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How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think | Kalzumeus Software
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I've probably repeated this one enough.
Excerpt: “Companies are legal fictions which we find convenient to use to move capital around and balance accounting ledgers.“
Much of our seeming intelligence actually comes not from raw brainpower or a plethora of instincts, but rather from the accumulated repertoire of mental tools (e.g., integers), skills (differentiating right from left), concepts (fly wheels), and categories (basic color terms) that we inherit culturally from earlier generations.
Joseph Henrich • The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Craft and
this one helped a lot with seeing over the horizon and i saw it play out for a few companies in 2020 (when time moved very fast and very slow)
Going back to Excel and shifting my metaphor up a level, today ChatGPT sometimes seems more like the original PCs than like Excel (or VisiCalc). It’s a general purpose technology, there’s a command line, and some stuff that’s theoretically magic, and a few things that are extremely useful to a few people, but we don’t yet have the richness of all... See more
Benedict Evans • Unbundling AI
good format (seeing) begets function (reasoning)
on the same theme. we go from:
digits → tallying → numerals → digital digits
inscriptions → paper → word documents → infinite digital canvas