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“Lust” goes away after Reta is in your system. It’s such a fascinating effect. You still enjoy sex but the drive is quieter in my experience. We think we know how tied our personalities and relationships are to our “soul” but how much is hormonal? What if teenagers are on Reta? How will this affect the future young couple on their first date? What connections are made based purely on dopamine rushes? Many consequential decisions and actions are made when we are young and dumb based purely on impulses. For me, when I am on Reta I am much more focused on my highest goals, there is no time or metal room dedicated to things that aren’t important or valuable. My relationships have been strengthened and deepened. Anhedonia does not describe my experience at all. I do have lower highs and higher lows, but with an overall higher cruise altitude. Life absent of passion is not worth it, so if you do find yourself with less zest for life, I would say it is absolutely time to reassess your dose of the GLP you are taking. I always advocate for minimum effective dosing. Know yourself and what your own limits are. There are many ways to get to where you want to be, Reta is just one of them.

when you join a big company you have to decide pretty quickly if you’re going to cross the event horizon and be sucked into NPC mode, or if you want to fight incredibly hard to remain a live player

Google has now added over $3 trillion to its market cap in the ~2 years since “Boob Shirt Guy” asked Sergey Brin about Woke Gemini images while having a foot long Subway Cold Cut Trio for lunch.

I’m sorry to break this to you, but the solution to your petty problems is better, bigger problems. If you’re going to fret, whine, complain, get stressed, and misbehave anyway, you might as well do it over something important instead of something puny and irrelevant. A ranter will always rant. A crybaby will always cry. A tantrum baby will always throw tantrums. A complainer will always complain. If you are the above, at least cry, whine rant, complain about an IMPORTANT problem.

This is why raising a small child is, basically, avoiding accidents all day long

A common dynamic I observe with AI: it feels most impressive when you don’t know much about the subject, don’t care or don’t have a clear idea of what the you want. This applies across design, code, legal, and more. If I don’t know code very well, every piece of code it writes feels very impressive. Once you know what something should feel or look like, it becomes almost impossible to guide AI there. And you definitely can’t one-shot it.

there are people who have spent years on the waitlist for a dating app whose entire value proposition is that some ppl are excluded from it without realizing they are the ones being excluded.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ absolutely remarkable lmao. my second favorite part is when girls who say they are trying to use it to find their husband… like have you ever legit met someone who got married off of raya?

SpaceX candidate didn’t want to move to Los Angeles. Because his wife worked at Google in San Francisco. So Elon Musk called Larry Page. Got her transferred. Then asked one question. “What are you going to do now?” He joined. This is the aura you must have with your work.

FIRE is unusually high among software engineers because not only do you make a lot of money, but the job is incredibly unstable because it changes dramatically every decade. Look at how different it is today vs just 4 years ago

Loved this. For Coinbase, if I had to pick the most important value, it's clear communication. It doesn't just mean speaking concisely; it's also about written comms. The little things - pithy TL;DRs, pre-reads for meetings in the calendar invite 24 hours ahead, writing clearly, and so on - actually aren't little at all. They compound into huge efficiency gains. And with AI now, top-tier communication should be the standard.

leaders are starting to split their calendars into agent days and people days iykyk

TRUMP ON TIM COOK: I have always been a big fan of Tim Cook, and likewise, Steve Jobs, but if Steve was not taken from the Planet Earth so young, and ran the company instead of Tim, the company would have done well, but nowhere near as well as it has under Tim. For me it began with a phone call from Tim at the beginning of my First Term. He had a fairly large problem that only I, as President, could fix. Most people would have paid millions of dollars to a consultant, who I probably would not have known, but who would say that he knew me well. The fees would be paid but the job would not have gotten done. When I got the call I said, wow, it’s Tim Apple (Cook!) calling, how big is that? I was very impressed with myself to have the head of Apple calling to “kiss my ass.” Anyway, he explained his problem, a tough one it was, I felt he was right and got it taken care of, quickly and effectively. That was the beginning of a long and very nice relationship. During my five years as President, Tim would call me, but never too much, and I would help him where I could. Years latter, after 3 or 4 BIG HELPS, I started to say to people, anyone who would listen, that this guy is an amazing manager and leader. He makes these calls to me, I help him out (but not always, because he will, on occasion, be too aggressive in his ask!), and he gets the job done, QUICKLY, without a dime being given to those very expensive (millions of dollars!) consultants around town who sometimes get it done, and sometimes don’t. Anyway, Tim Cook had an AMAZING career, almost incomparable, and will go on and continue to do great work for Apple, and whatever else he chooses to work on. Quite simply, Tim Cook is an incredible guy!!!

Nikita is absolutely savage.

The 3 things that are the best use of my time: 1. Deep talk: having deep conversations/brainstorm sessions with awesome people 2. Deep read: consume a piece of long-form content 3. Deep play: try crazy/random things with AI and see where it goes

I find it incredibly interesting that a bunch of early Googlers and Facebookers just vanished off the internet Not going to name names but some people you see they worked super early on one blog or something and they dont have a linkedin, didn't work there after IPO / after they cashed out, and I guess they are out there somewhere living life. Completely detached from the status ladder (obv they have a ton of money so they are fine in that regard)

i havent laughed at a video this hard for years lmao

It's hilarious when Dwarkesh has on a CEO that doesn't abide by rationalist discourse norms. In this case he asks Jensen a question and Jensen responds "this is loser talk, and I'm not a loser"