sparks
Sam Kriss is great
You should expect that (if you're lucky!) your spouse—and maybe one good friend—will read and understand your work, but that as a general rule: the people who are closest to you will care and understand the least. Their very familiarity breeds a kind of incomprehension of anything that goes beyond the person they thought they knew.
Luke Burgistwitter.comgood reminder. no reason to expect your fam/friends to understand your work.
Bob Dylan asks Cohen: "How long did it take you to write Hallelujah?”
“A couple of years” - Cohen replied.
It was a lie — it took him 7 years but he wanted to play it down
Cohen then asked Bob Dylan: “How long did it take you to write Just Like a Woman?”
Dylan replied: “Fifteen minutes”
“A couple of years” - Cohen replied.
It was a lie — it took him 7 years but he wanted to play it down
Cohen then asked Bob Dylan: “How long did it take you to write Just Like a Woman?”
Dylan replied: “Fifteen minutes”
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
there’s no "one way” to do things
If you’re bored with the current landscape of trending apps and templated content, I beg you to make something different. there must be a counterweight.
In 1984, every sneaker brand was competing to sign 21-year-old Michael Jordan. The front-runners were Converse and Adidas. Jordan wore Converse in college and during the 1984 Olympics. And in high school, he said, “My favorite shoes were Adidas.” George Raveling, an assistant coach for the 1984 U.S. Olympic basketball team, had a long-standing... See more
Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: A Qualitative Phenomenon, Madame Butterfly, Focusing on the Wrong Things, Training Differently, Seeing Beyond the Numbers, and the Secret of Everyone Who Has Ever Excelled
great anecdote
Many people who lack action are naive and like to sit and wait for things to happen naturally. They naively think that others will care about their affairs. In actual fact, other than yourself, others will not be very interested in them. People are only interested in their own things.
M. Tan • The 38 Letters From J.D. Rockefeller to His Son
Human advantage will be caring about other humans: “humans care about other humans and also not at all about machines”
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
Sam Altman bfast with JB.
(note: i want to write about intelligence)
manage your energy > manage your time
H/t Jim Loehr