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in search of the eternal // http://spencerkier.substack.com // product lead // audience of one (http://anchor.fm/a-o-o)
apparently @openai doesn't support audio file transcription via chat and don't have a front end for whisper? how is that possible? i just had to build one
if things aren’t working, you probably need to: • pick a new game, • tell yourself a better story, &/or • surround yourself with ppl doing the above
Life is about wisely choosing the... ▪️games you create & play, ▪️stories you tell & believe, and ▪️the people you do both with
This world does not explain itself (…) it is magic, true or false. — Chesterton
i’m always baffled by our collective belief & arrogance that we have the slightest understanding of how anything works like, that we know anything about a cell or energy or traffic or the economy. even for things/systems where it looks like we have some predictive power (eg you…
you are a frankenstein's monster of other people's desires & expectations
Most people can’t tell the difference between “That’s cool someone’s doing that,” and “I want to do that”
baby exposure therapy is how you fix population decline
my friends' 2 y/o girl asked me to hold her in the park today and i did 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲
To thoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may be the thing great thinkers do. But I'm only interested in being able to love the world — Siddhartha
Startups have gradually moved their aims up the stack from 'Profitable Business' to: → Exit → Fundraising → Attention
nobody gives a shit about the marginal things you're doing — @dwarkesh_sp full ep here: bit.ly/3QFx7dF
you only get the respect you’re due when you’re responsible for the full range of outcomes — unexpected success or utter failure
Have interviewed almost 100 people in the past year, and not feeling appreciated is a top reason why people leave their jobs. They're drowning in sweat, but don't receive any acknowledgment. One compliment, one Thank You, one show of care would completely change their calculus.
The only way you can close that last 25% gap in certainty or confidence — whether in love, career, etc — is by commitment. It’s by doing. It’s by taking the leap. You can get to “4th and 5” all you want, but you only keep the sticks moving by going for it.
If you are interested in AI, work at a big co, and want to accelerate your career, now is an excellent time to become the de facto lead on integrating AI tools - Go interview 5-10 people across functions - Surface simple, repetitive problems - Prototype solutions & share with…
Courage is just a weaker man observing authenticity.
CS Lewis famously said that courage is “the form of every virtue at the testing point.” But the more I think about it, courage only looks that way to an outside observer. It’s what we label actions we think are good but we’re too scared to take ourselves. To the person doing…
