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And here is my tier list of Econ Nobel Laureates

do any finance ppl actually find their work enjoyable?! is there a creative process in the field?

I've never seen a single episode of Lost

Anthropic’s last round was apparently a bloodbath behind the scenes. A GP at a prominent fund had dinner with Dario three times before their allocation was slashed to zero. At least four other tier-one funds got pulled at the last minute. Their crime? Passing on the Series B, the hardest round Dario ever had to raise (led by Spark). In venture conviction is all that counts.

Going on Japanese TV. Wish me luck.

Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.

I had my FOMO phase too: “If I hadn’t started a company a few years ago and had joined OpenAI/Anthropic/xAI instead, I’d probably have $100M now.” But then I watched some of those rich people. Their daily focus became: “How do I minimize taxes?” “Where should I buy a house in SF or the Bay?” Instead of focusing on creating things. And honestly, they didn’t seem that happy. I’ve always felt $10M is the sweet spot of wealth. Beyond that, if money is still the only thing you’re optimizing for, the game starts to feel meaningless.

maybe nobody ever experiences the thing itself