The Antidote to Procrastination

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IDEAS
The Antidote to Procrastination

I used to procrastinate a tonne.

After trying endless quick productivity fixes and hacks, I’ve realised that this unshakeable tendency was caused by one thing:

Being unable to think long-term.

Why is long-term thinking the antidote to procrastination? To explain, let’s take the opposite side.

Short-term thinking brings about severe indecision from always chasing the newest, hottest trend as you expect unrealistic results immediately.

It’s clear that this is not the recipe for success. But, because of our innate biological instincts, we struggle to think beyond tomorrow.

Training ourselves to think long-term allows us to shed the weight of unrealistic goals, make consistent progress each day, and think bigger than our next paycheck.

While hardly anyone does it, long-term thinking is how you’ll achieve every goal you’ve set for yourself this year.

RESOURCES
What I Consumed this Week…

…From around the web

One litre of bottled water may contain 240,000 tiny plastic fragments

Per the new study, these plastic fragments have the ability to infiltrate our cells and cross the blood-brain barrier.

Frankly, this is shocking, especially when I think about the amount of liquids I’ve consumed from plastic bottles within my lifetime.

Although we don’t know for sure that micro- and nano-plastics directly cause diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s or Rheumatoid Arthritis, this study has opened the door for scientists to make that connection.

Regarding the public perception of plastics in consumable goods, I hope this makes us think twice about using these materials.

I definitely am.

Elon Musk demands bigger stake in Tesla as price for AI work

Being one of the OG founders of OpenAI, Elon Musk has been thinking about and working on AI before it was cool.

With the wealth of data he controls (video footage from all the Tesla vehicles on the road), he possesses the most valuable proprietary data over anyone else on Earth.

This is the fuel for his AI endeavours at Tesla, from the Dojo Supercomputer, Full-Self-Driving and the Optimus humanoid robot.

With all of his progress in AI, it’s no wonder he wants to up his stake in the company to 25%. This will give him a tighter grip on the company’s destiny as he transforms Tesla from an auto company to an AI company.

Investors are rattled at the prospect of him increasing his stake by a further 12%. But history has shown that one should never bet against Elon.

Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating AGI

Zuck announced that Meta is doubling down on AI on Thursday and surprised many with his commitment to build and open-source general intelligence.

“We’ve come to this view that, in order to build the products that we want to build, we need to build for general intelligence. I think that’s important to convey because a lot of the best researchers want to work on the more ambitious problems.”

With his acknowledgement that the war for talent is the fiercest it’s been in the tech industry for decades, he also touches on the next scarcest resource in the race to build AGI—compute power.

Meta acquired ~150k Nvidia H100 GPUs (the industry’s chip of choice for building Generative AI) in 2023. Once all is said and done, Meta will have a stockpile of ~350k H100s contributing to a total of ~600k GPUs by the end of 2024; a scale of compute power that “may be larger than any other individual company” in the world.

Meta remains an unlikely winner of the AGI race. But with the open-sourcing of Llama 2 helping them gain ground on OpenAI and their massive resources, they might have a chance of building a part of the AGI future.

…From X

• Phenomenal speech from the President of Argentina, Javier Milei, on how free market economics will lead to future prosperity.

• Kids today will look back at this moment like we look back at the Windows XP operating system or the 1998 iMac.

…From YouTube

• In my opinion, the greatest podcast episode of all time.

TOOLS
LLM Leaderboard

This is my favourite open-source tool to monitor the power rankings of the best Large Language Models in the market.

Unsurprisingly, OpenAI’s GPT models remain supreme—taking all of the podium spots.

Notion

Notion is my second brain, personal operating system and content catalogue.

It’s the engine driving my efforts with this newsletter and my No-Code/AI product development—from brainstorming ideas and writing drafts to hosting databases and coding.

With their community-driven templates for your personal or professional goals, Notion is the canvas for your ideas to come to life.

The icing on the cake is that the Notion team ships—their AI features give your workspace intelligence and will, in turn, allow you and your team to ship faster.

If you want to 100x your productivity, give Notion a try today*

THOUGHTS
Quote I’m pondering

READING
In case you missed it

This week has been the first week in my No-Code/AI journey, where, in the next ~20 days, I’ll be building and launching a software product into the world.

If you missed it, here’s how I’m holding myself accountable.

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Thanks for reading,

— Luca

P.S. This is what the future looks like.