Ayodeji Adesegun
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- Advice to Young People, The Lies I Tell Myself - jxnl.co26 savers
- Dessa - the Conversation Model trained only on speech6 savers
- AI 2040: Plan A26 savers
- Make Viral Motion Graphics Videos with Claude - Everything Product Education1 savers
- How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models37 savers
- Do the hardest thing5 savers
- Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now? - The New York Times1 savers
- AI Doom Is Not Cybersecurity - Quillette’s Substack1 savers
- An Open Letter to Scott Alexander - Quillette’s Substack1 savers
- Staying Grounded As A Thinker | Pearl Leff1 savers
- The Value of an Undergraduate Degree | Pearl Leff4 savers
- How To Scale Your Model34 savers
- Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model - Thinking Machines Lab14 savers
- A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic25 savers
- Variant – Endless designs for your ideas, just scroll5 savers
- The Component Gallery8 savers
- Components | The Component Gallery3 savers
- Get sexier - Aria Schrecker1 savers
- 11 ways to arbitrage the dating market - Aria Schrecker2 savers
- Against witchcraft - Aria Schrecker3 savers
- The wall is real but not for the reasons you think1 savers
- Will You Ever Get Married? | A Statistical Analysis1 savers
- You’ll probably die alone - Aria Schrecker1 savers
- How to find a husband (and why you should want one)1 savers
- Notes on the Industry Job Search18 savers
- Mail - Ayodeji Adesegun - Outlook1 savers
- Eating Meat Is Worse Than Raping Animals - by Josie Elewa1 savers
- On Being a Dad - Derek Thompson23 savers
- Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)46 savers
- Top Performers are Pathologically Ambitious - by Matt Beard35 savers
- Morale — LessWrong2 savers
- 100 things I know - by Mari Andrew - Out of the Blue9 savers
- 50 things I know - by Sasha Chapin - Sasha's 'Newsletter'20 savers
- 50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictions17 savers
- Introducing our short course on AGI safety | by DeepMind Safety Research | Medium2 savers
- Natural Language Autoencoders Produce Unsupervised Explanations of LLM Activations8 savers
- How To Become A Mechanistic Interpretability Researcher — AI Alignment Forum10 savers
- Neural Networks: Zero To Hero9 savers
- Airtable - AI Safety Professionals1 savers
- AI Safety | Arkose1 savers
- Speedrunner's Canon — Roote1 savers
- Don’t Be the Best. Be the Only.1 savers
- kendij.github.io/kendi-j/1 savers
- CheatGPT2 savers
- Advice for Computer Science College Students – Joel on Software4 savers
- GenAI Handbook8 savers
- The Science & Psychology of Lying2 savers
- Curius / Onboarding2704 savers
- Staring into the abyss as a core life skill88 savers
- Theory of Change (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)84 savers
- The Bitter Lesson82 savers
- How to Do Great Work80 savers
- What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice - Alexey Guzey75 savers
- Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik Karlsson70 savers
- Advice · Patrick Collison69 savers
- Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blog69 savers
- Why books don't work66 savers
- Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born65 savers
- Thirty Observations at Thirty62 savers
- i wish we’d grown up on the same advice - by vincent huang61 savers
- Here's to the fools who dream54 savers
- What I Wish Someone Had Told Me - Sam Altman52 savers
- Fast · Patrick Collison50 savers
- Andy Matuschak45 savers
- Mini Blog Post 3: Become a person who Actually Does Things — Neel Nanda45 savers
- Learning By Writing43 savers
- advice - nabeelqu43 savers
- principles - Nabeel S. Qureshi41 savers
- Understanding41 savers
- No one can teach you to have conviction | benkuhn.net39 savers
- Make Something Wonderful | Steve Jobs39 savers
- Pain is not the unit of Effort38 savers
- Advice for ambitious 19 year olds - Sam Altman38 savers
- Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software38 savers
- How Tech Hype is Ruining College Students in Tech37 savers
- HOWTO: Be more productive (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)34 savers
- Advice for ambitious teenagers -32 savers
- Impact, agency, and taste | benkuhn.net32 savers
- How to Maximize Serendipity - David Perell32 savers
- Augmenting Long-term Memory31 savers
- you like books and think they are your friends - by Ava30 savers
- The Intelligence Curse30 savers
- Why we stopped making Einsteins - by Erik Hoel29 savers
- Life is Short29 savers
- The Most Precious Resource is Agency - by Simon Sarris29 savers
- To listen well, get curious28 savers
- The Rationality Community Sucks28 savers
- Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"28 savers
- Study Guide - LessWrong28 savers
- The Best Textbooks on Every Subject - LessWrong28 savers
- Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity28 savers
- What I Learned Building Whist (Phil)27 savers
- How to write a cold email27 savers
- Questions · Patrick Collison26 savers
- Are you serious? - by visakan veerasamy25 savers
- Teach Yourself Computer Science25 savers
- Dive in25 savers
- School Is Not Enough25 savers
- Be impatient | benkuhn.net24 savers
- How to Work Hard22 savers
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Working hard alone is not sufficient, but when you read about someone like Jensen, you realize you’ve basically never worked hard.
Top Performers are Pathologically Ambitious - by Matt BeardI know that people are too eager to recommend their current lifestyle and disavow their developmentally important previous decisions
50 things I know - by Sasha Chapin - Sasha's 'Newsletter'No matter how hard you try, you will always look back with a certain remove and wonder what the hell you were thinking.
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsPeople are their own punishment, which means revenge is rarely worth it.
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsMorale comes from having the nice things in your life correlated with effort.
Morale — LessWrong80% utilitarian, 15% deontologist, 5% virtue ethics.
principles - Nabeel S. QureshiInstead of planning your career, focus on developing skills and pursuing opportunities.
Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunityggressively pursue internship and co-op programs
Guide to Career Planning, part 2: Skills and educationarticulate a vision, or find someone else who has laid one out that you can believe in. find the best people and become close to them. challenge each other to keep up, be the best possible versions of yourselves. work hard, work fast, pour as much of yourself into the work as you are able to. disregard rules as much as you can without seriously jeopardizing your life or liberty. and don't worry about a practical outcome. just aim to do the biggest, most important thing you can
you can just do stuff - alice mazMake friends over the internet with people who are great at things you're interested in. The internet is one of the biggest advantages you have over prior generations. Leverage it.
Advice · Patrick CollisonAnd by God—who cares that we can’t afford a car when I get to live with a person who says things like that?
Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing - by Henrik KarlssonBy asking yourself this, and then consistently aiming to pick the thing that optimizes for what you most deeply value—it adds up. It makes life rich.
Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing - by Henrik KarlssonYou’re going to have to make some sacrifices anyway. Might as well not sacrifice the wrong thing.
Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing - by Henrik KarlssonYou don’t have to do things others do, or have things they have, at the expense of the deeper things you want. You really don’t. Almost everything is an option. You have full permission to ask yourself what really matters to you—whatever that is—and then optimize for that in all hard tradeoffs of life.
Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing - by Henrik KarlssonFrom immigrant son to Horace Mann to Goldman Sachs—who wouldn’t want to believe?
The Science & Psychology of LyingThe rewards reinforce the propensity to lie.
The Science & Psychology of LyingYou learn to tell people what they want to hear, and that makes you a more popular person
The Science & Psychology of Lyinglying works because of something called “truth bias”: We are inclined to assume that when someone communicates with us, they are telling us how they really feel.
The Science & Psychology of LyingLying is a slippery slope, and also a cautionary tale. The more you do it, the easier it becomes.
The Science & Psychology of LyingHow often a primate species lies is correlated with the size of its neocortex, the part of the brain where higher order functions like spatial reasoning occur.
The Science & Psychology of LyingYou should be a good person to everyone you meet — it is the moral thing to do, and as a sidenote will really help your networking — but do not be under the delusion that everyone is your friend.
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus SoftwareDon’t call yourself a programmer
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus SoftwarePlenty of time to have your existential crisis in your 50s
Advice for ambitious teenagers -focus on finding something practical to work on, mentors that will value you for your true work, books that will delight you and peers that will inspire you. There’s never been a better time to be an ambitious teenager.
Advice for ambitious teenagers -you must ensure that, if there is an important goal you’d like to achieve, the clear-eyed version of yourself sets up a system to ensure that a later, less motivated of yourself will get it done.
Advice for ambitious teenagers -"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the amount of embarrassment he can tolerate." – Doug Engelbart
Just For Kids - Doug Engelbart Institute26. Maintaining your roots keeps your grounded
Thirty Observations at ThirtyMake time for your brain to work without distractions to allow the mind to wander
30 Bits of Advice for 30 YearsAlways expand your knowledge, skills and network to be ready when opportunities arise.
30 Bits of Advice for 30 YearsDon’t be afraid to look stupid.
30 Bits of Advice for 30 YearsMake it a point of principle to do things, not because the thing is necessarily the perfect action, but because I choose the life where I do things, over the life where I always wait for the perfect opportunity
Mini Blog Post 3: Become a person who Actually Does Things — Neel NandaSelf-knowledge is one of the most valuable things you can get out of your twenties. That means it’s perfectly okay to pick the wrong job a few times, or take on a really risky project and fail.
10 things I wish I knew about careers when I startedIt is more important to learn than to know
10 things I wish I knew about careers when I startedOne of the most powerful things you can “be” in a job has nothing to do with your title. You want to be the person that everyone wants to work with.
10 things I wish I knew about careers when I startedThe intellectual case for believing in God as the designer of the universe is bankrupt. And the same holds when we turn to moral considerations.
Science, Morality, and the Death of God » Internet InfidelsHow do God’s depictions of his own character square with the belief that he’s perfectly good? Or that he’s the source of what some call “The Moral Law”? They don’t.
Science, Morality, and the Death of God » Internet InfidelsIf passages that are literally false were supposed to be interpreted allegorically, why didn’t God put them in innocuous allegorical form in the first place?
Science, Morality, and the Death of God » Internet InfidelsWorking on something good will pull you along a path where good things keep happening to you.
Advice for ambitious 19 year olds - Sam AltmanWork to live, don’t live to work.
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus SoftwareModesty is not a career-enhancing character trait:
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus SoftwareA good engineer has a track record of — repeat after me — increasing revenue or decreasing costs.
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus SoftwareSoftware solves business problems
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus SoftwareSerendipity and an attitude of playful exploration both have such a huge role in discovery
Two Students Unravel a Widely Believed Math Conjecture | Quanta MagazineStop learning by consuming. Start learning by creating. Stop learning by researching. Start learning by doing. Stop learning by listening. Start learning by talking. Stop learning by reading. Start learning by writing. Stop learning by watching the game. Start learning by playing it. Stop postponing. Start taking action.
Why Learning Is A New Procrastination | by Max Lukominskyi | The Coffeelicious | MediumTake more responsibility for what I choose
The Midwit Trap - Sarv’s NewsletterCareer planning = career limiting.
Guide to Career Planning, part 1: OpportunityI believe you should look at your career as a portfolio of jobs/roles/opportunities.
Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: OpportunityThe first rule of career planning: Do not plan your career.
Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: OpportunityThe second rule of career planning: Instead of planning your career, focus on developing skills and pursuing opportunities.
Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: OpportunityDon’t worry about being a small fish in a big pond—you want to always be in the best pond possible, because that’s how you will get exposed to the best people and the best opportunities in your field.
Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Skills and education