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As AI democratise software creation, a world with a billion developers will not lack for builders as much as it will lack for artisans.
Scale is quite valuable, but the costs are usually hidden. Consolidation leads to monoculture, it reduces the stock of unique ferments.
Culture, taste, and invention are often bottom-up phenomena. They require the opposite of scale. They require distance, and working alone.
Simon Sarrisx.comI think of finding high-leverage work as having two interrelated components:
Agency: i.e. some combination of the initiative/proactiveness to try to make things happen, and relentlessness and resourcefulness to make sure you’ll succeed.
Taste: you need a good intuition for what things will and won’t work well to try. Taste is important both “in the large” (picking important problems) and “in the small” (picking approaches to solving those problems that will work well); I usually see people first become great at the latter, then the former.
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Ken Kocienda • 7 highlights
amazon.comA system optimized for noise elimination is hostile to the genuinely new. It converges on what works, on what has worked. That convergence might produce excellent outputs by existing standards. But it will not produce the output that creates a new standard.