@HarryStebbings: 3 Signals of a Great Founder
1. High level at gaming
2. Struggled relationship with a parent
3. The age you started something
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Error correcting mechanisms
From DNA to BRAINS to COMPANIES and even DEMOCRACIES
@DavidDeutschOxf
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.@MrBeast on the cheat code to creating success:
"Just surround yourself with people that you want to be. And it makes it like 70% easier, in my opinion. That is the cheat code to life. The people they are around 100% dictates the outcome. I would not be on 120 million subscribers if I didn't find, when I was around a million, I had a couple friends that were just also psychopaths.
I outgrew them, but at the time it was great. And I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for them. I'd probably have 80 million less subscribers if I wasn't so strategic about hanging out with people that I had value to and they also had value to me."
Student playtesting his own game found a hack to skip the parkour by hopping along the edge.
(Some might call that an edge case.)
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Ben Horowitz on the two skills that will matter more than ever before in an AI world: creativity and relationships.
"I think those are things that are hard to get out of today's AI in a very good way. So if you don't have instincts around those things, I don't know if all the AI in the world could help you. Whereas the grind-them-out tasks, AI is already really good at."
"Do you have original ideas? Can you establish and maintain very high quality, high fidelity relationships with people off the rip? I think people don't think about that enough."
"One big advantage I think that we have is we really look for that. Many just ignore that whole thing, like it's not a thing... It's a thing."
@bhorowitz w/ @Tocelot
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10-year-old Noah sent us a thank-you note for $250. And included his own computer design. 🥰🇺🇸
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Elon Musk pulled his kids out of school and just… built his own. Inside a rocket company. As you do.
No grades. No standardized tests. Just real problems that need solving. The school was called Ad Astra — Latin for “to the stars.” Because of course it was.
His argument is devastatingly simple: schools teach you the wrench, never the engine. You spend 12 years learning tools with zero context for why they matter. So your brain — which is literally wired to delete useless information — throws most of it away by graduation.
That’s not a flaw in students. That’s a flaw in the design.
And now we have AI — the greatest teaching tool ever built — and kids are using it to skip the thinking entirely. We didn’t get smarter. We got better at avoiding the hard part.
The tool got a PhD. The education system is still handing out participation trophies.
AI enables creativity.
.@naval on Creativity: “Technology is a tool. You can use it for anything.
You can use it for consciousness.
You can use it for unconsciousness.
Social media brings people together—but it can also bring people together to form digital mobs and fight each other.
It can play on both sides.
Unfortunately, I think that in many cases, the destructive power of technology arrives before the creative power.
But the creative capabilities of technology are actually unlimited.
The destructive side has a limited downside.
What happens when you destroy something?
It ends.
But when you create something, it's almost impossible to predict the levels it can reach.
No one sitting around in Jesus' time, for example, could have predicted anything like what is happening here today.
It would have been impossible.
Because the ability to combine, recombine, and create new things—new forms of life, new systems, and new civilizations—is unlimited.
But if you want to talk about destruction, it always ends the same way.
It's just barren.”
