A Princeton Ph.D. applied to 2,300 jobs. He still can’t get one, per WSJ.

I’ve been DJing since 2018. I’ve played at clubs, small festivals, Burning Man, etc. I’m technically professional but it’s a side quest for me. I mostly play for / with friends to have fun and spread joy.

Because he disclosed how much he gets from there and you know how that goes 🤷🏾‍♀️

i wonder what happened to the $15k coding bootcamps that were popular pre-ai lol

i’ve been back home for a few days, in the tiny italian town where i grew up. maybe 6,000 people. yesterday i saw some old school friends i hadn’t seen in years and it was genuinely fascinating how little their lives have changed. most people here don’t go to university. they finish school and start working right away. then that’s kind of their life. wake up, work as an electrician or mechanic, come home, watch football, beer with friends on friday. work all year, save enough money for a week of vacation in august, come back and repeat. most have basically no idea what AI is. all the things that feel world-changing to me and to the timeline barely enter their lives at all. when i start talking about AI, self-driving cars, robots, rockets, all the things i’m insanely excited about, they mostly just scoff. completely uninterested. and i don’t even mean any of this as an insult. a lot of them seem perfectly fine with their lives. that’s what makes it so strange. their lives now feel completely foreign to mine, while also being incredibly familiar. we grew up in the same town, went to the same schools, knew the same people. our families and childhoods weren’t that different. if i had made a couple different choices when i was 14 or 15, there’s a very real chance that would have been my life too. sometimes you go home and realize just how many completely different versions of your life were only a few decisions away.

Eine Pause vom Deutschlernen. Meine Wochenendelektüre:

"u optimise for viewers, u get viewers. u optimise for buyers, u'll get buyers. there are tiny youtube channels making enormous monthly income, compared to channels w/ millions of subs" - Ed Lawrence reminds me of NNT: "u must impress ur accountant rather than the neighbours..."

Effective Altruism is the natural enemy of the left and right because the right doesn't believe in altruism and the left doesn't believe in effectiveness.

I’m a solo founder and PhD from Munich, Germany. Looking to connect with more builders, AI & deeptech enthusiasts!

True wealth is total independence: you answer to nobody & no opinion or politics can dictate your future Even the richest celebrities’ careers live & die by their fanbase & whoever writes their cheques If income costs you peace or freedom, you’re rich — not wealthy.

shoutout @Jack_Raines for the early copy of his new book. phenomenal read, especially if u're in ur teens/20s. goat blogger, i first met Jack 3.5 yrs ago in London to record an in-person pod. back then he was contemplating eventually writing a book. he sure delivered👑 go order!

This is also why the majority of nepobabies don't bother anymore with finance/consulting but rather become "founder" straight after graduation, then suddenly "serial entrepreneur" by 27. They can buy unlimited tickets for status + meaning + more money, with instant recognition from society. Why grind for 10+ years as an anonymous junior in the corporate world when you can become “Founder & CEO” overnight, speak at niche conferences, appear on your friends’ podcasts, sometimes get on TV thanks to your dad’s connections, then give advice to the young generation on LinkedIn about courage and taking risks. This might sound a bit sarcastic, but I personally know a ton of these people in Paris and London. They went into entrepreneurship not out of conviction, but because it was the safest, most socially rewarding route available to them, with an entire ecosystem of manufactured success around them: raise from "family and friends", buy some distribution, get a few press articles, acquire a handful of real clients, then do a small acqui-hire into one of the ecosystem's companies and suddenly call yourself an "Ex-founder" or put “Exit to...” in the bio. There is literally no downside for them. Even failing 5 startups makes them a "repeat entrepreneur" and they can still try a 6th time, and who knows, they might get lucky once, then explain to everyone that failures were part of the journey and that they had this incredible tenacity to keep going through the down moments. It just makes the story better.

Silicon Valley is full of bullshitters and runs entirely through connections. > Come from an upper class family > Get connections through EA community to work in FTX with SBF > then get some more connections to work in OpenAI with 0 technical relevance > write yet-another fear-mongering essay to create sensation and pretend you are sacking yourself for benefit of humanity > pocket millions of dollars in fees and act so reckless that you don't have risk management for your portfolio stocks going down %20 > profit If you are doing honest work, do not be afraid to be bold and get the things you need to build the future. World is full of scammers who get there with 0 value creation.

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