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Your dream job is gonna suck
and you ARE wrong if you think otherwise
To love your job you have to be GOOD at it. You have to spend years getting better and better, or, in other words, So Good They Can't Ignore You
You have to truly know what you're doing, from years of experience. It's not enough to think you know.
You have to KNOW
The most successful careers - or dream jobs - aren't planned; they happen when random skills and opportunities collide at the right time
Loving your job comes down to feeling valued: to putting in good work and getting results back. The only way that happens is if you get truly good at it
Albert Camus once said
"one must imagine Sisyphus happy"
I promise you rolling a rock up a hill was never his dream job.
He just got good at it.
If you (apostrophe) re not speaking your punctuation in the age of AI (em-dash) you (apostrophe) re falling behind (period)
Photonic transistors (light computers) will be the most impactful single hardware innovation of the 21st century
Prove me wrong
I'll explain why ↓
Of course, there are a whole host of challenges and issues that have to be overcome to make photonic transistors truly viable.
But the point at which engineering returns begin to diminish is soooooooooooooooooooo far down the line that the value of overcoming the challenges is immense.
Most founders miss this chance to 3x their sales
In 1519, Hernán Cortés invaded Mexico with 11 ships and immediately sank every single one. In doing so, he forced his army either to topple the Aztec Empire or starve on the beach.
He and his 500 men went on to topple the 5-million-citizen Aztec empire.
In 310 BC, Agathocles of Syracuse landed his army in Carthaginian Africa and burned every boat where it landed.
With 14,000 men and no way to retreat, he marched inland and went on to crush the 40,000-soldier-strong Carthaginian army.
Who is bringing back burning the boats?
If you've wasted time polishing a backup plan in case your dreams fall through, they'll fall through. The safety of the plan gives your brain a way out when things get risky, and it removes the stress that makes founders who win, win big.
On top of that, you'll be wasting time thinking about your plan instead of getting stuff done.
The assurance that you'll have a backup plan "just in case" will destroy you.
You NEED no way back
Burn the boats:
- erase your backup plan
- spend more than you have
- make promises you can't fulfill yet
JUST GO ALL IN
In 1519, Hernán Cortés invaded Mexico with 11 ships and immediately sank every single one. In doing so, he forced his army either to topple the Aztec Empire or starve on the beach.
He and his 500 men went on to topple the 5-million-citizen Aztec empire.
In 310 BC, Agathocles of Syracuse landed his army in Carthaginian Africa and burned every boat where it landed.
With 14,000 men and no way to retreat, he marched inland and went on to crush the 40,000-soldier-strong Carthaginian army.
Who is bringing back burning the boats?
If you've wasted time polishing a backup plan in case your dreams fall through, they'll fall through. The safety of the plan gives your brain a way out when things get risky, and it removes the stress that makes founders who win, win big.
On top of that, you'll be wasting time thinking about your plan instead of getting stuff done.
The assurance that you'll have a backup plan "just in case" will destroy you.
You NEED no way back
Burn the boats:
- erase your backup plan
- spend more than you have
- make promises you can't fulfill yet
JUST GO ALL IN
I found this super interesting when I learned it, but this is why you destroy hard drives when you're done with them
The data isn't actually gone
The Jalapeño chips are reviving Moore's law:
- It's got half the power draw of NVIDIA's GB300
- 1.9 times more throughput per kilowatt
- 3.6 times lower latency
Yeah, it's not double the transistors, but doubling the speed is good enough for me. That's what lowers my cost per token and raises my Tok/s
AI processing on any significant scale is so new that it's like the 60's all over again. The difference being that the main product (AI) NEEDS the hardware to be "manufactured"
If any player can truly pull away with the hardware, there's hardly any point in anyone else trying.
All this to say, Anthropic might not be winning in the long run. Hopefully, that's not a shock
Jarvis is real now.
Qwen 3.5 Omni just released. It's the closest thing I've ever seen to AGI:
Text
audio
video
image
I paired it with Aura Assistant and now I have my own TARS:
- You just talk to your computer and it understands you instantly
- It knows what's on your screen you don't have to give it any context; it just knows
- It can take any form of media
- It works proactively and solves issues before you have them.
It makes using AI completely seamless.
You may as well have a clone.
Cal Newport wrote a book about why your dream job is gonna suck.
Here are the most important lessons in under 30 seconds:
1. To love your job you have to be GOOD at it. You have to spend years getting better and better, or, so good they can't ignore you
2. You have to actually know what you're doing, from years of experience. Not think you know. Know.
3. The most successful careers aren't planned. They happen when random skills collide at the right time.
4. You're not going to be happy by guessing at your dream job, you're going to be happy by feeling actually valuable
Albert Camus said that one must imagine Sisyphus happy.
I promise you rolling a rock up a hill wasn't his dream job.
he just got good at it.
Day 16/183 of building to $50k in 6 months:
Today:
- I set up autonomous testing: Cursor runs through my app while I sleep and by morning, every bug is fixed.
- I also finished the full repair database: every problem mapped to its solution. The backbone of the whole app.
- Then I put together an investor pitch deck. and memorized a presentation for tomorrow
Three things shipped in one day. Sleep is optional, apparently.