Vishnu Arun

on the atlas — 16

• the starships never pass by here anymore - YouTube1 savers
• Gears – Bartosz Ciechanowski1 savers
• Notes on How to Live2 savers
• Barrels and Ammunition4 savers
• An open letter to 56 people I know - by Sasha Chapin20 savers
• Ananta: Relaxing Ambient Music for Infinite Spaces (Sci Fi Space Music) - YouTube1 savers
• Posts • freemediaheckyeah1 savers
• Nikunj Kothari on X: "Some notes after spending a year on applications of AI and thoughts on what's next ✌️ - We are in the GPT3 era of agents. Most companies are optimizing for a shiny demo, but very few are able to do hard task completion over multiple steps with an accuracy that's good enough for" / X1 savers
• Peter Household - things that have interested me1 savers
• Inbox (1) - ellenjxu@gmail.com - Gmail10 savers
• Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review58 savers
• Conviction is the Scarcest Resource: Essays About Gaining Real Conviction45 savers
• The Darker Side of Aaron Swartz | The New Yorker30 savers
• Lights and Shadows – Bartosz Ciechanowski15 savers
• Derek Sivers11 savers
• How to Write Usefully2 savers

highlights — 5

• My grandfather told me a long time ago that we were not made for this world. He told stories about the starships that brought him and my grandmother here, how it was only meant to be for a few years to support his planet's war, and that they were supposed to go back. "We're not supposed to be here!" is something he would say with sharp resentment in his last days. He wouldn't say much of anything else. All he remembered was that the starships were late. It made me sad to see his final days spent in bitterness, but I suppose I can't blame him. His old stories about the Earth's oceans, rivers, a…

  the starships never pass by here anymore - YouTube

• n order to become a barrel in your organization, you should work on mastering each of the following steps: Understand: Develop a mental model of the problem you're solving Ideate: Think deeply about the problem and how to solve it Take initiative: Create convincing proof of concepts for your ideas Recruit others: Build relationships to bring in teammates to help Deliver results: Level up your skills. Ship work that turns heads.

  Barrels and Ammunition

• If you think about people, there are two categories of high-quality people: there is the ammunition, and then there are the barrels. You can add all the ammunition you want, but if you have only five barrels in your company, you can literally do only five things simultaneously. If you add one more barrel, you can now do six things simultaneously. If you add another one, you can do seven, and so on. In short, the output of your organization is dependent on the number of people that can own projects and see them through to the end.

  Barrels and Ammunition

• Even though I'm surrounded by infinite distances and I have no destination to reach, I don't feel lost or directionless. This is a journey of discovery. I am becoming part of everything I see.

  Ananta: Relaxing Ambient Music for Infinite Spaces (Sci Fi Space Music) - YouTube

• Founders still underestimate how every enterprise is finally looking to buy AI applications. This kind of buying opportunity happens once in a generation. Usually you're pulling teeth to get them to adopt. If you're not building applications that are AI native, you need to have 10x conviction on the why.

  Nikunj Kothari on X: "Some notes after spending a year on applications of AI and thoughts on what's next ✌️ - We are in the GPT3 era of agents. Most companies are optimizing for a shiny demo, but very few are able to do hard task completion over multiple steps with an accuracy that's good enough for" / X