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 way out of the trap is to pay attention to your “felt” experience as you move through your life. Learn to notice moments when things feel wrong in some way. You may be fortunate and have a clear sense of “that was inauthentic,” but it may be as simple as “my stomach knotted when I said that.”
In other words, the first step to figuring out who you are is to stop being who you’re not.
In my experience, the most useful approaches to AI are:
- Ask clearly bounded questions, where you can easily inspect the results.
- Don’t let AI make decisions for you. Instead, challenge it to broaden your options.
- Take advantage of the fact that it doesn’t have feelings, and use its honesty to get useful feedback.
ChatGPT is dumber than it looks
Know what you want to stand out for, how you’re different, what you can do that no one else can that can’t be captured by an algorithm or simple market signals, at least not yet.
There’s a market for almost everything.
The most valuable things will always be the ones that are hardest to price.
There’s a market for almost everything.
The most valuable things will always be the ones that are hardest to price.
Superhuman
Every day, we make decisions. These require effort, and there’s probably a finite amount of energy available for these focused choices.
That’s why our digital habits matter. Not to save us five or ten minutes a day, but to save us from a few hundred unimportant decisions that break our flow.
For example, if instead of trying to come up with a unique ... See more
That’s why our digital habits matter. Not to save us five or ten minutes a day, but to save us from a few hundred unimportant decisions that break our flow.
For example, if instead of trying to come up with a unique ... See more
Digital shortcuts and cognitive load
To find happiness in your career and life, embrace the philosophy of playing infinite games, where the goal is to keep playing rather than reach an end goal.
Lenny Rachitsky • Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
Makers are here to discover something new, to bravely explore. They crave being first to uncover some way to make technology do a thing that nobody else had seen before. Makers become increasingly more disinterested with a particular technology as it matures and becomes polished. Polish and reliability mean that the tech has become mainstream—and t... See more
Dimitri Glazkov • We Are Entering a Maker Renaissance
Navigating New Waters: 10 Tips for First-Time Founder Success
I’m sure you’ve seen your fair share of ads trying to sell you the greatest new tactics to get more customers, make more sales, and earn a bazillion dollars while you sleep.
The problem with most of these ads is that they’re selling you recycled tactics with new catchy names pulling you away from your goals.
I say this because tactics without a pro... See more
The problem with most of these ads is that they’re selling you recycled tactics with new catchy names pulling you away from your goals.
I say this because tactics without a pro... See more
Superhuman
Naturally, social media companies will not want to give up this control. But sometimes there are technological forces that are more powerful than even the biggest companies. To me, it seems clear that an LLM-based filtering system will be a naturally democratizing force. It will naturally nudge the world towards putting more control in the hands of... See more