# olshansky.info

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Daniel Olshansky.

This site contains technical blog posts, book/movie/TV reviews, curated thoughts on technology and engineering leadership, and personal reflections.

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## About Daniel Olshansky

Mission: Enable every human being to achieve their full potential. Starting with himself.
Life: Russia (Moscow) -> Israel (Haifa) -> Canada (Toronto) -> USA (San Francisco, Plantation, Mountain View, Bellevue, ???)
Career: University of Toronto > Twitter > Magic Leap > Waymo > GetSoils > Pocket Network (Grove Labs) > Grove. Future plans involve applying AI to the construction industry.

- [About Page](https://olshansky.info/about/): Full bio, mission, inspirations, and contact info
- [CV / Resume](https://olshansky.info/pdfs/resume.pdf): Professional resume (1 page)

### Mantras

1. Anything can be learnt and mastered with enough time, effort, and focus.
2. Figure out what you _want-to do_ instead of what you _want-to want-to do_. Now do it.
3. Learn your limit, push yourself to the limit, up your limit. Rinse and repeat.
4. Live a life such that your future self inspires your present self.
5. Expertise is building a toolbox of skills. Experience is having the intuition of knowing which tool to use.
6. Strive to create generational impact while staying kind to the people around you.
7. How you do one thing is how you do everything.
8. Patience with results. Impatience with action.

### People Who Inspire Him

Rahul Goel, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Dharmesh Shah, Tobias Lütke, John Carmack, Andrej Karpathy, Vitalik Buterin, Ilya Sutskever, Mitchell Hashimoto, Naval Ravikant, Simon Willison, Stephen Wolfram, Edward Thorp, Richard Feynman.

## Site Structure

### Posts & Blogs (long-form articles)

Browse all at [/posts/](https://olshansky.info/posts/).

Technical deep dives, essays, and analysis across AI, blockchain, leadership, mental models, and investment.

Topics include: AI evaluation, LLM prompt engineering, KZG commitments, relay mining, documentation philosophy, project management, analogical thinking, nuclear energy investment, Bitcoin adoption, and more.

### Thoughts (short-form entries)

Browse all at [/thoughts/](https://olshansky.info/thoughts/).

Quick reactions, commentary, and insights.

### Movie Reviews

Browse all at [/movie/](https://olshansky.info/movie/).

Film reviews with star ratings.

### TV Show Reviews

Browse all at [/tv/](https://olshansky.info/tv/).

Television show reviews with star ratings.

### Book Reviews

Browse all at [/book/](https://olshansky.info/book/).

Book reviews with Goodreads links.

## External Resources

### Writing

- [Substack Posts](https://olshansky.substack.com): Newsletter and highly edited long-form writing
- [Substack Notes](https://olshansky.substack.com/notes): Reshares and thoughts of things I read
- [Medium](https://olshansky.medium.com): Technical articles and thoughts

### Social & Professional

- [GitHub](https://github.com/olshansk): Open source projects and contributions
- [LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dolshansky/): Professional profile
- [LinkedIn Posts](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dolshansky/recent-activity/all/): Professional posts
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/olshansky): @olshansky
- [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/Olshansk/): r/u/Olshansk

### Media & Research

- [Presentations & Talks](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeHvNSh0enXSflgNf-YC6jW6K3Fh4cS5E): YouTube playlist
- [Publications & Research](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pkPj80UAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra): Google Scholar profile
- [Snipd Podcast Collection](https://olshansky.notion.site/768504560fd54cdaa7e24b6c3f31a21e): Short-form podcast episodes

### Other

- [Instagram](https://instagram.com/olshansk): Visual updates
- [Strava](https://www.strava.com/athletes/65389405): Fitness activities and runs
- [Telegram](https://t.me/dolshansky): Direct messaging
- [RSS Feed](https://olshansky.info/index.xml): Subscribe to all content

## Search

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