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Liemandt recounts that Brian told him there are two things a parent doesn't understand, the first being that your kids must love school. Liemandt's initial reaction was that it's not true — school is like spinach, you just grind your way through it. Brian responded that kids must love school and that someday Liemandt would figure it out and see it with his daughters.
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Liemandt outlines a two-step method. First, kids do a Japanese Ikigai exercise: what do you love, what are you good at, and what does the world pay you for — and adults help them find their sweet spot. He cautions you can't just follow passion; you have to be good at stuff, and you can't do things you're terrible at because the world won't pay you for that. Second, after the vision work, they hit kids with reality: the 168-hour project, tracking every hour of the week. Kids then realize their day-to-day habits won't get them to their vision — 'I guess I'm going to be the world's best TikTok scroller' — because you are what you do.
described as practiced at Alpha middle schools
Chase went with his friend Haskell, asked for a picture with the manager, put them in plastic coverings, and brought them to the store asking to put them on the wall. The staff initially responded 'who are you?' and after Chase pulled up his Instagram, they agreed and put the photo right next to A$AP Rocky's and Ice Spice's.
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A big inspiration of Chase's design in general is going back to the question his teacher brought up: if Andy Warhol were alive today, who would he paint and what would he be doing? Chase's answer is Popular Jewelry, a super iconic jewelry store in New York on Canal Street where celebrities visit, take a picture with the manager, and the photo is put on the wall.
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Chase describes the Iconic America page pairing Michael Jackson's glove on his right hand with OJ's glove on his left hand as the image that really sparked something in him around iconic imagery.
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Daily life degrades attention, and cutting out distracting stimuli can rescue it. Turn off notifications, avoid keeping email open while working, and recognize that even small rescues of degraded attention can reveal better focus than expected.
Use a three-question test to interrogate any requirement: What does that mean? How do you know that? So what? The speaker notes this is his own version, not Elon's.
Huberman recommends aiming for approximately 90 minutes for a focused bout of physical exercise, skill learning, musical learning, or deep conversation, based on the brain and body operating in 90-minute ultradian cycles within each 24-hour circadian day. He advises accepting the first 5-10 minutes as transition time (the warm-up) but including them in the 90 minutes. How many such cycles you can perform per day depends on sleep, nourishment, and how trained your focus capacity is. He cautions not to tell teachers, advisors, parents, or friends that you can't concentrate for more than 90 minutes per day — the cycles refer to deep focus bouts only — and suggests treating deep focus bouts like a workout where you force yourself to focus, refocus, and sharpen the arrowhead.
Kent C. Dodds advises being the one to ask questions and get at the heart of what the user is trying to do, since users often come to you with a solution instead of the problem. Don't ask 'is this a problem for you?' — instead ask 'when was the last time you experienced this pain and what did you do instead?' and 'When was the last time you had this problem? And what did you do about it?' Figure out if a user's problem is representative by talking to other people.
Jeff recommends eating edamame every single night. He notes it provides 17 grams of protein per cup and is the only vegetable containing all nine essential amino acids. He also advises not avoiding soy over fears it lowers testosterone and raises estrogen, citing recent research contesting that claim, and shares that he has eaten soy daily with zero estrogenic side effects and will continue, while leaving the choice to the viewer.
Jesse recommends finding a place in your daily diet for a high-quality protein shake because it will help you immensely. Every day when he gets home from work, the first thing he does is make a protein shake before late-night training (he doesn't eat dinner until after training, which can be 11:00 or 11:30 PM). Choose a powder with at least 30 grams of protein per serving, in vegan or whey formulas, whichever is right for you. He throws blueberries into his shake every single day because blueberries help speed up muscle recovery after hard workouts.
Jeff recommends eating canned pumpkin every day, putting it in oatmeal (his pumpkin oatmeal recipe) or eating it straight. He calls it a powerful superfood with high levels of vitamin A, and suggests reaching for it over more calorically dense sweet potatoes when you want orange foods with lighter calories. He cautions that eating too much canned pumpkin or sweet potato can leave your skin slightly orangey.
Jeff recommends incorporating ginger every day, personally in pickled form, noting it is almost zero calories and the needed amount is so small anyone can do it. He says ginger stabilizes blood sugar by increasing insulin sensitivity, can improve your ability to withstand hard workouts, and cites a recent study showing it can decrease delayed onset muscle soreness by up to 25%. If you dislike the taste, it can be consumed in many different forms; pickled is just his choice.
As you test hypotheses for improving your system, tweak either your dataset, your task, or your scoring system — each tweak leads to a different experiment. Then compare experiments: run experiment one and experiment two and see whether there have been improvements or regressions, and click into specific rows to see exactly which test cases changed.
Running Claude Code runs as subprocesses orphaned their traces — the trace shows only that the subprocess was launched, with no visibility into what happens inside it. The team's solution was passing parent span IDs as environment variables to fix trace linkage. With the fix, the trace shows all turns, all LLM calls, and every terminal command (grep, bash, ls, find) run inside the Claude Code subprocess. Transparency into what is happening inside an agent run is important for debugging later on.
Implementing agentic search in the eval was easy because Claude Code uses agentic search by default — the team just set Claude Code on the tasks. To keep the experiment consistent, they used the Claude Code harness to execute vector search as well. To force Claude Code to use vector search, they first explicitly instructed it in the prompt not to use agentic search. Because prompting alone is never enough to constrain an agent's behavior, they also used the disallowed-tools flag to block the tools Claude Code would normally call during agentic search.
Enrich the org chart continuously: add every new person you meet on calls to where you think they sit; ask the champion questions like 'Do Pina and Scott get on?' to gauge influence; draw dotted lines mapping the real power base with notes like 'kids same school'; and add personal notes (e.g., 'Pina loves tennis, has two sons') to remember for later conversations.
Laura adds every person she meets on prospect calls to the org chart where she thinks they sit, keeps it evolving, adds personal notes (hobbies, family) to remember later, and uses Miro as her preferred tool though other tools or AI work too.
Give your exec everything upfront—ghostwritten email, recipient address, EA to CC, subject line, whether to CC/BCC you, and deal context—so it's copy-paste-send; go through the exec's EA, then set a 3-day reminder to check the note went out and a recurring 4-week reminder for follow-up notes.
Strategy three: use mindfulness to manage worries. The creator notes anxiety, stress, and racing thoughts are common barriers to sleep. Mindfulness encourages staying present, noticing thoughts without judgment, and gently returning focus to the breath or body. Simple practices include journaling before bed, setting aside time to make a to-do list, or writing down what is on your mind — all to stop thoughts from replaying once you're in bed. The creator also suggests trying self-help CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), noting that techniques like reframing unhelpful thoughts can be very helpful for breaking the cycle of sleeplessness.
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