Resisting that pull is important

Learning to change one's mind and skate to where the puck is going to be People who can't change their minds will constantly bring up past opinions, trying to drag others down so they can feel better about

Those who want to get rich or remain wealthy should develop the ability to change their mind Most ideas are shitty. Staying fixated on shitty ideas creates an anchoring bias that pulls people down to the

Becomes more and more true every day…

This may be the point: portray anyone with real-world experience as too conflicted to serve in government so only professional bureaucrats/activists/NGO-types (with the same views as NYT reporters) are

That's the converse of corruption; having more people with proven judgement like David Sacks inside the bureaucracy to reform it would be beneficial

A bureaucratic class seems intent on casting success and experience as evidence of corruption. In reality the opposite is true — success and market experience come from consistently demonstrated and measurable

Agreed

Ensuring national security: advance AI for national security missions, support safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, and accelerate development of defense-ready materials

American energy dominance: accelerate advanced nuclear, fusion, and grid modernization Advancing discovery science: build the quantum ecosystem to power new discoveries and industries

The initiative targets three critical national challenges:

The plan calls for access to the largest collection of Federal scientific datasets to train scientific foundation models and deploy AI agents to test hypotheses, automate research workflows, and speed

The objective is to use that platform plus advanced AI to double U.S. research and development productivity within a decade.

On 11/24, an Executive Order launched the Genesis Mission — positioned as a modern-day counterpart to the Manhattan Project — mobilizing the Department of Energy’s 17 National Laboratories alongside industry

Moving fast and breaking things is precisely the low-hanging fruit that AI will automate. A slower, forging approach—building things that endure and emphasizing discipline and process—will make roles far

After that, much of Silicon Valley confused correlation with causation and adopted the mindset without questioning it. In an AI-driven world, those who continue to worship that approach will be among the

“Move Fast and Break Things” vs “Move Slow and Forge Things” The "move fast and break things" mantra was coined at a tech firm to push a group of entitled Ivy League recruits to grind; it worked.

yeah it's nuts how those hype-driven valuations crashed back to reality - feels like the whole market got a reality check 😅

Pretty sobering that Navan which recently went public with the following metrics is worth ~$4.2B • $613M TTM revenue • $688m annual run-rate revenue • 32% y/y growth • 71% gross margins • -8% operating

Series F Date: October 2021 Amount Raised: $275 million Valuation: $7.25 billion (post) Series G Date: October 2022 Amount Raised: $300 million Valuation: $9.2 billion (post)