Even though I have talked with Balaji in person several times in the Network School, it is still refreshing to read the new book The Anthology of Balaji which collects his thinking and wisdom.

We talked about academia versus industry, he said academia especially in western is declining so for any ambious young people who wants to make a change can go directly insdustry. I was in dilemma whether go phd or work and decided continue working.

Another topic we discuss is about startup/entrepreneur versus working. He thinks entrepreneurs must be pain endurable while for easy life, one should aim for working in a big company. I have been working remotely all my work life and mostly at startups, I feel sometimes I feel pain and sometimes not, I think it mostly depends on the leadership.

Back to the book, I think AI acceleration is real and ASI (super intelligence) will be around within 1-2 years where it will help with our daily life in all most everything. And we can buy robots like we buy cars.

For crypto, I am not really sure espcially for the memecoin trend, I just don’t see any support for the value besides the community.

Another good advice in the book is how to manage the time, Balaji sets the meetings on Monday and Thursday, only on these two days every week. The rest days he will have longer time to focus on his own stuff, especially for deep thinking.

虽然我已经在 Network School 跟 Balaji 当面聊过好几次，但读这本收录了他的思考和智慧的新书《The Anthology of Balaji》还是让人耳目一新。

我们聊过学术界和工业界，他说学术界，尤其是西方的学术界，正在衰落，所以任何想要改变些什么的有野心的年轻人都可以直接去工业界。我当时正纠结是读博还是工作，最后决定继续工作。

我们讨论的另一个话题是创业和打工。他认为创业者必须能忍受痛苦，而想要轻松的生活，就应该去大公司工作。我整个职业生涯都在远程工作，而且大多是在创业公司，我觉得有时候痛苦，有时候不痛苦，我觉得这主要取决于领导层。

回到这本书，我觉得 AI 的加速是真实的，ASI（超级智能）会在 1-2 年内到来，几乎会在方方面面帮助我们的日常生活。而且我们会像买车一样买机器人。

至于加密货币，我不是很确定，尤其是 memecoin 这股潮流，我实在看不到除了社区之外还有什么能支撑它的价值。

书里另一个好建议是如何管理时间，Balaji 把会议安排在周一和周四，每周只在这两天开会。其余的日子他就有更长的时间专注于自己的事情，尤其是深度思考。