Cynthia Wang

on the atlas · 18

• shipra on X: "With books unread, muscles untrained, thoughts unwritten, disciplines unmastered, and thousands of skills untouched, if you are bored, you are not even trying." / X1 savers
• speak so you can be found - by maja - velvet noise6 savers
• Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)3 savers
• Stanford GSB - 2023 Last Lecture - How to Live an Asymmetric Life — Graham Weaver5 savers
• Gmail115 savers
• An Alien Mind | OpenAI28 savers
• On Grindslop - by Will Manidis - Minutes5 savers
• [2608.03958] A game theory for foundation models shows new paths to rational cooperation through similarity inference1 savers
• Anatoli Kopadze on X: "Graph Engineering explained: what it is, when to use it and when not to" / X1 savers
• Blake Burge on X: "Underrated life advice: Make yourself easy to root for. Be kind. Be reliable. Celebrate other people’s wins. Work hard without complaining. Carry good energy into rooms. You'll be shocked by how many doors open for you by making life better for others." / X1 savers
• Abhi Tripathi on X: "If you are 22-25 years old (or any age!) here is evergreen advice that will never lead you wrong: 1) all deep meaning in life comes from being part of a team. As long as you bias your career and life choices toward the question “what is the best team (environment) for me?” you" / X1 savers
• Jay Yang on X: "Co-founder and CEO of Stripe’s advice to ambitious people: https://t.co/egi28OqIS0" / X1 savers
• yimika| on X: "Fortunately, they were right. When you surround yourself with high achieving individuals, you have no option but to catch up." / X1 savers
• Path of Men on X: "major cheat code in life: be the one who reaches out. text first. call first. plan first. initialize first. most people wait to be chosen. be the chooser. connection requires initiative. friendship requires effort. love requires action. stop waiting to be picked. start picking." / X1 savers
• Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass - The New York Times11 savers
• How AI Threatens Human Freedom - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics1 savers
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering1 savers
• The Stanford Freshmen Who Think They Rule the World - The Atlantic1 savers

highlights · 8

• all deep meaning in life comes from being part of a team. As long as you bias your career and life choices toward the question “what is the best team (environment) for me?” you can’t go wrong.

  Abhi Tripathi on X: "If you are 22-25 years old (or any age!) here is evergreen advice that will never lead you wrong: 1) all deep meaning in life comes from being part of a team. As long as you bias your career and life choices toward the question “what is the best team (environment) for me?” you" / X

• When you surround yourself with high achieving individuals, you have no option but to catch up.

  yimika| on X: "Fortunately, they were right. When you surround yourself with high achieving individuals, you have no option but to catch up." / X

• most people wait to be chosen. be the chooser.

  Path of Men on X: "major cheat code in life: be the one who reaches out. text first. call first. plan first. initialize first. most people wait to be chosen. be the chooser. connection requires initiative. friendship requires effort. love requires action. stop waiting to be picked. start picking." / X

• The labor market implications are grim. At the same time that early-career workers are competing with A.I. for jobs, they may be stunting their own skill development by overusing A.I. tools.

  Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass - The New York Times

• At the same time as A.I. erodes ordinary workers’ leverage, it may concentrate power and wealth in large companies and the U.S. government — two entities whose interests are increasingly linked. A.I.-related investments such as software and data centers accounted for 39 percent of U.S. economic growth in the first three-quarters of 2025, per an analysis by the St. Louis Fed. That gives the federal government a vested interest in sustaining the A.I. boom. Mr. Amodei acknowledges that this concentration can lead to “the reluctance of tech companies to criticize the U.S. government, and the gover…

  Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass - The New York Times

• Let’s not create a world where the only human choice is to be enslaved to AI. After all, what is human life without the freedom to choose? Technological dependency is one thing–we do need fire, electricity, and so on–but intelligence dependency is another thing entirely.

  How AI Threatens Human Freedom - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

• “If you have no core beliefs, then you follow the money; you follow what’s most exciting.”

  The Stanford Freshmen Who Think They Rule the World - The Atlantic

• For all of Silicon Valley’s effort to identify talented teenagers, Hennessy pointed out, “if you look at the most successful start-ups that have spun out, they were graduate students, not undergrads.” The mythology of the brilliant-dropout founder doesn’t reflect reality, he argued. And throwing a bunch of money at kids who are still growing up can backfire.

  The Stanford Freshmen Who Think They Rule the World - The Atlantic