✨ Where great ideas come from
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.
Six neurotransmitters make up life. Need to focus on all of them to ensure overall happiness and flow
In a pre-AI world, you needed to define the rules of the game you were playing—to think from first principles and apply them to your circumstances. In a post-AI world, you need to build and use models that recognize underlying patterns—patterns that can’t be reduced to simple rules.
Consider building software. Pre-AI, you needed to define exactly... See more
Consider building software. Pre-AI, you needed to define exactly... See more
Dan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
Rules vs. patterns
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
“Everything I do is just personal taste and it’s what [my book The Creative Act] is about. Really, for [people and artists] to trust in themselves. Make something that speaks to themselves. And hopefully someone else will like it. But you can’t second-guess your own taste for what someone else is going to like. It won’t be good. We’re not smart... See more
Write For Yourself
Trust your taste. Do what’s personal to you, take it as far you can go.
- 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
Every • A Guide to Lifelong Learning—With AI
How to use AI to accelerate learning
“Yego’s rise was enabled by YouTube. Yet since its founding, popular consensus has been that the video service is making people dumber. Indeed, modern video media may shorten attention spans and distract from longer-form means of communication, such as written articles or books. But critically overlooked is its unlocking a form of mass-scale tacit... See more
YouTube: The Learning Machine
Transfer of knowledge. See and do.
YouTube has taken visual learning to another level. Future generations may possibly view YouTube as revolutionary an educational tool as the printing press was for text-based and self-guided learning.
Cognitive patience: The ability to slow down, think deeply, and carefully evaluate information
