swyx
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
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The finance industry is built on false mathematical precision and prone to systemic collapse.
Their wordsFinance only to find that it is a house of cards built on false precision, as the world collapsed around us
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Their wordsincreasingly I see America as the place that rewards first principles thinkers and builders; that asks "why not?" instead of telling you why you cannot; that imperfectly supports optimism, reinvention and perseverance in spite of cynicism.
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Their wordsthe world is run by people no smarter than you - and even people that genuinely mean well, end up only prescribing games that you don't want to win.
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Their wordsThe only lasting path to satisfaction, happiness, skin in the game, maximizing learning, is to really study everybody's game, define your own, and then play it to the best of your ability.
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Their wordsIn one year you'll probably mostly be thinking and doing what you think you'll be doing in a year today. In a decade, EVERYTHING can change.
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe true leverage in any negotiation is your true willingness to walk away.
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Their wordsplayers who are also commentators give better commentary than people who are just commentators. Stock analysts who never invest have zero skin in the game.
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Their wordsPeople want to be the person their bookmarks reflect, not what their feed reflects.
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Their wordsand then as things hit invisible asymptotes those same loud voices who write viral essays have curiously moved on to other things.
- 11 days earlier
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Shrinking attention spans are reshaping real-world business models, not just digital media formats.
Their wordsYou may be less aware that this is affecting real world business models.
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Their wordsIt's interesting that the Shorter hobby businesses all draft off superstars in the legacy hobby, but make their vast majority of their money from people who will of course never come close to the level superstars - you'd still go to pickleball and talk Nadal vs Federer, you'd still go to Top Golf and make Tiger Woods jokes.
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- 2 months earlier
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Our reading
Podcasting works best as edutainment, and fails when it becomes too highbrow or purely educational.
Their wordsPodcasting is edutainment. If you try to have too highbrow a view of yourself, and only do education, you will lose.
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Their wordsWhen you have a Cause you promote - whether relevant to your listeners' lives or work or sense of self, you have loyalty.
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The best follow-up questions in an interview push back and challenge what the guest just said.
Their wordsThe highest art of followup is disagreement - challenging what they said, pushing back on it.