both are true
on holding two conflicting ideas at once
both are true
on pragmatism vs. idealism
nuanced piece by Anthropic CEO
The worst kind of company is usually not the one where there's too much real work to do, but the kind where there's not enough. It's in this realm the real monsters appear. Without enough real problems to go around, humans are prone to invent fictitious and dreadful ones.
This is the root of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs analysis. That a shocking pe
... See more“Life is not like formula fiction. The villain has a heart, and the hero has great flaws.”
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
on the shift from being skills-constrained to being imagination-constrained