Andy Claremont

A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything.

It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully average at most of the rest.

It’s like walking around with a metal detector over your own life, waiting for those little “beeps” of intensity.

The modern creator isn't overwhelmed by a blank page; they're overwhelmed by a bottomless one. AI gives you ever more options, then appoints itself your guide. It tells you it’ll save time, then proceeds to steal it while you’re happily distracted.

High accomplishment and hard work evoke many reactions, but very few of them are the ones that we want. For all that we want it to be, competence is not warmth. The emotions you get for being competent— faith, gratitude, admiration — are important, but they aren’t enough to fill the void when what you lack in life is warmth, love, and communion.

Make time for art or writing or music, or long-neglected friendships, for community activism, or exhilarating escapes into the wild

Policies and proofs of concept can be useful, but they don’t generate economic value. For generative AI to be truly valuable to companies, they need to customize vendors’ language or image models with their own data, and do the internal work to prepare their data for that integration.