Thinking Better
Robert Yi \ud83d\udc33On a mission to use my brain better.
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Founder work has two modes
This piece is an AI-assisted synthesis of my personal notes on a working theory of founder work: that there are two modes—one optimized for doing the most important things (Pareto mode), and one optimized for avoiding catastrophe (Integrity...
Why you're not who you claim to be
During a team dinner a few weeks ago, my coworkers and I found ourselves sharing stories about how we navigate social situations: our proclivities and intolerances, our competencies and blindspots.
“I’m bad at picking up on context clues.”...
Oh the places you'll go [as a startup founder]
I’m going to tell a story of what it’s like to build a company. Some of the mistakes I’ll share I made myself, some of these I observed in others. I’m sharing this because I noticed that very few people are able to convey what building a co...
The unreasonable effectiveness of learning to unblock yourself
I used to solve problems with the following, inferior algorithm:
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Read the problem statement.
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Read other things (textbooks, e.g.).
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Repeat 1-2 until understanding materializes.
It’s the grade-school formula for approachi...
Anxiety is a superpower
In my 20s, I became obsessed with going off snowboard jumps1. But on my 28th birthday, I overshot a jump and tried to bail mid-air. It was not a large jump — only about half the length of the biggest Olympic slopestyle jumps. And having gon...
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On a mission to improve my thinking. Co-founder Oxy. Prev: co-founder of Hyperquery (Khosla), data scientist at Airbnb & Wayfair, complex systems physics at Harvard + MIT.
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