Agalia Tan

I had a conversation a few days ago with one of the most rockstar women I know. She said: “I don’t want to lead my own thing. I want to be a first follower who passionately supports a mission I care about, and enables teams to do their best work.” Her level of awareness and conviction has lingered on my mind. It made me realize that a lot of peo... See more

It also means that increasingly the real value or trick won’t be in blowing up, though of course, it will only get harder and harder to do so as we continue to exponentially increase our output of content, but rather in holding on to the 15 seconds of fame once we have it.

Basically, once you hit a comfortable 65 or 70 on the road, don’t bother. That’s enough. It’s a waste of time because the risk you encounter—the risk you incur on yourself, the risk you effectively impose on other people by going any faster—is utterly pointless in terms of time saved.

If our foot is perpetually on the gas, it’s hard to take stock of where we are in this process — how we feel, how it’s going, what comes next.

The seeds of intimacy are time and repetition. We choose each other again and again, and so create a community of two.

I feel like Eno is exploring this question of what creativity is and what that process looks like for different people. The way OpenAI talks about what a large language model generates is, by definition, incurious about creativity. It’s like, what if we just spit stuff out and you have no idea where it came from?

We should include the great thinkers of the past in our conversations and let them help us fulfill our purpose of talking about things that matter. We shouldn’t let their names or ideas become a substitution for humble curiosity.

You know, so many of us in tech, we tend to see the world through the lens of technological determinism, where we believe the course of history will play out according to what is technologically possible.

But the most exciting breakthroughs won’t come from technology. They’ll come from how these new tools reshape our understanding of ourselves and o... See more