✨ Where great ideas come from
Implicit in the promise of outsourcing and automation and time-saving devices is a freedom to be something other than what we ought to be. The liberation we are offered is a liberation from the very care-driven involvement in the world and in our communities that would render our lives meaningful and satisfying. In other words, the promise of... See more
L. M. Sacasas • (100) Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It
Fidelity to daily tasks: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing well. With care.
Abloh’s approach was often to make a small “3% “change to the original form. He wasn’t changing something by 3% just to change it by 3%, though. He was adding his personal 3% touch (in a world of generative AI, I really want to emphasize the personal touch aspecthere).
My favourite example of Abloh's approach was a collaboration with Nike on “The... See more
My favourite example of Abloh's approach was a collaboration with Nike on “The... See more
Trung Phan • 9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh
What is a good way to riff on existing work? Small 3% changes.
- LLMs are reading companions. When Patel is reading a book, he uses LLMs to understand concepts that he isn’t familiar with, like the nuances of White’s argument about how the stirrup created feudalism. “There's a bunch of stuff that's confusing...on these kinds of questions. The author is dead...but I can always continue the conversation with
A Guide to Lifelong Learning—With AI
How to use AI to accelerate learning
Cognitive patience: The ability to slow down, think deeply, and carefully evaluate information
🚶♂️Writing Walks and the Awe of Spring
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Take your time
At some point in their teenage years—and sometimes earlier—the future geniuses would apprentice themselves intellectually to someone with exceptional capacity in their field.
Henrik Karlsson • Childhoods of Exceptional People
Exception people did some kind of cognitive apprenticeships in their teenage.
Invest 30 minutes of that in building your vision for the future. That's just 2% of your day, but if you do it for a year, that vision may become your reality.
- Read or write
- Build a prototype
- Meet one new person
- Learn a new skill
4 Simple Habits to Transform Your Weeks | The Curiosity Chronicle
Invest 30 mins every day
Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current trends or the tastes of your peers. Because while having taste is cool, taste itself reflects a certain type of uncool earnestness – a commitment to one’s own obsessions and quirks.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
Great ideas require taste
When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything... See more
James Somers • More People Should Write
The mind is an auto-sorting machine. It subconsciously organizes better when it knows what you’re looking for