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Hot take: Most problems don't require formal product discovery. Very few problems are hard enough or important enough to warrant the effort to validate solutions. You can fix most things with your best guess, and maybe a little iteration.


"As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it" cales.arizona.edu/~steidl/Libera…

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A lesson on the greenhouse effect with Carl Sagan. 🎥: Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change


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Moderately obsessed with the new Swiss passport design situation

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If you want to know why immigrants to France riot while immigrants to America grill on the 4th of July, it’s because of stuff like this. Anyone can become an American; not everyone can be European.

This is my favorite thing about the US. I learned how special it is on a Friday night while living in Copenhagen. I had met an attractive girl about my age on the street. In a feeble attempt to flirt, I asked her where she was from. “I’m from Turkey,” she said…



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I think the euros have never quite been able to wrap their head around American culture not manifesting as operas (though there are those too)

"Is America perhaps the place where cultures go to die? Such a statement would have been signed by Spengler." ~ Ernst Jünger

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Such a statement would have been signed by Spengler."

~ Ernst Jünger


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I'm not saying having diverse teams isn't fun, but when you feel the strain of disagreement, it means you're doing the right thing. scarletink.com/what-experienc…


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How to Manage Managers: Got asked to do a session @CapitalCamp on Managing Managers (co-hosted by my friend @ChrisHillALX). Sharing the outline here in case it's helpful. The basic outline: Things I believe about... A) People B) Managers C) Managing managers


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When I tell people we didn't use an issue tracker at Slack, I typically get one of two reactions, either "oh thank god" or "how tf did you stay organized?" Here's the thing: we were incredibly organized. Here was our system: Use a document (and checklists) to track your work.…


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president xi, my name is polina prigozhin. i am 25 years old girl living in st petersburg, russia. we have been 12 months without orea mcflurry and my people yearn for freedom. my papa, a caterer, marches on moscow. please send chengdu j-20 multirole stealth fighter.


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it's astonishing that we're alive. so much of human history turns on psychopathy and delusion. tonight a hot dog vendor with a private army is starting a totally doomed rebellion in a country with 6,000 nuclear warheads. turn it over to the orcas imo


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Honestly I would vote for James Cameron for President. Unique problem solver with a ton of experience managing massive teams with huge budgets. Plus he'd stop making Avatars


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This is a letter Feynman wrote to a former student who wrote congratulating him for the Nobel. I’ve posted it before but I really find it worth it to read especially as a student or early stage research person.

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I was recently on a panel with several other professors and we were asked to give some tips to graduate students in machine learning. It got me thinking about why professors are so bad at giving advice. So here are some reasons why you should not take advice from professors.



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When you understand what you need, having quick access to code that would solve your problem via AI is great. However, when you neither understand the problem nor the solution, having access to even more code you don't understand only clouds the problem further.


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just told my 5 month old son about ted kaczynski. he did the wakanda pose and said “the industrial revolution and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the human race”. can’t say i agree with him but the boy’s got spirit.


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The shrimp are a warning. A model of the world that leads to bizarre conclusions cannot be trusted, and people who take that model extremely seriously will end up doing unreasonable things. Garbage in, garbage out.


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This. This is why "mindfulness" is actually VERY IMPORTANT FOR US. "mindfulness" is one of the only ways to learn what your brain is doing. Quick thread on ADHD and mindfulness and meditation:

I was recently on a panel with several other professors and we were asked to give some tips to graduate students in machine learning. It got me thinking about why professors are so bad at giving advice. So here are some reasons why you should not take advice from professors.



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