"you ever wonder how Sam Alman takes notes thinks about annual planning thinks about sabatical what he's going to actually work on how he chose to focus on AI but those are the things that we talk abou..."

"yeah I mean it turns out that like writing's pretty good I don't we can for sure make it better but I understand why that's where we are tell me if this is baseless or accurate or where on the Spectru..."

"imposs I can't do it and even text itself the there's a rigor to text there's a riger to thinking in text for sure yeah I get it I get it because you can point to specific words and sentences that you..."

"the first place like the kind of writing that you can just the kind of thing you can do by having Chach PT go write your your kind of you know essay for English class that's not real that's not what t..."

"think I I've I you know I try to like watch people like very different walks of life use Chach PT and it's always Illuminating so I watched two students use it to kind of like help with their homework..."

"I was like reflecting a lot on that and the first question was like a bad question like if you can just put something in and get a super interesting or I thought not like I I a super passible response..."

"this what are the themes that you're telling them to do uh I mean the thing that I hear about from my friends that they love it for the most is uh like computer programming help in some way or other a..."

"whatever very impressive yeah it was just I got a tour to the library here yeah that's a cool space By the way nice job I like that space a lot it's beautiful thank you and the I saw the enero on the ..."

"I I definitely don't like when other people communicate unclearly I thought it was really interesting in your conversation with Joe Hudson how you spoke about the way that you've released anxiety from..."

"much time trying to think about how to be more productive but you're like hold on hold on hold on let's talk about how to really think about what we're going to work on in the first place How does wri..."

"clear communication there's sort of the sloganeering there is a good tagline there's also the depth the IDM yeah actually I think clear communication is very much less important and very much Downstre..."

"borne out by history um but I also think that's like born out in business uh that Clarity speed quality of execution uh all linked of all the things that you've written what are you most proud of this..."

"you've done before that's a profound idea yeah I I mean I think I I hope that like I will contribute some ideas to the world that matter I again I hope all of those matter much less than open AI does ..."

"calling in life uh I don't really do it anymore you wanted to be a novelist that astounded me uh I did but only for the like romantic life of it not that I thought I was ever going to be a good writer..."

"myself to write it down rather than just like sit in a meeting and let it spitball around has been very good do you have a format of sorts no no I mean I try to like keep it under I don't think long i..."

"about the world in this sort of like deeply unconstrained way he has you know I mean the first thing anybody would say about him is he is a truly brilliant original thinker and that's just rare there'..."

"say was not investing in the series via Facebook and that is the kind of mistake I try not to make so I'm like a big believer and find what is working and like go aggressively after it ideas are such ..."

"business almost all business books are terrible right there's like three good ideas and 300 pages and what a reader once is three good ideas on one page yeah did Paul Graham teach you anything specifi..."

"no posturing he says interesting stuff he says it clearly he doesn't waste your time nothing feels fake MH pitching coming up with the story How does writing factor into that uh again I think of like ..."

"is really it's really helpful and I often find that there are these ideas that I think I'm super clear on and then I try to make myself write it down write down like a onepage summary and I was like o..."

"has to be like internally consistent that doesn't let you like hide from the weak points the the constraint I like to give people is it needs to be short enough that you can send it to me in a screens..."

"of a big monitor with no one else around the image of Tangled headphones came into my mind interesting you know for me the image is much more like grinding Down rocks than than untangling something be..."

"all of us and if I was your editor and I was like Sam what is the biggest thing that people are missing right now what would your answer be well that's why I'm not going to write the book uh I I haven..."

"like still in there somewhere I like that I may not have time to edit it down there's something about that that it's really the editing that takes work yeah for sure I heard a nice line from David Ogi..."

"I think that's a good thing is that document heavy culture something that you got from Matt machari no that predated him predated him did YC have that no actually that's interesting I think it's proba..."

"for a company um so much of your job as a founder or anyone leading any kind of company is is like evangelist and Chief and it's hard to Be an Effective evangelist without clear communication when you..."

"do and what is something that you learned while running YC that you feel like really influences the way that you run open AI a big part of YC was just like encouraging Founders to be more ambitious an..."

"very cool how can GPT amplify different personalities you know one of the things I like to use it for is hey rewrite this in the style of Amer tols or Tyler Cowen how can GPT continue to do that well ..."

"for more than anything else out of chat gbt and future versions is that it will be a tool that lets us do things we just couldn't do before think of ideas we just couldn't have before be more creative..."

"a new site that I built called writing examples we take writers like Steinbeck Orwell Seinfeld and break down what makes their writing so good if that sounds like it's kind of your thing we'll go to w..."

"dream uh but I think ideas in general are very fragile good ideas uh the best ideas are extremely fragile and there is an unbelievable amount of value in figuring out a setup a method whatever you wan..."

"you want to call it of vague ideas I find it astonishing how much writing just for yourself uh sometimes for a small group of other people you're exploring an idea with but mostly writing just for you..."

"like very obvious to you immediately like okay this actually makes no sense you you feel it or you think it through and when you when you stare at it like it's one thing to like have a couple of beers..."

"black and white it's a little different I'm a big believer in getting like input from lots and lots of people um especially on like hard questions of what to go do in the broadest sense and now as you..."

"important but it's like it's a long way to go as you think about how AI is going to change writing you know what are comparatively what skills are going to be more valuable versus less valuable in a w..."

"partner like a collaborator like someone you can like give like a subtask to yeah that's a lot of how I use it is a lot of times I have a word that I'm struggling with and I'll say give me 10 words th..."

"the thing from this like teacher is that we might teach people to write beautifully but uh there's there's no interesting story on the other hand you have these like sort of mass massively Mass Market..."

"that I used to think like oh I got to get in the perfect place and I gotta like set a time that I'm gonna like go to this coffee shop and put on my noise cancelling headphones and I'm going to be in w..."

"pattern to a lot of people definitely to me my sort of like roughly rough rhythm is I'm like you know in the office kind of non-stop all week uh I have no time to think it's just like kind of crazy pa..."

"or whatever on the floor you definitely want like a kind of paper that is uh like good to write on which is a feel thing but most paper is terrible to write on huh um you want a hard front and back to..."

"with the written word is going up so much and here's what I mean there's now you know with Sora you can create videos using text as the input you can do that with music you can do that with images and..."