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Okay so, the new Airchat is impressive, I did not expect it to be this good. A lot are referring to it as a social walkie-talkie. It makes sense why Naval built this for himself. It’s invite only, directions at end of thread if you want one. Some initial findings:

With many 🧩 dropping recently, a more complete picture is emerging of LLMs not as a chatbot, but the kernel process of a new Operating System. E.g. today it orchestrates: - Input & Output across modalities (text, audio, vision) - Code interpreter, ability to write & run programs - Browser / internet access - Embeddings database for files and internal memory storage & retrieval A lot of computing concepts carry over. Currently we have single-threaded execution running at ~10Hz (tok/s) and enjoy looking at the assembly-level execution traces stream by. Concepts from computer security carry over, with attacks, defenses and emerging vulnerabilities. I also like the nearest neighbor analogy of "Operating System" because the industry is starting to shape up similar: Windows, OS X, and Linux <-> GPT, PaLM, Claude, and Llama/Mistral(?:)). An OS comes with default apps but has an app store. Most apps can be adapted to multiple platforms. TLDR looking at LLMs as chatbots is the same as looking at early computers as calculators. We're seeing an emergence of a whole new computing paradigm, and it is very early.

We talk about disruption in tech so much that the word is overused and lacks the same kind of punch it used to. That being said, one area where disruption is happening in its purest form is in consumption - which is almost 70% of US GDP. The disruptor here isn’t China or some other low cost manufacturer but content creators. They are the biggest threat to an entire panoply of products and $100Bs of revenue and market cap (see below). The virtuous cycle of content creators is impossible for old line CPG to mimic: Make compelling content —> Acquire an Audience —> Retain and Build Trust —> Sell them a new version of something —> take profits and reinvest in making compelling content —> Repeat More generally, as platforms like X make it possible for all of us to become content creators, a million new products will eventually appear and collectively chip away at the revenues of established CPG brands over time. A few examples: Gatorade —> Prime L’Oreal —> Kylie Spanx —> Skims Hersheys —> Feastables These old line CPG companies are in a very difficult position that spending money with Madison Ave will not solve. While these old businesses won’t disappear overnight, they are melting icebergs. If there was a way to be “long content creators” and “short CPG”, it is likely a winning trade. So as content platforms catch on and help amplify content from creators - it will not only make their platforms stickier but it can slowly replace ad revenue from the dying companies below with rev share from the upstart thriving ones who replace them. This will only accelerate the virtuous cycle already emerging. Disruption comes slow until it comes fast…

My notes from Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger turned into maxims: 1. Find a simple idea and take it seriously.  2. Good ideas are rare. When you find one bet heavily.  3. Humans have been writing down their best ideas for 5,000 years. Read them. 4. Avoiding stupid mistakes is more important than being smart. 5. Don’t work with anyone you don’t admire. 6. Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy. 7. Avoiding a bad habit is easier than breaking a bad habit. 8. Work on your best idea. Don't diversify 9. Incentives rule everything around you. Look for them.  10. Great businesses are built by going ridiculously far in maximizing or minimizing one or a few things. Think Costco.  11. Learning is changing behavior.  12. Do the unpleasant tasks first. 13. Charlie has read hundreds of biographies. Do the same.  14. Stop multitasking. Concentrate. 15. Many hard problems are solved best when approached backwards. 16. Think of ideas as tools. When a better tool comes along use it. 17. Clip your business and personal expenses. Small leaks sink big ships. 18. Make friends with smart dead people. Adam Smith, Darwin, Cicero, Ben Franklin —whoever interests you. Read their writing. Steal their ideas. They don’t need them anymore. 19. Don't confuse intelligence with invincibility. 20. Bad things will happen to you. It’s inevitable. When they do get up and keep going and remember the next maxim. 21. Self pity has no utility.   22. Find out what you are best at. Then pound away at it. Forever. 23. Only plays games where you have an edge. 24. Avoid mob rule. Avoid demagogues. Avoid dogma. Avoid bureaucracy. 25. Optimize for independence. 25. Use money to buy freedom. 26. Develop durability. 27. What do you have an *intense* interest in? Do that for money. 28. Self improvement has no end.

This video by Apple is a true masterpiece. I come back to it every once in a while, and I still love it.

Tips on writing: How to Write Usefully: paulgraham.com/useful.html The Age of the Essay: paulgraham.com/essay.html Write Like You Talk: paulgraham.com/talk.html

Every PM should save these 2 screenshots to their desktop. @bhorowitz's Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager: (15 years old and still ridiculously relevant.)

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I had lunch with Sam Zell. We talked for over 2 hours. I could ask him any question I wanted. At 81 he is still *ferociously* intelligent and completely authentic. Here are 7 key ideas I learned from our lunch: 1. Go for freedom Freedom allows you to control what you work on. If you control what you work on then you can work on what you love. If you love it you will do it for a long time. If you do it for a long time you will get really good at it. Money will come as a result. 2. It's extremely important to be obsessive about understanding everything you possibly can about your craft. Consider it an obligation. Hold yourself accountable. Keep learning over time. Study the history and know the pioneers. — @bgurley Sam Zell has been doing this for 60 years. Every time I mentioned some obscure figure from the history of business Sam -knew who the person was -knew what company they had built -and had read their biography Every. Single. Time. He has all this information stored in his head. He never looked at any notes or had to Google anything. It was all in his brain. 3. The right information is priceless It can save your life (the right information helped Sam’s family escape the Nazis) and help you build a wonderful business (Sam used an idea he found in William Zeckendorf’s autobiography in both his real estate and business career) 4. Have fun You’d be surprised how many rich people don’t have any fun. Don’t be like these people. Sam is still curious and is seeking adventures all over the world. 5. You have an obligation to share what you have learned Sam flies all over the world to talk to other entrepreneurs (at his expense!) just to teach everything he has learned. He considers it an obligation to pass knowledge onto the next generations. 6. When you a few decades of experience —write an autobiography Sam hated writing his. It was difficult. But it is one of the best things he ever did. His favorite day of the week is Monday. That is the day Sam and his team go over the messages people send Sam telling him how his book changed their life. He finds this deeply satisfying. You will too. 7. If you love what you do the only exit strategy is death Sam will be doing deals, building businesses, and sharing everything he learned until he dies. - - - - “People sometimes ask me when I’ll retire. Retire from what? I love what I do.” — Sam Zell - - - - A scene from our lunch: David: I bought Zeckendorf’s book because you mentioned reading it in your autobiography Sam Zell: Did you read it? David: Not yet Sam Zell: READ IT! David: Yes sir 🫡 - - - - The first 30 minutes of episode 298 is what I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell. I go into a lot more detail than I can fit here. The rest of the episode is what I learned from reading the book Sam Zell told me to read: Zeckendorf: The Autobiography of The Man Who Played a Real Life Game of Monopoly and Won the Largest Real Estate Empire in History by William Zeckendorf You can listen in any podcast player right now!

Does anyone know how to get AI to watch a YouTube video and summarize it in a few bullet points?

Michael Ovitz: By endurance we conquer:

Charlie Munger: Don’t be surprised when you lose to people like this

Finally got GPT4 API access, so built an app to test it: here's Q+A assistant for all 121 episodes of the @theallinpod. You can ask any question abt the shows. It uses @OpenAI whisper model for audio -> text, @pinecone, @langchain. App is here: besties-gpt.fly.dev

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Built a website that shows a Succession quote each time you tap the "L to the OG" button. Did it in 30 minutes using @replit and code generated by GPT (html/css/js). Check out the website via the link below:

During his 11 year tenure as LinkedIn's CEO, Jeff Weiner grew the platform from: - 33M to 690M members - $78M to $7.9B revenue - 338 to 16K employees Here's how you can use his Vision to Values framework to define everything important about your product and company in one page: