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Why Never Normal? What's wrong with the default path?
There's a massive lie 👖🔥 hidden in plain sight at the heart of our education and employment systems.
Here's a 30 second explanation:
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Neville is Never Normal
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Neville is Never Normal
@namehra
Make stuff on the internet and explore the 🌏. Win and help win. Currently based in 🇪🇸. Building global health insurance for nomads: https://t.co/47JfNUUzg6
#digitalnomad Katılım Nisan 2009
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@george__mack Russian does this using the same word сейчас for now and “soon”
The word "soon" was the anglo-saxon word for "now". But after so many generations of people saying "I'll do that soon" and not doing the thing, soon has ended up meaning what it means today.
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@davidsenra @pmarca Where does Marcus Aurelius fit in to this?
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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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@davidsenra @pmarca I missed the “l” the first time I read that 😅
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I love this idea from @pmarca — Charlie Munger called this “having an inner clock”
David: What are you trying to change in the world?
Marc: I'm suspicious that that's my actual underlying motivation.
David: Why?
Marc: I don't think an external impact is enough to keep people going.
I've seen way too many people who had a high level of external impact and then at some point they just stop.
The problem with external impact is it's four in the morning, you're staring at the ceiling—is that enough?
External impact is stuff that's happening to other people. What is it about you?
The story I like to tell myself is that I'm competing with myself.
The story I like to tell myself is I'm getting up in the morning because I'm trying to become a better version of myself.
I'm trying to become smarter and better informed and reach better conclusions and be better at what I do and continue to expand my skills.
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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@antoniogm nah, it's huge in Spain now too.
There are a bunch of trendy, one-dish-only, Basque Cheesecake specialty dessert places (think Sweetgreen or Georgetown Cupcake) that have opened recently
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Fascinating how ‘basque cheesecake’ has become this whole thing in fancy American restaurants. There isn’t basque anything else isn’t the US, and most Americans couldn’t even begin to find the Baque region on a map, but there it is on the menu: BASQUE cheesecake.
Does it blow up government buildings? Kidnap judges? Take over the old city in a mob requiring the guardia civil come in and kick them out? Form a breakaway region vs. the rest of the table? What’s Basque about it precisely?
(Sorry, lived in the liminal Basque region when ETA was still active.)
Most Spanish wouldn’t recognize it, beyond it maybe being just a ‘torta de queso’. Odd how things escape a country and assume a life beyond it.
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I've been working on this important list for a couple of years now. What am I missing?
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@neversitdull As dad, this is your chance to spend lots of time with the older kid. Involve them as much as possible with the new baby, but also carve out time to do fun stuff outside together
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@VinnyLingham Hey Vinny - always cool to see what you’re working on. I was just saying the other day that as everything goes agentic, we need something like 2FA for approving certain actions. MCP style approval prompts don’t cut it since they’re client-side.
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After 10+ years of building around human based identities, Civic is now focusing entirely on agentic identity and access management.
If you’re using OpenClaw - try using Civic as your security layer - we would love any feedback!
Civic@civickey
Your agent just tried to delete 2,847 emails from your inbox. Civic blocked it. Read-only access. Don't connect your agent to Gmail and hope for the best. Civic is the security layer that sits between your agent and every tool it touches. Guardrails aren't optional. They're built in. Read about today's launch: civic.com/news/agent-sec…
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The question now is how fast can your team transition from doing the work to orchestrating the agents that do the work
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@fortelabs Careful you’re going to get @p_millerd all excited
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I’m cashing out all of the productivity gains from AI by working less, and it’s really starting to change my life
I rarely work past noon, because there’s simply nothing left to do. I do wake up earlier though because I’m so excited to get to work
I’m exercising more than I ever have in my life. Every afternoon either weightlifting, running, hiking, or paddle before the kids get home
I get a massage every week, and sauna twice a week, spending hours there with friends each time. The level of self care I’m doing is ridiculous. I’m almost too relaxed
My wife and I have a date night every week, our marriage is better than ever, and we decided to have a third kid, a son due in June
I have so much free time I’m starting to have to make up projects. I’m helping my friend start a nonprofit to promote local innovation and sustainability in our small Mexican town. Using Claude code to do all the writing, planning, and build a website for it
I’m spending more time talking to friends and family on FaceTime than ever in my adult life. I’m helping my parents and siblings with their work, heath, finances, and random problems, often using AI
Our social life is more active than even my teens or twenties, with at least 2-3 parties, dinners, or other gatherings each week. Everywhere I go in town I see people I know
We travel more often than ever, and take more vacation time than ever, though vacations are not as fun as the normal routine
The business is more profitable than ever, with a smaller team and less overhead. I’m able to pay my team better than I ever have. In no way is the business suffering
I say all this not to brag, but to show that there is another option for what to do with all the time and effort that AI frees up: you can pull back and live a more chill, social, connected life like humans were meant to
This is all due to AI, not because I got any smarter, wiser, or more productive. AI opens up new paths, but it’s still up to you to decide which one to take
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working is just orchestrating agents at this point
current status:
- 2 Claude Code sessions
- 2 Codex sessions
- One Manus in Telegram
- One Claw in Telegram
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An interesting side effect of AI is that it may enable a lot more asynchronous work (if it doesn’t take all our jobs).
We’re all busy trying to distill all of our institutional knowledge into a bunch of markdown files now and writing well specified tasks
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Cloudflare Containers & Cloudflare Sandboxes now both support Docker-in-Docker, allowing you to run a Docker daemon inside a container that is itself running on a Docker host.
An example use case for Docker-in-Docker would be running a fully sandboxed development environment.
Taken from the horse's mouth, this allows you to:
- Develop containerized applications with your Sandbox
- Run isolated test environments for images
- Build container images as part of CI/CD workflows
- Deploy arbitrary images supplied at runtime within a container
I believe this was a fairly highly requested feature, so I'm excited to see what people build with it!
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… and on work from the office days, workers spend 4 hours more discussing what’s for lunch
Aziz Sunderji@AzizSunderji
When working from home, people spend 46 fewer minutes actually working. They sleep more, watch more TV, and spend more time with their kids. On WFH days, they're also 20% happier. This is a big perk for white collar workers that's become completely normal.
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How long until it gets renamed
to open agent? 6th times a charm?
Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos
ClawdBot getting renamed to OpenClaw induced the OpenAI acquisition simply from nominative determinism
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@krishnanrohit This organization could have been a series of markdown files.
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