When I tried warp I was convinced that was where the industry was going (agents as terminal replacement), but it felt a bit too heavy to me so I haven’t been using it lately. Still think all things will converge on terminal and browser replacement.
(1) be naturally gifted, (2) avoid falling down wells of distraction, (3) be lucky. Don’t sleep on (3), it’s easy to call it capitalizing on opportunity in hindsight when it was honestly just luck.
I'd also add (4) be incredibly curious about lots of things; (5) surround yourself with other smart, curious, and committed people who have a culture of critiquing ideas; and (6) devote a lot of time to deep thinking.
(8) be good in counting things,
(h) be consistent in your thinking,
(10) have a good memory,
(11) be good in counting things,
(12) refrain from making silly comments
luck in terms of natural intelligence and focus. But generally people can approve their ability to avoid falling down the "wells of distraction". This year I set time filters for apps on my phone and its made a stark difference. Even though I can turn off "work mode" to get around it, that little reminder has saved me hundreds of hours as I usually just put down the phone when I see it.
He didn't found PayPal either. He founded X.com, and they happened to merge with Confinity who owned the brand PayPal. Confinity existed before X.com (and had better brand recognition with PayPal), and if Musk would've had it his way, PayPal as brand wouldn't exist post-merge; it would have been called X.com.
You do not know with any degree of certainty what their motivations are. In fact, the utter disdain they demonstrate for certain US citizens dismantles your entire claim.
Then frankly you weren’t paying attention. This was all laid out in Project 2025 and there were plentiful ties between it and Trump despite his deflection.
I agree with the other guy, usually funding is dispersed in months or years at a time, so this shouldn't impact anyone in a meaningful way (unless they're doing gain of function research, in which case their lab will likely stop receiving funding).
If someone had a study section next week, it could take months to reschedule which could absolutely put them deep in the red if this was already a desperate effort to save their lab. Look, I know you have some pathetic agenda to carry out and that is blinding you to real problems, but for heavens sake just keep your damn mouth shut.
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So some lab on its last legs anyway might go under? That's the best you've got? Sounds like when a company can't raise funds, which has happened to me 3 times. We all lose our jobs and get on with our lives, so I won't be joining your pathetic little pity party for when it happens to people in another industry which is apparently full of entitled brats, because at least when it happens in the tech industry we don't cry about it.
What I’m describing is most labs for first-time PIs and there will not be a path to recovery for most of them. It’s not like tech where you can just come up with the next shitty idea and try again. PIs don’t get to fail 3 times like you. So stop being a fragile little snowflake tech douche when you don’t know what you’re talking about. Grow some empathy for others; history will never forget your kind even long after it forgets you.
My industry? My industry is tech, where I got paid 7 figures for years and years doing fuck all to benefit society. It’s pretty telling that you just assumed someone defending a marginalized group was a member of that cohort.
Are there improvements that could be made in the grant process? Sure, just like there are improvements that could be made in any process. That is not a justification for taking a sledgehammer to the existing institution and affecting thousands of our brightest and hardest working residents who generally are not in it for godforsaken money but to better society. The ends in your kindergarten example do not justify the means. This is political, it’s not a merit-based cleansing.
I’m sure someone such as yourself would never see medical research as a public good so I guess we’re done here. The ideological bridge is too vast and frankly I have lost complete interest in the drivel on the other side.
Oh good, it’s just grant proposals so only some people will lose their labs due to the idiotic politicization of the NIH. This pushes back study sections by months even if they do resume on Feb 1. You can’t just schedule x leading researchers to review a grant on a whim, it’s planned months in advance.
Someone very close to me had their study section next week cancelled with no further comms. They are already fucking up grants. Please everyone, educate yourselves on this; the sky actually is falling this time.
