Abhijeet Dwivedi
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About
- Cofounded two companies: ZeroDown (acquired by Flyhomes) and Central (acquired by Mercury)
- Currently helping computer scientists at OpenAI
- Studied materials science and computer science in college
- Lived in Kenya, India, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, the UK, the USA, and Bhutan
Topics I'll Write About Someday
- Neil Armstrong
- Christopher Nolan movies
- Why you shouldn't buy Bitcoin and why you should never sell Bitcoin
- What it would be like to live with artificial superintelligence
- Why a prosperous USA matters for the world
- Worldbuilding is key to creating lasting things
- Why I am opening a pizza parlor chain on Mars for retirement
- Parenting paradoxes
- Why Quentin Tarantino's subgenres matter
- Interviewing to be Elon's chief of staff
- My obsession with making a movie about Einstein's thought experiments
- What was in the water at Xerox Parc
- Why it matters to unlearn McKinsey when you join a startup
- Whether a movie director is analogous to a startup CEO
- Industrial Light & Magic as an all-time startup
- Japan's robotics culture and its view of AI
- What to do after panic-selling
- Belief as infrastructure
- Why great tech companies often start with contrarian beliefs
- What living for a year in Bhutan taught me about B2B sales
- Why the best startup ideas sound terrible at first
- Having FOMO is healthy
- Why Vitalik never talks about ETH metrics
- Why great products do not start as toys
- How much of the economy depends on refrigeration
- What it takes to make investments with no ROI
- Why standards are one of civilization's great underrated forces
- Living with something way smarter than you
- Why the world is obsessed with predictability
- How to raise kids when knowing is no longer special
- What Apollo got right that modern tech forgets
- Narrative debt as a bigger tax on innovation than technical debt
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Favorites
Games
- Railroad Tycoon 2
- Monkey Island 1 and 2
- Rollercoaster Tycoon
- Tekken 3
- Stardew Valley
Books
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Charlie Chaplin's Bio
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Lust for Life
- Zero to One
Music
- Graceland
- AR Rahman
- Bootleg Series Vol. 4
- Pink Floyd
- Band of Gypsys