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Because it said what people wanted to believe: that clarity of ambition would bring control, that intention would yield destiny.
The cult of goal-setting thrives in this illusion. It converts uncertainty into an illusion of progress. It demands specificity in exchange for comfort. And it replaces self-trust with the performance of future-planning.... See more
The cult of goal-setting thrives in this illusion. It converts uncertainty into an illusion of progress. It demands specificity in exchange for comfort. And it replaces self-trust with the performance of future-planning.... See more
Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits
Business isn’t something you learn in books. Or posts. Or threads.
You can’t read your way to the right hire.
You can't consume enough content to produce a product.
You have to do.
You learn business by doing business. Hiring by hiring. Products by building them.
We know this is true in music.
Never pick up a guitar? Go read 100 books on guitar. You'll... See more
You can’t read your way to the right hire.
You can't consume enough content to produce a product.
You have to do.
You learn business by doing business. Hiring by hiring. Products by building them.
We know this is true in music.
Never pick up a guitar? Go read 100 books on guitar. You'll... See more
Go do business
Scaling AI across the enterprise is hard because traditional automation requires clear rules and defined processes; the very things Garbage Can organizations lack. To address the more general issues of AI and work requires careful building of AI-powered systems for specific use cases, mapping out the real processes and making tools to solve the... See more
It also could not be a better time for a paradigm shift. AGI and likely soon after superintelligence will force us to rethink human role in society. In the new world, the value of the human brain is increasingly defined on how creative it can be. Cosmic optimism helps us navigate this transformation by emphasizing focus on the very human qualities... See more
AI was most useful upstream and downstream of the main thing.
The goal hadn’t been wrong. It had just been handed to me, implicitly, by a world that measures progress in forward motion and not in depth.
That was the moment I began to question the entire architecture of ambition. Not whether it worked, but whether it asked the right things of a person. Whether a life could be constructed from milestones rather... See more
That was the moment I began to question the entire architecture of ambition. Not whether it worked, but whether it asked the right things of a person. Whether a life could be constructed from milestones rather... See more
Just a moment...
link.mail.beehiiv.comAttention is Finite; Affection is Not
Far too much of the internet operates on the logic of viral loops. Grab attention, loop them in, monetize the funnel. This works fine for certain kinds of products, but it flattens the emotional stakes. If everything is optimized for grabbing the eye, almost nothing earns the heart.
Affection is stranger, slower,... See more
Far too much of the internet operates on the logic of viral loops. Grab attention, loop them in, monetize the funnel. This works fine for certain kinds of products, but it flattens the emotional stakes. If everything is optimized for grabbing the eye, almost nothing earns the heart.
Affection is stranger, slower,... See more
This moment feels big like religion. I won’t fall limp and complacent, rejecting AI completely and bemoaning the fall of civilization. No, I’m going to use what small agency I have as a craftsperson to shape the cultural narrative around what we should build with this fantastical bizarre machine made of all of human thought through the lens of my... See more