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Introducing Pulsar-L: the man-portable variant in our family of electromagnetic warfare (EW) systems.
@vahramovich If you take my Psychedelic Neuroscience Master Course (free on Youtube), you'll learn all about this:
@vahramovich The molecule distorts the 3D shape/conformation of the receptor, allowing it to interact with signalling pathways inside the cell. The effect is to perturb the signalling networks that regulate cell function, ultimately altering the cell's behaviour/properties/etc.
Psilocin slowly nuzzling its way into the 5HT2A receptor until it finds a comfortable position deep inside...
And therein the magic happens...
(molecular dynamics simulation from Bright Minds Biosciences)
I think if you pick a really hard research problem, try to solve it in <8 weeks, blog everything, shoot videos, ship good oss code and repeat it.
you can get hired by a big lab in ~1 year.
You don’t need to convince the world that you are on the right path in life, you just need to look at yourself in a mirror, look at the people you have or don’t have around, look at the life you currently lead, be honest about how you feel about it, and adjust what you don’t like
Lovers 🦁
Brian Chesky’s response to the Samwer Brothers cloning Airbnb: “Missionaries will outlast mercenaries”
In mid-2011, the Samwer Brothers cloned Airbnb’s website.
At the time, they were notorious for cloning companies that were working in the US and replicating it across Europe and non-English-speaking countries.
Before cloning Airbnb, they sold their Groupon clone, MyCityDeal, to Groupon itself for roughly €100 million.
Brian describes the situation Airbnb was facing:
“We had 40 employees and had raised $7M. They cloned us and raised $90M, and in 30 days they hired 400 people and wanted to sell the company. And if they couldn’t they were going to destroy us around the world. And the problem with Airbnb is if we’re not everywhere around the world, a travel site not being in Europe is like your phone not having email. It doesn’t actually work.”
At the time, a lot of people were telling Brian and the Airbnb cofounders to buy the clone because they couldn’t risk losing international. But Airbnb didn’t buy them.
Brian explains his reasoning:
“The reason we ended up not buying them is I just didn’t like the culture. I didn’t want to bring in these 400 people. I felt like we were missionaries and they were mercenaries. I didn’t think they were doing it for the beliefs. I thought they were doing it to make a lot of money very quickly. And I believed in a war missionaries would outlast and out-endure mercenaries. I also felt like the best revenge against an internet clone was just to make them run the company long term. It’s like, you had the baby, now you gotta raise it.”
In the end, that proved to be the right decision. Today, Airbnb is valued at more than $100B, and most people have never heard of Wimdu, the Samwer brothers’ clone.
Video source: @ycombinator (2014)
Strongly considering starting a Montessori preschool for base models to attend after pretraining.
The problem with these AI creator tools and this idea that everyone can create now is that 99.9% of people don’t want to create
They just want to consume, no matter how low the barrier to entry of creation is
Arguably the White House correspondents got us Trump. If they'd reported Biden's decline earlier, the other Democrats would have pushed him not to run, and there would have been an opportunity for a more charismatic candidate than Kamala Harris to arise.
U.S. Bear vs Bull Markets
Source: First True
There is no better blog (that I have found) which explains intuitively WHY momentum works.
Ability to fend for yourself > job security
The best way to learn is by shipping. That’s how I made the most progress in my career. Forking things, hosting open source projects, looking under the covers. I’m genuinely jealous of vibe coders getting started building software today. Generational advantage.
My MRR over the last 2 years. I love making iOS apps🔥
"Thanks for reaching out. Sounds interesting - just curious: how did you hear about me?"
"I saw that you wrote a couple of books about AI"
The result of writing business cards on steroids (not just books)
FYI - those are usually 6-figure contracts
machines can have a soul
if we put ours in them
online tool for drawing database diagrams and exporting SQL scripts
History.
Additional image of Trump and Zelensky holding a quiet 1 on 1 meeting in the Vatican today.
Historical photo Zelenskyy and Trump in the Vatican.