Divya
@divsdoo
Divya
@divsdoo
"If that's all you know, if that's the world you've grown up in, you cannot see the boundaries for which you have to run... You cannot see what you have to rebel against, and instead you just try, sometimes heroically, to find love, friendship… Something meaningful and decent within the horrific fate that you’ve been given."
- Kazuo Ishiguro
on presence and on agency
So, which is it? Should you follow your curiosity and trust the process? Or should you define a clear goal and pursue it agentically?
Walking up and down the road by our farm, I conclude that it is a false dichotomy. I can have goals and unfold (it might even be that I need goals to unfold), but it has to be a specific kind of goal.
What tends to go
... See more“No love, however brief, is wasted”
Low-level domains: usually working in bounded problem spaces, more focused on technical skills, talent is easily defined by excellence with that skill to solve certain tasks or problems.
High-level domains: unbounded problem spaces (e.g. business, humanities, philosophy) ones that are more 'academic', thought-focused, framework-focused. usually
When understanding a new field, beware of starting off with resources that already have a narrative built in. It is better to use sources like textbooks that focus more on the facts and rich detail (i.e. zoomed in resources) then move to narrative-heavy sources to help critically judge them (zoomed out resources).
Storytelling was important before when pitching an idea, but now it’s essential.
“The pursuit of unlocking technological breakthroughs must be done with cultural resonance in mind, not just for the sake of the technology itself”.
Emerson on humans confining themselves to narrow specialisations.