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This seems like an extremely petty fight

“Taste” is something that’s developed through repetitive exposure to differentiated items in a particular set, combined with extremely high abstract analytical abilities, and that’s something completely different from having marketing or personal branding skills.

I think you’re right that that’s the evaluation happening, but it’s totally misguided. If you’re indexing for differentiating levels of taste I would be very wary of empty vessel young influencers. Taste is built over years and years and imo requires a certain disdain for the crowd. Look at Linus Torvalds as a pinnacle of taste in code for example.

I think wrapper companies could do very well if AI does end up becoming having an impact near on the order of the internet or smartphones, which it may never.

A product that incorporates a foundation model could still require solving a hard engineering problem separately from the training and provision of said model. Someone who could, say, provide a reliable filter for copyrighted content from an LLM is providing real value and has a tangible moat.

Acting like Elon Musk is cringe for a lot of reasons but I don’t think it’s that out of pocket for a startup founder to admire him, even if all he did was SpaceX he would have an incredible legacy and story

I switched to concerta and it works much better. Lowering my dose of adderall just made it less effective.

Adderall is great at making me produce, but horrible at true “focus.” It makes everything other than pure output feel like a waste of time. In the long run, I found this to be a pretty detrimental way to operate. Good for getting something across the finish line but since I’ve stopped taking it I’ve been able to go a lot deeper into stuff and plug away at long term projects rather than just checking off as many “tasks” as possible.

Diminishing returns on that though, and it comes at a cost to your physical and emotional health.

The mountains are awesome but idk how many people are moving to Seattle for the weather haha

Yeah UW is great but one university isn’t enough to sustain a world class talent pipeline

Seattle/Washington has no elite or quasi-elite universities. That’s probably the #1 reason.

Compare it to Boston which is a similarly sized city.

Boston/New England has Harvard, MIT, BC, Tufts, Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Brown, etc. It’s the most educated region of the world with huge pool of founders and talent. Even though it’s not a tech focused place the way Seattle is it’s a better place to find young talented people willing to work for or start a new company.

I can’t imagine that DC is a better place to have a startup than Seattle

Even if credentials matter more than ideas there’s more than enough credentialed people to go around and soak up funding

Plus, tech isn’t the only startup dimension. Boston has a ton of medical stuff too.

Being outside for an hour during sunset is the best sleep medicine. Don’t even have to go camping.

General knowledge is 90% from interests and consumption outside of school

“Solving for colour constancy using a constrained dichromatic reflection model” is a good one to check out