My favorite @elonmusk quote that I often send friends: Do not fear losing. “You will lose,” Musk says. “It will hurt the first fifty times. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion.” You will be more fearless, take more risks.

who knew takeoff would be fun

Helpful tool for improvement. It’s just physics thinking in the limit.

I started talking to my co-founder like Claude

It’s always hard. You get better at certain decisions, but then even harder ones appear. If it never ends, a key skill is endurance and managing your emotions. So, work on that. PS that doesn’t necessarily mean doing it alone.

daily reminder

My children will never know the pain of spending hours trying to center some <div>s

Stop being retarded, start Retardmaxing Being retarded means you’re ruminating and overthinking your decision Retardmaxing means you’re making decisions based on your gut instinct — zero rumination, zero regrets Stop being retarded, start #Retardmaxing

Self-knowledge isn't pre-installed. You acquire it by doing a massive volume of reps. Epiphanies only come after you've done the work -- they're just the final piece snapping into infrastructure you previously built.

People get rewarded in public for what they practice in private. Tony Robbins dropped this on Theo Von’s podcast while talking about Steph Curry: The greatest 3-point shooter in NBA history has taken over 2.5 million shots in practice — 500 shots every single day for years. That’s why he releases the ball and turns around before it even goes in. He already knows. That level of unseen work is insane. We celebrate the highlight, but greatness is built in the boring, repetitive hours no one sees. Real success isn’t luck or talent alone, it’s the compound effect of consistent private practice.

This is real engineering

my gut reaction to ai in math is i'm excited about getting access to an infinitely patient teacher that's near expert in every area of math. this is possibly the best time in history to be doing math as a hobby.

Asked my algebra teacher if I would ever use algebra after I graduated. She said I wouldn't, but some of the smart kids will.

Math is much closer to athletics than most people realize.

There is a case to be made that the future of Mathematics is very bright. In my mind, proofs have always been a tool to achieve a goal. The goal was and still is to understand, and reading/writing proofs (or just know that they exist) will remain part of it.

got a framed copy to hang by the ai team

My conversation with @jliemandt on why the future of education is better than you think. 0:00 The current education system 7:01 What makes Alpha School different 11:01 What are the results 23:20 Current classroom struggles 26:40 What does mastery mean? 35:37 Changing the education system 39:19 Teaching through AI 44:27 How do you solve motivation? 57:01 What makes a good teacher? 1:01:04 Coaching 1:05:17 What life skills matter? 1:08:18 Doing hard things 1:13:25 AI Monitoring 1:21:08 Effort vs. IQ 1:24:40 What happens after Alpha School? 1:38:21 The Genius of Jack Welch 1:45:49 Trilogy IPO: the choice to not go public 1:51:40 Physical vs. virtual learning 2:03:18 Does Paying Kids To Learn work? 2:11:01 What Is Success For You? (Includes paid partnerships)

These were all released within 57 days of each other in 1991

I wonder if there's anything in the Bible about golden idols and stuff

You only live once, so make sure to spend as much time as possible on your computer. You won’t have access to it when you die