The best career advice for young people is to just focus relentlessly on 3 things as early as possible: 1. Get skilled. Technical skills, writing skills, people-orchestration skills, everything. 2. Get involved contributing to a mission you're aligned with. It doesn't have to be pure bliss and your contribution doesn't have to match your top strengths exactly. But at the end of the day you have to feel some pride in what you did or what you learned. If you can find something like that while becoming skilled in a number of different ways then you'll find ways to increasingly wrap your skill profile around it (and you'll find/develop strengths in your skill profile that you never expected). 3. Pick up momentum. If you do (1) and (2) right then you've got direction and potential and all that's left is to sprint forwards and achieve it. The more momentum you pick up, the better you get, the more real value you produce, the more opportunities you create, the more you get noticed, the more value you capture into your own life, the more effort you want to put in... you create a virtuous cycle with so much momentum behind it that it becomes an unstoppable virtuous cyclone.

California has the best public schools in America. Right? Oh wait. Mississippi spends $6,700 less per student and beats us in 4th grade reading and math. We can do better.

We asked Perplexity Computer to build a Halloween puzzle game in the style of 90s point-and-click adventure games like Myst and The 7th Guest. First 5 people to beat the game will win 10,000 Computer credits. Play it here:

BREAKING: Inside Starcloud, the $2.3B Startup Putting Data Centers in Space FACTORY TOUR - Redmond, WA Primes quoted them $75M-$100M to build their first data center in space. They did it for $2.5M. In just 21 months, Starcloud is one of the fastest companies to go from founding to orbit. With $450M in total funding from Manhattan West, Nvidia, Cisco, Benchmark & EQT, the team walks me through their mission for AI in space. I toured the new HQ w/ CEO @PhilipJohnston + co-founders @EzraFeilden & @AdiOltean AI compute on Earth is limited by power & permitting. @Starcloud_ is moving it to orbit, where solar power is nearly constant. Philip says the dawn-dusk orbit alone could fit about 10 TW of compute, roughly 20x the entire US power grid. Once launch costs fall below $500/kg, he says compute in space will be cheaper than on the ground. From Starcloud 1, Starcloud 2, to Starcloud 3, we saw: Tracking Starcloud 1 live in orbit, circling Earth every 90 minutes at 17,000 mph with the first Nvidia H100 in space. Co-Founder & Chief Engineer Adi Oltean walks through Starcloud 2 as the team fires the latches that deploy its 120 ft solar wingspan. It launches in January with 100x the power of Starcloud 1. Co-Founder & CTO Ezra Feilden shows the 16-ton secondhand vibe table. The team bought it for $200K, instead of paying $1.5M & waiting 2 years for a new one, they rebuilt it over a weekend. Engineering Manager Bailey Montaño leak checks the ion thruster after vibe. Bailey designed the radiators, which have 10x less mass & cost 500x less per watt than the ISS’s. In the fab shop, Ezra shows the Starcloud 3 demonstrator, a 2-ton, 235 kW vehicle that fits 50 to a Starship. Camilo Lopez cuts stainless on the laser cutter. Engineering Operations Lead Miguel Rivera, formerly of Helion Energy, teaches me to MIG weld. The tour ends in the new campus, about 100,000 sqft built to produce 100 satellites a week toward an 88,000-satellite constellation. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Philip Johnston, Co-Founder & CEO of Starcloud (00:53) Tracking Starcloud 1 live in orbit (02:46) Fixing a 16-ton vibration machine in one weekend (06:59) From founding to orbit in 21 months (08:17) From SpaceX to Microsoft to Starcloud (09:49) Inside Starcloud 2 (13:12) A $15M mission to the nearest star (17:49) What goes on a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri (19:10) Why SpaceX could be worth $100 trillion (20:41) “This isn’t a hot take, this is just a fact (24:22) How big is Starcloud 3? (26:41) How do you book a ride to space? (30:11) How Starcloud tests in zero gravity (33:49) Can GPUs survive space radiation? (35:46) The first AI model trained in space (38:40) Will solar satellites block the sun? (40:57) How Starcloud tests a satellite for launch (46:45) The paperwork behind a launch (53:07) Molly puts her welding skills to the test (1:00:18) The engineer behind Starcloud's radiators (1:03:07) Inside Starcloud’s new campus (1:05:55) Why launch slots are the new scarce resource (1:06:45) Can someone shoot down a data center in space?

This is a great profile. How we fund and grow basic R&D lost its way. Trump got eviscerated in the mainstream press for "cutting science." And they got it wrong in places, cut too deep. But they got it right in the policy to reform and we should all wish they keep it up. --- In 1983, 18 percent of NIH’s main research grants went to lead scientists aged 36 and under. By 2010, only three percent did.

Joe Mazulla says he uses AI everyday to help coach his team “I use Claude everyday for coaching thoughts. I love Claude. I’m all in on Claude. It was beneficial in the offseason for my personal development and where I wanted to take things psychologically for our team.” “I’ll throw in last year’s practice plan and be like, was this efficient? Because you don’t know in the present moment if it was an efficient practice plan or if it was an efficient use of your time. If you throw in, here’s our halftime process, how can our halftime process become more efficient? We watch film sometimes and it’s a reactive film session because we’re watching film of plays that already happened, not of plays that may happen.” Radio Host: “But it is going to kill all of us, you do know that? It’s coming for all of us.” “Something is coming for all of us. I just went to confession Monday so I’m in good shape.” “I think it’s more just helping organize, helping become more efficient, helping understanding. I use it a lot just for conversation and riffs on, ‘Okay, here’s what I’m wrestling with. What does this look like from a psychological perspective? What is the research and the data?’ You can quickly get so much research and data on things. Are you verbalizing things? Can they be verbalized in a much more efficient way?” “Like I talked about with practice planning, it really helps you test your processes that you think are efficient. Is our halftime process really the most efficient way to watch film getting ready for the second half? Is our pregame process the most efficient way to make sure our guys have retention of the game plan, understand what we need to do, and are in the right space mentally and psychologically?” “As a coach, you develop these processes and rituals that you think give you the best chance to win. I think a platform like that tests your efficiency. Is this really the best way? How we watch film on a practice day, is the way we watch film, the template of each clip, the best opportunity to build retention and understanding? What does it look like to have the most efficient film session you can? What type of questions are you asking when you’re going through film? Do I ask the right questions to check for understanding and build retention?” “I think it just really tests your processes. You may think you’re doing something the right way, but there’s definitely a more scientific or more efficient way of going about how to do things, and I think that gives us a platform that allows you to do it. Really, it was over the last year or so. Every offseason, and really this offseason, it was like, ‘Okay, let’s test all of our processes. Is our pregame film process the right way? Is our halftime film process the right way? Is our film room set up for learning the right way? How should our film room look?’” “You’re constantly testing. You always ask, ‘Where are we getting better?’ I think the best way for coaches to get better is in the processes of how they go about doing stuff. Are they the most efficient way? It also helped with combining sports. I’ve always talked about soccer being a passion of mine to watch, and I got into a little bit of handball this year. So I was able to say, ‘Tell me the similarities between soccer, handball and basketball. What elements of play are involved in all three of those things, and how can that work in a five-on-five setting?’” “To me, it tests your process. It tests your efficiency. It tests what you think you may know and how you can do it better.”

If you have kids ages 5-12, cherish this day. A Friday before Halloween when all kids get dressed up for school, there's an inevitable parade, anticipation amp'd by it being a Friday. They are at that sweet spot of picking their own costume but needing your help. And btw, your Halloween experience with kids maps to the below. Look forward to the day when I'm drinking a beer with my daughters handing out candy.

Saved you a read if ur not going to read all his writings on this topic: "Third-party agents will fulfill the discovery role in commerce, which means that advertising is the most natural business model for them."