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Silicon Valley bats for 0-to-1 startups. If you swap "Revenue" for "Risk," that is culturally the same. People who don't have a "1" full-risk-on mode by default self-select themsel…

An interesting Asian counterpart is the Japanese death haiku. MUMON GENSEN Died on the twenty-second day of the third month, 1390 at the age of sixty-eight Life is an ever-rolling …

Individual games. The ones that specifically come to mind are Lazavik vs. Carlsen, Speed Chess Championship 2025 Semi-Final, Round 3, and Sindarov vs. Carlsen, Freestyle Chess Gran…

It feels like the cohort GM player pool is mentally cooked against Magnus. Youngsters like Lazavik during the Speed Chess Championship or Sindarov in Freestyle were the most recent…

+1 here. The last time I checked, they're custom (read: expensive) and require building out your own backend video storage.

Great points. Good founders are on both sides of selling and building. If you don't believe in sellers, you've never worked with good ones.

I was seven years old, and T2 was the first rated R film I saw which gave me horrific apocalyptic nightmares (see: Sarah's dream). Completely worth it.

Everyone's got a number they can't refuse... Defenders will say Bond deserves a modern update beyond the Daniel Craig era. But if I'm reading the tea leaves from Lord of the Rings,…

Contrarianly, startups should have a little maneuverability to be naughty. Any slight edge against incumbents is directionally sound policy, imho.

Having just read Lynch's Catching Big Fish, two quotes stood out to me: "There's safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milk shake, and you can go off into…

Maggie Smith's character in both Abbey and HP brooked no BS. We're reaching the time now when more of the Harry Potter teachers are leaving this world, I am not looking forward to …

"Poker is a combination of luck and skill. People think mastering the skill is hard, but they're wrong. The trick to poker is mastering the luck. That's philosophy. Understanding l…

It's happening.

From personal experience, the main Quora experience is their Digest e-mails; less than a third are relevant topics. And there are now constant "Edit:" updates on answers addressing…

You bring up good points against the physical medium (especially when it comes to note-taking), but I'd respectfully disagree. Books I've read multiple times, the great ones, nothi…

When Ridley Scott's Napoleon came out, I picked up Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts. Turns out Napoleon kept a copy of Ossian on him at all times during his war campaigns. Going …

Los Angeles Pros: AFFORDABLE, strong ethnic food centers. Do you want mountains? Yes. Do you want beach? Yes. The working class is diverse. On one freeway, you're looking at rocket…

Not much has changed in the current live poker meta. Yes, the average player may be better, but if you put in the consistent time to study/solvers/hand reviews, IMHO that puts you …

Many competitive games/sports where you are trading ELO or rankings (chess, RTS, boxing) are like this, but I wouldn't judge it outright as "not productive." I'd reckon it's more a…

That's amazing! I'm glad you've found it useful for your own endeavors.