Daniel W. Chen
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Daniel W. Chen
@danielwchen0
2yr+ solopreneur who’s still alive. ai daily. X is just my diary entry.
Life Note 👉 Katılım Aralık 2017
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I’m sorry but consumer is a trillion times more fun than B2B
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@lovnexora Read a lot, experience things, spend time with people, help them, be a polymath generalist, get really intense about things you're interested in
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iOS developers: How long is App Review taking for everyone these days?
It is now taking longer to get our app approved than it is to build the actual features.
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Introspection = neuroticism x narcissism x thumbsucking.
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@freeflawz @pmarca no one miss his fucking point. we get his point, but he can't acknowledge how the misuse of words and the hyperbole can create misunderstandings and misrepresent how the great people in history actually are.
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@pmarca How is everyone missing Marc's fucking point? He is right, you know. You just have to think about it for a while.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, X.16: “To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.”
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@CarterKoWang he needs things to say to sound contrarian when going to 4 podcasts in a week.
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why is marc andreessen telling everyone that introspection is useless? isn’t that a prerequisite to living a life that you actually enjoy?
if you don’t introspect or think and just put your head down and move, you’re going to end up in a place you never even wanted to be in. look at all the miserable rich ppl that exist. they wipe their tears with their money but they still cry.
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@praneethpike @pmarca can't introspect, can't think, can only spit out historical insights that are completely subjective and false. sounds like a broken llm 😭
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@praneethpike @pmarca I know 😭 Does the absence of introspection lead to a complete breakdown of logic?
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@ryancarson @pmarca not guilt tripping yourself doesn’t mean you don’t introspect, in fact you are just introspecting here.
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I watched this interview, and what struck me the most was that @pmarca said he has zero interest in introspection in his life.
I feel the same but have always felt bad about it.
I don't have the patience or interest in any sort of introspection on the past.
I don't want to talk to a therapist.
I don't want to write in a journal.
It was interesting to see that Marc feels the same way.
Made me feel less bad about it.
Great interview @davidsenra.
David Senra@davidsenra
In our conversation Marc Andreessen makes the case that the beating heart of our civilization’s progress is the founder: “You’re much more likely to build something important in the 21st century if you start with a founder and train them in management than if you start with a manager and try to train them to be a founder.”
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@pmarca so delusional if you think we are just our minds and context windows, your arguments are so shallow minded that's why you think you only have 15 seconds of context windows 😭
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You're a 15 second sliding context window with the working memory of a goldfish, your long term memory is mainly fake, and it's a minor miracle you can get out of the door in the morning.
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
TLDR There is no inner self, you're chasing an imaginary concept, the end.
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It is 100% true that great men and women of the past were not sitting around moaning about their feelings. I regret nothing.
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Steve Jobs, the famously not introspective man that birthed the silicon valley culture
David Senra@davidsenra
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
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@RnaudBertrand "States flourish when their philosophers are kings, or their kings are philosophers."
- Plato
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Someone is in dire need of reading Marcus Aurelius 😏
David Senra@davidsenra
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
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I’m a huge fan of your poscasts but this take and message make me trust you a lot less David.
You can’t just say things that’s not true to have a bold take. Read mastery from Robert Greene, all great men who’s mastered sth looked inward, have great self-awareness, and introspect, they just don’t dwell on the past.
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Great men of history had little to no introspection.
The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself.
@pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about:
David: You don't have any levels of introspection?
Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible.
David: Why?
Marc: Move forward. Go!
I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home.
David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection.
Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self.
He just woke up and was like:
I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again.
Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective.
All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s.
Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff.
The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology.
And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual.
We need to criticize the individual.
The individual needs to self criticize.
The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past.
It never resonated with me.
David Senra@davidsenra
My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.
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