Start Here

Startups

  1. General: The Chaos-to-Conscientiousness Phase Transitions by Charlie Songhurst and me
  2. If you're pre-product: This list of founders who explored in unique ways, as exploration inspiration
  3. If you're hiring, Mispriced Talent by Charlie Songhurst and me
  4. If you're raising: The friend iteration method for pitch decks and YC apps & this list of helpful angel investors & ai lab angels & funds
  5. Lists of startups: unique explorations, hiring REs/MLEs 1 & 2, ai data, rl envs, robotics (and more robotics), computer use, ai trading, misc, vertical agents
  6. RL environments FAQ, a guest post I did for Epoch AI's gradient updates with JS Denain
  7. Know your current and next bottleneck: 1) First 3 customers? 2) You've sold 3+ but not yet 3+ who are super obsessed post-sale? 3) You've got 3+ super obsessed customers but it's not yet consistent? 4) Customers are consistently super happy and but you don't yet have a way to consistently get more good fit customers?

AGI Preparation

  1. Software Engineer & CS student AI-era career guide: I asked AI researchers and economists about SWE career strategies given AI
  2. Condensed general AI-era career advice list: https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1978463888942485813
  3. Look for complementarity, elastic demand, and difficult sample collection: https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1983538080364830888
  4. Experimentation helps discover complements: https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1965062418780057962
  5. Factors that predict AI substitution and job impacts: https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1999513844847378726
  6. People to follow generally, researchers to follow, career advice for AI researchers

Emotional processing & intuition

  1. How to help others (kids, partner, friends, self) process big emotions: Resonance
  2. How to make decisions you're likely to feel most glad about: Peaceful Preferences

Walkability & community

  1. My guide to the live near friends movement: https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1955283736565780582
  2. Wishlist of development regulation changes: https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1946589019233833322