research sora at @OpenAI, previously at midjourney, swedish high school dropout
Sep 8 • 7 tweets • 29 min read
finally organized my favorite posts about career, university, happiness, suffering, government, health, ego into lists. now i can look at them and write longer. here are the lists:
90% of big career decision mistakes happens in these, usually people spend ~0 seconds of their life thinking about them: 1) when they should leave their current company 2) make sure others understand how good you are 3) talk to enough companies to make a 1% percentile decision
by default you people have never thought about any of them whatsoever. they get a cv template and just list things just like they've learned (shitty), they never consider leaving except if they job is miserable and thats way too late, and then accept the first offer they get
Aug 3 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
if you ever found something that's easy to do but made a huge difference in productivity or health, please reply or quote post
people sit on so many life changing secrets that are obvious in hindsight but never shared
that said some share too early - most habits i attribute productivity end after a month and turns out it had no impact. only post things you have done habitually for over a year - most things don't work
Jul 30 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
i bought every single one of them, let's see what works
i have a few more things coming + a normal multi vitamin. haven't put everything into chatgpt yet to make sure im not taking something dumb
Jul 19 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
i feel like i've had cognitive decline past 2 years. by far two biggest downsides are: 1) i struggle really hard to keep code in my brain while writing or understanding code 2) 100x effort to remember things i naturally remembered before
please help diagnose, more details:
odd recent things about my health that might impact:
- i never feel rested, i think i could sleep for 12h every night
- RHR when asleep is like 39 and im not fit, and i wake up groggy
- i had a bad burnout for 3 years ago
- more sensitive immune system
May 8 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
it's dangerous to be semi-ambitious, you might end up working 60h weeks for 30% higher salary in a middle management position with people you don't like. it's the sad destiny of semi-hard working people in sweden
often these are the smart people who mostly want to "enjoy life", but now they are in a situation where they have no time nor money. and it would be fine if they sometimes changed job, but they stick around forever
Mar 20 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
long overdue thread why i think university is useless for its only purpose, and why i dropped out of high school:
the thread below goes through: 1) why universities are so bad 2) how we can make univsities great 3) why the best people get a degree 4) why companies care about a degree 5) disclaimers
Mar 19 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
you think career is competitive? everyone does the same thing and no one knows the feedback loops.
gaming is actually competitive, everyone spends all their time on it and knows all the feedback loops. you can easily make 500k$ cash yr if you are top 1% of a big game
like do you realize how hard it is to be top 1% at league? you are against millions of people who know exactly what do to to improve, and they play most their awake time. it's so much harder than any economically valuable task
Mar 9 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
never compete when applying for jobs, there are hundreds of applicants with better grades and universities than you. but none of them will be making a personalized demo
i used this demo to get all my interviews like openai over two years ago before moving to sf
or when interviewing at midjourney, i spent a weekend making a full canvas image generation tool to make sure they knew exactly what i'm good at. don't wait for them to ask interview questions
this is still live, links are on my github
Mar 5 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
>70% of people are in permanent slight suffering because they are allergic to making ANY mentally tough decision when there is also an option to do nothing. rant:
then they come up with reasons for why it's so good to not do the thing, and all their friends will agree, because they too don't want the ability to make a tough decision be something they'd every need to consider
Feb 25 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
sad people don't know that happy people have nearly only green dots (happy days) while happy people don't know unhappy people have mostly red
one thing i have noticed is that sad peoples brains have 100s of rationalizations for why they are sad, ie "but the sadness gives me meaning". the only way to know this is false is by being very happy 30 days in a row and you notice all suffering is bad
Nov 28, 2024 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
universities don't have monopoly on foundational knowledge anymore, here is how i learned all the math intuitions behind diffusion models as a high school dropout with with claude:
since i dropped out of high school, i had 0 knowledge of probabilities or mathematical notations, claude helped me understand those. here it taught me what p(x) of a variational auto encoder is, but i had to have like 10 more chats to really understand cause i'm dumb:
