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@bryan_johnson I’d see if I can live forever and document my journey live on social media 😜

if you were wealthy enough to never work again, would you pursue more wealth and status games or would you opt out?

@HarryStebbings Have you made money in limited TAMS and low competition? I find that for VC it’s less about the ratio and fundamentally about the TAM.

I HAVE NEVER MADE MONEY IN MARKETS WITH MANY COMPETITORS IN LIMITED TAMS (TOTAL ADDRESSABLE MARKET SIZE). I HAVE OFTEN MADE MONEY IN MARKETS WITH MANY COMPETITORS AND MASSIVE TAMS. MARKET SIZE / COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE RATIO MATTERS.

R.I.P Angie Stone...❤️

Verifying my Twitter account for my #GalxeID gid:P3g4ZNE3s65XYRmEC2BbLR @Galxe

@bryan_johnson Go to a morning dance event?

Last night I went to a concert. The music was energizing. The setting was beautiful. My friends were great. And I danced, which is my favorite thing to do. This morning I feel pretty wrecked. The data confirmed what I subjectively feel: my restorative sleep dropped by 50%. My resting heart rate was elevated by 10%. My sleep stress was up by 50%. I'm sad because I had been excited all week for this morning block of uninterrupted time today to do four hours of deep work. I'm still going to try, but I am not my best self. My mood is off. My mind is a bit cloudy. I miss how vibrant I normally feel. I've been extensively measuring myself for four years now and know the following factors were the culprit: + I went to sleep two hours later than normal. + Excessive light exposure at the concert. + The environment was highly stimulating. + I didn't have my normal 30-60 min wind down time before bed. First, I know what the first few comments to this post are going to be: + bro so sensitive he can't go to a concert lol + he so fragile a concert makes him fall apart 😂 To be clear, my project is about building a Don't Die system. It's not about adhering to cultural norms. It's not about living out 2024 narratives about the meaning of life. It's not even about what my chattering mind suggests second to second. It's about Don't Die. Everything else can be damned. This process involves science, data and a methodical process of measurement, protocol creation and constant improvement. It's produced in me what are potentially the best comprehensive biomarkers in the world: Top 1%: Speed of aging (epigenetic) Top 1%: Muscle mass & function Top 1%: Fat mass Top 1%: Inflammation Top 1%: VO2 max (cardiovascular) Top 1%: Bone mass Top 1%: Sleep Top 1%: Combined clinical markers The default human condition is to make life decisions based upon cultural narratives. Doing what others do. Don't Die has taught me the wisdom of following science and data. Data is not perfect, however it outcompetes anecdote and rule of thumb. We can do fun things. We can live full lives. We can experience the fullness of being human and also get a restful night's sleep. We can live our best lives and not create negative biological effects. Right now Die culturally dominates. Cultural narratives and our vices safely cocoon Die and protect it from being seen for what it really is. I am currently living in-between the Die and Don't Die worlds. Spending ~95% of my time in Don't Die. Occasionally social events and other things with family friends will have me deviate. I'm trying my best to straddle this. Trying to take the precautions where I can. Soon Don't Die will become culturally dominate. Die will be looked down upon. A lesser way of being. A primitive way to live life. Don't Die will be easy for all of us because society will be rebuilt around it. In the debate of what is a virtuous and honorable life, which is the argument vector most choose to attack me, the burden of proof is not on me to justify why I don't adhere to 2024's understanding of reality, it's on others to explain why everything we currently believe and do won't slip into the annals of history and be replaced by something new.

@nkazhin @emollick done

@dhrmshr @emollick Sure thing but your DMs are closed. Please fix and I'll send it right away

I used AI to translate an entire book about AI in just 5 hours. It's indistinguishable from a professional localization. How I did this: Quick backstory first 1. Co-Intelligence by @emollick comes out early April 2. I read the book and realize it's the best book about AI for non-AI people but it has one huge problem: It's only available in English 3. With my 56- and 58-year-old parents' birthday fast approaching, I figured a "hand-made" translation would be the perfect gift. They don't use AI beyond their smart speaker so I figured the book can help them: • Stay up to date with the technology • Find an intellectually stimulating pastime • Get introduced to a super powerful tool for their own life & work • Get a real-life demo of the power & usefulness of AI (the translated book itself) right off the bat So here's the whole process: 1. Took screenshots of all the book pages using Kindle for desktop (no, it won't let you simply export the whole text, 10% max) 2. Extracted the text from images into a Google Doc (just select-copy-pasted it) & fixed headings 3. Had an in-depth chat with @AnthropicAI's Claude 3 Opus about the key characteristics of a star non-fiction interpreter 4. Armed with step 3 results, designed a megaprompt for Gemini 1.5 Pro 5. Dumped the whole doc into Gemini (in @Google's AI studio) for a first pass 6. We talked at length about the book's ideas, and what translation challenges were likely to come up 7. We tackled the obvious challenges (e.g., critical definitions, book & chapter titles etc) 8. I asked Gemini to do one more, analytical pass to flush out more thorny issues & we translated those together 9. I fed the text into Gemini section-by-section to avoid overwhelm. Rinse and repeat for 3-4 hours. 10. Once done, I pasted the text into another Google Doc, did some light formatting and downloaded my epub. That's it. What was surprising: • The translated language coming out of Gemini was stylistically awesome, very little intervention from me required • There were no hallucinations and no deviations from the text except some extra headings • The LLM was able to translate fairly large chunks of text in one breath • The quality of translation stayed very consistent with only slight deterioration toward the end Absolutely amazing. For context, I have extensive interpreter training (thanking my diplomatic education here) and I know my way around serious prompting. But I believe almost anyone could do it. ---- 🛑 P.S. if you read this and think "Copyright!", you're right to worry. Translation of long texts with AI still requires some effort and prompt engineering to get right. But this task is becoming trivial at astronomical speed. My translation stays strictly within my family (and I paid for the book on Amazon). But there are much less scrupulous folks who will pirate the fruits of your labor faster than you can yell "Thiefs!" I bet publishers are already scratching their heads over this. And if not, they probably should.

I worked on Google's M&A team when we were doing 40+ acquisitions a year 21 things founders should know about getting acquired 1. your team will likely have to pass interviews at the new company, so hire well. 2. every time your valuation increases, the number of potential acquirers decreases. 3. deals that come in through the corp dev team have a <1% success rate, so talk to actual product people. 4. build relationships with product teams years in advance of a potential acquisition. 5. your largest customers and partners are the best potential acquirers. 6. M&A is a FOMO game, so it's good to play acquirers off each other (when you are legally able to). 7. the deal isn't over until the $$ is in the bank (lots of deals dying very far along these days). 8. don't let your team know you're running a process until the very end. they'll leak the news or become wildly unproductive when they find out and even more unproductive when the deal falls through. 9. the best time to get acquired is when you don't need to or want to be. 10. when you talk to acquirers, you need to show them how you will supercharge their product/business – this can involve actual design and code. 11. full acquisition prices you see in the headlines often come with strings attached – usually integration, revenue/user growth, and employee retention milestones. 12. decide with your cofounder what the conditions would be (e.g., $$) for you to accept an acquisition offer before you have your first conversation. cofounder misalignment here can really really hurt. 13. running a fundraiser at the same time as an M&A process can help both – buyers can offer more if your fundraising options are good and investors love to see real exit opportunities. 14. there are 3 types of deals: acquihire (just the team), asset (just the tech), and full (entire company, team & assets). 15. acquihires can range from just getting a normal job (and the ability to say you were "acquired") to also including $10M+ payouts. don't trust folks bragging about getting acquihired because it's usually the former. 16. your liquidation preferences will largely determine your financial outcome. your investors get their money back before you get your payout from an acquisition, so if you've raised a lot (on bad terms) and you don't have traction, you're probably not going to make much at all. 17. some acquirers will hold back equity you've already vested as part of the deal. some will accelerate unvested equity AND throw in retention bonuses. 18. falling into depression after an acquisition is not uncommon. take care of your mental health and make friends who have gone through it. 19. make sure you're clean legally and financially. investing in good bookkeeping early on can save you tons of time and prevent your deal to get derailed. 20. acquisitions have complex personal tax consequences. hire someone good for that. 21. the best acquired founders at Google only stayed an average of 2.5 years before leaving to start their next thing. life isn't over after you sell!!

Exciting opportunity to launch a software development career with Deloitte in the Northeast! Makers partners with Deloitte to train 25 aspiring developers. Paid 12-week bootcamp starts April 2024, no coding experience required. Apply by Feb 12, 10am: eu1.hubs.ly/H0795sf0

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

@olivercookson send

I bootstrapped Myprotein to a ≈ $500M exit (inc. secondary) That wouldn't be possible without: • Delegation • Strategic hires • Resource management I created a 14-page in-depth guide on the above. Like + Comment "Send" & I'll DM it to you for free (Must be following)

Airbnb has a blueprint of their entire customer journey on their office walls. They then map all product, policy, and service updates to it. More companies should do this to avoid shipping the org chart.

@swoph We manage the risk of the product not delivering any impact for the business.

@secretcinema Best secret cinema ever. The tie fighter at the end!! Absolutely epic. I still tell everyone about it. I was lucky to be there for the groove armada gig at the end too!

A long time ago (8 years to the day), in a galaxy far, far away (near Canary Wharf)... Familiar alien worlds were brought to life, legendary characters were spotted and lifelong memories were made! What was your favourite part? #StarWars

@JamesClear Never let perfect be the enemy of good.

What is one belief or strategy you have adopted that has made your life easier?

@sitar @mikebutcher Congrats!!!

Happy to announce Connect IV, an $80m fund to continue backing the best product companies from across Europe as early as possible! Read more from @mikebutcher here: techcrunch.com/2023/09/05/con…

Enough courage to get started + enough sense to focus on something you’re naturally suited for + enough persistence to stay in the game long enough to catch a few lucky breaks + a lot of hard work. There’s your recipe.

@eldsjal These days kids get mobile phones with a 1000 apps to steal their attention.

When I was five years old, my mom gifted me a guitar. When I was six, I got a computer. Spotify is very much a product of those two lifelong passions. It got me thinking about the power of gifts at a young age, and how they could influence our future down a specific path. Who knows what would have happened if I had been gifted a baseball bat instead? I guess we’ll never know, but it’s given me perspective on giving gifts, especially to children. I think of gifts these days as tools to inspire what could potentially become lifelong passions. What has been a gift you received or given to someone that has had a big impact?

Yesterday we celebrated Forward Partners turning 10 years old! 🎉🎂 From our first home in Camden in 2013, growing into our HQ in Hoxton, to now working from the heart of the UK's tech scene in Shoreditch, the last decade has been one-of-a-kind. We've met with thousands of founders, reviewed more decks than we could count and backed almost 100 early-stage startups with capital and support to recruit, raise and grow in their critical early days. As we celebrate this milestone, we'd like to say a huge thank you to our team, past and present, whose hard work and dedication to giving founders their best shot at success, is the reason Forward is here 10 years on. To our investors, thank you for believing in us and the potential of early-stage venture. And finally, to our founders who are bold enough to take on some of the world's most pressing challenges. Thank you for letting us play a part in your story. Here's to the next 10 years. 💫

@ForwardPrt Congrats @ForwardPrt amazing milestone and glad to have been part of the story for a while. Here is to the next 100!!