reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
fascinating short read on status, sorting and prestige in sports (and everywhere else). The people you might expect to be the most competitive are often the most welcoming, and vice versa.
From Jeff Bezos’ conversation with Lex Fridman:
... See moreIf you think about the good old days, they're mostly an illusion. Like, in almost every way, life is better for almost everyone today than it was, say, 50 years ago or 100 years ago. We live better lives, by and large, than our grandparents did and their grandparents did, and so on. And you can see
had to read this several times to grok it but applied to a real-life example.
It’s hard to design the perfect onboarding. but it’s easy to check: “Did the user reach ‘Aha!’ in 3 steps instead of 7?” or “Did 80% of users complete the flow?”
So the industry (and people) naturally get pulled into automated loops. this is why mid-training is powerful and dangerous. it can manufacture the appearance of discernment while dodging deeper unmeasurable criteria.
“They have learned to produce the appearance of discernment without ever developing the faculty itself.”
