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Before we can look at our values and prioritizations and change them into better, healthier ones, we must first become uncertain of our current values.
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
Opportunity Accelerators (Your Rocket Fuel):
• The connector who hosts private dinners where deals happen
• The decision-maker who controls the budget for your dream client
• The leader two levels above you is looking for someone with your skills
• The gatekeeper who decides who gets on stage at your industry’s main event
nathanbarry.com • The Audience Shortcut: How the Right People Paying Attention Changes Everything
The problem of distribution, on which all the stress is being put today, is after all more easily solved the more there is to distribute.
Henry Hazlitt • Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
• Instructions / System Prompt: An initial set of instructions that define the behavior of the model during a conversation, can/should include examples, rules ….
• User Prompt: Immediate task or question from the user.
• State / History (short-term Memory): The current conversation, including user and model responses that have led to this moment.
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Philipp Schmid • The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering
Context engineering components and definitions
Ironically it can’t figure out where to focus its attention. Because the way attention is done currently is static and processes all parts of the sequence simultaneously, rather than using multiple heuristics to be more selective and to reset the context dynamically, to try counterfactuals.
This is because attention as it measures isn’t really a
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I passionately want you to believe in a specific counterfactual world—the one with systematic behavior change at the center of the creation process—and adopt it as your own.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
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When we focus on novelty, we lose sight of behavioral outcomes. And while using validated pressures to inform our designs can help guard against the natural tendency to pursue interventions that feel unique, they aren’t a guarantee; just as data can be used to justify bad business decisions, pressures can be used to justify bad interventions.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
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Remember, the goal is behavior change, not knowledge—we don’t have to know precisely which part of an intervention drives the behavior, so long as the overall intervention is scalable and results in worthwhile behavior change.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
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Everyone bifurcates the world into content and distribution,” Whaley told me. He has brown hair, is of average height, and was wearing a nondescript gray t-shirt and jeans when we talked. “From the beginning, we viewed those as the same thing. Each object gets better with more participation, and so does MSCHF. Scale is not the goal. Scale is a tool
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