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It’s hard to write long-form essays without serious, socially-enforced deadlines. The reason my writing group (with Garrett & Yehudis) worked in October, November was because we had shared stakes. We all knew we were publishing on the 1st. Since we were linking to each other, you really can’t miss the train.
Collaborators might be the most powerful forcing function for me. I could never tell someone: “Hey, I know what you think I made is great, and I know we said we were going to publish in an hour, but I suddenly realize a better way to do this and I need to redo everything. It’ll only take another 2-3 weeks/months.” Shared stakes prevents a kind of b
... See morehumans aren’t good at making things from scratch. our true genius, he thinks, lies in the art of taking something and evolving it, responding to it, combining it.
Working together can also be an extremely enriching and sobering experience. It is enriching because people learn, gain traction, motivation and a sense of meaning. It’s sobering because it provides a real-world test to the quality and strength of the coordination fabric your group has been building, stripping away the relative comfort of theoretic... See more
Konrad Seifert • The role of tribes in achieving lasting impact and how to create them - LessWrong
"Go deeper and weirder and make something that is so human and so strange that it can't be duplicated by an algorithm."
Richard Whittaker • Owen Egerton, Austin's Man of Letters, Leaves the Community He Loves
“The thing to do when you’re confused,” instructed the shaman, “is to turn to your left and ask advice from your death. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your companion is watching you.”
Stephen Cope • The Wisdom of Yoga
Collaboration Cookbook
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