The first employee we hired came and asked us about health insurance. Normal need, I didn’t care. I was like, “Why do I need a health insurance? If this company dies, who cares?” My other two co-founders were married, so they had health insurance to their spouses, but this guy was looking for health insurance, and I didn’t even know anything.

Who are the providers? What is co-insurance, a deductible? None of these made any sense to me. You go to Google. Insurance is a category where, a major ad spend category. Even if you ask for something, Google has no incentive to give you clear answers. They want you to click on all these links and read for yourself, because all these insurance providers are bidding to get your attention.

We took this principle and asked ourselves, what is the best way to make chatbots accurate, is force it to only say things that it can find on the internet, and find from multiple sources.

• Aravind Srinivas

When I wrote my first paper, the senior people who were working with me on the paper told me this one profound thing, which is that every sentence you write in a paper should be backed with a citation, with a citation from another peer reviewed paper, or an experimental result in your own paper.

Anything else that you say in the paper is more like an opinion. It’s a very simple statement, but pretty profound in how much it forces you to say things that are only right.

有些朋友不明白为什么我要用 Calendar，同时还要用 Todo。

我的用法是：Calendar 用来记录“和其他人一起的事情”，比如开会、聚餐等。因为是和其他人一起，就有很强烈的时效性，比如约好了 8 点开会，我 10 点到，会耽误别人的时间。属于不能错过，过时就没用甚至不再需要做了的。

而 Todo 更多是我自己的事，比如写文章、阅读、测试软件、买东西等。这些事只跟我自己有关，就算我设了个完成时间，过时了也无所谓，而且过时了也还需要显示出来并且提醒我——谁让我是个拖延症患者呢。

顺便再推荐一个小作品 EasyDay：https://easyday.app/zh/easy_day/

会不会有人跟我一样，没看奥运开幕式，也完全没看任何奥运比赛的直播/转播？