Writings
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Topics I will write about someday
- Neil Armstrong
- Christopher Nolan movies
- Why you shouldn't buy Bitcoin & why you should never sell Bitcoin
- What would it be like to live with Artificial Superintelligence
- Why prosperous USA is important for the world
- Worldbuilding is key to creating lasting things. Directors worldbuild. Founders worldbuild. Nations worldbuild.
- Why I am opening a pizza parlor chain on Mars for my retirement
- Parenting paradoxes
- Why Quentin Tarantino's subgenres are so important
- Interesting experience interviewing to be Elon's chief of staff
- My obsession with making a movie about Einstein's thought experiments
- What was in the water at Xerox Parc
- Why is it so important to unlearn McKinsey when you join a startup
- Is a movie director analogous to a Startup CEO?
- Industrial Light & Magic is my fav startup of all time
- Does Japan's robotics culture shapes their view of AI differently?
- What to do after panic-selling?
- Belief is infrastructure
- Why great tech companies often start with contrarian beliefs
- What living for a year in Bhutan taught me about B2B sales
- Why the best startup ideas sound terrible at first
- Having FOMO is healthy. You should have FOMO.
- Vitalik never talks about ETH metrics and thats a good thing
- Great products do NOT start as "toys"
- How much of our economy depends on "refrigeration"
- How do we go back to making investments with no ROI: Apollo, Cathedrals, Interstate Highways, Sanitation, LIGO
- Standards are the most underrated force in civilization: TCP/IP, time zones, voltage, paper sizes
- Living with somethining way smarter than you
- Why is the world so obsessed with "predictability" and ability to plan
- How to raise kids in a world where “knowing” isn’t special anymore
- What the Apollo program got right that modern tech forgets
- Narrative debt is a bigger tax on innovation than technical debt. Narrative debt = the accumulated cost of past stories, promises, and identity claims that your company has to keep consistent.
Bio
- Started (with friends) two companies: ZeroDown (which was acquired) and Central which is still doing cool stuff
- Currently helping computer scientists at OpenAI
- Studied materials science and computer science in college because why not
- Lived in Kenya, India, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, UK, USA, and Bhutan
- LinkedIn because why not
Top 10 PC games
- Railroad Tycoon 2
- Monkey Island 1 and 2
- Rollercoaster Tycoon
- Tekken 3
- Stardew Valley
- Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Serrated Scalpel
- Monkey Island 3
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- Kingdom Rush
- Bad North
- Stunts
Top 5 desert island books
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Charlie Chaplin's Bio
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Lust for Life
- Zero to One
Top 5 desert island music
- Graceland - Paul Simon
- All songs - AR Rahman (except new stuff)
- The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Live 1966 - Bob Dylan
- All albums - Pink Floyd (except syd barrett stuff)
- Band of Gypsys - Jimi Hendrix