muizz
@ayokanme
We come and go, like ripples in a stream
muizz
@ayokanme
We come and go, like ripples in a stream

Thinking back to things I claimed to want really bad during the pandemic and the things I actually did… The time passed.
AI adoption and capabilities are distributed bimodally across industries.
Writing-heavy professions like writing, law, software are feeling it first. It doesn't feel that way because other industries are still untouched. That may continue for long or it might not.
It's always calmest before the storm
Excerpts:
To demystify something is to understand it to a level where you no longer feel anxious about your ignorance.
To understand something is to have the same priorities as experts regarding that something.
Expertise is, in a sense, a consensus of priorities.
Expertise also comes with taking many basic things for granted. So when radical changes happen, sometimes it is the naive novice, wrestling with the basics, who ends up innocently asking the right questions.
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)