Divya
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Divya
"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
Creation isn’t just about output. It’s a process of becoming.
Anu • Make Something Heavy
Even if you can’t experience the thing directly, try going for information-dense sources with high amounts of detail and
facts
, and then reason up from those facts. On foreign policy, read books published by university presses -- not
The Atlantic
or
The Economist
or whatever. You can read those after you’ve developed a model of the thing yourself,... See more
facts
, and then reason up from those facts. On foreign policy, read books published by university presses -- not
The Atlantic
or
The Economist
or whatever. You can read those after you’ve developed a model of the thing yourself,... See more
nabeelqu.co • Nabeelqu
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).
In this new era, founders—of every kind—must become tastemakers, and venture capitalists the arbiters of taste. Because in a world where
anyone can create anything
, taste is what matters.
anyone can create anything
, taste is what matters.
Anu Atluru • Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley.
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”.
state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
archive.is
Emerson on humans confining themselves to narrow specialisations.