Isaac Friedman-Heiman

“There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.

Committed people do what interested people won’t.”

as usual @cdixon was right about this 10 yrs ago (see: btc, dl, biomonitoring...) its also obvious something my smartest friends have been doing on weekends since 2020 is context bonsai i.e creating/trimming/tending their local garden/repo of data for their future personal AIs to fine tune on

The machine Greenoaks has fine-tuned ever since is purpose-built to correct for that early error. “If there have been 100 billion people that have lived on Earth, and between 10,000 to 100,000 who have affected the technological progress of humankind,” he explained, “our job is to find the few hundred living now that could join the pantheon of grea... See more

“I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea. I am supposed to be one of the more fertile inventors of big ideas, but in my long career as a copywriter I have not had more than 20, if that. Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or... See more

Yvon Chouinard on not forcing it:

“A serious surfer doesn’t plan to go surfing next Tuesday at 2 o’clock. You go surfing when there are waves and wind and the tide is right.”

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics cites the Business and Professional Services industry at 13% of US GDP making this sector alone, dominated by repetitive language tasks, ~10x the size of the software industry.