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There is unlimited supply of people with big ideas but extremely limited supply of people with courage to take on those ideas
The older you grow, the more you realize that courage and willingness to fail for long periods of time matter much more than intellect
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How the liberal girl from Brooklyn looks at me when I tell her I work in private equity
The right way to approach careers is to treat it more like a marathon, rather than a sprint
If you are young and taking shortcuts to look good in the short term, you are leaving enormous long term potential on the table
Don’t burn bridges with your coworkers and managers just because something feels not worth it today
Don’t shy away from the difficult projects because you will certainly end up looking back and valuing the experience
This is the one piece of advice that I wish a lot more young graduates understood
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Good to see that sports is not included in this. For those concerned about the impact on young men, this clarification about the filing should allay those fears.
Kind of hilarious that we spent a trillion dollars trying to build God, only to realize that a cheaper version of this God is more than sufficient to complete 95% of the tasks in corporate America, who would ultimately be the end customer for this God anyways
Turns out that you don’t need that much intelligence to hold up even the most powerful and vibrant economy in history
Intelligence was never the bottleneck
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@MorePerfectUS Margin trading is common in all financial markets.
Some important features:
- This is geared for institutional clients.
- It is a way to reduce cost of capital for long dated markets and introduce efficiency.
- It is not for a number of categories including sports and culture.
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The missing piece of agentic workflow today is the lack of connectivity between the AI tools inside your company
No CFO wants to deal with a bunch of agents running around and picking up token costs along the way that directly impact the P&L
Having one end to end platform that manages all your agents in one place is the solution
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DigitalOcean Managed Agents is now in public preview.
Run Claude Code, Codex, or your own LangGraph agent in a runtime environment that pauses when idle. Put its tools behind one governed endpoint, and pick from 75+ open and proprietary models. One cloud, one bill.
Prompts to get started available in the blog:
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Every CEO is now faced with two options in front of them
1/ Integrate yourself into the AI platforms and potentially risk getting dis-intermediated by OpenAI, Anthropic or Meta
2/ Build a castle around your platform and product, ban any API calls and potentially risk giving up hundreds of millions in revenue and web traffic
Don’t think anyone really knows what the right answer is, but the path you take determines the entire future for your business
Not a fun time to be a decision maker at a large company right now
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Why are you, as a man, so focused on the circular financing of AI infrastructure capex through special purpose vehicles funded by private credit firms?
Corporate office workers waiting for AI to replace their entire job with a single launch
Mark Zuckerberg after watching Muse become the top platform on Apple’s app store
Good reminder that the entire world is held up by fickle objects that no one bothers to think about
One line of code at a massive company can shut down the entire business for hours
One busted excel formula or wrong click on a button can cost a bank millions of dollars
A single fiber cut shuts down massive airlines all across an entire region in the US
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BREAKING: An Amtrak construction contractor accidentally cut a Verizon fiber cable, causing widespread ground stops across NYC, Philadelphia, and Boston airports today.
This is 100% correct. Ever since 2008, the pay in finance has not kept up at the same pace of growth as other industries
Post 2020, a lot of office jobs received major pay bumps. While investment banks increased base salaries for junior folks, the same was not true for buyside
You can now easily make high finance base salaries across many different industries with 50% of the work required
Sure, bonuses ramp very quickly over time in finance still, but it’s a long way to go before you are hitting strides and feel a difference in your lifestyle
The bottom line is that the “prestigious” finance career paths no longer earn you the premium lifestyle it once used to
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not a popular mainstream take but wall street/finance jr level jobs are way underpaid relative to other industries because of how much pay has converged across industries over the last 20 years.
Anthropic: We are going to kill you
OpenAl: We are going to kill you first
Durable: your livestock hoof trimming hobby will raise a Series D financing by the end of the year
F*ck jobs. No one likes them anyway.
Durable helps you turn any skill you already have into a real business.
RT + reply "Durable". 100 people get 100% off.
Introducing Codos: The first virtual Chief AI Officer.
AI is crushing all benchmarks but real companies still struggle to see P&L impact.
Codos interviews employees, deploys automations across all functions and gets smarter over time while running on your own servers.
Our NASDAQ-listed and PE-backed customers are adding millions to their bottom line months ahead of schedule and we are proud of the first results we deliver.
It’s time to turn the 500BN AI-transformation market into software and unlock the impact for the real economy.
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The older I grow, the more I come to realize that the first 10 years of a child’s life will determine his or her entire future
Every hobby you develop during those years are what you will end up enjoying as you become an adult
Every personality flaw you learn sticks with you through your career and relationships
In many ways, those are the only years that end up mattering in the long run
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How I expect my wife to react when I tell her I bought a HVAC business in the midwest with 80% leverage
A lot of people won’t like hearing this but insecurity is one of the most common traits found in extremely successful people
There is absolutely no reason for you to keep working and sacrificing your personal life beyond a certain net worth or level of comfort
The only thing that keeps some people going is the sense that they are not enough and that they will never be enough
Genuinely also think this is why so many more men end up on the Forbes billionaire list vs women
Men are inherently more insecure creatures who need the external validation from wealth. Women find validation in many more things beyond just money and are usually able to find satisfaction in their inner self sooner
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Reading might be the most underrated habit that you can build in your children
Every single person I know who grew up reading books at an early age is now doing incredibly well in their career
Expect this habit to become 2x more important as we enter the age of AI
The ones using these tools to simply summarize everything will never build the same level of imagination and focus that reading helps you develop
If you are not encouraging your kids to read constantly, you are doing them a massive dis-service
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Lot of people coming to the same exact realization after the Muse release
Don’t underestimate Zuckerberg
Meta trades at a 18x forward PE multiple while owning a leading open source model and probably having the most obvious use case for compute in their social media algorithms
Sometimes the market just throws the most obvious trades at you. Someone tell me what I am missing.
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