Alex Iskold

Really enjoying

The Brain Energy book 📕

The message that all mental disorders have common roots and are all step from metabolic disorders of brain 🧠 deeply resonates.

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Content is what’s called in Economics a stable equilibrium.

That’s why Immigration is an essential force that propels America forward.

Thinking how people stare at you intently to detect if you are lying.

A lot VCs do this.

While this works, a much better way is to be friendly and relax the person you are analyzing.

You want to understand how people are when they are natural.

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Just finished the latest Murakami book - The City and Its Uncertain Walls.

A masterpiece.

He really should win Nobel prize for his works.

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Thank you 🙏

Today is my book 📕 planning day.

Going to review a ton of best of and other lists to build my list to consume over the holidays and into 2025.

The explorer in me never rests but my job doesn’t afford a ton of time to read new books, so holidays is the time to catch up!

Some of the best founders I know has the most sever case of happy ears.

They just want to bend reality their way but reality has its own way too.

Use reflective listening to make sure you are headed in the right direction and not wasting time.

A few days in Zurich and Lucerne

Just jaywalked in Zurich and the look 👀 of pure horror in the eyes of the person standing across the street from me.

A few days in Milan

His prose gets under your skin, inside your soul and moves it in subtle, powerful, heartbreaking ways.

It unlocks and teaches you the mysteries of our existence but not in ways you can explain, only in ways you can only feel.

Nothing ever makes me feel the way Murakami books make me feel.

His latest City and its Uncertain Walls is another masterpiece.

What near term future technology inevitabilities do you believe in?

To every VC out there who thinks they are better than founders, who don’t treat founders well - you are badly mistaken.

We only exist because of founders.

We aren’t all that special.

Founders are.

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife - Kindle edition by Junger, Sebastian. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife.

Mine is

In my Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger.

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Best book 📕 you read in 2024 ?

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One thing I proposed was to completely buy out the coal industry. For about 36b , you could buy all the coal plants (at a nice profit for owners ), give their customers 5 to 10 yrs to transition and give all employees full pay till retirement.

Take out coal and other paths get simpler
Thoughts?

Excited for this!

When are we going to get intelligent skip to next chapter / topic in podcasts / podcast apps and video / video players?

The books have simplest thing we can do - go to next chapter.

With all the tech we have why can’t I do this with podcasts and video?!

Whats the best thing you got this black friday?

Do yourself a favor and watch Emila Perez on Netflix.

It will blow your mind.

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Happy Thanksgiving 🍁 everyone!

Grateful to be here. To have the opportunity to connect and learn.

Grateful for you all.

Grateful to be not (yet) AI generated.

You told me the muscle memory thing :)

I think of you every time Tesla releases a dashboard upgrade and you can’t find stuff in your car while driving 🤣

What are those ? :)

AI and the Structure of Reasoning Generative AIs can do some things better than people: they can code faster in many instances, they can write junior high school level essays faster, they can create detailed images on demand no mat…

The plateauing in performance of LLMs was inevitable, and predictable, for logical reasons reactionwheel.net/2023/08/ai-a...

An example of over complex design and muscle memory violation :)

Stripe to Buy Shares in Tender Offer at $70 Billion Valuation Private fintech giant Stripe Inc. is again buying back some of its shares and at a roughly $70 billion valuation.

Forgot to post this here but Stripe is doing *another* tender offer. This time for EX employees. $70B valuation www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Epic nonsense