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Optimizing for optionality doesn’t make any sense. What’s the point of leaving all these paths open if you never take one? The greatest things in life require commitment.
Max Farrens
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Max Farrens
@maxwellfarrens
Reluctantly online. GM @ Dwarkesh Podcast
San Francisco
Joined February 2025
- My fiancée and I got engaged a year ago, and our relationship has been so much better since then. Materially, nothing’s really changed. We already lived together, shared a credit card, had group chats with each other’s families... But getting engaged led to a mindset shift. WeOptimizing for optionality doesn’t make any sense. What’s the point of leaving all these paths open if you never take one? The greatest things in life require commitment.
- Bookmarked. Can’t wait for when I can finally sit down to read thisThis Post is from a suspended account. Learn more
- Potentially controversial, but we don’t really track metrics at the Dwarkesh Podcast. Our goal with the show is to understand what the next decade looks like. We know this has nothing to do with episode performance, but virality is always a tempting target. So we intentionally
- Big week for the pod. Couldn't be prouder to be part of this team
- Couldn't think of a more fitting appendix. Excited for this to be out in the world!
One week out! - Replying to @dwarkesh_sp @satyanadella and @dylan522pWow your photographer is really good. He (or she, we don't know) seems like probably a great General Manager or whatever their role is
- Replying to @proales1 out of every 10 or so we don't end up publishing
- Despite the fact that @johncoogan and @jordihays look like they were born to play pickleball, I think @dwarkesh_sp and I could take them
