Brandon Dang
@bdang
Brandon Dang
If you’re an expert navigating a novel problem, an LLM won’t imagine a new solution for you. But they become a gift for generalists, who can use them to get up to speed in new domains much more quickly, and resurface and apply knowledge from other fields easily. Generalists can use their adaptability and imagination to work through any “wickedness”... See more
Why Generalists Own the Future
The question to ask is: assuming Hyperlegibility, what do I do?
This is a question that I’ll probably explore over a bunch of essays, and without having the word, already have. There’s the question of what to do as an emerging manager given the conundrum I laid out above. There’s something about the growing relative importance of relationships, of “... See more
This is a question that I’ll probably explore over a bunch of essays, and without having the word, already have. There’s the question of what to do as an emerging manager given the conundrum I laid out above. There’s something about the growing relative importance of relationships, of “... See more
Hyperlegibility
So we sit in indecision. We wait for certainty before we commit. But certainty doesn’t come from thinking about a project. It comes from being inside a project.
My friend, the project is the way.
My friend, the project is the way.
The Project Is the Way
How To Keep Your Heart Open In Hell - Ram Dass
youtube.com“As long as you try to stay in the world of polarities, you cannot experience the richness of the moment…the one behind the two” - Ram Dass
The universe is looking for collaborators, baby. It’s a universe that is becoming and it needs help. And it wants to work with you. It wants to be made. And a creative life is a life where you routinely choose the path of curiosity over the path of fear. Not like twice or three times or four times, but daily. Systematically. It becomes your habit a... See more
Finding Your Unique Voice | Elizabeth Gilbert, Morgan Harper Nichols & Lisa Congdon
Early means it’s okay to still be figuring things out.
Early means it’s okay to be misunderstood.
Early means it’s okay to bring people along for the ride, to make mistakes, to communicate through uncertainty, and to second-guess whether your solution has longevity.
For founders, being early can feel like standing on a subway platform without a clock,... See more
Early means it’s okay to be misunderstood.
Early means it’s okay to bring people along for the ride, to make mistakes, to communicate through uncertainty, and to second-guess whether your solution has longevity.
For founders, being early can feel like standing on a subway platform without a clock,... See more
Britt Gage • A perspective on “being early”
I used to think that the way towards more genuine conversation was advancing the schedule of intimacy instantly by plunging into difficult, weird, or controversial topics, usually by asking some intense question, like, “what are you most afraid of.” I think lots of aspiring conversationalists—especially men—do this when they’re new to intentionally
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If our connections are the biggest indicator of well being, why don’t we treat cultivating them like eating healthily. Just like consuming easy content is empty calories, taking part in easy conversations is the same. The way to have healthier relationships is to have more nourishing conversations
Dane Reynolds is a surfer who made a company just to fund making surf videos of him and his friends. He cares more about storytelling and creating culture around his local surf scene than scaling a business and it shows