Some people really benefit from hearing advice that everyone knows, for the same reason we keep schools open despite every subject in them having been taught before.
In that spirit, here's some quick Things Many People Find Too Obvious To Have Told You Already.
I’d be surprised if, in a decade, “designer” and “engineer” roles are as common as they are today
With widespread AI use, it’s more likely the relevant specializations would re-organize around business concerns (like sales/marketing vs R&D vs operations), rather than around tooling differences (like Figma vs IDE vs... See more
Knowledge already exists all around us in abundance. We are changing how people take in, handle, contextualize, and deploy that knowledge at the most practical level. We are building the cognitive infrastructure of knowledge work – not the devices or apps they run on, but the “mental software” running on people’s minds that allows them to use those... See more
Kinship is a human need. Don't think too much of it. Commune.
I read a David Lynch book about meditation when I was like 16, and I didn’t realize how influential it was until I got older and started to realize that I was doing the technique he talks about automatically. It was called Catching the Big Fish or something, but the idea is, you close your eyes and let all the ideas go through your head. You don’t... See more