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AKSHAY KAPOOR

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  • like a small Lisp program, with macros begetting macros begetting macros, the source code containing within it all of the instructions required for life on Earth. Could anything more interesting be imagined
    I should have loved biology
  • Imagine a flashy spaceship lands in your backyard. The door opens and you are invited to investigate everything to see what you can learn. The technology is clearly millions of years beyond what we can make. This is biology.
    I should have loved biology
  • The part of life we really live is small. All the rest is not life, but merely time.
    Life Is Not Short
  • spend your life chasing fame, riches, and power, while being unhappy the entire time
    Life Is Not Short
  • You act like a mortal in all that you fear, and an immortal in all that you desire.
    Life Is Not Short
  • The most surprising thing is that you wouldn’t let anyone steal your property, but you consistently let people steal your time, which is infinitely more valuable.2
    Life Is Not Short
  • “you wonder what could have been, how much good could have come about but never will, if young people at this school weren’t just left to their own devices to be swept up by peer pressure and marketing and insecurity, if they actually had the support they needed to make bold and principled and life-affirming decisions”
    i wish we’d grown up on the same advice - by vincent huang
  • it’s only natural for someone like that to convince themselves they’re unable to accomplish anything in their field of interest and to give up, and that to me is the greatest tragedy of modern universities
    i wish we’d grown up on the same advice - by vincent huang
  • proactively thinking about the content and not just reading without absorbing anything.
    Challenge - An Article a Day for 2021 | UZPG
  • So, hurry up! You can do great things.
    Advice · Patrick Collison
  • do your friends at school think your path is a bit strange? If not, maybe it's too normal.
    Advice · Patrick Collison
  • A large fraction of what people around you believe is mistaken. Internalize this and practice coming up with your own worldview
    Advice · Patrick Collison
  • social media is probably the biggest reason that sense of self-consciousness comes into place, everyone is so self aware of how they look online and what others think of them, that they sometimes lose sight of the bigger picture.
    Life is Short
  • If you find yourself thinking that life is too short for something, you should try to eliminate it if you can.
    Life is Short
  • Something I learned on this journey, is to never settle for fundamentally misfitting solutions. It is always worth striving for better, even though the path there may not exist yet, and the journey is stressful at times. It is almost always possible to find a hack that will make something better.
    Hacking the Education System
  • A builder chooses what she wants to build, and she holds herself accountable for the work of building it. She is not beholden to any inner or outer drill sergeant; only to her own independent, carefully formed judgment of what is worth building and how best to go about it. And she neither beats herself up nor lets herself off the hook when something unexpectedly cracks or falls out of place; rather she problem-solves like mad until she finds a solution.
    The builder's mindset: a way out of the "drill sergeant" / "Zen master" dichotomy
  • the situation with time is much the same as with money. The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work.
    PG Blog by Sudham Jayanthi
  • “I stopped thinking I was an imposter, I was never fearful, every time I thought I was imposing I just did it anyway.”
    I worked a normal 9–5 job, but one thing changed and I realized how to be successful. I wish everyone knew this… | by Eitan Levy | Medium
  • The end goal is not to find flaws in the things you're told, but to find the new ideas that had been concealed by the broken ones. So this game should be an exciting quest for novelty, not a boring protocol for intellectual hygiene.
    How to Think for Yourself
  • Integrity is what someone does, despite what they say they do
    Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity
  • With respect to the energy, there was this interesting thing from Sam Altman a while back, where he was talking about delegation, and he was saying, “One of the important things for delegation is, delegate to people who are actually good at the thing that you want them to do.” It’s the most obvious thing, but it seems like… you want to partner with people who are naturally going to do the things that you want them to do.
    Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity
  • He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read a
    Curius / Onboarding