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@stanford | @caltech | Perennial questions studied with the methods of our times.

Pasadena, CA, USA
Joined February 2012
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now why would autocorrect try to fix this
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people who BYOMK - bring your own mechanical keyboard to a silent working space need to be told off with aggressive swiftness
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where's the guy who turned 1M to 27M and is now sitting on 600k?
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Surya Narayanan retweeted
Just deployed $100 into the S&P 500 to stop the bleeding.
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the first person to invent a dumbbell not patenting it was the greatest favor done to man
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to the cicada that’s stuck in my apartment making loud noises hoping to attract a mate - trust me, it won’t work there
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Spoke to someone today who believed tha tin the age of commoditized ideas, execution is the moat. I disagree - agents can execute faster than you. I still think having some inductive bias is a moat
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the first human who noted the praying mantis consumptive copulatory experience must have been one sick fucker
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where’s the kalshi for the first country to get a genz president
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To make it normal I’ll say ‘we met at an event’ but no one needs to know the event was a mixer for south asian singles
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all these commodities traders I’ve met in my life and not a single trader named Joe
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the life cycle of every company is first you have the creatives come in, then you have the ops people come in to scale / org chart / business process everything and then you have the fomo maxxers pile in for a safe wage.
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You can immediately tell which of the three phases a person came in by their attitude. A fomo maxxer will never have an answer to any big question. An ops person will have some answers but will point you up / around the org chart.
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A creative will try to answer all questions, albeit to their detriment
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going for a run on a Monday morning at 9 am has to be the biggest flex of all time
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if we’re talking about chocolate and you lard the same Lindt Schmindt but haven’t tasted hazelnut noisette KitKat I’m sorry but you’re just under informed and I won’t trust your opinion
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hot take BTS are just millennial Ramones
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those mfs over at San Pellegrino could have as easily made their water a twist off
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whoever thoguht of carbonating water must have had more IQ than everyone collectively that came before them
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ok so CoreWeave announces a little bit of debt at 15% yields right, and people tank the stock, despite compute being 3x oversubscribed, only to take that money and put it into Ant who’s literally going to pay more than 15% extra for compute if Coreweave goes out of business
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