Surround yourself with beautiful things that inspires you to reach for more. Then sweat the little details with the same zest. Not just because it makes for better products, but because it makes for a better you. Be someone who cares. About aesthetics, competence, all of it.
ESTO ES BRUTAL 👏
La premonición de Pep Guardiola sobre Rodri en octubre de 2025... ¡QUE SE ESTÁ CUMPLIENDO EN EL MUNDIAL! 😍🇪🇸
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"The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with the prosperity of the State."
- Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte, Correspondance de Napoléon, 1868
Many people think any given ML project is 99% training.
In reality, it’s 50% evaluation, 40% data cleaning, 8% integration, and 2% training.
The first two set the noise floor for learning. No ML magic matters; the model cannot lower the noise floor, as that’s the optimal bound of Shannon encoding of your data.
Thus, not a single day goes by without me thinking about ontology. Even the old labels have to be constantly reviewed.
Here’s a cheat code: find something that fascinates you and then share your fascination.
The energy of genuine fascination is the most compelling force in human communication. More than eloquence. More than authority. More than charisma. A person who is visibly, unreservedly excited about something is magnetic.
@GomezDardo Lo hiciste muy bien en tu primer paso por este club, espero que tu segundo paso (de presidente) te consolide como uno de los dirigentes recordados y queridos de este club. Vamos Dardo.
Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make.
paulgraham.com/taste.html
if you’re building in ai right now, you should be designing for where the models & unit economics will be a year from now. today’s costs & today’s constraints are pretty much already outdated.
All-time best quote from Dune:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
You could combine the first two into: Hard work is the magnitude of the vector and curiosity is the direction. I might not have gotten that immediately, but it would have stuck in my head till I did.