Academia selects for the ability to answer questions. Life rewards the ability to decide which questions deserve answering, and then to act without the answer.

Andrew Carnegie said that all success and wealth first starts in your mind: "The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled." "Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it." "Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket." "Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"

Delegate to AI what frees us, but retain what we need for our own development and independence.

BREAKING: Google launching TPUs in space NEXT WEEK on SpaceX falcon 9 to test AI data centers orbit ITS HAPPENING

Electronics & wiring are the trickiest part of assembling a robot. We’re shipping an entirely new experience for electronics in your @tnkrdotai repository. Goal is to make it 10x easier to document your electronics system & 10x easier for anyone to assemble. Every team / builder needs this.

actual wisdom can only be found by *actually sending it* on the direct line of your path/mission/vision. It's a byproduct of courage enacted on the hyper-specific lane of your internal compass/accurate directionality without sending it, you know nothing of what is *actually true*, or what is bullshit. You are fooled by ideas that *sound good*, but are pragmatically useless. You are too bound by partial *facts* or *truths*, that the 'responsible' (aka the fearful) use as cope to avoid forward movement only enacting *you* in real world can give you the discernment you seek And nothing can replace it

Henry Ford said that all success and wealth first starts in your mind: "You must never, even for a second, let yourself think that you can fail. Our first principle is that failure is impossible. If you shut out of your mind the possibility of being licked, then you are bound to win." "One who fears the future, who fears failure, limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail." "Thinking is the hardest work any one can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers." "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

my life got significantly better when i stopped being an entitled little bitch and realised that anything i wanted in life was down to me

the only loss in life is when you waste a moment not spending it in a way that is aligned with yourself

plans in life shouldn't be seen as a todo list of things to 'cross off or consume' but instead things (people, experiences, wisdom) to 'decorate' your life with. instead of them being 'one-offs', they continue to exist in your life to make it better

A CS undergrad asked me where he could have most effect in the AI age. I said probably at either extreme: either close to the technology, actually making LLMs, or close to the customer, using AI to give them exactly what they want. Or maybe both if you can stretch that far.

"i don't know which one" "i don't know what to do" "i don't know what is better" 99.999% stay stuck in starting gates asking these types of unanswerable questions (you can only get the answer by doing something) - and they just limbo without making a decision for (literally) forever A wrong guess is 1000x better than never moving forward. Because it moves you forward Boldly be wrong

parents the world over today are forcing their children into misguided rat races for some status ladder that almost certainly won’t exist by the time they come out the other side. the world is changing rapidly. let them put down their grinding and keep their wits about them

What Is To Be Done? I propose a simple plan: Big AI companies should be allowed to build AI as fast and aggressively as they can – but not allowed to achieve regulatory capture, not allowed to establish a government-protect cartel that is insulated from market competition due to incorrect claims of AI risk. This will maximize the technological and societal payoff from the amazing capabilities of these companies, which are jewels of modern capitalism. Startup AI companies should be allowed to build AI as fast and aggressively as they can. They should neither confront government-granted protection of big companies, nor should they receive government assistance. They should simply be allowed to compete. If and as startups don’t succeed, their presence in the market will also continuously motivate big companies to be their best – our economies and societies win either way. Open source AI should be allowed to freely proliferate and compete with both big AI companies and startups. There should be no regulatory barriers to open source whatsoever. Even when open source does not beat companies, its widespread availability is a boon to students all over the world who want to learn how to build and use AI to become part of the technological future, and will ensure that AI is available to everyone who can benefit from it no matter who they are or how much money they have. To offset the risk of bad people doing bad things with AI, governments working in partnership with the private sector should vigorously engage in each area of potential risk to use AI to maximize society’s defensive capabilities. This shouldn’t be limited to AI-enabled risks but also more general problems such as malnutrition, disease, and climate. AI can be an incredibly powerful tool for solving problems, and we should embrace it as such. To prevent the risk of China achieving global AI dominance, we should use the full power of our private sector, our scientific establishment, and our governments in concert to drive American and Western AI to absolute global dominance, including ultimately inside China itself. We win, they lose. And that is how we use AI to save the world. It’s time to build.

Meditate in the sun Walk near the water Get lost in the forest Remove what is misaligned Cut out the annoying/naggy people who not only don't get it, but actively fight against all that is real or true Heal your inner child Remove the bullshit in your psyche stopping you from forward movement Begin creating what you wish you saw in the world with zero fucks how it looks, just make it Ignore everyone who's focusing on dumb & pointless shit but speaks of it as if it is serious or important dont try to convince anyone of anything let people face the consequences of their patterns you owe nobody anything saying no is fun, nobody has anything good to share anyway. there is nothing anyone will show you or tell you that will improve your life. it's all distraction Win

engineering the impossible, beautifully