Genius vs. Expertise
Society is good at training talent but terrible at cultivating genius. Talented people are good at hitting targets others can’t hit, but geniuses find targets others can’t see. They are opposite modes of excellence. Talent is predictable, genius is unpredictable.
David Perell • 50 Ideas That Changed My Life
For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non-geniousness, but those barriers and climbing them is the work of creativity. The goal isn’t to become a genius. It’s to do the work.
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
John Warner • Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
Things will appear simple or easily replicable on the surface.
You’ll hear people say:
“Anyone could’ve made that with ChatGPT.”
But the more and better access everyone has to tools, the clearer it becomes that the final bottleneck to great work is not knowledge or information. Heck it’s not even intelligence—it’s that elusive, intangible, sublime qua
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