Jonathan Yantis

No one wants to be pitched to. No one. Everyone can see you scheming even if you’re a 4D chess master. Care only about creating value, and help me fend off the hoards.

@owroot This one will connect to your iPhone on Bluetooth and/or a land line. Tempting… a.co/d/06M1kUdk

Since getting this bad boy in my office I try to use it rather than my iPhone whenever I need to make a call and it actually feels so much better. It’s not aesthetic in a great retro way, but it feels better than the glass iPhone face on my cheek. And it’s kind of, oddly, more fun.

@GENIC0N @signulll

"Emotional IQ" just sounds obviously fake, sorry.

@jaesmail @visakanx The hate against earnest people is next level, tread carefully.

The secret is to be a serious person.

@pmarca The retards are all calling, time for a new era.

We live in an era of admiration of hysteria, neuroticism, and narcissism. Endless waves of panic, perpetual emotional incontinence. You know the answer…

@TimelessTrvlr It’s a great place to retire or go on vacation permanently.

@Abdazizghadeer When you’re at the Villa, relaxing is all you want to do. The Italians will scold you for doing anything else.

في إيطاليا فكرة جميلة اسمها “متعة ألا تفعل شيئًا”. أن تجلس بهدوء، تشرب قهوتك، وتعيش اللحظة بدون استعجال. تذكير بسيط: أحيانًا الراحة بحد ذاتها هي السعادة.

@signulll It seems to be a symptom of concerns with what other people are thinking. Too costly to be all that useful. Easier to say something funny and see if anyone laughs. Get them with the charms and forget about “modeling” everyone in the room.

the reason why emotional intelligence is extremely rare is simply cuz it is expensive. actually modeling another person’s internal state in real time is computationally brutal.. it requires suppressing your own frame, running a parallel simulation, & updating continuously. the “inference costs” of eq in humans are likely much higher than the most expensive ai model in existence today.

Peter Thiel on the art of venture capital:

@minordissent Get back up is the only option, just like the terminator.

@mantis1 @thegenesisbl0ck

Please ditch the broke boy haircut, I’m begging.