Career

Curiosities / what should I do with my career

Jeff Bezos made a thing that distributes goods really fast. He gives people goods and puts goods where they're desired.

Somewhere in my vision I want higher levels of mental life. The cavemen were biologically as capable of intelligence--in fact their brains were larger than ours. But our caveman Shakespeare could only grunt.

Beliefs have changed before. Once it was believed that only the rich could learn how to read, that the poor had literally inferior minds.

We still believe this. We still think there is no way everyone could become as educated as we are,

My family tree becomes peasants just 2 generations back and then its peasants all the way down

The enlightenment in an astounding way that blows light in our age

The coffee conoisseur becomes that way through multiple encounters

Mental teleportation Visit my mind, but I dont have to be present for it to happen. Thumb through my books, my words, my visions.

Maybe neurotech is a severly underexplored branch of knowledge

Blatant, white-hot blasphemy. To seek it is to take the path of a heretic.

I kind of want to work on teleportation?

Things are created once and maintained forever. Most people have contorted themselves for the role of maintaining.

I'm making my own fellowship by shadowing startup CEOs and doing projects for them, particularly people I admire in biotech, crypto, and neural interfaces. the goal is to learn a lot this semester (e.g. I really don't know enough about invasive neural implants) and commit to a startup (either Curius or something new) next year

I am positively scared, because to opt in to this game is to be a loser in every other one. You have to forgo brownie points.

Places can look like circlejerks

Balance between intimacy and legibility [of Twitter, of social capital]

I want to know, but I dont want to know too much

Mercenaries

Taylor says I should fight for another startup for a while, but . It would be surprising if there exists a startup that matched your vision.

Artists create an articulation of the future

I want to start a hotel in SF