Britt Gage
@brittfgage
Founder, of All Trades. Building a new type of company for generalists and the founders we seek to serve.
Britt Gage
weofalltrades.com
The year of everyday risks
How does one live more alive ?
The concrete way I will try is taking more risks.
Not Bet the farm on red, or Climb Mt. Everest -type risks, but rather, the everyday ones.
Everyday risks — the small actions that come with a twinge of discomfort.
How does one live more alive ?
The concrete way I will try is taking more risks.
Not Bet the farm on red, or Climb Mt. Everest -type risks, but rather, the everyday ones.
Everyday risks — the small actions that come with a twinge of discomfort.
The Looking Glass: The Year of Everyday Risks
So much of building something new is showing others that their problem deserves to be solved, that they should be seen for who they are and what they want to be. Generalists deserve better.
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of [lightning] to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
— Chuck Close, artist
— Chuck Close, artist
Superhuman
The first step is to understand the fundamental difference between humans and AIs. We are analog, chemical beings, with emotions and feelings. Compared with machines, we think slowly—and we act too fast, failing to consider the long-term consequences of our behavior (which AI can help predict). So we should not compete with AI; we should use it. At... See more
Esther Dyson • Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids
Culture is what happens when the community insists.
Normalizing selfishness
“The beginner chases the right answers.
The master chases the right questions.”
The master chases the right questions.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On hard conversations, how to ruin a good strategy, and asking for what you want
Generalists are masters in asking the right questions.
I aspire to live consciously, to follow my own inherent energy, to help other human beings, and to immerse myself fully in the present moment.
Superhuman
The arrogance of improvement
Who are you to make things better?
How dare you raise your hand to help, offer an idea, take responsibility...
Perhaps it might be helpful to reframe that feeling as the generosity of improvement instead.
If not you, who? If not now, when?
Who are you to make things better?
How dare you raise your hand to help, offer an idea, take responsibility...
Perhaps it might be helpful to reframe that feeling as the generosity of improvement instead.
If not you, who? If not now, when?