This week I saved...
stuff I saved this week that I want to curate or distill
This week I saved...
Learn new stuff in notebook LLM. Upload PDF, videos any source. Build a podcast out of it.
We're building new supertools but relying on old networks to spread them. Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Substack: these networks act like a Distribution Commons — like cultural utilities carrying new products and behaviors into the mainstream. Reviews, screenshots, demos, and launch videos spread faster than the product alone. This is how... See more
The Self Is The Platform
It’s a brutal tradeoff: chase the models or build the moat. It’s incredibly hard to do both. Building a startup has always been described as “flying the plane while building it.” In the AI era, the laws of aerodynamics keep changing mid-flight too.
One solution: borrow existing infrastructure when you can’t do it all from scratch.
One solution: borrow existing infrastructure when you can’t do it all from scratch.
The Self Is The Platform
Now, popular AI-native tools like ChatGPT, Cursor, and Midjourney expand individual capacity exponentially . This extends to hardware like Meta's new Ray-Ban glasses for hands-free AI assistance. They’re all what I see as supertools (in many respects a new breed of prosumer tool). These products still benefit from network effects — but not the... See more
The Self Is The Platform
The liberating arts are:
- Logic : how to derive truth from known facts
- Statistics : how to understand the implications of data
- Rhetoric : how to persuade, and spot persuasion tactics
- Research : how to gather information on an unknown subject
- (Practical) Psychology : how to discern and understand the true motives of others
- Investment : how to manage
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The Mathematics of Creativity | Why Genius Follows a Formula
youtube.comSums up many “rules” and principles of creativity a t a matheatical level
but the people you remember, the ones who haunt you in the best way,
they weren’t interesting.
they were interested. interested in something.
in the world. in their craft. in the questions that wouldn’t let them sleep.
they weren’t trying to impress you.
they were trying to say something true.
don’t optimize for being interesting.
optimize for being... See more
they weren’t interesting.
they were interested. interested in something.
in the world. in their craft. in the questions that wouldn’t let them sleep.
they weren’t trying to impress you.
they were trying to say something true.
don’t optimize for being interesting.
optimize for being... See more
the cover art never lasts
being interesting isn’t something you perform.
it’s something you earn.
you earn it by becoming.
by having convictions that cost you something.
by building skills that make your hands shake.
by developing taste.. not just what’s “cool,” but what’s yours.
by forming a worldview that filters light differently than anyone else’s.
it’s something you earn.
you earn it by becoming.
by having convictions that cost you something.
by building skills that make your hands shake.
by developing taste.. not just what’s “cool,” but what’s yours.
by forming a worldview that filters light differently than anyone else’s.
the cover art never lasts
whenever i make something, anything, the first question i start with is:
how do i want someone to feel?
how do i want someone to feel?