Olamide Oladeji, Ph.D.

omg this title, this paper

This paragraph from Carl Jung hits so hard. “The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”

The patterns you don’t confront don’t vanish, they just change hands: "You either face your demons, or they raise your children."

recently overheard this: "everything is a win when the goal is experience" and my brain chemistry is forever changed

@TheGermanGift congratulations 🎊

Today, 3 years and 3 months after, I have now finished all my PhD reqs, save the dissertation. That means I have taken 50 courses, taught 3 courses and T.A'd 2, passed my qualifying exams, written a qualifying paper, learned a 3rd language and advanced to candidacy. Now, I'm All But Dissertation (ABD)! The end is very near.

@ImadeIyamu Yeah this rhetoric is the worst.

I really don't care about em dashes but the never-ending "It's not blah, it's blah" is getting revolting.

No.

@dwarkesh_sp Textbook?

I find it frustrating that almost every nonfiction book is basically just a history lesson, even if it's nominally about some science/tech/policy topic. Nobody will just explain how something works. Books about the semiconductor industry will never actually explain the basic process flow inside a fab, but you can bet that there will be a minute-by-minute recounting of a dramatic 1980s Intel boardroom battle.

Today I encountered a Chinese idiom I had not learned before. It is a very good one, one that we should use in English: 久病成醫。 "A long illness makes a patient a doctor."

@theGeekyMidget @wetalksound @InsertsWTS 😂

oh shit

The AI field is now split into (A) a "traditional" ml/dl domain, and (B) a "psycho-AI" domain where innovation requires an understanding of / intuition about the cognitive capabilities of pretrained models and how to prompt / fine-tune them. These two fields are IMO separated.

You know a startup is likely to fail when its product strategy relies on multiple miracles. Example: I’ll build a big YouTube channel about 3D printers, then use it to launch and promote my own. Now you're attempting two hard things—we call that a double miracle. Startups should focus on just one miracle; it's already hard enough to succeed. If you want to build the best 3D printers, focus on that directly—you’ll be more likely to succeed.

@cIass_man lol!

there's a caste in american society that consumes as much blue-chip media (nyt, new yorker, npr) as possible and then quizzes each other on how closely they've read it to discern their place within the caste. i outwardly present as a member, i think, and it's been very awkward

Engineering is rarely the application of a well-understood theory. Most of the time it's a two-way dialogue, forcing theory to become more robust, more nuanced, or even to be discarded and rebuilt. But sometimes there's no theory at all, just a bag of poorly understood tricks guessed from past experiments.

@biodunalfet @aabdmlk Agree!

@aabdmlk yt music's algorithm is the best. I tend to (re) discover good stuff more on there than on Spotify but I generally spend more time on the later because the UX is much better

Neither is it Spotify tbh.

Success has many Board Observers

The #1 GenAI use case in 2025? Not coding. Not writing. Not search. - Therapy. This HBR chart says it all (hbr.org/2025/04/how-pe…)

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there's a Sopranos scene where they try to extort a corporate chain coffee shop only to discover that they have no leverage: the manager has no discretion over the funds, everything is insured, and the manager himself is easily replaceable too the scene ends with the famous line, "It's over for the little guy" now the corporate displacement of mom-and-pop shops has been dissected to death, but I wonder if anyone has examined its impact on the mob's ability to extort protection

@jaltma Agree!

I think grit is one of the most underappreciated traits of successful founders. There are so many daily disappointments for years on end and you just have to keep showing up to fight like nothing happened.