Retro Futurist / Viaggiatore Del Tempo "The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed."

Florida
Joined December 2012
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Vibe coding, DIY hardware, and 3D printing will lead to a renaissance in arcade-style gaming.
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I’ve come to conclude that A.I. knows everything, yet understands nothing.
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AI won’t take your job. Someone who knows how to use AI better than you, will take your job.
We’re already starting to see what kind of new jobs AI is creating. AI requires significant technical work and surrounding services to deploy into the economy. This means jobs for AI engineers that build applied AI products sold to (or within) enterprises, FDEs to deploy agents into companies, new services firms for deploying AI, and more. And even the published stats of new jobs undercount all the existing jobs that are transitioning to new areas of AI work in an enterprise. Many prior data, research, and software jobs large enterprises are also being repositioned for working with AI. Every bank, life sciences company, manufacturer, and even law firm is bringing on more technical talent -or repositioning existing roles- to help with agent deployment in their companies. It’s a lot easier to picture what AI can replace vs. what it creates until it starts happening. Now we’re seeing what this looks like.
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The real purpose of wealth is to become a kid again. To have the freedom to follow your curiosity and do whatever the fuck you want, whenever you want.
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Apple was the 15th smartphone maker Spotify was the 10th music platform Google was the 21st search engine to enter the market Facebook was the 10th social network Netflix was the 7th streaming provider Uber was the 4th ride sharing service TikTok was the 8th short-video app Zoom was the 11th video-calling app Being first doesn't mean winning
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parents the world over today are forcing their children into misguided rat races for some status ladder that almost certainly won’t exist by the time they come out the other side. the world is changing rapidly. let them put down their grinding and keep their wits about them
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Your daily goal should be “how relaxed can I be while doing everything that needs to be done?” Quality of life will improve 10x
Entrepreneurs burn out faster than employees because they don't have somebody telling them when to be off vs on. A construction worker putting in 60 hour weeks who drinks beer all weekend has less burnout risk than a 27 year old running an agency because the construction worker knows that he can be totally offline when he gets home. Being "always on" gives you zero time for your stamina bar to fully recover. The work is menial enough that you don't notice you're totally depleting yourself until your nervous system shuts down. You effectively have two options here: - Learn how to shut your brain off (easier said than done) - Change your approach to work The best approach is a mix of the two. You can chad ram your way through work with stimulants for maybe 5 years before it really catches up to you. Effective in the beginning but unsustainable. You need to learn to approach your work in a parasympathetic state. Most of us spend 90% of our time in the sympathetic state when we're really only meant to rely on that fight or flight maybe 10% of the time. You think you're getting "in the zone" but you're really just cortisol-maxxing and burning through all of your body's most important resources. Save the chad ramming for when it really counts. Your day to day goal should be "how relaxed can I be while doing what needs to get done?" Don't waste your life's potential getting burnt out before 30.
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the most interesting part of social media now is that you’re watching ads from both the creators + the platforms themselves at scale. that basically makes like 50%+ of content on insta just pure ads. you got sponsorships, partnerships, affiliate links, product placements, content that is basically an ad but disguised as organic, etc. that futurama / south park episode where everything is advertising was never even satire. at this point you can assume that everything on social media is an ad until proven otherwise. like this post itself could be an ad & you would never even know.
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David Koonar retweeted
One of the greatest viruses for founders is scrolling Twitter. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes, funding posts, ARR screenshots, insane launches, with no visibility of the process that got them there.
One of the greatest viruses of the modern man is looking at Instagram Stories. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes—like vacations, parties, cars—with no visibility of the process that got them there.
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If building “a life well lived” feels too intimidating, try building some “days well lived” or even some “hours well lived” first. I find this both grounding and elevating in a way that standard advice like “live in the moment” or “one foot in front of the other” is not.
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In the near future, you'll ask your agent to buy something, & it will be cheaper/faster for the agent to: - design its own version - 3d print it at a local print farm - get it sent to you by drone At some point, this will happen to more industries than we can imagine now.
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La Rochefoucauld wrote in 1665 that we underestimate our abilities not because we are humble, but because we don't want the burden of actualizing our potential. Better to think "that's beyond me" instead of "I betrayed my gifts." Ouch
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, what a line
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One of the luckiest thing that happened in my life was that my dad modeled this trait. Way before the term "agency" was popularized, he remodeled our entire house. He was a professional landscaper, not a carpenter, but I guess just figured 'how hard could it be?' He read some books, and figured it out as he went. It turned out pretty good! I was into sharks and he was into aquariums, so one day he decided to knock a 8ft x 3ft hole in one of our walls and put a salt water aquarium in there with baby leopard sharks. He finished it with a frame so it was like a living painting in our tv room. Very popular with my friends 😂. Another time, he dug a big pit in our foundation, filled it with rocks and cement and made an indoor waterfall and turtle pond. He learned to fly planes, learned to sail, learned gardening, farming livestock, and tons more. Lots of parents tell you "you can be anything you want when you grow up". I don't remember him ever saying that, but he modeled it. I honestly think there was not much he felt he couldn't learn to do. I still remember him buying a "Programming Visual Basic" book and telling me "if you read and understand that, you'll know more about computers than me". Very motivating. Anyway, kids learn from what you do, not what you say.
Replying to @mitchellh
how do you teach your kids that the world is mutable?
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Astra was good for like a day.
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everyone spent ten years learning to code and it turns out the terminal skill was english composition. the machine will do anything you tell it. the only thing left between you and what you want is whether you can form a clear thought and put it into words
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Reminder that someone with a much lower IQ than you has 10x your net worth because they were simply too dumb to ever doubt themselves
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i analyzed 669 interviews with millionaires and billionaires and you’ll be surprised: > cold showers — almost never > meditation — almost never > manifestations — 4/669 > vision boards — almost never > waking up at 5am — 4/669 what they actually keep talking about: > knowing how to sell > taking risks > working on one thing for years > making mistakes > taking opportunities turns out getting rich is pretty boring who would’ve thought 💀
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