Agalia Tan
- It would be uncomfortable to remove me entirely from the workflow. I might feel lazy, guilty, even nervous about it. Did the bot book the right flight? Does it know I prefer morning flights, hate red eyes, and am a loyal Delta SkyMiles member? A better path would be the chatbot saying, “Sure Rex, here are three options for you to choose from.” I fe... See more
from The "Egg Theory" of AI Agents
- Don’t take yourself seriously, but do take your work seriously. Do what you say you’re going to do. If you don’t, you’ll lose respect for yourself. And if you don’t respect yourself, you’ll find it effortless to trespass across your own boundaries and violate all that you value.
from 23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
- Prioritizing pure feeling, so the idea goes, leads to people choosing bad, unsuitable partners, to acts of desperation and violence, to shirking your duties. That love can also be an incredibly redemptive force meshes uneasily with our sense of individualism, with our Protestant ethics. Controlling it requires an entire normative framework.
love and dating and P.S
- "Finding your way in life is like unlocking the combination of a safe. You have to go forwards and backwards. Life is not a direct march from A to B. The twists and turns are progress, not regression. What feels like a setback in the moment is later revealed to have been part of the path all along. Each move was necessary to get to your end goal."
from 3-2-1: How to find your way in life, the power of quiet weeks, and the problem with smart people
- But that was just it – we were doing it our own way, at our own pace.
Comparison is the thief of joy and sensible business strategy too.from Lessons I'm still learning
- Make a list of the people in your field who enjoy unfair advantages. How can you collaborate with them?
- When you design something, a useful definition of success is precisely that— the form fits the context —as Christopher Alexander argued in Notes on a Synthesis of Form (1964). This is true of relationships, and essays, and careers: you want to find something that fits .
... See more- A glove is well-designed if it fits the hand nicely.
- A relationship is healthy if
from Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process by Henrik Karlsson
- When you design something, a useful definition of success is precisely that— the form fits the context —as Christopher Alexander argued in Notes on a Synthesis of Form (1964). This is true of relationships, and essays, and careers: you want to find something that fits .
- he does see trouble in the glut of franchise and comic book entertainment that currently makes up much of what you can see in a theater. “The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture,” Scorsese said. “Because there are going to be generations now that think movies are only those—that’s what movies are.”
I think people already think that.from Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
what happens when we keep trying to replicate previous successes, and going on the tried and tested path
- I know that it’s easy to observe when people are feeling insecure. Notice how much they are mentioning their positive attributes, material possessions, or important friends, when there’s no conversational reason for this to be occurring other than a status claim. It is harder to spot yourself doing this, but it is worth the effort — you are likely ... See more
from 50 Things I Know by Sasha Chapin