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Muhammad Abdullah

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  • “People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.”
    Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: “People are always angry at anyone who chooses v...”
  • Whatever you build couldn't possibly sound more preposterous than a startup we funded in 2006 called Justin.TV. It consisted of one guy, Justin Kan, walking around with a camera on the side of his head, live streaming everything that happened to him. But this company ended up doing quite well. In fact you've probably heard of it, but under its new name, Twitch.
    How to Earn a Billion Dollars
  • how much more interesting life can be if you put some thought into it.
    The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot
  • it is a game of generated landscapes where the world keeps growing the further you go. You can go out and talk to people and do stuff, and the world opens up vista after vista.
    The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot
  • What AI cannot give you and I suggest you to learn through other resources: - algorithmic proficiency, i.e. how to decompose your problems into smaller parts and compose a solution. You don’t necessarily need a full algorithms course (even though you find good ones online for free) but familiarising with at least some classical non-trivial algorithm (e.g. sorting or graph-related ones) is mind-changing. - high-level design and architecture, i.e. how to design abstractions and use them to obtain a maintainable codebase when size grows. Here the best way is to look at the code of established cod…
    Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era? | Hacker News
  • 2 things have not changed since the advent of AI, and never will change. The first is the calculus of computation. The second is the engineering of computation. All coding is just some interesting combination of these two forms of logic.
    Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era? | Hacker News
  • Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short.
    Life is Short
  • James Salter's Burning the Days.
    Life is Short
  • "is this how I want to be spending my time?"
    Life is Short
  • there’s no way to become the kind of person who finishes books unless I finish the book
    on maintaining attention - by Ava - bookbear express
  • Learning is an act of discovery.
    Learning – Tamseel's Weblog
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding