Build In Public University

A collection of all things BIPU

“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?

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

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.

"I want to take this information and store it somewhere, then basically cut it up into the most notable parts and distribute it out. What I'm creating is a system that does this automatically."

Claude

Automating the idea pipeline

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.

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

The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.

Sara Hooker • Tweet

It’s gonna be harder than you think, but that’s a feature, not a bug.

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

“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.