Every - essay bits inspo
collecting fragments of inspo for the essay I’m working on with Every
full essay here: https://every.to/thesis/the-end-of-productivity
Every - essay bits inspo
The history professor Nelson Lichtenstein told me, “What you can’t measure, you can’t reward,” and that may be why executives are so focused on work hours. For decades, the corporate world has been consumed with metrics. Managers love tangible measures by which they can determine success or failure. Work hours is one of the easiest ways to measure... See more
Do Nothing Quotes by Celeste Headlee
The only way out from this rat race I can see is to re-create a safe space. When you are no longer consumed by the worry that is career sustenance and growth, at least a subset of folks might choose to work on what they think is important. Signalling will never fully die of course, but perhaps we can dampen it.
Its not a pure argument to reduce the... See more
Its not a pure argument to reduce the... See more
Rohit Krishnan • On Thinkers and Doers - By Rohit - Strange Loop Canon
treat the LLM as an ally in ideation, not a writer. It frees me to do the things that give me meaning (choose the right words) and work through what I don’t like (being stuck).
Rhea Purohit • You’re Probably Using AI Wrong
“I’ve always seen it as a community that has a very specific attitude, intellect, aesthetic,” he said. “The one thing that you can’t really define is what it is, but you feel it is. It exists. It’s present. It’s clearly there. That’s a very important thing for me. It’s also what I like very much about fashion brands. I think most people know, from previous talks and interviews, that I am very specific, and I like a very little amount of brands. That is what a brand needs to have for me to love it: the -ness.”
When I think about organizing I think about two things: who’s it for and what’s it for? To answer the first question: it’s for you.
every.to • Seth Godin Hates Being Organized
But if the deep roots of boredom are in a lack of meaning, rather than a shortage of stimuli, and if there is a subtle, multilayered process by which information can give rise to meaning, then the constant flow of information to which we are becoming habituated cannot deliver on such a promise. At best, it allows us to distract ourselves with the... See more
Like many other people, I’m grappling with how to best use AI.