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Markie Wagner
@markiewagner
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    Markie Wagner
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    Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents. We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune
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    Markie Wagner
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    Feb 9, 2023
    Excited to share that I will be joining this year’s class of Thiel Fellows! So many of the people I respect and look up to have gone through this program. I’m honored to be joining that lineage — thank you to the fellowship for taking the bet on me
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    Thiel Foundation Announces Next Thiel Fellow Class
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    Markie Wagner
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    Nov 23, 2022
    History is defined by top players pursuing good quests. Today, we are in a crisis. Silicon Valley's best — our top operators, exited founders, and investors — are almost all on bad quests. @traestephens and I write about quests in @PirateWires
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    Choose Good Quests
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    Markie Wagner
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    Feb 16, 2023
    @yasyf and I built Summ, an open-source tool that provides intelligent search and question-answering across large sets of transcripts. ⚡️ We turn your unstructured transcripts into queryable SQL and JSON! Try it out and read how we did it here: markiewagner.com/summ
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    Markie Wagner
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    Feb 10, 2023
    it’s like this is the grammys of being an unhinged manic young person
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    Thiel Fellowship
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    Feb 9, 2023
    Congratulations to our newest class of Thiel Fellows! businesswire.com/news/home/2023…
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    Markie Wagner
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    Nov 23, 2022
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    There are important challenges facing humanity that no one is working on, many of which are existential challenges. In other words, if you are an exceptionally capable person, failure to pursue a good quest is not neutral. It constitutes a loss for humanity.
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    Markie Wagner
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    Nov 23, 2022
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    For our best players, these quests are difficult. But for everyone else, they are nearly impossible. Therefore, there is a moral imperative for our best players to choose good, hard quests.
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    Markie Wagner
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    Nov 23, 2022
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    Tech's top players are wasting their talent and resources on quests that don’t matter. Exiting your first startup only to enter VC and fight your peers for allocation in hot deals is a bad quest. Yachting between emails in de facto retirement at age 35 is a very bad quest.
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    Markie Wagner
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    May 18, 2021
    @michlimlim just spent the last week at Habitat, a collective of founders, investors and artists in LA -- if you're in town and want to stop by one of our dinners, shoot me a DM
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    Michelle Lim
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    May 17, 2021
    Note to self after my LA trip: Sub-25-year-olds are getting rich on crypto, influencing, real estate, consulting for multiple startups, etc. These people are real. They are earning more than you think. 1/2:
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    Markie Wagner
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    Nov 23, 2022
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    From planes and power plants to medicine and light, the achievements of those men and women who embarked on good quests built the modern world. Are you on a good quest now? Be honest.
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    Markie Wagner
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    Nov 23, 2022
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    For all of the industry’s rare potential, such abdication of responsibility does not only constitute a failure of progress, but a moral failure.
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    Markie Wagner
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    Nov 23, 2022
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    The vast majority of quests, even during times of great progress, were functionally economic noise. At the same time the Wright brothers were experimenting with flight, a sea of successful financiers filed paperwork that shuffled numbers on the global spreadsheet.
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    Markie Wagner
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    Jan 31, 2019
    I am so excited to be one of the first guests on the new InspirED podcast from @PLTWorg! Listen to my episode at pltw.org/podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts! #inspirEDpodcast #stemeducation
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    Markie Wagner
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    Dec 14, 2020
    If you think about it, language is just a compression algorithm and good writers 1. have interesting thoughts 2. have great compression schemes