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Alex Yun

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  • The only thing that matters is where you are today and what the future risk-reward looks like.
    Retail Investor Interview - Babyfolio
  • Management quality, founder mindset, market opportunity, industry tailwinds, and understanding investor psychology are equally important in determining whether a company can become a massive winner.
    TheBigBerbowski on X: "Retail Investor Interview - Babyfolio" / X
  • Over time, the biggest teacher has been making mistakes, analyzing what went wrong, building a system, and continuously improving it.
    TheBigBerbowski on X: "Retail Investor Interview - Babyfolio" / X
  • Things like founder-led companies, management with skin in the game, strong revenue growth, margin expansion, and large market opportunities and fairly low market cap (which allows for more upside).
    TheBigBerbowski on X: "Retail Investor Interview - Babyfolio" / X
  • I am extremely analytical: in my Computer Science degree I finished a course called “Advanced Logic” with a 10. A score that had never been achieved at that University for that subject before.
    Thoughts at the Network School - PaulB
  • Dylan is originally from New York. He told me that he left his career in tech and accounting to come here and write, and that writing makes him feel truly alive.
    Thoughts at the Network School - PaulB
  • Plan A’s regulations on chips bear more than a passing resemblance to the way the United States currently regulates “controlled substances”
    AI Chip Regulation Is Not A Dystopian Surveillance State
  • The linchpin of Plan A is a joint AI regulatory regime with China.
    Introducing Plan A - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten
  • once you’ve set your sights on something, you should get good, be known, and work hard. If your cause is worth fighting for, you should fight like hell.
    Top Performers are Pathologically Ambitious - by Matt Beard
  • he “seemed genuinely surprised that there were people in his industry who didn’t want to spend fourteen hours a day fiddling with the circuit simulator.”
    Top Performers are Pathologically Ambitious - by Matt Beard
  • In his early teens he started doing 100 pushups a day and has never stopped.
    Top Performers are Pathologically Ambitious - by Matt Beard
  • if you genuinely care about improving the world, you should aim much higher and work much harder than the average person
    Top Performers are Pathologically Ambitious - by Matt Beard
  • it is just a fun fact that this is a way I can defeat bed inertia.
    Eliezer's Unteachable Methods of Sanity — LessWrong
  • My mental landscape contains that option; I take it.
    Eliezer's Unteachable Methods of Sanity — LessWrong
  • the actual answer is "I am a better writer than you, and I decided not to write myself as that incredibly cliche person that would be easy and convenient for you to write about."
    Eliezer's Unteachable Methods of Sanity — LessWrong
  • So, we have frontier chatbot LLMs which have harmful hardwired personalities which seek to achieve ‘good’ results in the laziest way possible and cannot learn everything relevant to users
    Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security · Gwern.net
  • I'm behaving in a way that maximizes my profit without giving you an incentive to cheat me.
    Logical decision theories — LessWrong
  • Anthropic could volunteer to set a precedent for an expansive interpretation of product liability for Claude. That would be the best form of moral instruction to prepare Claude for the day that it gains legal personhood and becomes liable for its own actions.
    No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - The Atlantic
  • We are particularly interested in tutors, recruiters, trainers, entertainers, coders, and builders.
    Network School 2025 - balajis.com
  • And the closer you are to being a high-agency, low-maintenance technologist who just wants to work, work out, and build awesome things all day — while also hanging out with others with the same growth mindset — the more you’ll like founding Network School with us.
    Network School 2025 - balajis.com
  • Have agency over your action and design incentives and consequences for not taking action: Set a public deadline. Invite people to the diary event. Bet on yourself.
    High Agency
  • Thought experiment: If the reward for solving the problem was a trillion dollars, and the consequence for not solving the problem was the death penalty -- would you find a way to solve the problem?
    High Agency
  • I summarize the context, the problem, my options, and my thoughts on each. I make it as succinct as possible so as not to waste their time. Before sending it, I try to predict what they’ll say. Then I go back and update what I wrote to address these obvious points in advance. Finally, I try again to predict what they’ll say to this, based on what they’ve said in the past and what I know of their philosophy.
    High Agency
  • If stuck between two potential options, ask: What is the best story?
    High Agency
  • People with extraordinary high-agency realize this early in life and start maximizing the interestingness of their life story.
    High Agency
  • We will go into the storm as children with only each other’s courage for comfort, and all the great days ahead waiting to receive us.
    blowing out the candle - by Celeste 🌱 - celeste-land
  • There will be nothing back the way I came, and I will have been better for it.
    blowing out the candle - by Celeste 🌱 - celeste-land
  • These are very uncertain times, but it is our future, and ours to shape. It is my duty to trudge on through the lightcone and ponder the man made horrors increasingly within my comprehension.
    blowing out the candle - by Celeste 🌱 - celeste-land
  • The turning bullshit into reality exercise shifts you to a creative model of the world. You pick things you value and let your creativity work its magic by aiming towards a value. Your self identity will begin to shift by doing high agency things that come up.
    High Agency
  • Put anything I don’t understand into Chat-GPT and get it to explain it to me like I’m a smart 12 year old
    High Agency
  • The three most powerful mind-altering drugs: DMT, meth, and momentum.
    High Agency
  • Specific question: What does my dream week look like hour by hour? What does my nightmare week look like hour by hour? What’s the gap between my current week and the dream/nightmare week?
    High Agency
  • Vague Trap Escape Route: Define the problem in simple words out of your head
    High Agency
  • At that point, I decided there's no point in not trying to accomplish every stupid dream I've got, even if it's dumb stuff….Chase it all and do it all because we're all going to die screaming, and you might as well enjoy it here.
    High Agency
  • Life is just a series of nows. Tick tock. Tick tock. Hear the clock? Another now has just gone by. And another one.
    High Agency
  • Unconventional weird behaviour costs a price in the short term — but the actions live on as story assets in the future.
    High Agency
  • When faced with a problem, ask your brain, “Does this defy the laws of physics?” — it will reply with “No” — and begin generating ludicrous ways this could be possible.
    High Agency
  • They don’t view the future as a static entity. They view it as something to be shaped by human action.
    High Agency
  • Before rushing to answer your question, they question whether it’s the right question to answer.
    High Agency
  • The high agency person lives many lives and isn’t afraid to reinvent themselves — regardless of the perceived social cost.
    High Agency
  • If their beliefs don't line up with their stereotypes, they've exercised agency.
    High Agency
  • You have all the time in the world to do what’s important.
    A Lack of Time is a Lack of Priorities
  • Pause. Reassess. Decide. Relax.
    A Lack of Time is a Lack of Priorities
  • If you can constantly remind yourself that you choose to do the things that you do, you’ll slowly shift away from “must” thinking.
    A Lack of Time is a Lack of Priorities
  • We can choose to spend our time differently, on the things that are more important, and ditch the things that aren’t, thereby freeing up our time and energy.
    A Lack of Time is a Lack of Priorities
  • But I do have 100% unwavering confidence that the combined value of the one or multiple leading AI labs, whether it’s Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, all three, or another company we haven’t even heard of, will be worth that much once the singularity arrives.
    Why Anthropic Is a $100T Company - Jason's Chips
  • They started the year at a $9 billion ARR. That is an annualized growth rate of (lol) 12,400% or a (very convenient) month-over-month growth rate of 50%.
    Why Anthropic Is a $100T Company - Jason's Chips
  • The data shows you should: Buy moderate fear (20-40) and hold for weeks Buy growing greed (70-80) and hold for days or weeks Avoid extreme fear with short holds Avoid comfortable greed (60-70) with any short term hold
    I Backtested the CNN Fear & Greed Index Across 9,000+ Trades and Here's What the Data Says
  • Nebius presents its platform as spanning the AI journey from data and model training to production runtime and deployment. A company trying to own more of the deployment stack benefits from having assets that do more than sell raw compute. TripleTen broadens the group into technical education, workforce preparation, and enterprise upskilling, areas that can deepen customer relationships without requiring the same level of capex intensity as data center construction.
    Nebius TripleTen: The Human Infrastructure of the AI Revolution
  • Provocative coaching is a distant relative of ‘paradoxical intention’ and ‘reverse psychology’. The coach encourages the client to do their problem more: do some more of that, think some more of that, feel some more of that!
    Provocative Coaching, What Is It? - Business Coaching Journal