most people never generate meaningful variance in their lives. they just orbit whatever local maxima they landed on by chance. but if you’re actually stuck, variance is the only way out. i’ve been thinking a lot about how to deliberately create that variance.
the problem is, real change often means burning everything... See more
signüllx.commost people never generate meaningful variance in their lives. they just orbit whatever local maxima they landed on by chance. but if you’re actually stuck, variance is the only way out. i’ve been thinking a lot about how to deliberately create that variance. the problem is, real change often means burning everything to the ground, sliding back into the valley, & starting the climb again. it’s brutal, but sometimes there’s no other path.
I can't imagine the anxious feeling of opening up twitter and seeing "EVERYONE IS MAKING $25-50k/MONTH WITH AI AND YOU SHOULD BE TOO OR YOU SHOULD PLAY IN TRAFFIC" rhetoric.
I kind of off-hand said this idea below about consistency and alpha but the more I think about it, I think there's both an urgency and "agency"... See more
Michael Dempseyx.comAuthor and entrepreneur Eliot Peper on taking risks:
"If you know something's going to work, it's not worth working on. It requires no courage. It requires no faith. It requires no skin in the game. Whether you're a spy or a teacher or a spouse or a painter or an abuela or an astronaut or a monk or a barista or a board-game designer, the bits that
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