Surya Dantuluri

Backpropagating across a country

High frequency info

You don't build by looking at every direction at once.

AGI shifts society from labor-bound to information-bound, where private information becomes the sharpest edge.

Labor priced in tokens

Intensity wins against indecision; most of life is choosing how much clock speed to bring.

Focus is choosing what you do when all things look urgent and all your instincts are noisy.

AGI diffusion is the bottleneck to getting intelligence to solve real world constraints across the economy.

Towards self-driving computers

The biggest arbitrages happen when someone knows what others don't and can act sooner.

AGI is already changing the marginal output of intelligence; the institutions around it are just lagging.

Perceived age is a byproduct of your choices, not your birthdate.

Information gets cheaper the sooner you ask for it and the sooner you hear 'no'.

Momentum creates information advantages that speed alone can unlock.

When you love the work more than the outcome, the outcome becomes harder to avoid.

Agency compounds by making valuable choices repeatedly, especially when no one is watching.

Mediocrity compounds into bad decisions; quality compounds into optionality.

Trust compounds over time, and trust is the true currency of high-trust systems.

Legacy is what remains when immediate outcomes disappear: a narrative that survives in people's decisions.

The Hero's Journey

$25T Services Market

Half Our Life is Over by 21

Mastery in shape rotation

How to become rich and famous (not clickbait)

Interest paid in lifetimes

Incentivizing work than hacking

Expert-guided imitation learning