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A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything. It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully avera
My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter
Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon
The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo
What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass
So much value and love for the process of writing and what it does for the coherence between heart, brain, imagination, lived reality, unseen, and see
You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.
Writing is a task that takes both objective and subjective intelligence. LLMs ace the objective parts the same way they ace every test; you can’t faul
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The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur
Every system young men touch today extracts value while promising creation. College extracts tuition while promising knowledge. Jobs extract time whil
Someone said “it’s a privilege to be exhausted doing something you love” and I told them “go to hell.” Our bodies are not built to be exhausted. We
If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun
Hindsight is 2020I don’t mean “hindsight is 20/20.” I’m talking about the year 2020.See, early in 2023, I wrote an article about starting and growing
A solid foundation requires a robust team structure. Hiring individuals who not only have the requisite skills but also align with the company’s cultu
The five principles of prompting I developed work equally well as management techniques for humans: Give direction. Describe the desired style in de
People who are good at solving poorly defined problems don't get the same kind of kudos. They don’t get any special titles or clubs. There is no test
2) Clear Roles & Decision Rights Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out.
Through DJing, sampling, mixing, music embodies so much of what we’re exploring. It’s our job as builders to find references that “re-unlock” the valu
All authors are just very refined plagiarists, recombining tokens based on formulas to produce strings that copy patterns found in their input. “Intel
When something fits into a lucid, logical continuum, it’s generally remembered for how it (a) reinterprets the entity that influenced its creation, an
“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give th
An idea cannot truly go mainstream until it’s wrapped in a “meme” that compels people to recognize, understand, share, and invest time in it.
Memes may dominate how we communicate online, but in the last few years, their rapid spread has also necessitated the birth of a parallel, shadow ecos
Media and Machines.
Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will
we’ve always been influenced in what we find beautiful or valuable or important, of course, but what’s new is the speed at which one is inundated with
You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on insid
How could gaining knowledge amount to anything other than discovering what was already there? How could the truth of a statement or a theory be anythi
That we can write the prompt or query is not an emblem of our freedom but of our surrender. We give up on what we think the words mean and let the mac
That is, they understand the purpose of chatbots and generative models to be the ability to force other people to see a particular version of reality.
ideas only become clear once you begin to work on them
The friction between idea and ability that AI evangelists promise to eradicate is not a problem suffered by a disadvantaged few. It’s the fundamental
the choice humanity faces in every age is between the idea of power and the power of ideas
“I would make sushi in my dreams. I would jump out of bed at night with ideas.” Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Ferrero, and Colin Chapman all did the s
So when people opt to devote their energy to tracking the latest TikTok star or scrolling content instead of nurturing interpersonal relationships, th
Social media stopped being primarily about connecting socially a long time ago. People still use a range of technologies to connect to friends and bui
Taste for Privacy: How Context, Identity, and Lived-Experience Shape Information Sharing Preferences
The social-platform layer offers the feeling of encounter with the friction surgically removed. As one analysis of Gen Z’s parasocial turn put it, onl
On the one hand, Octavia Butler has this to say: “The only lasting truth is Change.” On the other hand, Bill Bernbach would counter as such: “A com
pretty clear that collecting cultural ephemera is a new consumer behavior that’s going to become a core part of life on the internet
Something I’ve noticed, however, is that exclusively using TikTok doesn’t mean I’m only exposed to TikTok-specific trends and culture. In fact, many o
Introducing a Rocks, Sand, and Water Framework for AttentionWe always talk about consumers’ attention as being finite, but how is it divided?I imagine
Create ownership in everything. Revenue shares in projects. Equity in micro-companies. Stakes in outcomes. The Old Game keeps you permanently renting
When individual entry is impossible, collective entry becomes optimal. When traditional financing fails, alternative structures win. The groups doing
One thing that might surprise you about dominance is how companies get it. You might think it comes from rapacious win-at-all costs business practices
There’s this cool idea in software that you “ship your org chart” called Conway’s law: “Organizations, who design systems, are constrained to produce
What really broke down in Google’s original vision is the incentive system they were building towards. There is a very specific subset of information
PEOPLE IN SYSTEMS DO NOT DO WHAT THE SYSTEM SAYS THEY ARE DOING. University professors chase grants, not student enlightenment. VCs nurture personal b
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By yielding a generational wealth creation opportunity that was a strange hybrid of a lottery jackpot and self-made fortune, crypto created an ideolog
For example, it was 30 years after the invention of film that someone first tried telling stories with it — before that, film was mainly used as a dem
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How do you explain the web to people who have never used it? You make it as simple and as accessible as possible.
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, a
That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rathe
5/ You try to figure things out rather than feel through them How do you drop a hot frying pan? You feel it, and you will let go. All your bad hab
Among the troubadours, there was a different class of people, called knowms. Thecouncil was told that the knowms had some special skills that may help
information becomes knowledge only through processes of verification and critical analysis.
This is what knowledge decay looks like. Not burning libraries, but a slow, structural dissolution of the connections between claims and their sources
