High T + ADHD + Data + Christian
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I left Silicon Valley 6 years ago
Why?
Because it's a monoculture
The most extreme group think of any place on the planet
Show up to a dinner party and everyone is in tech
So what do they do? They start stack-ranking each other
And it's a totally ordered set: being founder of co $100B market cap > founder of co with $50B market cap > managing partner of tier 1 venture firm > hired CEO of $50B public co > founder of $10B co > etc etc
Pure toxicity that nerfs creativty
And then as a corollary, people are especially afraid to speak truth to power as everyone knows their place in
"The Hierarchy"
Reject this nonsense. Stay weird. Think independently. Be honest with yourself. Have fun.
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noooooooo. gosh I understand why but Dan’s writing is the most authentic escape from AI in the modern era.
Pen and paper people, please.
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Welcome to the unknown. The most meaningful place to be.
In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood where the true way was wholly lost ~ Dante’s inferno
Most perceive this line as a mid life crisis.
It’s not. It’s the goal. It’s the destination.
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There is a long history of ideas that seemed correct to globalist elites, but proved disastrous for the average American:
“America should outsource its manufacturing to China”
“America should open its borders to tens of millions of illegal immigrants because it’s humane and we need workers”
“America should stop building nuclear power plants, stop fracking, prevent nat gas pipelines, and deindustrialize more broadly due to climate change”
“Let’s have tacit quotas against hiring/promoting white men so that minorities can catch up”
@PalmerLuckey has consistently shown extreme bravery in his willingness to take on unpopular topics
Investors like Paul want the immigration debate to be strictly polar because it is the only way their traitorous ideas might seem reasonable.
They paint one side as racist, backwards, economically illiterate absolutists and the other as enlightened, growth-minded cosmopolitian realists. Support for laws that protect American citizens can be dismissed as uneducated, anyone who hires immigrants or foreigners in any capacity a hypocrite.
American law should, and does, advantage American citizens. We should not have to compete on an even playing field with billions of people who almost universally don't share our values or respect our institutions, even if they are "the most qualified" or willing to work double the hours for the same wages. The men running Operation Paperclip did not think Americans should have to compete with the entire Third World, they understood that a carefully controlled amount of highly-skilled expert immigration is net good for America even when allegience is in question.
It is worth noting that even on a purely economic level, ignoring all burdens of loyalty or allegiance to your countrymen and treating America as nothing but an economic activity zone, it still doesn't make sense to say without qualification that foreigners should get any job where they are more qualified than their American counterpart.
As just one easy example out of dozens, about 20% of immigrants return home after less than five years, taking all their savings and vested shares with them. Another 20% will leave within ten years, doing the same. All the while, they will wire, on average, ~15% of their wages out of the United States economy every month. Some occupations and origins average 30%! The idea that this should be completely ignored with regard to employment and immigration policy is rampant among the same people who tell you with a straight face that limits on immigrants will destroy the American economy, that the dumb rednecks need to be saved.
I lean very libertarian and have strongly supported immigration to America for many years with countless public examples. That doesn't put me on the same side as the men who want to sell out America, and no amount of long-past accomplishment obliges any of us to listen to their lectures from the other side of the Atlantic.
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we’re having debates about datacenters and China is publicly developing superhuman robot armies
what the actual hell are we doing here guys
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Dario Amodei’s wife badgered Jeffery Epstein to invest in her porn company three years after he plead guilty to soliciting a child for prostitution.
You really hate to see this happen to the CEO of Silicon Valley’s foremost authority on morality
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Like in investing, balance/diversification protects you from disaster, but only concentration/overallocation can make you outperform and achieve great things.
Being reasonably fit, reasonably social, reasonably successful and reasonably rested is probably the safest life portfolio. But almost nobody becomes exceptional without overallocating to one thing for an unreasonable amount of time.
We should all stop with this modern obsession of having a perfectly balanced, optimised life (8 hours sleep, daily cardio + gym, eat well, deep work, etc.)
Most exceptional lives are heavily overallocated somewhere and any pursuit of greatness (in business, art, sport, research) requires big sacrifices.
Online gurus love selling this perfect recipe of life but reality is you only have a 24h day. No way you can sleep 8h, do 10k steps, gym, morning sunlight, read, eat perfectly, do 9h of deep work, see friends, maintain a relationship and somehow be happy through all of it.
I think a better thing for ambitious people is to think of life in seasons: a year obsessed with work, then a period focused on health, family, travel, etc. You can be massively overallocated to one thing for a while without deciding that’s what your entire life should look like. Balance probably makes more sense measured over years than every single day.
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the era of autistic deep work is over
your agents are more autistic than you and better at deep work
welcome to the shallow work future
total ADHD dominance
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The most successful people I know have this aura around them. There's a swagger, an energy, a reality-distortion field. A belief that "I will impose my will on life, that I make my own luck, that I will run laps around everyone else around me." Genghis Khan. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Kobe Bryant. Tom Brady. Napoleon. They all were inevitable.
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Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre.
The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming.
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.
Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel.
If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.
The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits.
There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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This is America. You should always be bullish. Not reckless. Not naive. But always progressing. Always building. Always looking for a path forward. It’s yours for taking if you have the courage. This is America.
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SpaceX alone just created over 5,000 millionaires while you have lifted zero people out of poverty or created zero millionaires (besides yourself)
