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Maybe you’ve got it right. I lost it all. I spent some time grieving, did some crazy things, decided to build wealth all over again, but then didn’t. I instead picked a topic and s…

I closed out a successful investment career to go to college (never went) and ended up a professor of engineering. Then job is mostly testing new ideas and technologies and writing…

Not offline. I do not trust anyone with some data, because I have contractually promised not to do so.

I used to use this, but the LLM approach allows for much deeper interactions. Not "find all times I've typed X" but "act as an expert in Y, looking across all times I've typed X, s…

I looked into this for sensitive material recently. In the end I got a purpose-built local system built and am having it remotely maintained. Cost: around 5k a year. I used http://…

I had not realized that's where Y Combinator comes from... Recursion without self reference. Cool.

Three minute explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2RCPqdcSbg