Collections
hiring, meetings, management frameworks, etc
When judging people for leadership positions, or for jobs that require strongly synthetic abilities, you should consider how well they are capable of
when people criticize us we ask one thing: do we actually think we're right? if yes, we keep going. if we think they have a point, we fix it fast. but
quotes and inspiration on writing
The mathematical genius Alexander Grothendieck once had a metaphor for solving problems. He suggested that instead of forcing open an impossibly hard
“The temptation to save something for a future piece is a signal to use it now” - paraphrasing Annie Dillard
(A linked pair of writing dictums: “Don’t make things happen for no reason” and “Having made something happen, make it matter.”)
The temptation to do so cannot be overstated, but I must resist the invitation to fall in love with my own reflection on the page. I must also resist
collection for things that don’t quite fit in another collection… yet.
College isn't really about job training; college is about expanding your intellectual skills and building up your knowledge base to use them on; "furn
Intelligence is as intelligence does. If it helps you feel unique and special to sit there and tell yourself “AI can’t think!”, then go ahead. And sur
quotes and reading on boredom, curiosity, interestingness, and meaning
“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that
boredom is to creatives what cardio is to athletes
You do not have the context to appreciate those works. That is fine, but no reason to dismiss that which you do not understand. The better you under
a collection of questions worth keeping
What project would you be happy to devote 50 years of your life to, despite (or because of) it only being 10% done when you die? Ht @hannu @gwern and
Is there anything very different from what you are doing now that you thought about doing (or think about doing)?
How would I approach my work differently if focused on growth and engagement
"They would never know how lucky they had been. For a lifetime, mankind had achieved as much happiness as any race can ever know. It had been the Golden Age. But gold was also the color of sunset, of autumn: and only Karellen’s ears could catch the first wailings of the winter storms."
"and George began to wonder, in capital letters, just What Was Going On."
“High modernism (also known as high modernity) is a form of modernity, characterized by an unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means t
Hypothesis 1: The "golden age" hypothesisThe "golden age" hypothesis says there are one or more "golden ages" from the past that were superior at prod
Scenius, or Communal Genius
collection for multitudes, polymaths, generalists, and being a full self
"Once you label me, you negate me" - Søren Kierkegaard
"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" - Walt Whitman
Alex Komoroske — Complex Adaptivity All The Way Down