Ideas I want to write about

I think the most valuable thing that AI is going to do, when you ask it questions and it comes up with the answers, assuming those answers are accurate and cross-correlated and double-checked, [is going to be when] they actually say, 'Here are the five questions you didn’t ask.' That is going to unleash real insight.

-Josh Wolfe

When it comes to AI, I believe that prioritizing adaptability over resistance will serve us better in the long run. We didn’t abandon writing after the printing press, and we won’t stop thinking because of AI. Our skills will settle around overseeing and evaluating, instead of raw creation. This shift will be uncomfortable—we’ll likely lose some de

Good leaders have fans. Great leaders have haters.

Most companies make the mistake of tracking what's easy to measure (lines of code, PR counts) rather than what actually matters — “outcome over output.”

A true senior engineer leader should be a “battle-tested problem solver” with diverse project experience, architectural vision, crisis management skills, mentorship abilities, and continuous learning habits.

Stephen Schwarzman realized that problems are best addressed indirectly:

“In my final year, I decided to take on the biggest issue of all for Yale’s men: the 268-year-old parietal rules that forbade women staying overnight in a dorm room. I was dating a woman at a local college, so for me, it was as much a personal as a community issue.

The conventio

You can find it on Google Scholar here. It’s actually a great article.

Another take away from it was the idea of prediction errors, that we don’t learn from our mistakes, we learn when our outcomes deviate from our expectations. So even doing something very well, and the result being surprisingly good, is a learning outcome.

• Hugh Clarke

In order to actually make a difference, we have to move no faster than the speed of trust.

The acceptance of voting encourages team members to seek to influence voting outcomes as opposed to reconciling competing proposals, ideas, and arguments through open discussion.

While governing bodies often use voting to officially identify those in favor and those opposed and to carry out their fiduciary duties, high-performing teams require a sta