Early on, I had to confront some major weaknesses. I have a terrible rote memory—I can't remember anything that doesn't have a clear reason for being what it is. Because of that, I was a bad student and I hated school. Details have always been a mess for me. To supplement my own shortcomings, I learned that I need to surround myself and work with people who are meticulous and detail-oriented. Beyond that, my early audaciousness came with a lot of arrogance—until I got the shit kicked out of me enough times to learn fear. But what I ultimately realized through that process is that your weaknesses don't really matter. What matters is recognizing them, finding the right people to compliment you, and learning from your mistakes. #Principles# #SelfAwareness# #RadicalTruth# #RayDalio#

In this article in TIME, I squeezed my explanation of the debt supply and demand problem into a 3-minute read so it’s my best, few-minute explanation of this problem. I’m sharing it in case you’re interested.

Earth is just one of about 100 billion planets in our galaxy, which is just one of about two trillion galaxies in the universe. And our lifetimes are only about 1/3,000 of humanity's existence, which itself is only 1/20,000 of the Earth's existence. In other words, we are unbelievably tiny and short-lived and no matter what we accomplish, our impact will be insignificant. At the same time, we instinctually want to matter and to evolve, and we can matter a tiny bit--and it's all those tiny bits that add up to drive the evolution of the universe. #principleoftheday#

If you're like most people, the idea of facing the unvarnished truth makes you anxious. To get over that, you need to understand intellectually why untruths are scarier than truths and then, through practice, get accustomed to living with them. #principleoftheday#

I watched the first 7/8 seasons of The Walking Dead and first season of Fear the Walking Dead all when they first aired but got a bit bored of them. Worth finishing or watching any of the other spinoffs?

the more i'm using different models in the more i'm realizing benchmarks only tell part of the store. grok models are WAY cheaper. but fable is just infinitely better at "getting" what you're after.

Natural selection’s trial-and-error process allows improvement without anyone understanding or guiding it. The same can apply to how we learn. There are at least three kinds of learning that foster evolution: memory-based learning (storing the information that comes in through one’s conscious mind so that we can recall it later); subconscious learning (the knowledge we take away from our experiences that never enters our conscious minds, though it affects our decision making); and “learning” that occurs without thinking at all, such as the changes in DNA that encode a species’ adaptations. I used to think that memory-based, conscious learning was the most powerful, but I’ve since come to understand that it produces less rapid progress than experimentation and adaptation. #principleoftheday#

taking a real gamble w/ the pivot. the browser extension i first launched with (that is very much still active & used by 150,000+ people!) is doing nearly $10k/mo in affiliate revenue. i'm betting the B2B brand protection play has much more upside.

SWEET BEARD OF ZEUS. after nearly THREE MONTHS of smashing my head against the wall, i've got epic/mychart importing working on (will be in production for everyone next week)