There is a certain type of person everywhere now, especially online. He consumes endless information every day: philosophy, psychology, productivity, spirituality, neuroscience, business, self-improvement, history. He knows a little about everything and deeply experiences almost nothing. His entire identity becomes built around understanding instead of living. He watches videos about confidence instead of speaking confidently. Reads about discipline instead of becoming disciplined. Studies relationships instead of learning how to love. Consumes motivational content instead of taking action. He feels intelligent because he is constantly mentally stimulated. But stimulation is not transformation. Most of the time, knowledge becomes emotional protection. Reality is unpredictable. Reality humiliates. Reality exposes weakness. Books and ideas do not. Inside information, he can continue imagining himself as intelligent, deep, insightful, different from ordinary people. So he remains trapped in preparation. He constantly feels as if he is "becoming" someone, while his real life remains strangely untouched. He develops sophisticated language for problems he never confronts directly. He can explain human behavior beautifully while being unable to handle ordinary discomfort, rejection, uncertainty, loneliness, or risk. He slowly turns life into observation instead of participation. The internet rewards this personality heavily. He receives validation for sounding aware rather than becoming capable. Eventually, he begins confusing self-analysis with growth and information with wisdom. But beneath the intelligence usually exists the same thing: fear. Fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of reality answering back. Because action destroys fantasy. The moment he truly acts, he can no longer hide inside potential.

guy who faked-it-until-he-made-it but was starting to get in over his head can’t believe his luck when llms launched

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

The cheapest way to cut your AI bill isn't a faster chip, a smaller model, or a clever quantization scheme. It's giving the model a cleaner desk to work from. Karpathy described his own setup: an Obsidian knowledge base, clean markdown folders, a wiki the model can pull from instead of being handed the same sprawling context over and over. The reported result was a 70 to 90% cut in token burn, replicable in an afternoon, with no new infrastructure at all. The reason it works is the same memory truth that runs under everything in inference. You pay for every token of context you send, every time you send it. If your context is bloated, redundant, and rebuilt from scratch on every call, you're buying the same thought again and again. Caching and reusing that state, or just structuring it so the model only sees what it needs, is pure margin. This is the lever most teams miss. Routing simple work to cheap models, caching aggressively, and controlling context will save more, durably, than waiting for the per-token price to drop another notch. Price drops are out of your hands but context discipline is entirely in them. Everyone wants to optimize the model but the money is in optimizing what you feed it.

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day: "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom" Ecclesiastes 9:10

RT @demian_ai: Sam Altman recently said "we have to become an AI inference company now" Feels like that sentence is the cleanest re-org of…

One of the most enlightening accounts on this platform. Every post is a gem from the past.

In a world of infinite, free answers, the question is the only remaining differentiator.

Enjoy being while becoming

Shuffle a deck of playing cards. That exact order of cards has never existed and will never exist again in the history of humanity.

Bir çocuğa kuşun adını öğrettiğiniz andan itibaren, çocuk kuşu bir daha asla göremez sözünü öğrendiğimden beri bu konsepti anlamaya çalışıyorum.

Discussion we had this evening. In NYC we are bringing back the IRISH HELLO. AKA THE 90s. Here’s how it works. You and your friends all share location. Sporadically throughout the day (lunch break, coffee walk, after work, before work) you check to see where they are. If you’re close to someone, you just show up at their location. Aka bring them a coffee to work, stop by their apt unannounced, kick shoes off and spill the tea. Spontaneously grab a drink or dinner because you’re in the same vicinity. And even if you’re not, meet in the middle. It’s easy to get around here. We’re nostalgic for a time that does not exist and yet we have the means to create it and still we refuse. Everyone is too cool or too nonchalant or too scared to appear desperate. Who gives a fuck. I think we should all be a little more desperate. You’re alive. You need people and people need you. Be the one who calls. Be the one who makes the plan, who sets the tone. I guarantee you’ll be surprised at who shows up. It’s better to be the person who tries than the person who doesn’t. HELLO I AM HERE.

This is basically what philosophers and anthropologists mean when they say that the 'individual' is a relatively modern construct, and that many other cultures conceive of people in a more porous, contingent, interwoven fashion. Weird as it sounds, it's just observably true.

how to life maxx more: > get off your phone > say yes to spontaneous plans even when you're tired - some of the best nights are unplanned > talk to strangers - at coffee shops, events, literally anywhere. serendipity maxx > make a bucket list and work your way through said bucket list!! > stop opting for boring hangs. switch things up with your friends. try something new!! > start a random hobby just for fun - pottery, dance, improv, cooking. not everything needs to "be productive" ok?? > be 5% more silly in your life. dance in your room, sing badly in the car, crack a bad joke. it's not that serious. grow the silly muscle > surround yourself with people who make you feel lighter - your time and energy is precious > don't forget the basics: move your body, get sunlight, take your vitamins, eat well, sleep > your time to live life is happening NOW so stop saving it for later!! get off those phones & out into the real world people!! lets go PLAY!!!

No, seriously, you can't trust screenshots anymore

Picasso’s reply when asked for his thoughts on computers in 1964 is more relevant than ever:

adulting is basically arriving at the same truths as your father, but from first principles.

this could have been you europe-maxxing this summer but instead you chose to share a 1bdr with four other dudes in sf to walk around the city with your laptop slightly open so your agents won’t stop running.