Aishwarya Goel
@ag_infer
Mostly Curious!
Aishwarya Goel
aishwaryagoel.com
The limiting factor isn't finding or training rare talent – it's just compute.
Dwarkesh Patel • What Fully Automated Firms Will Look Like What Fully Automated Firms Will Look Like
There are times when goals make sense. Training for a marathon. Preparing for an exam. Trying to ship a product by a hard deadline. In finite, controlled, well-understood domains, goals are fine.
But smart people often face ambiguous, ill-defined problems. Should I switch careers? Start a company? Move cities? Build a media business? In those... See more
But smart people often face ambiguous, ill-defined problems. Should I switch careers? Start a company? Move cities? Build a media business? In those... See more
Joan Westenberg • Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They CreateLimits
When a person aspires to be a brand, they forfeit everything that is truly glorious about being human. Building any brand requires consensus. When we position ourselves as a brand, we are forced to project an image of what we believe most people will approve of and admire and buy into. The moment we cater our creativity to popular opinion is the... See more
Debbie Millman • WePresent | the Personal Brand Paradox
people LOVE going to small one-conversation dinners — so definitely let people know this is a SMALL dinner and will be one conversation — you will get a much higher quality of participant.
the ultimate guide to holding world class dinner parties
One framework for understanding the success of the internet is to view it through the lens of coordination. Fundamentally, we can reduce the success of the most valuable internet applications to their ability to more granularly coordinate human intents. Amazon coordinates commercial intents. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter coordinate social... See more
Robbie Petersen • Tweet
Lens of Coordination.
The squad economy primarily yields non-monetary forms of value . SQUAD WEALTH is a rate of 5 memes per day, it's the e-girls vacation, the TikToker hype house, the empty church your crew rented upstate. SQUAD WEALTH is when the Discord is popping off and it brings you more joy than a 70-hour-week hustle ever could. Millennials all want to quit... See more
otherinter.net • Squad Wealth
“Shortcuts will cut you short. There are no shortcuts in life.”
- Narendra Modi (PM of India, on Lex Fridman)
So, in shameless imitation of a master and tastemaker, here are my notes on “taste.”
- To start very generally, taste is a mode. It’s a manner of interpretation, expression, or action. Things don’t feel tasteful, they demonstrate taste. Someone’s home can be decorated tastefully. Someone can dress tastefully. The vibe cannot be tasteful. The
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
Notes on “Taste”