Build In Public University

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“Wotan, the All-Father, understood that violence without wisdom leads to destruction, while wisdom without violence remains impotent. To gain true knowledge, he sacrificed himself to himself, hanging from the World Tree, Yggdrasil, for nine days and nights, wounded by his own spear. Only through this voluntary suffering, this self-inflicted wound,

At least now I know what I did.

Maybe that's where the new scarcity lies - in the capacity for genuine human experience and connection.

Eli Finer • How can we value anything when an AI can do everything?

This is it exactly

I still did have to go through some “suck” but it wasn’t the actions I was avoiding, it was the emotions I was avoiding

Paul Millerd • No, Everything Doesn't Have To Suck | #291

This is the trick right here

As an example: my book, nothing about it sucked. There was no pain. Sometimes I would get stuck on a word or paragraph, but I would just take a break or return to it later. At no point did I ever push through a metaphorical wall or lock myself in a cabin in the woods and then self-coerce myself to finish it.

Paul Millerd • No, Everything Doesn't Have To Suck | #291

Books can be enjoyable processes

We are at 0% risk of people not being aware that struggle, hard work, and grinding are available as options. This is the default perspective on work, it’s the water in which we swim.

Paul Millerd • No, Everything Doesn't Have To Suck | #291

we don’t need to tell people about the obvious; we need to tell them about the options

This is true. But writing can also be done by speaking, and is more natural for people who aren’t experienced writers.

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

Why wasn’t this here yet?

This is the paradox of our time: the very tools designed to free us from labor are trapping us in an endless cycle of escalating work.

Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective

Yes.

Creation is a messy process. You don't know how long it's gonna take. You don't know exactly what it's gonna look like in the end. All you know is that there's something ahead of you in the fog that you're grasping at.

Claude

The messiness of creation is real.