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High Agency: Mastery in shape rotation
March 7, 2024
I have heard this term being thrown around recently for people who are naturally introverted (which is likely this audience) as something that you should...
The most entertaining outcome is the most likely
January 11, 2024
Remember the keypads on smart phones in the early 2000s? Even before I was able to use one I had an iPhone in my hands, playing Youtube with the old CRT TV...
Suffering from success
August 27, 2023
Two years ago my life changed. After locking myself in my room since the beginning of the year I was hungry to run it up turbo. Peak 2021, money was being...
Everything converges to ChatGPT
April 18, 2023
Its pretty clear by now that "OpenAI" has gone from a niche AGI team working on Gym/playing around with agents in their Mujoco simulation envs to scaling up...
Tripping on LLMs
April 3, 2023
As a rising senior in high school I was intrigued by the concept of Transformers when TalktoTransformer came out. It was wild that a model could spit out...
Complacency is a disease
October 21, 2022
Complacency is a disease. Every funding announcement irks me. How come I wasn’t the one who stuck to my copywriting startup in 2019 and raised 100m+? I could...
broke the chain and went to miami
February 2, 2022
in my last post almost exactly a year ago, i wrote a few paragraphs about why I think crypto will be big in the next decade. my intuition led me the right...
breaking the chain
February 8, 2021
ive dabbled with crypto throughout the years. first was when my friend said his brother was making thousands mining bitcoin in 2015; so I wanted to buy half...
Thesis in the driver seat
February 6, 2021
TLDR: With the popularity of a Redditor who 1,000x’d his initial investment of capital, and Bezos who 2000x’d his initial investment of time/energy into what...
Predictability in the markets
February 3, 2021
TLDR: Markets are a casino made for the rich. Best way to play it is have some thesis driven companies like weed or steel and yolo and forget about it for a...
Build without regrets
January 10, 2021
Currently I’m on a GenZMafia discord voice call talking about why we’re shutting down a channel because someone screenshotted a chat and sent it to a woke...
Opportunity for AI people: How to become rich and famous (not clickbait)
December 21, 2020
I’ve been thinking of this strategy for a while after I used it once and got pretty good success out of it: There’s this twitter account that posts pretty...
Everything is just politics and communities
December 19, 2020
Everything is just politics and communities. You can form friendships because between you and the other people(s) share the common interest of the San Jose...
Feedback about this newsletter
December 18, 2020
If you have any feedback so far please let me know via email, twitter, etc. If you find this useful, I would appreciate you sharing this with people! If you...
Accountability: Ideating vs Building
December 17, 2020
There's a lot of accountability that's put on your shoulders when you tweet or say "I'm building xyz". Especially when its a reply or promise to someone that...
Raw meat, raw grass, and a farmland
December 16, 2020
Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo House In The Forest project, costs so far: Land (2 acres): $200K Feasibility study: - Perc test: $600 - Septic design: $3,750 -...
Twitter is getting boring or always has been
December 15, 2020
I may not be following the right people or I've been on twitter too much, but I don't think there's really anything interesting I've read on that site for a...
You should be on Hacker News instead
December 14, 2020
Hacker news has shaped my mindset from high school soy boy to hard core C# coder who only uses Nix OS and runs my own DNS servers on an island. Well not...
I am the next Jeff Bezos
December 13, 2020
The next Brian Chesky could be someone reading this or some person not even on the internet (which is scary to think about). For that reason, unless people...
Filtering out people for the best
December 11, 2020
The best sorts of people reach out via cold outreach. Because its likely they’ve done it before, and if they’ve done it before, there’s a high likely hood...
Should you move to SF?
December 10, 2020
What’s hilarious about the endless bickering on twitter is that people are legitimately moving to SF and getting shit done at a much faster pace than all...
There is no bullet you can dodge in the valley
December 8, 2020
In a matter of days, I’ve seen people go from side project to funded company; same with stocks I think are interesting but lose interest after they stagnante...
A 100 million people subscribed to a kid in less than a year
December 8, 2020
I hate reading. But we all love endlessly scrolling content. 100 million of those kids subscribed to a 16 year old girl in less than a year, so don’t worry,...
How to be authentic and genuine
December 6, 2020
Don’t be full of shit and communicate that affectively. I can admit when I’m full of shit because I’m not full of shit; but sometimes I am, not realistically...
Spend so much time understanding something, you know all the little nuances of it
December 4, 2020
There was this one tweet by either Nick C or Chris Olah that talked about: there's this level of intuition you reach when you know something so well you know...
Everyone knows everyone
December 4, 2020
Social capital is the concept I think is knowing and constantly communicating with really interesting people; this naturally means everyone knows everyone....
Finding your tribe
December 3, 2020
Facebook, Twitter, OnlyFans, HackerNews, etc. all garner different sorts of communities that provide value in different sorts of ways. Facebook initially...
there is no bottom
November 30, 2020
Something I've been realizing (in theory but not empirically) as I'm growing older is: there is no bottom. there is no PayPal for life, instead every...
people are not deterministic
November 30, 2020
sometimes i wonder how people get to places; when they tell me "i did xyz", previously id try and replicate that process to get that desired outcome. but...
social circles
November 30, 2020
this picture is a network graph of everyone on clubhouse from rashiq and its quite literally shows the network graphs of people who are worth and manage tens...
all greenfields
November 29, 2020
This is best time to build something. there is so much money that people need to allocate they’re literally SPACing companies left and right. right after...
social capital
November 29, 2020
im going to try and posting more published thoughts on my OG blog.suryad.com blog from long time ago; and the concept around social capital is one i...
18 y/o entrepreneur
November 28, 2020
18 y/o entrepreneur for context, ive never liked the idea of sticking my age into my bio, but a few months ago felt kind of weird when someone thought i was...
how to get a million twitter followers
November 26, 2020
fortune cookie twitter naval, sahil, visualize value, etc, are undeniably the best tweeters. they optimized on the 280 character space with motivational...
fundamentals: how to become a builder
November 25, 2020
how to be successful im not a twitter/instagram guru, neither am i successful myself, but i have picked up a few things from people who are . #1: do the...
cold inbound software, shl.vc
November 24, 2020
cold inbound software i've been a big javascript hater just because i don't like java and by association don't like the yellow bars on github recently...
abcd
November 23, 2020
You're subscribed to this newsletter! hey everyone, i did some updating to my blog and will probably stick with buttondown for emailing/managing my blog for...
Surya's Blog: Build your own CDN
March 22, 2020
Just published a post about building your own CDN with a simple web server. Link to post: http://sdan.io/blogcdn I talk about how you can utilize Cloudflare...
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