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this "iced coffee hour" podcast is very good at making their guests seem like complete idiots in clips...
The Iced Coffee Hour@TheICHpodcast
Mike Majlak reveals his true wealth is in his network and he could FaceTime Dave Chappelle at any time👀 "My true wealth is in network and access" “We could get on FaceTime with Dave Chappelle right now… I’ve spent nights out with Dave Chappelle in Australia. My true wealth is in my network and access… I just have finessed and created a network.”
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i think nowadays with access to LLM's & deep research agents, reading books is inefficient when it comes to acquiring info...
you can get an agent to go through 1000's of books & extract the most applicable info to your specific case without having to waste hours reading
if you do it for leisure then that's fine, but reading as a way to "acquire knowledge" is one big cope pushed by the self-improvement cult
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@eptwts you read a lot of books?
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The camera pill is insane
Even if you're not famous, I highly recommend hiring a cameraman to record you while traveling:
Civilians will assume you're important/famous = more eyes on you = preselection/status larping
Some sheep might even come up to you and ask for a picture despite having 0 idea who you are
You can literally larp Clav/Speed levels of status with just a camera(man)
Bonus points if you pretend like you're reading a live stream chat from your phone
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@FarouqAldori it's because i got rid of the branding completely & i don't sell anything on my X anymore
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@eptwts I just took a look and both your profile and business profile tell me nothing, not even a link or a description.
Not saying it will lead to ROI, but something at least
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@itsajinkyaraj very useful if you do B2B, but you don't need X gold to utilize it, doesn't make a difference
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@eptwts sometimes I even question how useful is X for business?
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Agree for the most part but when you go through all the outputs a llm can give based on a specific niche and subject you start to see what exactly they are trained on, and web search doesn’t output much better either.
Then you should try to find books, docs, etc that would contain that info. Where you can just upload it to a llm and learn that way.
IMO I really like reading books bc I’ve seen that when I do that regularly my work output and rev just increases, it balances my tendencies creatively.
It very much matters who the author is though. Trying to get info from a book doesn’t hit the same if the author can’t write. Your brain needs to actual have stimulation while acquiring that info so it can actually save it and use it.
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@kyrinahlis agreed, was lowkey on auto-charge though, didn't realize how much it set me back until i checked my bank statements today lmfao
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@LucasHogie well it's mostly ragebait but my copy has generated a lot of revenue & i've been responsible for close to a billion impressions on X
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@eptwts Genuine question, what makes you more successful in your eyes?
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this tweet made a lot of people angry...
the irony in the discourse is that i'm a more successful writer than every single person disagreeing with my point despite barely ever reading books
you can read 1000's of books on a subject, but you'll never be as skilled in it as someone actively in the arena putting info into action & getting real feedback
hence why i said that spending hours reading books front to back for INFO is a waste of time...
the real work which will grant 100x more knowledge for the same time investment is actually applying said info
sending books to an LLM that has access to a knowledge base around you / your operations is a quick way to identify which parts of the book will actually apply to you
of course it will miss some nuance but that's completely expected - once you see a part that is actually applicable you can go and read it
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i think nowadays with access to LLM's & deep research agents, reading books is inefficient when it comes to acquiring info... you can get an agent to go through 1000's of books & extract the most applicable info to your specific case without having to waste hours reading if you do it for leisure then that's fine, but reading as a way to "acquire knowledge" is one big cope pushed by the self-improvement cult
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@eptwts People are simply mad because they do not want to admit that they waste their lives reading books when they could get better results and have more fun in the process simply by doing the real work, but it is much more comfortable sitting at home reading harry potter finances
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which is why i don't get people who glorify reading as something so mystical...
i don't see how someone actively doing anything would prefer to intake that knowledge through reading a book front to back instead of getting a rundown & focusing on the part that matters, makes no sense
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Books contain something called implicit knowledge, which is knowledge that can be surfaced, taught, or documented.
For example, you could read a book about ice-skating techniques.
But that knowledge is almost useless until you put it into action, because you still have to develop the skills around the techniques
How much weight to place through your feet, how to react when someone crosses your path, how to maintain balance, and what happens when your head moves too far forward etc
That is tacit knowledge, which relies on lived experience, feel, and instinct developed through your own feedback.
Meaning it can't actually be taught through a book
Learn to separate the two.
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this tweet made a lot of people angry... the irony in the discourse is that i'm a more successful writer than every single person disagreeing with my point despite barely ever reading books you can read 1000's of books on a subject, but you'll never be as skilled in it as someone actively in the arena putting info into action & getting real feedback hence why i said that spending hours reading books front to back for INFO is a waste of time... the real work which will grant 100x more knowledge for the same time investment is actually applying said info sending books to an LLM that has access to a knowledge base around you / your operations is a quick way to identify which parts of the book will actually apply to you of course it will miss some nuance but that's completely expected - once you see a part that is actually applicable you can go and read it
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@bowtiedbrazil well "learning via active reading" > "learning via passive LLM reading"
but both are useless without applying? so i don't get the argument, info consumption is just a precursor to applying it
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@eptwts i agree w/last part but that's a different argument altogether.
the fact that "action" > "learning more than is necessary" does not at all negate or redcue the reality that "learning via active reading" > "learning via passive LLM reading"
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I respect EP but couldn’t disagree more vociferously.
The reason this isn’t so is that reading leads to serendipitious discoveries that an LLM can by definition never recreate; the seemingly useless two sentences make sometime click in your brain that connects to all of you own, personalized deep knowledge and real neural networks.
It is impossible to know yourself what words, sentences, or part of a book will cause this and no LLM could possibly know.
An entire book can be worth it because of one paragraph in the book, and not at all necessarily the paragraph that most people or an LLM would highlight, but one that for a confluence of empirically unknowable reasons, resonated with your entire mental corpus of prior knowledge
Second, the cognitive mental models created by active reading are much more powerful than those of passively looking at a LLM summary
Now, there is def place for LLMs, especially for specific tasks related to non fiction books, but it will never in my opinion yield anything close to the knowledge and benefit of actual active reading
EP@eptwts
i think nowadays with access to LLM's & deep research agents, reading books is inefficient when it comes to acquiring info... you can get an agent to go through 1000's of books & extract the most applicable info to your specific case without having to waste hours reading if you do it for leisure then that's fine, but reading as a way to "acquire knowledge" is one big cope pushed by the self-improvement cult
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I actually agree with you.
The way I see it, there are two ways you can acquire knowledge that will actually stick in your brain:
a) Doing it
b) Reading about it
The reason books work is because they are 400 pages long. You basically rinse and repeat the same concept for 400 pages, with different stories, caveats, etc., so that your brain actually memorises it. Otherwise, you can watch a 10-minute video on the subject and forget it the next day.
So in theory, asking an LLM is much, much worse for getting smarter.
BUT
Because you immediately put this into practice, you take advantage of the second system to acquire knowledge.
Because you take the info → execute it → gather learnings, you will store this as new information in your brain.
So if you're asking an LLM to spit out random facts to memorise (for what, anyway?), you'll 100% forget it tomorrow. But if you execute, then it's just a tool to help you retrieve information, and it will make you smarter, faster.
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