Eli

One marker that I’m seeing someone clearly is when I understand how their strengths are also their weaknesses, how their genius lives right next to their dysfunction. I know that I’m further away from clarity when I am overly excited or overly skeptical.

A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on... See more

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."-Frederick Douglass

If you want to understand someone’s identity, ask: Where do you want to belong?

To thrive in that world, the skills that matter most are:

- Deep familiarity with the tools

- Staying abreast of changes

- Developing a great intuition for AI tools, where things are going, and how to make use of it

- Resilience and the ability to learn things fast and evolve yourself with technology

In recent years, I've begun to suspect that a life consumed by ideas will not bring me closer to the divine. The freedom I seek, it seems, doesn't lie in my laying about, steeped in my own brain, but rather in the stillness I've found in the more mundane moments of my life. In these moments, there is no euphoria, nor even any active reflection on... See more