.

I would invest in this company.

@wehavethedata_ If you plotted median net worth of people who die in each county, it would likely look the same.

@wehavethedata_ How is life expectancy assigned to a county? Where you die? If I make a lot of money working in Alaska and retire to south Florida and die there at 90, where is my life expectancy data counted? Many people die in a different place from where they lived.

What’s goin on up there in Alaska?

@wehavethedata_ The people who do this would tend to be far more affluent/wealthy. So this whole chart could be renamed: wealthy people are more mobile in retirement and live longer than poor people…here is where wealthy people migrate to in retirement.

If I were @KamalaHarris or @KamalaHQ my main ad would be to just play this speech with one line at the end: “I am Kamala Harris and I endorse this message.”

It’s amazing how powerful a handful of TV commercials will be for my Attorney General race. Makes it difficult to inform voters that my opponent: - voted to overturn the last election - wrote the disastrous “bathroom bill” that nuked NC’s business climate until it was repealed - wants to “smash the FBI into a million pieces” - is deeply opposed to reproductive freedom - invested in a website that’s used as a safe haven for white supremacists - has never prosecuted a single case But - somehow - we’ll find a way to get the word out.

@snowmaker Parallel realization about marketing that only one page one your website about you (the about us page), everything else should be about them - the customer and the progress they hope to make

It's fun to watch founders who are new at sales have the magic moment when they realize that sales is about listening, not talking.

If this video goes viral, Trump will lose easily.

@shaneparrish Imho ownership is key. To get fire you need the fire triangle: fuel+oxygen+heat in exactly the right proportions. The ownership triangle: accountability+responsibility+authority. To get ownership all must be present in exactly the right proportions.

Focusing on accountability doesn't improve decision quality. Embracing responsibility does.

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@ValaAfshar What ever happened to Yosanta?

Jeff Bezos on the importance of knowing what you are good at and what you are not

@maqwelll @NikMilanovic Every 5 mins add another ball.

new rule: if the game ends in a draw after 90 mins, both teams get eliminated, I’m sick of this

@garrytan @martin_casado If I were the interviewer: “AI is already great at spewing nonsense bullshit and yet here you are still at it.”

This is terrible advice sorry

@jasonfried @sriramk @lexfridman @Sara_Imari This tweet is the seed crystal of an @andyweirauthor best selling book. I would preorder it today.

Just listened to @lexfridman and @Sara_Imari talk about the origins of life, the search for life, what is life, etc. It was a wonderfully refreshing, nourishing conversation. youtube.com/watch?v=wwhTfy… It made me want to spill out some random thoughts on the subject. I’m unqualified, but I’m curious. Our search for life off this planet is inherently primitive. We search for life based on our definitions, using instruments designed to detect what we already know. And who can blame us? It would be impossible to look for what we wouldn’t recognize in a way that we can’t realize. It wasn’t until the 17th century that we even discovered microbial life. And microbial life is the most plentiful life on earth, far surpassing the biomass of plant, animal, and fungal life combined. There’s more of it than anything, and we’ve always been living among it, yet we didn’t know it was here. But it wasn’t just that. Since we share a common ancestor with the microbes, we didn’t find new life, we found an earlier version of who we were. Imagine a microbe evolving so much intelligence that it forgot where it came from, only to invent instruments billions of years later to find itself again. That’s what happened. How beautiful is that? Maybe it will happen again. If we find life elsewhere, we might be discovering a more advanced version of ourselves. Or if life finds us, it might rediscover its primitive origins. If we can forget and lose our history once, why couldn't we forget and lose our future again? It makes me think about what other forms life could take. And how we might never be able to detect it. Let’s imagine that thoughts were a form of life. They feel like it. They mate, they multiply, they evolve, they consume us, they drive us, they make us move, they seem to be born, they seem to die. They seem to have their own agency, appearing in your mind whether welcome or not. But you can't see thoughts. You don't even know a thought exists until you, or someone else, has it. Maybe thoughts are location-based, waiting in every place. To discover one, you can’t look for it. Rather, you have to be where it is. Imagine what it would be like to stand on Mars, looking back at Earth. But if you were actually there, you’d almost certainly have a thought you couldn’t have here. Insights incompatible with any earthly experience. Questions that couldn’t be contemplated without standing on Martian dust. From Mars, the Earth is mirror. From Earth, Mars is a mirror. Both mirrors, but each perspective reflecting entirely different thoughts. You can’t see the same view or have the same thought from the other place. You must be there to meet thoughts living there. Maybe thoughts don't exist in time and space but in mind and place. This specific mind, in that specific place. Then imagine trying to look for thoughts with our instruments and techniques. Nothing would register. Trillions of thoughts unnoticed, unaware. They can’t be measured, they can only be experienced. How could we ever find them without having them, without being there, without being them? We search for life as if it's something to be found. But perhaps there's something even more alive, beyond our current understanding.

In the end he will be lauded as a successful startup CEO…a metaphor…

@emollick I often wonder if this is the result of increased life expectancy (number of productive years) and an optimal stopping problem (the 37% rule or the secretary problem). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary…

The age at which scientists or inventors achieve their moment of genius increasing: Half of all pioneering contributions in science now happen after age 40, it used to be younger. Why? There is much more to master before making a contribution to a field. nber.org/papers/w19866

@KTmBoyle @garrytan Gerrymandering is the root cause of this. It allowed the ideologues to change the game.

The biggest shift in American politics in the last two decades is the prioritization of ideology over winning. It used to be that our system forced ideologues to the fringes. In the end, rationality reigned because politicians like to hold power! You would never make unforced errors that alienate most people because decisions were made to do one thing: win. It’s now clear that low level ideologues are making deliberate and destructive decisions because winning doesn’t really affect them. They’re playing a different game, and it’s hurting the country.

@asmartbear Interestingly, using ChatGPT to refine your thinking like this is incredibly powerful.

Trick when it’s hard to explain something: 1. Say/write it out, no matter how long. 2. Give it to someone else. 3. Have them ask you: “What do you 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 mean?” 4. …repeatedly, as you try to answer. 5. Eventually you’ll say “it’s really just ____.” Now you’ve got it.

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What advice do you have for a 10 year old that wants to be a roboticist? 🤖