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Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce—except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy.

Over 10,000 years ago, that unconscious selection for nonshattering wheat and barley stalks was apparently the first major human “improvement” in any plant. That change marked the beginning of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent.

Dominating a new category is not necessarily about being the first to market a product. It is about being the first company to have your definition of a problem and, therefore, the solution, tip at scale. For example, Apple did not create the mobile phone category (that accomplishment goes to Motorola). But Apple did redesign the category with a

The early 5.25-inch drive makers found this application (one might even say that they enabled it) by trial and error, selling drives to whomever would buy them.

Sampling produces the need for a confidence value, because we are generalizing based on a select, representative population. And the smaller the sample, the more generalizing we are doing: if we did the intervention for half of the world and then measured, we’d be a lot more confident that our measurement represented the true power to change

“Big goals work best when there’s an alignment between an individual’s values and the desired outcome of the goal. When everything lines up, we’re totally committed—meaning we’re paying even more attention, are even more resilient, and are way more productive as a result.”

If you just want to get by in life, it’s fine to rely on the default set of narratives that saturate your culture. But the more original and ambitious your goals are, the more you need world-class narrative skills: both on the buy and the sell side.

Society needs visionaries of means, not dreamers of ends.

Summarization: Given a large amount of text, the model generates a summary of the main points. Paraphrasing: Given a text, the model generates a rephrasing of the text in its own words.