callumlaing.bsky.social
I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Bluesky Capitalist...
Author of 4 best selling business books
339 posts
20,563 followers
134,739 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
Each serve a purpose. I'm currently training for a boxing match. Nothing forces you to be 'present' more than getting punched in the face ;)
comment in response to
post
I wrote this article over a decade ago about using sport/exercise to get a clean break: thenextweb.com/news/fit-ent...
Hope it's useful.
comment in response to
post
Keep trying lots of different things. You'll start to see a pattern and then eventually you'll get absolute clarity.
But even then you'll still have plenty of days when none of it makes sense. Then you just focus on small steps as long as you're moving forward.
comment in response to
post
If you would like to join the next cohort and earn and additional $1-5k per month from building your network we have 6 more slots at 94% off!
Getlaunched.org
comment in response to
post
Agreed. And it massively speeds up your ability to achieve anything!
comment in response to
post
Exactly. If you learn how to create value for others you will never be short of prospective partners.
comment in response to
post
How far are we going back? A decade? A century? Five centuries?
comment in response to
post
Why? In most other cases the inverse is true. AI is natural language, as opposed to coding for example. Therefore a child can get competent at using AI within minutes. Adults refusing to, and then complaining about job losses, makes no sense to me.
comment in response to
post
Not sure your point. Laws will still exist. Criminals will always use whatever tools they can. Lawmakers will also use those tools.
comment in response to
post
So you would actively avoid a free resource that could make your life better in case someone else benefited too? Something that could educate a billion people without access to schools, spot cancer before it becomes critical etc. etc.
And somehow you think this is related to tax?
comment in response to
post
Some people would argue he already is.
But his son is cute ;)
comment in response to
post
To who?
comment in response to
post
It seems to me that learning to 'ask better questions' is probably the most important skill you can learn between now and then.
Our life quality is determined by the answers we receive, and that in turn is controlled by the quality of the questions we ask.
Time to start asking better questions.
comment in response to
post
It's a little bit like the question:
'What would you ask if you were to meet God'?
Do you go specific or do you go philosophical? Do you go personal or do you go worldly?
At the current rate of progress, all of us are going to be able to engage with the smartest brain (AI) on the planet.
comment in response to
post
Both sides should agree that debt to GDP is unsustainable. You can differ on the solutions but the conversation can only move forward if you can find the commonality. You can then fight over the important stuff.
But like I said, respectfully, nuance doesn't work on social.
comment in response to
post
Multiple things can be true. Elon has saved, is saving, the US billions in its space requirements. He has advanced the cause of electric vehicles more than any individual on the planet.
When the left shout 'Elon bad' the right don't listen, because it doesn't tally with what they see.
comment in response to
post
There are incredibly valid criticisms of his actions. The point I'm making is pick your battles. Criticizing certain behaviours whilst acknowledging others shows you understand the situation.
comment in response to
post
Compare life expectancy, standards of living etc. etc. to any non-capitalist society.
Free Thinkers shouldn't mean Free from Thinking.
comment in response to
post
Ok, but setting aside the fact that AI is already well capable of adding to ideas, and acknowledging we can't put the genie back in the bottle, if an AI can spot cancer sooner, design more environmentally sustainable practices, lower the cost of basic services to zero etc. Isn't that a net positive?
comment in response to
post
Ah, fair enough. Usually if they turn up on my door they're looking for money. But getting back to the point, fortunately we don't need to make that distinction with our AI army.
We just need to learn how to think bigger and harness them to help us get there.
comment in response to
post
OK, but is that specific to academic research? I meet plenty of people from academia who would love to commercialise what they are working on but have zero commercial experience and despite having developed a better mouse trap, cannot get it out of the lab.
comment in response to
post
Suspect you're using it wrong if that's your experience. But surely every one of us has scraped our way through using other peoples work, inefficiently and unoriginally and aren't we all inherently bad for the environment? Not sure what your point, or solution, is?
comment in response to
post
I'm intrigued, why do you think they should stay away from commercial pressures?
comment in response to
post
If 1,000 PHD students were to turn up on your door step today and say 'How can we help grow your business?'
Would you know what to do?
Your greatest challenge now is not 'how do I get in another client', it's 'how do I manage this unbelieveable resource?'
It's time to start thinking even bigger.
comment in response to
post
What makes you an AI company? It is your ability to harness the insane power that is being offered to you. And to try and keep up with the daily improvements.
I suspect that companies that are good at managing remote workers will be good at managing AI.
comment in response to
post
Being a 'Wine & Media' company transformed Gary V's world. And many other companies.
We're at another inflection point, but I'm not sure adding '& AI' has the same impact.
I think AI comes first. The best companies are going to be 'AI companies that does X'
comment in response to
post
To be fair, nobody had ever accused Musk of being a Nazi until very recently. He has been running contracts for NASA for many years:
nstxl.org/reducing-the...
www.statista.com/chart/29409/...
comment in response to
post
Way to miss the point completely.
comment in response to
post
Multiple things can be true. The point I'm making is that valid criticisms get lost when we can't acknowledge where good is being done. 'Nazis bad, Beetles good' is more constructive than 'Germany bad'
comment in response to
post
Kinda making my point for me.
comment in response to
post
Like I said, nuance doesn't work on Social Media, but if criticisms of Musk are to carry water, those who criticise him need to move beyond just calling him names and understand where he adds value and where he doesn't.
comment in response to
post
Maybe, but multiple things can be true. I was explaining that criticising Musk for taking billions from the Government, when the alternative is 10's of billions going to mismanagement by Boeing/NASA or sending the money to Russia to rescue US astronauts is disingenuous.
comment in response to
post
This actually makes him one of the biggest financial net positives to the govt in recent years.
You might dislike him, or some of the actions he takes, and I know Social Media is no place for nuance, but when you criticise government funds to his companies it is good to understand the basics.