flâneur

Uday S

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  • Your ego might take a small hit, but that temporary discomfort pales in comparison to the boundless opportunities that await on the other side of shamelessness.
    Stay Shameless
  • The repetition of behavior, not the sincerity of belief, is what shapes character. You become the kind of person who does the things you repeatedly do.
    You Are How You Act
  • When it comes to choosing problems you’ll hear academics talk about a mystical sense of “taste”. It’s a real thing. When you pitch a potential problem to your adviser you’ll either see their face contort, their eyes rolling, and their attention drift, or you’ll sense the excitement in their eyes as they contemplate the uncharted territory ripe for exploration.
    A Survival Guide to a PhD
  • People love you, and then they hate you, and then they love you. The only thing that ultimately matters is how you feel about yourself. Trying to appease others is never a winning game.
    The New World - Colossus
  • This is Bayescraft; we are scoring your anticipations of experience
    Guessing the Teacher's Password
  • In hardly any other profession do neurotic problems incapacitate so many people such a large part of the time.
    [DRAFT] Against grad school
  • But to want to be the best everywhere at everything demands a reconfiguration not only of your life but of the value system underlying it. Instead of working harder, you do a perverse kind of emotional labor to explain why, actually, this is fine.
    On the Experience of Using a Guest Pass at an Elite Gym | Applied Divinity Studies
  • Having mentors can help you quickly go from okay to great. But to get from great to exceptional, you’ll need to make good decisions when the stakes are higher and the consequences are longer-term. For that, you need a kind of conviction that you can’t learn from mentors—only from your own mistakes.
    No one can teach you to have conviction | benkuhn.net
  • Fast iteration can make up for a lot; it’s usually ok to be wrong if you iterate quickly. Plans should be measured in decades, execution should be measured in weeks.
    What I Wish Someone Had Told Me - Sam Altman
  • Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in the short term, which will get easier over time.
    What I Wish Someone Had Told Me - Sam Altman
  • A good advisor will also work your butt off and scare the crap out of you by expecting you to know about millions of things — don't let that put you off.
    advice
  • So next time you're faced with a tough decision, consider the path that makes a more interesting story. If it turned out to be the wrong decision to have made, you'd at least be fun at dinner parties.
    Do What Makes The Best Story
  • In an apprenticeship, you start out the least useful person in a room of working professionals with real projects and business impact. By the end, you’re one of them.
    Max Hodak - Avoid little leagues
  • Given enough time, it is possible to adjust to almost anything, good or bad. Humans are remarkable at this.
    The days are long but the decades are short - Sam Altman
  • Instead, we have the endless hellscape of the casual polymath. A newsletter about venture capital will find time to opine on herd immunity.
    Beware the Casual Polymath | Applied Divinity Studies
  • Having the luxury of moving on from programs is probably the greatest gift our funding mandate has given us.
    Treeline | Blog
  • Making money depends on other people, so it’s harder. It’s not entirely under your control. It’s an outer game. Reducing what you “need” to be happy is easier. It’s entirely under your control. It’s an inner game.
    Wealth = Have ÷ Want | Derek Sivers
  • Polytropos is the very first adjective Homer applies to Odysseus in the Odyssey. Literally it means “much-traveled” or “much-wandering,” but it can be used metaphorically as “turning many ways” — wily or crafty.
    Wherefore “Polytropos”? | Polytropos
  • Philosophy might not share the clean rigor of math, but the mental tools it provides are surprisingly similar. Instead of manipulating numbers and symbols, you learn to manipulate ideas.
    Jessy Lin •