Brian Sholis

- “One characteristic of a desirable elite, it seems to me, is that its members be self-aware.”

- “the focus of software services has shifted from manipulating data to manipulating workflows.”

- “Perhaps our biggest time error is near bias—caring too much about what’s about to happen, and too little about the future.”

1. Your career is not your life2. Explore, then exploit3. Don't do the job you want to tell other people you do. Do the job you want to do.4. Be ruthlessly honest with yourself about what you value—and how much professional success matters to you5. Flow comes from voluntary, difficult, worthwhile work

* “The most powerful new group of publishing brands will be built around people, focused on direct connections and not pageviews, and increasingly community driven.”

"I function like a more curated but less efficient version of GPT. My sentences are not generated by A.I., but they are largely the synthesis of my favorite authors."

I enjoy reading human writing because I like getting mad at people. Perhaps the personal quality in writing is a happy accident, and a lot of journalism could be replaced with an

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