Umar Ashfaq

“Motivation is an effect, not the cause, of action”

@FedEx genuinely curious why a package from woodland CA to Mountain View CA (90 miles apart) has to make a round trip through the east coast (Richmond Hill, GA)

“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You’ll never be lovelier than you’re now. We’ll never be here again.” - T

The true scarcity is attention, not time.

better to go wrong in your own way than to go right in someone else’s way

Any decision driven by fear is almost always a wrong decision

"Working hard is overrated. Choosing what to work on and who to work on it with is underrated." @naval

a great abstraction has the property that you can't remember how your code was structured before it was introduced

"Dune" author Frank Herbert on the nature of power

Assume good intention. Not necessarily as an accurate depiction of reality, but as a compass to guide your own speech and behavior, so you don't end up contributing to the worsening of the situation.

@meetZaki Still waiting :)

@notesumar Ill tell you when i get back from Disneyland :p

It’s year AD 2145. A storm is brewing over central Baghdad, capital of the UEEB: Unified Empire of the Eastern Bloc. Tonight, they decide who will succeed on the throne… 1/n #midjourney

Not just governments but pretty much everything that exerts influence on human beings. Including, but not limited to, corporations, military, religion, social movements and so on.

@lexfridman @elonmusk Good quote, but pretty much opposite of what Elon posted

@elonmusk Agreed. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

The power of government grows ever stronger with each passing year

@paraschopra 30min sprints with breaks in between

If you have ADHD, what tricks have you found to read information-dense text?

"The line between good and evil runs not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains... an un-uprooted small corner of evil." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago When I approach conversations with people, I think about the above passage a lot. It humbles me and it gives me hope.

@bytehood What’s the motivation?

I love overlay ads that are unskippable! @Entrepreneur

What do you think is going to be the impact of LLMs in next 2-3 years?

This sounds fun