Ideas I want to write about

Optimize for revenue per employee, not vanity growth.

There are three pillars that determine whether a team thrives or fails:

• Reasoning: aligning on clear goals and purpose so debates lead to better solutions rather than power struggles.

• Attention: managing focus and communication so people feel safe enough to share ideas and challenge assumptions.

• Resources: surfacing hidden skills and networks within

The only thing that defines a leader is that they have followers. And people follow for one main reason: We don’t relate to the present, we relate to the future we believe we have.

I keep returning to that William Gibson line:

The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

• Jasmine Sun

The higher-order operations of sense-making, trust-building, and truth-finding are rarer than ever.

Decades in weeks, years in seconds!

We live in strange and, yes, unprecedented times.

• Jasmine Sun

I feel increasingly certain that there is no better time to be a writer. The world’s weirdness demands explaining.

• Jasmine Sun

A capable agent should be able to enter any terrain, and with enough trial and error, develop a strategy to succeed.1 In 2008, Paul Graham wrote of Sam Altman: “You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he’d be the king.”

“Productivity is over, no one cares.”

SCARF is a model developed by David Rock:

• Status: Am I valued here?

• Certainty: Do I know what’s coming next?

• Autonomy: Do I get to choose?

• Relatedness: Am I in this with others?

• Fairness: Am I being treated justly?

It’s the invisible OS of human motivation. When you align with it, it makes it easy for people to lean in. When you violate it? They don’t.