Jenny Sun

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We aim to significantly reduce production time and costs by 60-70%, empowering you to focus on what matters most: the art and the story.
Introducing Morphic Studio - Morphic
the courage to be happy
The Courage to Be Disliked Book Summary and Notes
The courage to be happy also includes the courage to be disliked. When you have gained that courage, your interpersonal relationships will all at once change into things of lightness
The Courage to Be Disliked Book Summary and Notes
We are not determined by our experiences, but the meaning we give them is self-determining
The Courage to Be Disliked Book Summary and Notes
And if we look at our own tasks, we're the only ones who can affect change
The Courage to Be Disliked Book Summary and Notes
technologies pioneered by the latest space age can be readily applied
Big Ideas in Tech for 2024 | Andreessen Horowitz
today we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about our own planet’s seabed
Big Ideas in Tech for 2024 | Andreessen Horowitz
early-adopter cities, but to maximize their impact, we need wider adoption
Big Ideas in Tech for 2024 | Andreessen Horowitz
“Stable Diffusion moment” for LLMs
Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
my freewriting usually contains insights into business problems i'm working through, along with the seeds for new essays, courses, marketing campaigns, etc
lowercase magic
the more i freewrite, the better i feel. and the better i feel, the more i'm able to thrive in the other areas of my life
lowercase magic
“be-still meditation," developed by psychologists Robyn Walser and Darrah Westrup. All you need to do is close your eyes and sit still for a few minutes, noticing the sensations of your body
When You Plateau, So Does Your Company - No Small Plans - Every
nearly all of the companies we acquired had been run by product-focused founders who had avoided sales and marketing
When You Plateau, So Does Your Company - No Small Plans - Every
Increase the supply of services for which latent demand exists, and people should consume those services more frequently.
Intelligence Superabundance - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
when something becomes more efficient, people consume more
Intelligence Superabundance - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
Human intelligence is the most valuable stuff in the cosmos, and we are always running short. A computer-created increase in the world-wide intelligence supply would be welcome, to say the least.
Intelligence Superabundance - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
increased supply of intelligence will create more demand for tasks that require intelligence
Intelligence Superabundance - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
universities abuse the term “liberal arts” by using it to describe curricula that no longer teach students the liberal arts rigorously
Stanford Produces Underwater Basket Weavers
The sooner you can start off in that direction, the further you will be able to go. It is hard to be wildly successful at anything you aren’t obsessed with.
How To Be Successful
First, you will work on consensus ideas and on consensus career tracks. You will care a lot—much more than you realize—if other people think you’re doing the right thing. This will probably prevent you from doing truly interesting work, and even if you do, someone else would have done it anyway.
How To Be Successful
making things people want at scale
How To Be Successful
A special case of developing a network is finding someone eminent to take a bet on you, ideally early in your career.
How To Be Successful
The easiest way to learn is just to meet a lot of people, and keep track of who goes on to impress you and who doesn’t.
How To Be Successful
Be overly generous with sharing the upside; it will come back to you 10x.
How To Be Successful
Most people do whatever most people they hang out with do. This mimetic behavior is usually a mistake
How To Be Successful
personal relationships, by building a strong personal brand, or by getting good at the intersection of multiple different fields.
How To Be Successful
do it at the beginning of your career. Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off
How To Be Successful
I think people who pretend you can be super successful professionally without working most of the time (for some period of your life) are doing a disservice
How To Be Successful
Focus is a force multiplier on work
How To Be Successful
a reputation of succeeding at whatever they do, it gets very hard to leave that behind (and people have an incredible ability to always match their lifestyle to next year’s salary)
How To Be Successful
Most people overestimate risk and underestimate reward.
How To Be Successful
show up in person whenever it’s important
How To Be Successful
first make sure your thinking is clear and then use plain, concise language
How To Be Successful
All great careers, to some degree, become sales jobs
How To Be Successful
Thinking from first principles and trying to generate new ideas is fun, and finding people to exchange them with is a great way to get better at this. The next step is to find easy, fast ways to test these ideas in the real world.
How To Be Successful
Most highly successful people have been really right about the future at least once at a time when people thought they were wrong. If not, they would have faced much more competition.
How To Be Successful
If you don’t believe in yourself, it’s hard to let yourself have contrarian ideas about the future.
How To Be Successful
let small opportunities go to focus on potential step changes
How To Be Successful
There are many ways to get this leverage, such as capital, technology, brand, network effects, and managing people
How To Be Successful
You also want to be an exponential curve yourself
How To Be Successful
Longtermism is a quasi-religious worldview, influenced by transhumanism and utilitarian ethics, which asserts that there could be so many digital people living in vast computer simulations millions or billions of years in the future that one of our most important moral obligations today is to take actions that ensure as many of these digital people come into existence as possible.
Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic | Salon.com
The longer your relationships, cliques, and communities persist, the more they shape your destiny
Your Life is Driven by Network Effects
The last few years have seen desperation flee the startup ecosystem due to easy money, low perceived risk, and lots of secondary opportunities. As the macro environment changes, desperation is back rearing its ugly head, and causing great people to desperately accomplish great things again.
Startups are an act of desperation - by Elad Gil
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena
Startups are an act of desperation - by Elad Gil
Being on universal basic income (UBI) at big tech may not feel like much of an actual accomplishment, particularly if all your launches get blocked due to internal risk-aversion.
Startups are an act of desperation - by Elad Gil
Feelings must be confronted head-on, earnestly, with the humility to recognize that despite being a self-aware adult, we all still experience the same emotions we did as kids.
feel your feelings - by Isabel - Mind Mine
One antagonises the other person and puts them on the defensive. The other invites them to comfort you, and share all the ways they see and appreciate you.
feel your feelings - by Isabel - Mind Mine
Labelling and understanding our emotions is important, but pretending that we can get so good at dealing with them as to not feel them at all is foolish.
feel your feelings - by Isabel - Mind Mine
We don’t yet have the tools to numb or suppress our emotions. We don’t cover up what we are feeling so the adults in our lives can understand them better.
feel your feelings - by Isabel - Mind Mine
nothing happens because of a moment in time. It has to do with your reputation and your collective experience
Alan Patricof, 87: Let's Get Going - AGEIST