Sam Altman - [ Ссылка ] - expands on ideas that have come up in several of his essays. Specifically: choosing projects, creating value, and finding purpose.
Sam’s the president of YC Group - [ Ссылка ] - and co-chairman of OpenAI - [ Ссылка ]
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon - [ Ссылка ]
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Topics
:55 – From The Days Are Long But The Decades Are Short – Minimize your own cognitive load from distracting things that don’t really matter. It’s hard to overstate how important this is, and how bad most people are at it. [ Ссылка ]
3:20 – Stepping back and evaluating your work
5:00 – Creating metrics for your projects
6:00 – Taking a year off
9:00 – Figuring out when to commit
11:00 – Poker
12:00 – From Productivity – Sleep seems to be the most important physical factor in productivity for me. Exercise is probably the second most important physical factor. The third area is nutrition. [ Ссылка ]
14:30 – From You and Your Research by Richard Hamming – If what you are doing is not important, and if you don’t think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?’ [ Ссылка ]
16:00 – From The Days Are Long But The Decades Are Short – Things in life are rarely as risky as they seem. Most people are too risk-averse, and so most advice is biased too much towards conservative paths. [ Ссылка ]
17:00 – Perspective shifts
19:45 – From Productivity – My system has three key pillars: “Make sure to get the important shit done”, “Don’t waste time on stupid shit”, and “make a lot of lists”. [ Ссылка ]
22:00 – What Happened to Innovation [ Ссылка ]
24:20 – From You and Your Research by Richard Hamming – He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important. [ Ссылка ]
26:20 – The deferred life plan doesn’t work
31:20 – From The Merge – Our self-worth is so based on our intelligence that we believe it must be singular and not slightly higher than all the other animals on a continuum. Perhaps the AI will feel the same way and note that differences between us and bonobos are barely worth discussing. [ Ссылка ]
33:40 – Weight training
35:00 – The Way to Love by Anthony de Mello [ Ссылка ]
