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
My countervailing advice to people trying to understand something is: go slow. Read slowly, think slowly, really spend time pondering the thing. Start by thinking about the question yourself before reading a bunch of stuff about it. A week or a month of continuous pondering about a question will get you surprisingly far.
Nabeel Qureshi • How To Understand Things
It's tempting, sometimes, to idealize the trope of the "lazy genius."
I decline to do so. There is a great deal of tedious maintenance work someone needs to do to keep the world running, and an inability to consistently do so is not praiseworthy.
Some smart, low-conscientiousness people manage to flourish without discipline, making careers out o... See more
Oliver Burkeman sums up my views on AI and creativity pretty well:
To start with, picture this scenario. You’re at home, feeling lonely and sorry for yourself, when the phone rings out of the blue. It’s an old friend, checking in on you. For an hour, you have one of those rare, wonderful, uplifting conversations; by the time you hang up, you’re glow
... See moreModern software’s humdrum lack of identity has resulted in users craving more interesting, opinionated tools, tools that feel like us — or a better, more interesting, wackier version of us.
Molly Mielke • Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding"
language matters. Describing generative models as "artificial intelligence" simultaneously creates unrealistic expectations _and_ undersells the technology's capabilities.
It’s not about automating your process, but guiding you on a life-long one. I’d rather alchemize minds than automate words.
Michael Dean • Mega-Update
love this from Michael Dean - reminds me of how i think of AI’s role in Sublime. building a knowledge repository isn’t a chore to optimize, it’s an infinite game.
How Seth thinks about organization Organizing is like building a case to hold your tools. You don’t get points for making it fancy, you get points for doing the work.
Seth Godin • Seth Godin Hates Being Organized
I like the process of choosing the words I commit to posterity on the internet. I don’t just like it, I cherish it . That’s why, when I outsourced this task to AI in an attempt to be more productive, I was left unimpressed, and gradually, I stopped trying to use LLMs altogether.
I wanted to have a better relationship with this new technology, and th... See more
I wanted to have a better relationship with this new technology, and th... See more