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Haydon Luo

angel investor, tech product manager, and lifelong learner

interested in AI, and actively exploring blockchain & Web3

I read

Hacker News

Feed aggregator run by Y Combinator of latest tech news with a message board of insightful discussions

Farnam Street

My source of mastering what other exceptional minds have already figured out

Sam Altman's Blog

Altman is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist; his blog has great insights on startups and technology

Ray Dalio's Articles

Dalio is the founder of the world's largest hedge fund, and he shares his latest idea on the world economy in his LinkedIn Pulse

I write

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Investing in Centrifuge

(This post was originally published in Aug 2022. In Jun 2023, I created an updated one-pager summary, which can be…

And these are some people I admire

I study the stories of distinguished persons who have some similarities with me to guide my life

Charlie Munger

Investor & Businessman

Munger is an advocate of multidisciplinary thinking, and I learned his latticework of mental models, each of which is a representation of how something works, in the pursuit of wisdom.

Konrad Adenauer

German Statesman

My role model of integrity and resilience in extreme adversity – between his tenures as the youngest major and as the oldest head of government, Adenauer experienced imprisonment and exile because he was unwilling to cooperate with the Nazis during WWII 

Elon Musk

Engineer & Entrepreneur

Strategically, Musk taught me to follow my passion, work extremely hard, and not afraid to be eccentric; tactically, his first principle thinking enabled me to find innovative and effective solutions to problems

Barack Obama

Politician & Attorney

Obama taught me how to overcome a disadvantaged childhood background and how to succeed in a discriminated environment

Some fun facts about me

I am a tech enthusiast. When the other boys stay up late to watch the Premier League, I stayed up late to watch a press conference from Apple or Google.

I am an engineer by day, an astrologer by night. As an engineer, I testified astrological doctrine by quantitative method. I have another blog dedicated to astrology.

My Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(MBTI) is INTJ (Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging). Other famous INTJs include Nikola Tesla , John Nash, and Mark Zuckerberg. (You too can take the test here).

I observe that phenomena across fields can show similar patterns and have similar underlying laws. For example, fluid mechanics can explain social phenomena such as social mobility.