Dylan Patel, March 2026
You are reduced to creativity
“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”
— sunny madra (@sundeep) March 20, 2026
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“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”
R.I.P. Brian Wilson
So long, and thanks for all the fish. I really mean it.
PRs for Governance
They’re Made Out of Sand
[…] It still amazes me, from the scientific point of view, that we turned sand into thinking machines. Pretty incredible. […]
On Failure
“It’s so freeing and beautiful in a way, to have a great failure. There’s nowhere to go but up.”
On Mastery
Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.
Derek Siver, as seen on Farnam Street.
The Implicit Bias of my Tribe
Sturgeon’s Law
Ninety percent of everything is crud.
Theodore Sturgeon, Venture Science Fiction Magazine, March 1958
Because I am free to be whatever I want
And that is everything that matters today, or not, or Whatever: