Build In Public University
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Build In Public University
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.
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
“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,
... See moreAt least now I know what I did.
“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?
The world does a hell of a job of ensuring number 1, but BIPU is here for 2,3, and 4
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.
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
"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
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