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19 Jun 2018
On April 17, 2017, my dad passed away
For the last 13 months, I worked @CBinsights and also ran his chemical manufacturing biz in India
It was acquired on June 1
Lessons, thank yous and observations here
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Jun 9
Startup idea: new-home-isht-in-a-box
First, here's why
I just moved to the suburbs after living in cities my whole adult life
And I just bought my first:
* lawn mower
* ladder
* gardening tools
* maibox
* big-a$$ garbage cans
* trimmer
And countless more isht where tbh, I have zero Idea really what I'm doing and so am just asking AI and buying blindly
The new-home-isht-in-a-box just provides all the isht you typically need for a new home in one giant package
It's cheaper than buying the items a la carte
And a heck of a lot more convenient
And now you have a relationship with a new home owner so can sell them all sorts of other stuff
If this exists, please lmk asap
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Jun 8
This mistakes what the actual job of universities is
Universities are not about providing an education.
9 of 10 people will tell you that most of what they learned happened in other places (in their early education, their extracurriculars, on-the-job, etc)
The university's primary products are signaling, prestige, networks, access to opportunities, credentialing for certain regulated professions, social capital, etc
Peter is right that they are dramatically overpriced
Increasingly, the prestige, networks, social capital, etc can also be generated by proving capability
An interesting coming 10-20 years for universities
Hot take: Universities charge $300,000 for a degree that teaches you skills any LLM can do for free. At some point we need to have an honest conversation about whether higher education is the greatest individuals misallocation of capital in recent history.
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Jun 8
Increasingly, we are entering the Proof Economy
An economy where demonstrated ability trumps pedigree
anandsanwal.me/the-proof-eco…
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Jun 5
After a decade and saying "I love you" over 20 million times, yesterday was my last @CBinsights newsletter
Thanks to everyone who wrote back to the NL to tell me me it made them laugh, that they appreciated the "I love you" or even that I'm the stupidest m0therf^cker that ever lived
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Jun 4
ChatGPT still dominates in schools
While most of my professional conversations abt AI center on Claude, it is non-existent among students
Also, Gemini w/ big student gains (not surprising given distro)
Also a bunch of tools in here I didn't expect to see
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Jun 1
"Unless it's a top university, go to the cheapest one that you like."
This is the right advice for those deciding on which college to attend when thinking about future employment
Going to Boston University or Oberlin just won't matter
h/t @auren
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Jun 1
Also, here is also why the US News College Rankings are trash
The story involves hot sauce
anandsanwal.me/us-news-colle…
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May 26
7.1% of the US population are millionaires
In China, it's 0.4%
India is 0.06%
Switzerland is off the charts at 12.4% of the population
I'd imagine the US has way more self-made millionaires (vs inherited) than any country on this list
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May 23
Just found an old set (maybe the only 1 left)
Some of these have held up pretty well (some not)
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May 23
This is reportedly a daycare in Italy
These kids just sleeping listening to the sounds of birds (sound on)
Is this for real?
I mean, where are the damn Chromebooks?
How are these kids gonna learn?
Italy is cooked
h/t @sciencegirl
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May 22
When something's off with kids, the reflexive answer by many is phones.
Not incentives.
Not culture.
It's never anything that requires harder thinking or any culpability on our part.
We just take the messiest problem of our time and pin it on one cause.
It's so f'n lazy.
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May 21
Millennial moms & dads are spending more time with their kids
...and it's probably a bad thing
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May 21
👀 Ken Griffin on AI
"...work that we would usually do with people with masters and PhDs in finance over the course of weeks or months being done by AI agents over the course of hours or days."
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