Kunal Shah
@kunalb11
Opinions of people who failed at something doesn’t become bad because of their failure but aren’t taken seriously. Opinions of people who have done well are often assumed to be good in areas they don’t have understanding. This makes celeb advertising powerful and allows…
LLMs mirror an ADHD mind: hopping between fascinations, thriving on novelty, then losing the thread when the context window caps out. When details blur, they improvise with supreme confidence with curiosity on overdrive, ideas firing faster than you can fact-check.
Every tech wave sparks job-loss panic be it looms, railroads, PCs, internet, AI. What it actually does : make a few people who adapt, earn way more and let plenty of useless jobs live on. Typed this after experiencing a human operated elevator recently.
All gross margins from making things efficient may get hyper compressed with AI.
the openai IMO news hit me pretty heavy this weekend i'm still in the acute phase of the impact, i think i consider myself a professional mathematician (a characterization some actual professional mathematicians might take issue with, but my party my rules) and i don't think i…
80% of building wealth is just ignoring people who never built anything.
Internet and tech are mostly designed to help humans do short term behaviors. For achieving anything long term one needs to get off them.
AI these days feels like final stage of a solitaire game where one accelerates really fast to watch the satisfying animation of the cards going back to the pack.
Leadership is about uncomfortable conversations and decisions. Great leadership is doing both without delay.
For many years google had the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button which allowed people to get to top result without having to deal with search results. This move wasn’t ideal for business as it didn’t allow users to see ads which fueled the company’s profits. Years later, AI makes us…
Humans are subconsciously always stuck in ranking and comparing mode and when someone hits a misfortune our primitive brain gives us a dopamine rush as if we got a mega boost in our own rank Schadenfreude is easy to understand if we treat world as one big zero sum game.
Empowerment without accountability ends up as entitlement.
Large language models grow by relentlessly ingesting diverse data. True for our mind too. It’s best to keep sampling new disciplines and trends to keep evolving our mental algorithms. When success makes curiosity shrink, our personal “LLM” stops learning and starts coasting.
When I started in tech in 2009, joining a startup meant taking a huge pay cut. You did it for the mission, the growth, the bet on yourself (and maybe because the best-paid jobs in finance or big tech weren't hiring in the recession). Startups were for the scrappy and idealistic.
Asked GPT what’s similar between ADHD brain and LLMs: 1.Novelty magnets – instantly gravitate to the most interesting new cue in the prompt or environment. 2.Rapid context-switching – can jump from finance to philosophy in a single line without friction. 3.Hyper-focus…
Good leaders make their presence felt. Great leaders make their absence felt.
All primitive forms of intelligence like slime mold shows extraordinary ability of energy efficiency. Maybe core principle and meaning of intelligence is energy efficiency.