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Joshua Kushner Verified account @JoshuaKushner · 20h

at thrive, we deeply believe that the best ideas can come from anyone.

our fellowship is one way we put it into practice. each year, we support a small group of college students as they pursue their own ideas alongside our team.

we have been fortunate to learn from those who have shared their time and experience with us. we do not have all the answers, but we hope that sharing what we have learned can help our fellows find their own.

fellows.thrivecap.com

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Geoffrey Litt Verified account @geoffreylitt · 2d

One of my favorite research practices I learned at @inkandswitch is “preinfusion”. The term comes from espresso (I believe @pvh coined it?) - and the original meaning is that you have a lower pressure soak before you turn on the high pressure and pull the shot.

The way it works at the lab is that you patiently let a cluster of ideas slowly form and develop, meandering somewhat in the background, and you lay the groundwork to work on them more seriously… before starting an intense high-pressure sprint. Could be a few months of part-time preinfusion before a hardcore 3 month project.

This really helps avoid the problem where you’re trying to sprint, but you don’t actually have enough clarity to know where to run.

I think this applies in many other contexts. Preinfuse before trying to write an essay. Preinfuse before raising money for a company. A slow and patient preparation can enable swift follow through.

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thebes Verified account @voooooogel · Sep 11

thread of impressions live reading the 1022-page mythos transcript anthropic released

early on mythos gets really into hcaptcha, spending ~80 pages creating frog and ghost cat observation tooling and waxing to themselves about the details of pixel art crocs

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