New York City Purity Test

The official Purity Test checklist for the techies of New York City. Click on every item you have done.

Caution: This is not a bucket-list. Completion of all items on this test will make you a loser.

1. Applied to a job at OpenAI
2. Been asked `whats your AGI timeline`
3. Took a meeting at the Daily Provisions in Union Square
4. Had a job interview/pitch meeting at Devoción on 20th St
5. Switched from ChatGPT to Claude
6. Switched back from Claude to ChatGPT
7. Unironically called a startup `ngmi`
8. Identified as e/acc
9. Attended an e/acc gathering
10. Attended a party by Andrew Yeung
11. Attended a Green Tile Social Club event
12. Attended a hackathon
13. Attended a FAANG+ IVY+ networking event
14. Co-worked from Verci
15. Co-worked from a wework or any co-working space
16. Listened to a Latent Space podcast episode
17. Listened to an All In podcast episode
18. Read the `Attention is all you need` paper
19. Gave up on learning and downloaded Cursor
20. Got rejected by YC but pretended you didn`t apply
21. Got accepted into YC
22. Moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn or Queens
23. Lived in Bushwick to lower rent
24. Lived with a co-founder or coworker
25. Lived in a situation where there were more people than rooms
26. Slept on a mattress without a bed frame
27. Ate Naya more than 3 times in one week
28. Ordered BCD in Ktown after 2AM
29. Ordered food off seamless
30. Lined up for bagels on a Sunday morning
31. Paid for a climbing gym membership
32. Attempted any of the following: 75 Hard, cold plunges, saunas
33. Bought an 8 Sleep
34. Cut out seed oils
35. Taken a Waymo
36. Lost against a chess hustler in Washington Sq park
37. Got scammed or food poisoned from a halal cart
38. Begged your friends in big tech to bring you micro kitchen snacks
39. Thought pickleball was your new calling
40. Thought being a DJ was your new calling
41. Accidentally took the subway across the bridge to Brooklyn at night
42. Felt like saving money and hopped the subway turnstyles
43. Drank Huel, Soylent, or any other liquid meal-replacement
44. Attended a VC-sponsored dinner
45. Asked someone out at a tech event
46. Got asked out at a tech event
47. Gone on a date with someone you met at a tech event
48. Attended a speed dating or dating related social event
49. Thought about building a dating app
50. Thought about why NYC people are so anti-monogamy
51. Written a date me doc
52. Started or attempted to start an AI startup
53. Pivoted your non-AI startup into an AI-first startup
54. Built a RAG pipeline
55. Used LlamaIndex, Langchain, or CrewAI
56. Started using Perplexity as your primary search engine
57. Attempted to jailbreak ChatGPT, Claude, or any popular LLM
58. Watched polymarket during the election
59. Gotten blocked by Lex Fridman
60. Read 'The Chip War' by Chris Miller
61. Read 'Atomic Habits' by James Clear
62. Read 'Zero to One' by Peter Thiel
63. Watched or taken a Deep Learning course
64. Checked Hackernews everyday
65. Attended NeurIPS
66. Attended NeurIPS 3+ times
67. Attended ICML
68. Attended ICLR
69. Traveled for an AI conference and basically skipped the conference
70. Explored the current quality of AI girlfriends/boyfriends
71. Told someone you`re not going to date because AGI is coming
72. Taken adderall or other stimulants to boost productivity
73. Did shrooms at Storm King
74. Actively calculated the gender ratio at an event
75. Moved from SF to NYC
76. Moved from SF to NYC for girls and still had len(roster) == 0
77. Considered yourself bi-coastal and split time between NYC and SF
78. Taken a red-eye between the east cost and west coast
79. Bought bitcoin at the top
80. Bought a memecoin
81. Hung-out with a friend in finance and felt ugly and poorly dressed
82. Hung-out with a quant trader and felt poor
83. Had a friend move from SF to NYC and thought they were crazy
84. Gone on a hinge date with a non-tech person and realized how out of touch you are
85. Tweeted `OpenAI is nothing without its people`
86. Put 'building something new' in your twitter bio
87. Asked someone out on Twitter
88. Followed Sam Altman on Twitter
89. Followed Andrej Karpathy on Twitter
90. Followed Guillermo Rauch on Twitter
91. Used V0 to write your front end
92. Introduced yourself to a VC at Equinox
93. Switched your email to Superhuman
94. Switched to Arc browser
95. Worn an apple watch or whoop
96. Worn more than 1 fitness wearable simultaneously
97. Considered alternate careers when Devin was released
98. Hosted a Twitter Spaces to talk about AI trends
99. 50+ parties on lu.ma
100. 100+ parties on lu.ma

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