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Today's Cookmarks!
Hey fellow ambitious human 👋
Welcome to Cookmarks!
This is a For You Page curated by the minds that are Cooking up the future.
Today’s issue features 10 interesting posts that have been shared by some of the top business leaders and innovators on X.
🧵 How does Sam Altman get so much done?
🔎 A Search Engine for Public Domain media
🤖 Are we in the ideal AI timeline?
— Collin Bottrell, Cookmarks
Without further ado, today’s Cookmarks 👇
Jonathan Swanson shared this thread on Sam Altman’s philosophy on getting shit done:
In 2018, Sam Altman simultaneously managed YC(a $30B+ Startup Accelerator) , invested >$400M in startups on the side, and built the world’s best team of frontier AI researchers with Elon for Open AI.
His answer to ‘How do you get so much done?’ is powerful.
A thread 🧵
— Jonathan Swanson (@swaaanson)
12:50 PM • Jul 26, 2024
David Perell shared this search engine dedicated to public domain media:
Introducing Public.Work, an immersive search engine for public domain content ✨
— Cosmos (@thecosmos)
4:35 PM • Jul 29, 2024
Andrew Wilkinson shared this idea on reframing your perspective:
Your problems are your blessings disguised.
I worry about my kids, because I have a family.
I get anxious about work, because I have a career.
Health, because I have a body.List is endless.
When I've lost the plot, it reframes frustrations as opportunities for gratitude.
— Brent Beshore (@BrentBeshore)
7:26 PM • Jul 30, 2024
Morgan Housel shared this idea about the world’s industries:
Neal Stephenson: “There are only two industries. This has always been true.”
— Frederik Christopher Gieschen (@NeckarValue)
6:17 PM • Jul 26, 2024
Marc Andreesen shared this thought on open source democratizing AI:
Turns out Open Source actually successfully avoided AI power over-concentration, leaving everyone to enjoy cheap intelligence that is universally accessible.
We are living in the e/acc-predicted timeline. Let's keep it that way.
— Beff – e/acc (@BasedBeffJezos)
5:23 AM • Aug 6, 2024
Tobi Lutke shared this post arguing Mark Zuckerberg’s preferable situation with Meta over AI competitors:
Zuck is so vastly ahead of OpenAI, Anthropic…
OG founder / CEO still running his ship with unilateral dual stock authority. ✅
Not outsourcing his data centers to anyone.. vertically integrate. ✅
All-in to spend tens of billions building the leading models and open weights… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— JJ (@JosephJacks_)
9:26 PM • Aug 5, 2024
Jesse Pujji shared this thread on the interesting and inspiring story of Github’s founding:
There is a $7.5B company that:
• Started with $0 funding
• Has 100M+ active users
• Generates $1B+ in ARRAnd now powering the open-source revolution.
Here’s the story of GitHub:
— adriane schwager (@aschwags3)
11:17 AM • Aug 8, 2024
AJ Ghergich shared this thread detailing how modern search engines work based on court filings from Google’s recent court proceedings:
Judge Mehta's recent trial findings have given us an unprecedented view into the inner workings of modern search engines, particularly Google.
Inside view: How Google Works 🔎
A THREAD
— Juan González Villa (@seostrategaEN)
1:54 PM • Aug 6, 2024
David Heinemeier Hansson Shared this post from Jason Fried on what he considers one of the biggest and least talked about advantages in business:
It took me a while to fully realize the value of something my company achieved years ago, and continues to savor today. It’s one of our greatest quiet advantages, full stop.
It’s not something you hear much about in business circles. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Jason Fried (@jasonfried)
9:54 PM • Jul 12, 2024
Paul Graham shared this post making the case for chip manufacturing in space:
“Make chips in space” has historically been a bad argument from space advocates, but given the order of magnitude decrease in launch costs, and another one on the way, I wonder if there might be something there now.
Not launching a conventional fab, but finding a new angle using… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack)
11:24 PM • Aug 8, 2024
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