Balance what takes energy and what adds energy to your life.

My generic career advice for young people is that if at all possible, you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for. Spend your energies where we don’t have a name for what you are doing, where it takes a while to explain to your mother what it is you do. When you are ahead of language, that means you are in a spot where it is more

Be ruthless about what you ignore.

“not that they should buy it, but merely that they should admire it”

When any positive feeling or thought strikes you, emote it. Tell your friends you hope you’ll be friends for life; tell people you are attracted to them; laugh out loud and touch people. We are emotional, physical beings — to not express our emotions in person, through shared experiences, is to be less human. Less alive.

The rise of AI abusers? https://archive.ph/YIGkB

From Ezra Klein:

AI might be able to churn out content faster than we can, but we still need a human mind to sift through and figure out what’s good. In other words, A.I. is going to turn more of us into editors. But editing is a peculiar skill. It’s hard to test for, or teach, or even describe. But it’s the crucial step in the creative process that

“in this version though, a lot of your story is written by others. You write your autofiction about yourself and others write their fictions about you, often anonymously, on Substacks, subreddits, messageboards like Lolcow, on Twitter and Instagram and podcasts too, and this makes things different from what has come before. The lives of these perso

The difference today is that in Filterworld, the metrics-the number of likes, the preexisting attention-tend to speak louder than the piece of culture itself. Not only do they act as a measure of success, but they create success, because they dictate what is recommended to and seen by audiences in the first place.

— Filterworld, pg. 132

The reason that big companies almost always fail when they try to enter new

markets is their willingness to compromise. They figure that because they are

big and powerful, they can settle, do less, stop improving something before it is

truly remarkable. They compromise to avoid offending other divisions or to

minimize their exposure. So they fail. They