Notes to self: Better to model the avg person online as low context not stupid. People will generally know <5% of what you do imo. Lots of instances of people who come up to me at the airport and recognise me but don’t actually know my name. Unlikely they know what I do either
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Bot Armies Reshape Truth Through Coordinated Misinformation
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The truth is now determined by how many faceless accounts can be marshaled to agree with you
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Best Founders Thrive from Adversity and Resilience
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The best founders come from the mud. They're one step away from total ruin but a part of them enjoys it. Going back to zero means nothing, they'll just build it all back up in new form. Mentally at zero, surrounded by ghost riches. You can't take them down, it means nothing.
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Early Career Learning: Embrace Failure and Discovery
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The first few years of your career are for learning, experimenting, collecting L’s and taking damage. Figuring out what you enjoy and what you don’t. You don’t need to have all the answers, nobody does. Trying to sidestep this discovery process brings you great misery later.
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Human-AI Collaboration Beats AI-Generated Slop in 2026
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I don’t think people understand what slop is. It’s not when you use AI intelligently as a part of your process to tell a story. It’s stuff like this: https://
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Gap Between Thinking and Doing: Why Most Fail
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The title is a bit clickbait but I think this is a very important 50 minute video if you’re under 30. The gap between “I think I can do it” versus “I did it” is much larger than you think, and most people never close that gap because they don’t try. Tweeting about it doesn’t
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Isolated tech development creates unique values and independent approaches
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I’ve seen all parts of it. Good and bad. But what ended up happening there is that they had enough inward facing time to come up with everything from their own lingo, rules, themes, ideals without being influenced by the globe. Their aspirations and approaches are a bit different
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Chinese Social Media’s Role in AI Progress Surge
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I should make a long form on my thesis around Bilibili/other Chinese social media and what I think has triggered a massive burst in progress in China over the last decade. UTA has maybe 300-400M views across there.
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How AI Models Learn: Debunking Data Reproduction Myths
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I’m tired of explaining how AI models learn. They don’t copy or reproduce data in the way you think they do.
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Firefly and Licensed Data Training in Generative AI
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What about models like firefly that are trained on licensed data?