Dan Colson

Being multifaceted is extremely underrated in today’s society. For whatever reason, we’ve built a system that disproportionately rewards specialization: becoming exceptionally good within an increasingly narrow domain. And don’t get me wrong, expertise matters. Mastery of a craft is not only valuable, but necessary. But specialization does not diminish the value of breadth. There is an equally important role for people who can move between disciplines, connect ideas that would otherwise remain isolated, and see systems rather than simply their individual components. I think this extends beyond careers and skill sets. It reflects something about the way our society operates more broadly. In our pursuit of structure, categorization, and specialization, we’ve gradually lost our tolerance for ambiguity. Everything needs a label, a lane, a framework, an expert. Structure is necessary. But we have overcorrected. Progress rarely comes from staying neatly inside the lines. It comes from people willing to cross them.

Hear me out: Lisa Su to NVIDIA Jensen Huang to AMD

We don’t know them all, but we owe them all 🇺🇸

Never deleting this app

Sometimes I wonder what the LLMs think when I just send it with typos everywhere

Teachers: you won’t always have a calculator in your pocket Me: correct, I’ll just have the entire knowledge of the human race and super intelligence

Funny thing is these kind of cracked tech bros/girls often live pretty frugal lives

“The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it.” - Frederick Law Olmsted, 1865

I fear we live in a time where intellectuals too often stay quiet, never to become the thought leaders they could be

There are things you are worrying about today which will be so inconsequential in a year, they won’t even register as a memory

I don’t think the point is to have everything planned. But always having a plan, is incredibly important.

Honeycrisps are the best apples and it’s not even a competition

In 1865, economist William Jevons noticed something counterintuitive. As steam engines became more efficient, Britain’s consumption of coal actually increased. Making energy cheaper didn’t reduce demand. It unlocked entirely new uses, industries, and economic opportunities that previously weren’t viable. I wonder if we’re about to see something similar with AI and human labor. We tend to think of automation as a zero-sum equation. If a machine can do the work, there’s less work for humans to do. But what if dramatically reducing the cost of intelligence and labor actually expands the number of things worth doing? Businesses that were previously too expensive to start become viable. Ideas that once required entire teams become accessible to individuals. Problems that weren’t economically practical to solve suddenly become worth pursuing. There will undoubtedly be disruption along the way, but I think we’re underestimating how much new economic activity could emerge. Maybe the future isn’t a world with nothing left to do. It’s a world where the number of things worth attempting explodes. And the greatest advantage shifts from the ability to execute an idea to the ability to recognize which ideas are worth pursuing.

I vividly remember how ridiculous this used to sound “You’re going to catch a skyscraper? Falling from space? With chopsticks?”

Running days and leg days are mortal enemies

The fundamentals remain undefeated

I find it fascinating how many people confuse having strong opinions with having thought deeply about something Those are two very different things

Classic Don Valentine

There’s probably never been a better time in human history to start something with very little capital There’s also probably never been an easier time to spend your entire life consuming the work of people who did That tension is going to define a lot of lives over the next decade

From the Goldman desk: “On equities, we prefer to stay selective. Plenty of opportunities are starting to emerge, but it's hard to know when the selling pressure will ease. In the meantime, names can trade well below what their fundamentals justify. And when the pressure eases, the rebounds can be violent. In the short term, the risk of extreme moves remains unusually high in both directions.”

If you are young, these are days to be thrilled about the market. Nothing fundamentally has changed. These are incredible buying opportunities. Cost average down, and down more if necessary. You’ll be looking back in a few years thanking yourself immensely.