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
It has become standard to describe A.I. as a tool. I argue that this framing is incorrect. It does not aid in the completion of a task. It completes the task for you. A.I. is a service. You cede control and decisions to an A.I. in the way you might to an independent contractor hired to do a job that you do not want to or are unable to do. This is... See more
View Profile • The A.I. Lie
this is not an absolute truth. it depends on the role the interface gives to the AI
If your work is in any sense “creative” – if you’re a writer, designer, therapist, artist, editor, coach, architect, podcaster, or much else besides – there’s a good chance you’ve spent recent months worried that AI might be coming for your job. (You might be excited by AI’s potential, too; the two aren’t mutually exclusive.) But something about
... See moreBut 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
We all reach for tools that save us time. But used incorrectly, AI saves us time at the expense of thoughtfulness. If you had chatGPT write all your emails and a meeting bot write all your notes, you would get your work done faster, but you’d be doing a terrible job.
At Granola, our mission is to build tools that elevate you to do your best work. We... See more
At Granola, our mission is to build tools that elevate you to do your best work. We... See more
We’re far from replacing humans for many tasks now being delegated to large language models. That doesn’t mean LLMs can’t be helpful; it just means they’re being used wrong. The key is applying them to tasks they’re well-suited to, such as analyzing, synthesizing, and manipulating data, and not for making important decisions on behalf of people.
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Reconsidering the Role of AI: Valuing Process Over Output
Historically I’ve wrestled with this duality coming in contact with difficult problems. First, the level-headed, begrudging acceptance that yes, this is meant to be hard . In the same vein, I’m like god, why is this so hard? Sooner or later, I get over myself. It’s not that my problems are uniquely hard, they just generally take energy to solve and... See more
walking through the fire
Takeaways from Jerry Seinfeld on Tim Ferriss:
To survive in comedy you have to be a writer
“As any writer can tell you it’s 95% re-write”
“I think I could solve just about anyone’s life, I don’t care what you do, with weight training and transcendental meditation” Jerry Seinfeld
“If you could take your experiences and ask to trade them in, the last
