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Jack Mielke

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  • The full stack approach lets you bypass industry incumbents, completely control the customer experience, and capture a greater portion of the economic benefits you provide.
    cdixon | Full stack startups
  • Asymmetric opportunities usually have meaningful upside in a success case, and meaningful learning or development in a downside case. If the downside case is still one of the best case scenarios you can imagine, then that’s an easy asymmetric bet to take. In addition to pursuing things that have meaningful upside (and thus some risk), asymmetric bets can also involve taking a bet in risky spaces that other people aren’t pursuing
    Take Asymmetric Bets
  • I think the ways we’re taught to think about these concepts is backwards: we think something is risky (e.g. starting a company) when it actually buys optionality, and we think we’re buying optionality (e.g. joining Goldman Sachs) when we’re actually taking a big risk. In starting a company, we’re capping our downside—assuming the privilege to afford it—and in joining Goldman Sachs etc, we’re capping our upside.
    Take Asymmetric Bets
  • The mind is a mirror, but we have mistaken the mirror for the reflection. We’ve then attached so many stickers to the mirror that it no longer reflects reality.
    True Spirituality — James Pierce
  • jack - available in person and online. "this looks cool!"
    Clutch
  • I first got into software engineering because I wanted to build large-scale systems that could have a direct impact on people’s lives. I attended a math research summer program shortly after I started programming, and my favorite result of the summer was a scheduling app I built for people to book time with the professor. Specifying every detail of how a program should work is hard, and I’d always dreamed of one day putting my effort into hypothetical AI systems that could figure out the details for me. But after taking one look at the state of the art in AI in 2008, I knew it wasn’t going to …
    It’s time to become an ML engineer
  • I’m coming to believe that the most valuable learning in life is all gained experientially, by just “throwing yourself in the game”.
    Off the dome
  • I’m passionate about solving real problems, not building unnecessary technology.
    Home
  • Despite all the time we spend on the internet, most of us are passive consumers of content and interfaces. Our standard digital environments do not offer let alone encourage us to imagine and create alternative futures for the internet.
    ҉ .｡⋆° (𝓌𝑒)𝒷𝓈𝒾𝓉𝑒 ˚｡⋆ ◌
  • procedural visualization of digital garden as an actual garden to help you tend to it better
    Idea List
  • webgpt but its for tools for thought “A reader-generated essay is what you get when you can go into someone else’s knowledge graph and make a linear journey through the network, while GPT-5 generates a just-in-time essay that is human-readable.” turning a graph traversal into a beautiful essay
    Idea List
  • Instead of always being a "performance" level of blogging, it can be a looser more human endeavor that drops the idea of robots sorting the content (in this case simply by date created) and embraces the idea of curation, by me, for you.
    🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog
  • Like with real gardens, our digital gardens are a constant ebb and flow towards entropy. Weeds take over. Left untended the Earth will reclaim what belongs to it. The same is true for our digital gardens here on the internet. Organizing information is hard. I'm not a taxonomist. I don't have a formal information design background. For the most part I just wing it ad hoc and hope for the best. 😅 We are all constantly bombarded with information, a lot of it is really good information too, but the challenge is absorbing it and applying it to the context of our lives and careers.
    🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog
  • YC claims that 70%³ of the ideas of the successful startups they surveyed, were organic. One reason is that these are more successful is that the idea is likely based on a real problem.
    Gmail
  • There are many reasons curious people are more likely to do great work, but one of the more subtle is that, by casting a wide net, they're more likely to find the right thing to work on in the first place.
    How to Do Great Work
  • There is no separation between the “you” that is looked at and the “you” that does the looking. Naturally, then, self improvement tends to be one big tail chase. Man has become too obsessed with control. He would rather build a swimming pool than experience the rawness of the open sea.
    Indeliberate — James Pierce
  • The implications of this are astounding. If everything were perfect, nothing would need to be done. You wouldn’t need to seek anyone’s approval, you wouldn’t need to achieve success, you wouldn’t need to become happy. All of your problems would mysteriously vanish. In the wake of your problems’ disappearance, you would realize you are free to spend your life as you wish. The inner fire that you lost when you stopped pursuing your genuine interests would be rekindled. Your work would become masterful, because it would be the work you love. Your relationships would be beautiful, because they wou…
    A Primer for the Rest of Your Life — James Pierce
  • Imperfection exists in the mind. We call something perfect when it is exactly as we would like it to be. If you had no desire to change anything, you would realize your life is perfect as it is.
    A Primer for the Rest of Your Life — James Pierce
  • If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters.
    The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
  • Dissatisfaction is a product of thought. It exists nowhere other than the mind. If something exists only in the mind, it is not truth. It is manufactured. It is therefore the case that lasting satisfaction is without a cause. Only dissatisfaction is caused. When the causes of dissatisfaction are removed, satisfaction will be there waiting for you.
    The Road to Lasting Satisfaction — James Pierce
  • Must stop by Khao San Road! Cool tourist hub, will be good to spend the night there. Walkable from The Golden Mount; else take a canal boat to Phra Arthit Pier.
    Thailand | michaeldemar.co
  • In theory you shouldn't have to prepare for a test in a class any more than you have to prepare for a blood test.
    The Lesson to Unlearn
  • The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn't something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grades.
    The Lesson to Unlearn