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A Private Community for Exited Founders Under 26 @enterthefarm Founded @Logseq , @verciNYC + Prev @NASA , @stabilityAI

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Starting a podcast where I interview some really cool young people (<26) ‼️ Looking for people who found success their own way to 1) inspire and be the example I needed as a kid 2) share the tactics and third doors we took to get here & 3) enable weirder, bolder career paths

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

FINANCIAL ADVICE When you're young, spend all your money now. The memories of a stupid $1000 trip at 20 with all your best mates is worth way more than $1,000,000 when you're 40, old, boring, and have no one to travel with. There's a high premium on spending money young vs old

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@andotvu

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2 years

Web3 is just everyone that got bullied in high school

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@andotvu

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5 months

Some of my friends in NYC started a private chef as a service to automate meal prep + split the cost + it saves me a ton of time: Actually healthy + yummy meals delivered weekly in glass containers They’re expanding the group and I have a few invites left, reply if interested!!

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@andotvu

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1 year

Stanford is the only school approaching "worth it"ness but even then, everyone comes out of there wanting to be a consultant, PM, quant, or researcher. There's a jarring lack of originality even there

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

Money comes back, time does not

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

10 months

If you have any safety net (stable job, family* or savings to fall back on for 3-6 months), you should be working exclusively on "risky" opportunities that have a chance to give you your ideal life in a years time Build that business, explore that niche, start that project–

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@andotvu

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1 year

When you graduate or leave school, you lose the uber ambitious + passionate + curious group of peers that constantly stimulate you to become better, ask more questions, and experience more. How do you find this kind of proximate peer group again post college?

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

WHO IS IN NEW YORK AND WANTS TO BE AROUND COOL YOUNG PEOPLE AT OUR CLUBHOUSE IN SOHO?!?!?!???!?!

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

5 months

“When you don’t realize what you can’t do, you can do pretty cool stuff.” ~ Facebook’s Culture Book (2012)

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

This took me a lot of time to learn: No one knows what they’re doing. There are no adults. The difference between those that win vs those that never do anything interesting is that the former takes action DESPITE incomplete information—often w/ even LESS info than you or I

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Growing up in Kansas, I never found my crowd. Entrepreneurship, ambition, and wanting to build a nontraditional career made me a misfit. Today, I'm launching @vercisocial : A home for all the misfits and unconventional geniuses that don't fit in to college or traditional careers

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

5 months

New OpenAI ceo tired need nap time at 1 am

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Emmett Shear

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Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI . After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few hours, I accepted. I had recently resigned from my role as CEO of Twitch due to the birth of my…

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@andotvu

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4 months

Curate your information and people diet, as if would 100% shape who you are

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

5 months

Stanford, The Manhattan Project, The Paypal Mafia, the 13 colonies etc... The greatest movements in history are driven by the connecting of a powerful few. Usually young. Always rebellious. On a mission.

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@andotvu

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1 year

@JohnnyBlack_HS nah 1k w/ inflation adjusted normal returns is about 3.5k when you're 40 lol, so a more accurate number is save 300k at 20. I'd rather rip 300 trips with friends and figure out how to make a million when I'm 40

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

11 months

Wrote about my first day in NYC! Very excited hehe If you're interested in the same stuff, please say hi!!

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

5 months

Life is extremely good right now. People that love me. Work I care about. A challenge before me that tests my substance. And most importantly, an abundance of love to give to the people and ideas I care for.

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

3 years

As has been said a billion times before, the entire higher educational model of hiring thousands of separate experts to lecture and teach to thousands of separate classrooms is corrupt, thanks to the internet

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

11 months

Meta learning structure rn for AI + solo building: - Hired 2 tutors for software eng + ai (staff eng/directors that love to teach ~$200/w) - Building projects each week for 1) inbound opportunity and 2) product based learning - working thru fast ai course, goodfellow book

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@andotvu

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1 year

What communities or institutions rigorously select for and actually nourish the ambition, richness of experience, intense curiosity, and aptitude that today's rosy-eyed, 'change the world' freshman start college with?

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

The baby hit 10k!!! I remember when we would personally welcome each new community member and just 5 new friends would make our day :,)

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

Very interested in 2 things right now: 1) making $1m/year maximally passive to never worry about personal finances 2) Sell something for > $300m by age 26 to tackle the worlds hardest problems: programming biology, interfacing with the brain, general AI Who should I talk to lol

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

@towheretobegin I love my expensive depreciating fast car

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

Every day you brush shoulders with the founder of X household name, senators and prime ministers, Nobel laureates, and those that have the super powers of bending reality to their vision But everyone graduates a fucking lame

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

YOU ARE GOING TO DIE PLEASE DO SOMETHING WORTHWHILE

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Anyone wanna create a group newsletter around these topics? I want to write but not weekly: Economics Designing a fulfilling + non traditional, high output life BCIs + Neuro Culture + Media Social Impact + Equity Media Studies Relationships/Sex/Game Art + Design Self Reliance

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

10 months

Met Kanye West I’m never going to fail

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

7 months

Anyone regularly writing online or getting into it? Looking to join up with some people to write, edit, and publish together!

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Really fucking lucky to be able to support this team and community 💕💕 PROUD DAD MOMENT!!!!!

@logseq

Logseq 🪵

2 years

🥳 We've raised $4.1 million to make our vision a reality! We're beyond humbled to partner with Silicon Valley titans to help our computers think like we do. With our community, an all-star team and our investors, the future of knowledge is bright. Check the press release 👇

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

@swunicorn Yeah! Like camp coachella all grimey with your best friends or spontaneous tomorrow trips across the world

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

10 months

Hiring some interns to work with! Looking for full stacky design engineers: high bar for polish + product Why cool for you: learn from my product + company building experience, happy to morph into cofounders if we like working together on something! Reply + DMs are open!

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Shut up about crypto and eat your vegetables

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@andotvu

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8 months

58 Life lessons that I've learned to get where I am and become who I wanted to be:

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An is a monkey

2 years

I am a hot girl in tech

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 months

The point of life is to fuck around and find out –– try playing a ton of different games. People are so worried about picking the right career or having the best life, but I don’t think people realize that 40 years is a REALLY long time. Long enough time to live 40 careers, 30…

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

5 months

Essential video for young people to realize the world is not zero-sum.

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@andotvu

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10 months

It's cheaper to fly anywhere in the world and live in a nice hostel for a month (flight + food + housing) than it is to just pay rent in NYC... LIFE HACK!!!

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@andotvu

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6 months

you're young and free exactly once

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@andotvu

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1 year

"Should I take a gap year?" Everyone should take a gap year in their college years. Either before or during. Get into the real world. Whether that be working or just live a life as an adult just for a little bit to realize what it's all about first.

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Happy to announce I am now a BoomerVC scout! 🎉🍾🛢🧴🏌🏻 What are some awesome boomer led businesses I can ape my daddy’s money into? Preferably anti-climate

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@andotvu

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3 months

If you’re young & ambitious, you’re most likely anxious about your future. This is your reminder: let it go. One of my best decisions was living off of a duffel bag for a year traveling around the world. You will never regret feeding your soul with such experiences.

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@andotvu

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10 months

nyc is the only place you can work really really hard and still have a balanced life

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An is a monkey

2 years

This still blows my mind

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

@dougludlow Life hack: starting a startup is the easiest way to get free burritos

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Life is a series of games. Being a founder is a game. Ecom is a game. Real estate + school are games. Social life is a game. It's important to recognize this, see what the rules/levers are and play it well. Third door shit: the game rewards those that know it's a gameable game.

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@andotvu

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1 year

Will build and release a new ai product every 2 weeks for the next couple of months, anyone wanna join?

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Hiiii I'm angel investing + advising a bit more this year! I specialize in product, GTM, business, recruiting, partnerships/biz dev, fundraising, and ux! DM me if you're working on something interesting with the smartest people you know!

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

10 months

Or you'll get stuck on the hamster wheel forever and ever and ever and bleh Go at it with real intensity. If you can fly there and be in person, do it. If you only have an hour a day, work hard that full hour, spend $$, and commit. So many side projects die due to being lukewarm

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

I’m at a cafe and everyone is on chatGPT lol

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

Building a small community of young exited founders or successful business owners under 26 or so. Idea is that we have a ton of unique problems and unique life opportunities w/ how young we are from taxes to travel to relationships etc. Y'all know anyone I should talk to?

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Spent all Friday night at WeWork and I felt so at home!! Haven't done a late night sesh in so long, used to post up in the library, slam a coffee and stay til 5 am. That's where I built my competitive edge imo

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

6 months

PODCAST PODCAST PODCAST PODCAST #3 !!! @thecheatcodes_

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

I have moved on from web3 to focus on the creator economy

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

5 months

More info if helpful!

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

11 months

Does this exist at all in nyc??

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we need more 24 hr cozy cafes my ideal list: - subscription based (!!) & unlimited coffee - non-wework-corporate feel that you can relax in: cozy ambience, warm lighting, wood, low-profile - no lyrics music for focus - in-house library taiwan has many of these

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@andotvu

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3 months

Travel when you’re young. Only do it with people that expand your world. Be irresponsible and take lots of videos of it. Do things you can only do as a stupid child of the world You will never get these years or memories back.

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@andotvu

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8 months

Be where you’re not supposed to be. Everyone like you has discovered everything of value in the places you are “supposed” to be. Alpha is being weird and in the depths of places no one knew existed. This is how you become interesting, find secret problems, and become different

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

11 months

moving to nyc!!!

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

10 months

I thought Huxley’s Brave New World was required everywhere, but if you haven’t read it: a much more accurate dystopian forecast for where we are heading— Imprisoning ourselves not by oppression and censorship but by overabundance and constant stimulation

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

10 months

From rubins book

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

You are rich when: - someone asks when would you be free and you can answer every day - you buy those flowers or food without checking the price - you can fuck off for a week and that only gives you energy, it doesn’t add any anxiety - you wake up and do what you want

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

10 months

Realized I would much rather spend all my money on learning and trying new things than trying to preserve and grow $$. Totally happy going broke again if I'm swinging for the fences Would rather take big risks + invest in myself now while I can. Love being dumb + learning a lot

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

5 months

@armahinuwedu1 Brave for posting this

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

3 years

I remember when I used to track the growth of our @logseq community by how many days would pass between a new member joining our discord community, this is every day now :,)

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1 year

Purpose of life is to maximize silliness

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1 year

It’s less about a defined path forward or a strong conviction that these are the next 5 steps. Usually just a general direction, day in day out: one foot in front of the other. It’s easy to get stuck indefinitely via doubting or analyzing all the hypothetically optimal paths

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@andotvu

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10 months

*but probably don't move home to do this if your hometown causes you to regress and your brain to mush, environment design is still important

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

11 months

Hiring 2 paid interns! 1 to help me build my amazon business 1 to help me build my paid community of exited founders Both have tons of opportunities to learn how ecom works or how the most successful founders achieve success on the unbeaten path. Reply + DMs are open!

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Planning a week or two to work and hang out in Yosemite soon, who wanna joinnnnnnn 🌲🌲🌲

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An is a monkey

3 months

“Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message…” ~ Paul Graham The message of New York City is excellence. From the line cook preparing me the same excellent meal for his hundredth time…

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An is a monkey

5 months

this is my Met Gala

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An is a monkey

6 months

The Pathless Path is a great book for people deep in the elite school/elite brand/corporate handcuffs that want to see what it’s like to escape and build a life you actually want to live. Less so for people already on their path, but great intro for those just starting

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

@ someone who you think would be a good + interesting guest or DM me if you think you have a story you want to share! Dropouts, artists, business owners, crazy interesting careers, evil kid genius, etc. etc.

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

My friends are starting to get married and I'm wondering why we don't have "fake friend weddings". Basically, a platonic "wedding" with your friend but it's just an excuse to bring everyone you love together to make memories and have fun lol

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 months

I love meeting positive people. I always leave the conversation feeling a bit more inspired, a bit more myself, a bit more confident. They light up every interaction and have the power to shift the energy in the room. I’m trying to foster this in myself + how I carry myself

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Quick advice for remote teams: - meet in person often if you can - over communicate on slack and build just fully honest communication expectations - daily syncs (move company a lot faster, esp with young talent) - go have fun... TRAVEL A FUCK TON!!!

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An is a monkey

3 months

This was a huge unlock for me: realizing that there are no adults intelligently building society, that I could do anything because people much less capable than I have created the world around me

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THE FARM

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Jobs: "Life can be much broader when you discover one simple fact...that everything around you was made up by people on smarter than you." "the minute you understand that can poke life and something will pop out the other side....you can change it, mold it."

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An is a monkey

1 year

My ideal mini studio working situation: 5 interdisciplinary technologist friends hacking away and building anything from ai tools to ecom stores to a magazine to real estate to designing chairs Who’d be down for this lol

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An is a monkey

8 months

If you've tried waking up 5/6 every day, does it actually work? Never really sticks for me. I see a small increase in productivity and morning happiness, but sleeping at 10 is hard and messes w/ social life + weekends (possibly netting negative overall)

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

My 3 month monk mode agenda: 1 - amazon fba, ecom, and paid community 2 - ai microsaas 3 - world domination + prepare for hot boy European summer

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

Go where no one else goes. Live a life that has yet to be lived. Make it you. Eat the weird dish no one ever orders. See the corner of the road that’s just a bit too far for anyone else. Be in your own space on your own time and live as if it was your duty to be different.

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4 months

Picking what you work on is more important than working hard. Direction is key, most people put in the hard work but on wrong things. When you can work on literally anything, it’s important to pick your battles. Point your energy in right direction to yield the highest results.

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

I been spending most of my time these days investing in my relationships and people and making life more romantic and ahhhhh feels like I’m being suffocated in happiness and love

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

10 months

I love people who can stay childlike forever: being wide eyed, naive optimism, full of wander + awe, nothing ever that serious, life is a game, curious... SILLY!!

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

5 months

If you’re building anything right now, and AGI is around the corner. What future invariants do you base your actions off of? - Property rights seems universal and will be fought for (peacefully or otherwise) - People will always want more, better, now - Risk of AI takeoff always…

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An is a monkey

1 year

Wait I don't even go outside when I'm here, why do I live in LA? SF and NYC look really sexy to me right now. More interesting, ambitious, and thoughtful people. Although, LA might have more fun and artistic people

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Super super proud of the team :))))

@logseq

Logseq 🪵

2 years

Logseq is LIVE on the iOS App Store! After months of beta testing, our iOS app is now available to everyone. Thank you to all of you who tested and gave feedback 🙏 Download link in the next tweet👇

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1 year

@BrettSeaton0 Super agree, filter is the most valuable feature of college. That and proximity to peers, lifestyle, and an excuse to explore.

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An is a monkey

7 months

One book I always recommend to my ambitious friends that might be a bit lost or always feel "behind" in each of the games they play is Be Where Your Feet Are by @ScottONeil Being present was spirituality voodoo to me but is now key to how I balance being ambitious and at peace

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An is a monkey

5 months

Love the @arcinternet and development paths: become just as good as incumbent (they were forks), do a few things differently and 10% better, do everything 10% better

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

10 months

Life is worth living again (I have a new @hinge crush)

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2 months

I love this story of honesty and vulnerability in a high-stakes deal between Bob Iger’s Disney and Steve Jobs’ Pixar: As the new CEO of Disney, Bob Iger is at the negotiation table with Steve Jobs, discussing the acquisition of Pixar. Iger lays it all out – he tells Jobs…

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3 months

I believe in moving fast & breaking things. But many effective people I've seen embody a unique slowness. It's not lethargy, but a mindful presence. They don't rush. Their movements are thoughtful, reflecting their belief in themselves. The right things, the right way.

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5 months

Negative self-talk is an imaginary bully in your head. Jess Mah built a $100+M biotech company as a "mediocre" C- Biology student. Here’s how she shut it down:

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1 year

How do you find people that are more ambitious and successful than you? I guess you probably start by asking where those people exist

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Top 3 skills in life: Being able to play the meta game and reverse engineer any win condition Making others feel good and fulfilled Being able to ask the right questions. The info is out there but the tool you need to get it is a very specific and beautiful question

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

1 year

Should I try to build shit and learn myself or try to work at open AI and learn from people better than me?

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

2 years

Decided to take a few month break from the rat race/sabbatical... what should I do??

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@andotvu

An is a monkey

11 months

Moving to nyc next week!! Looking for roomies! If anyone knows anyone that’s looking to sign a lease in the coming months, DM!

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