Hardeep Gambhir

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• The Next Era of Notion2 savers
• Digital hygiene | karpathy18 savers
• A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET | Metalabel1 savers
• pii cleaning - Google Search1 savers
• Measuring the performance of our models on real-world tasks | OpenAI7 savers
• Boom - Bubbles and the End of Stagnation1 savers
• Essays by George Mack1 savers
• Archive — Will Manidis1 savers
• Ashwin Ramaswami3 savers
• Wonderful tools — Apple - YouTube1 savers
• Personal Statement on AI Risk24 savers
• Notes on Roadtrips - The Browser Company4 savers
• Sarah Guo's Wager - Colossus18 savers
• Kratos (mythology)1 savers
• teenage engineering5 savers
• Gadgets — Abakcus · Abakcus1 savers
• About Ali Kaya — The Person Behind Abakcus · Abakcus1 savers
• Collection of the Best Mathematics and Science Stuff | Abakcus3 savers
• Chroma Red Portal | The Ambient Home & Office Red Light Solution1 savers
• Jon_Bernthal1 savers
• Having Kids19 savers
• CS 153: Infrastructure at Scale | Stanford University9 savers
• MS&E 435 | Course Materials1 savers
• oerdnj (Ondřej Surý)1 savers
• overengineeRING1 savers
• Projects - THEODORE.NET1 savers
• Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort To Help Mathematicians Navigate AI Era – Simons Foundation1 savers
• hotel california - Streak Share1 savers
• Make Carpe the Default Name in Sweat Care1 savers
• Charles Zheng1 savers
• Manifesto | Friends for Humanity1 savers
• Benyam Ephrem on X: "The Tech Filmmaking Scene (May 2026)" / X1 savers
• Empires of AI: The Rise and Fall of a New Global Order3 savers
• Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling4 savers
• Harley Finkelstein on X: "Pedigree is overrated. Grit isn't. Bloomberg on who he'd hire: "the person whose father never was there, whose mother was in a drug treatment program. And he had to go and work three shifts at McDonald's to take care of his siblings." "No matter how bad things are — looks on https://t.co/hwxA5sehet" / X1 savers
• AI and the future of US jobs: Skills and pathways | McKinsey & Company4 savers
• "Got any hobbies?" - YouTube2 savers
• Vox - YouTube1 savers
• Home to the best video talent in the world | vetted1 savers
• Home | Agent Native2 savers
• Using Claude Science to produce the first complete map of the sky in UV light \ Anthropic3 savers
• 1000 true fans theory - Google Search1 savers
• uRun — The developer platform for real-time AI1 savers
• `The Internet Is The Great Equalizer' - Bloomberg1 savers
• Partners — Rolling Fun1 savers
• Thesises — Rolling Fun1 savers
• Investments — Rolling Fun1 savers
• Average Is Awful — Eric Jorgenson1 savers
• Joining Rostra - Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg2 savers
• dear you - Google Search1 savers
• Lawrence Lessig1 savers
• Steve Mann (inventor)1 savers
• Taste - Sarah Guo6 savers
• Takeoff 2026 — Washington, DC2 savers
• Denis Villeneuve2 savers
• Damien Chazelle2 savers
• Greta Gerwig1 savers
• Lance_Oppenheim2 savers
• Some things I believe5 savers
• The Invisible OS - Google Docs2 savers
• How Walter White Evolves in Breaking Bad - YouTube1 savers
• Speaking — Ananya Chadha1 savers
• Ananya Chadha2 savers
• The high-return activity of raising others' aspirations - Marginal REVOLUTION3 savers
• Measuring What Matters: Understanding the Human Impact of AI | Berkman Klein Center1 savers
• Events | Berkman Klein Center1 savers
• Residency — South Park Commons1 savers
• South Park Commons10 savers
• 1517 Fund7 savers
• Thiel Fellowship3 savers
• Magnificent Grants13 savers
• O’Shaughnessy Fellowships2 savers
• Fellowship Program | Berkman Klein Center1 savers
• Joshua_Kushner1 savers
• Josh Kushner’s A24 Bet Pays Off as Dior and Google Buy In | Observer1 savers
• Instagram1 savers
• videos 101: how to tell stories. - YouTube1 savers
• Edwin H. Land5 savers
• The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side - The New York Times1 savers
• National Design Studio7 savers
• 101 Elon Musk Recommended Books (2026)1 savers
• Sarah Guo1 savers
• Pat Grady | Sequoia Capital1 savers
• Merge Labs6 savers
• Viraj Chhajed | VirajCz2 savers
• Hugo Duprez (@HugoDuprez) / X1 savers
• crawshaw blog1 savers
• David Carney | LinkedIn1 savers
• Noah Shinn3 savers
• Edward Bernays | Torches of Freedom - YouTube1 savers
• Is YC for Cowards?14 savers
• First we shape our feedback loops; then they shape us4 savers
• About 1 — Emma Cappiello1 savers
• Jawwwn on X: "Mark Zuckerberg: failure doesn’t matter. “The question is how much you win, when you win.” “@WalterIsaacson wrote this biography of Einstein. One of the interesting things were all the theories he had that were wrong.” “People don’t remember those.” “We’re all going to get a" / X1 savers
• Newcomer's VC Sentiment Report — September 20261 savers
• Lists — Cosign1 savers
• Breakout List: Great startups to join8 savers
• How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks / claude.dev6 savers
• anu on X: "I would pay a lot of money to attend early screenings of films with people I actually care to talk about them with, in cozy theaters with updated takes on snacks" / X1 savers
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• But “experience” has become a blurry concept. If the internet is real life, does living inside it count as experience?

  Earn Something To Say - by Chisel and Anu - Chisel

• and momentum they need to win the narrative battle online.

  What is New Media? | Andreessen Horowitz

• These future-defining problems are hard to recruit for, difficult to raise money for, and nearly impossible to build near-term businesses around, which is why they are exactly the types of problems we need the most well-resourced players pursuing.

  Choose Good Quests – Founders Fund

• Almost all of these founders have deep personal motivations to keep building

  Choose Good Quests – Founders Fund

• Therefore, there is a moral imperative for our best players to choose good, hard quests.

  Choose Good Quests – Founders Fund

• History is the record of top players completing good quests.

  Choose Good Quests – Founders Fund

• they’ve allocated talent (including their own) and resources away from hard, important problems.

  Choose Good Quests – Founders Fund

• It is much easier (and less impactful) to write about the importance of “green tech” than to build Tesla.

  Choose Good Quests – Founders Fund

• But if a talented nuclear physicist with compelling insights into the field, ample resources, and many well-connected peers decides to open a tiki bar in Bali that is an extraordinarily bad quest.

  Choose Good Quests – Founders Fund

• A hard quest is high-risk and operationally complex, with a low chance of success. Reversing aging, going to Mars, curing cancer, building a supersonic plane, creating AGI, or founding a new country — these are all hard quests, and most players attempting these quests will fail.

  Choose Good Quests – Founders Fund

• There are important challenges facing humanity that no one is working on, including critical, and even existential challenges. In other words, if you are an exceptionally capable person, failure to pursue a good quest is not neutral. It constitutes a loss for humanity.

  Choose Good Quests – Founders Fund

• A far cry from refrigeration or running water, but a nice life. As you’ve probably already intuited, not all quests are created equal.

  Choose Good Quests – Founders Fund

• My “bicoastal elite” card is in the mail.

  Leaving San Francisco (for now)

• No matter how internet-influenced San Francisco may be, the city’s raw density lends itself to a neighborhood atmosphere that, if really taken advantage of, can hardly be beat.

  Leaving San Francisco (for now)

• I have stubbornly analog tendencies. I write in my leather Paper Republic journal each morning, I shoot a few rolls of 35mm film each month, and I refuse to ever own a TV.

  Leaving San Francisco (for now)

• How well did people predict the final impacts of the printing press? How well did people predict the final impacts of fire? We even have an expression “playing with fire.” Yet it is, on net, a good thing we proceeded with the deployment of fire (“Fire? You can’t do that! Everything will burn! You can kill people with fire! All of them! What if someone yells “fire” in a crowded theater!?”).

  Response to Tyler Cowen's Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history

• The reality is that no one at the beginning of the printing press had any real idea of the changes it would bring. No one at the beginning of the fossil fuel era had much of an idea of the changes it would bring.

  Response to Tyler Cowen's Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history

• No matter how positive or negative the overall calculus of cost and benefit, AI is very likely to overturn most of our apple carts, most of all for the so-called chattering classes.

  Response to Tyler Cowen's Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history

• Of course there are obvious exceptions, like gain of function research and bioweapons and nukes to make the rubble bounce, and also I can see the argument for things like television and social media and crack cocaine and American cheese (so it’s clear it’s not only lethal weapons here, don’t let this list distract you), but these are the exceptions that prove the rule.

  Response to Tyler Cowen's Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history

• During the pre-production process, time costs money, and this allowed us to move faster without sacrificing quality or craft.

  Martin Scorsese × Black Forest Labs

• I’m interested in the intersection of technology and storytelling, and seeing how that can push the bounds of creativity to create deeper and richer experiences for audiences.

  Martin Scorsese × Black Forest Labs

• Even if you’re not going to be remembered by history, you want to be remembered by your barista.

  What the humans like is responsiveness - by Sasha Chapin

• We’re building the Y combinator of new-age media.

  Camp Studios

• Time and again, people have been the most transformative engine for becoming I’ve ever known.

  some parts of you only emerge for certain people - by maja

• there are certain arrangements of words that seem to reliably hit the algorithm like an incantation

  maja 🔭🍒 on X: "i’m fascinated by how this specific sentence and idea goes semi-viral every time i post it. it’s also the title of my most viral substack essay ever there are certain arrangements of words that seem to reliably hit the algorithm like an incantation ‘some parts of you only https://t.co/jgR7LkG9qk" / X

• The choice of sign relies on both the user and the technologist. The GLP-1 that saves a diabetic’s life collapses the action space of an otherwise healthy person. The LLM that allows a mathematician to solve an open Erdős problem robs an undergraduate of their ability to work through difficult ideas and ask meaningful questions. As we tear closer and closer to the 21st century technocapital singularity, these dualities will only become more extreme: AI-enabled BCIs will grant unprecedented agency to the disabled, but will inevitably and consensually turn millions of people into purely mimetic …

  Poison Fruit - Will Savage

• Driving to the airport, Rohan pointed at a billboard. “I like the Lyft ads. Probably my favourite ad campaign recently. I feel like I actually check Lyft more now.”

  Attention is all you need | Alexandria

• I mentioned wanting to grow SF Alexandria’s Instagram presence, and Rohan’s been sending me reels for inspiration ever since. The fact that he cares enough to help me unprompted[4], it makes me want to stick around.

  Attention is all you need | Alexandria

• He’ll get a chef friend to cater his party for free and have the chef thank him for it, because to them, it was a chance to practice running the operation instead of being a line cook.

  Attention is all you need | Alexandria

• Use AI to get smarter and don’t let it make you dumb.

  The Old World Is Dying: Advice for 2026 graduates

• You won’t imbibe tacit knowledge in a classroom’s confines, so find a mentor to take you under their wing. Textbooks are out; apprenticeships are in. Absorb everything that experts know.

  The Old World Is Dying: Advice for 2026 graduates

• The key is to sound like you’re going no matter what. People like to join people who already have a plan.

  The Old World Is Dying: Advice for 2026 graduates

• If you cannot conquer hunger, how will you conquer worlds?

  Poison Fruit - Will Savage

• Jesus fasted for forty days before beginning his ministry.

  Poison Fruit - Will Savage

• To carelessly submit the body to a GLP-1 or the mind to an LLM is to give up the jagged, vivid highs and lows of struggle in exchange for a sort of grey smoothness.

  Poison Fruit - Will Savage

• They’ve solved the struggle of thought itself, allowing one to leave behind the agonizing friction of learning in favor of a narcotic flow of surface-level knowledge.

  Poison Fruit - Will Savage

• history is the record of top players completing good quests.

  Fission - Will Savage

• It is no surprise, then, that the backlash to AI, particularly the opposition to data centers, has come in the form of protests and public comments at town and city-council meetings across the country. People are taking up their agency in one of the few places they can: the physical world.

  AI Is Causing a Crisis of Agency - The Atlantic

• consulted, engaged, to exercise their knowledge

  AI Is Causing a Crisis of Agency - The Atlantic

• This is why being glued to our phone and feeds can feel so extractive and joyless, even numbing.

  AI Is Causing a Crisis of Agency - The Atlantic

• One way to look at the generative-AI boom is as a massive societal experiment foisted on us by Silicon Valley, the animating question of which is: What is a human for?

  AI Is Causing a Crisis of Agency - The Atlantic

• They bet on taste-driven founders who can capture the cultural zeitgeist.

  Taste is Eating Silicon Valley. - by Anu Atluru

• The likes of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are admired not just for their technical innovations but for the way they turned their products, and themselves, into cultural icons.

  Taste is Eating Silicon Valley. - by Anu Atluru

• "We recorded them and put them out on SoundCloud, just for fun", she recalled.[27]

  Billie Eilish

• You can’t air a season finale on Friday and immediately premiere the next season on Monday. You need to reset the stakes, rebuild tension, and give the audience a reason to return.

  The Season Finale of TBPN - Working Theorys

• If I was meant to do something, if I’m here for a reason, I think it’s to be the guy who teaches AI how to code.

  The Wu Tapes: Q&A with Cognition's Scott Wu - Colossus

• It’s the same in every field, and we’ll get to a point where you can just do 10 times more of the 10% you actually love.

  The Wu Tapes: Q&A with Cognition's Scott Wu - Colossus

• When people say they really love building software, it’s usually the former that they gravitate towards.

  The Wu Tapes: Q&A with Cognition's Scott Wu - Colossus

• How many ideas does one person have in a day, and how many of those things do they actually get to do? Until that proportion is 100%, you know there is a pretty meaningful bottleneck in terms of the drudgery of execution. I don’t think it’s anywhere close to 100%

  The Wu Tapes: Q&A with Cognition's Scott Wu - Colossus

• In this case, it has to happen faster.

  The Wu Tapes: Q&A with Cognition's Scott Wu - Colossus