my impression of the individuation process is that we all know, at some level, what we need to do... we sense the truths we need to face & the actions we need to take

but it’s a lot of work & suffering and so we spend years trying to negotiate our way out of it. “must I really do this? must I?”

“surely there’s a hack and a shortcut... surely there’s... See more

I had a young man stop me in the street when I was walking who said he followed my advice made $80,000 in sales but stopped because it wasn’t his passion.

He asked me “what should I do with my life?”

I didn’t have time to answer him then so I’ll say this:

Most people think following your passion means doing something you love, but that’s not true. It... See more

The number one requirement to be a successful entrepreneur is having an unreasonable amount of determination.

Be stubborn on goals, and persistent in finding ways around anything that might stop you getting there.

Southern Plains natives would kidnap gunsmiths to force them to repair their firearms.

I remember this man that had spent 8 years among the Comanche working for them.

Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask:

"What do you think about xyz"?

There is no "you". Next time try:

"What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?"

The LLM can channel/simulate many perspectives but it hasn't "thought about" xyz for a while and over time and... See more

Fizzy is fully free to self-host, and now we have much better instructions for how to do just that. N

Not all hard things are valuable but all valuable things are hard.

Limit the number of details and make every detail perfect.

As Van Gogh would say, "If I’m worth something later, I’m worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning".