You need to learn to finish something . Anything really.
Stop research, stop planning, stop preparing to do the work and just do the work.
It doesn't matter how good or how bad. You don't need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.
In my last interview, Joe broke thinking into two modes I’d never thought about before: divergent (open, messy, exploring) and convergent (editing, clarifying). The trick isn’t choosing one, it’s knowing when to switch. Most of us are stuck in one gear.
If AI is flattening everyone into some beige corporate mush, then the only antidote is to swing hard in the other direction. Become the feral prophet at the edge of the village.
Be so hungry to learn that you drop the act of knowing it all.
Curiosity beats pretending. Ask sharper questions, find people who make you rethink what you believe, and actually listen. When you stop needing to be right and start needing to grow, every conversation becomes a classroom.
Pride stops running the show, and progress takes over
I want to be so disgustingly well read. I want to be sitting at tables and speaking of books with names that roll off your tongue like an exotic animal’s name. I want to talk about theories and the expanse of science and philosophy and the universe and religion and love and my career. Education is fun when you change your perspective.