“Learn to prompt.” Palmer Luckey Whenever a new technology emerges, it always seems like its followed by overly lofty claims of how it will disrupt our lives and remake the future. Virtual reality was predicted to be the next major computing platform, while blockchain was supposed to underpin “Web 3.0.” Artificial Intelligence or “AI,” may…
Converging Perspectives: 5 Shared Insights from Sam Altman and Alexandr Wang
When a highly successful person shares their personal reflections, I read it. When another highly successful person also share their reflections and they share some of the same points, I really try to remember those the most. Below are overlapping themes from Sam Altman’s “What I Wish Someone Told Me” and Alexandr Wang’s “What I…
You Are Not a Lottery Ticket: One Novel Principle Shared by Several AI Leaders
My favorite chapter from Peter Thiel’s classic Zero to One is chapter 6, ‘You Are Not a Lottery Ticket.’ The basic message of the chapter is that Thiel says in business and life, we tend to overestimate the role luck plays in our lives and underestimate the power of our own planning. He points to…
Stop and Smell the Roses
“I felt like I didn’t enjoy my younger years the way I should have.”