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/// 100 QUESTIONS /// to gain clarity via Alex Morris: Why are we doing this?  Ask that of yourself and the team with regularity. What’s the simplest 

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writer and programmer Simon Sarris on the value of effort: "If you make lists of lofty goals, it can be easy to leave them to accumulate, as happens

The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the

This is the ultimate trapdoor in the hall of fame; to become a prisoner of one's own persona. The desire for recognition in an increasingly atomized w

This is the ultimate trapdoor in the hall of fame; to become a prisoner of one's own persona. The desire for recognition in an increasingly atomized w

There was a period in his career when Seth Rogen would feel terrible after watching a great movie. A writer, actor, and director himself, he’d burn wi

A recent article in The Military Times revealed that there are already autistic leaders in senior positions in the intelligence community, and how mat

This is an example of what’s called a “divergence test” (as opposed to a test like the Raven’s, which asks you to sort through a list of possibilities

People don’t rise from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage. The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by the

As a first point, the Hook, we get to know Harry Potter and the story’s context. He lives with his aunt and uncle in a basement. He later discovers th

If you’re totally lost on what to focus on getting better at, focus on braiding. Narrative-style writing (fiction and nonfiction) has four major compo

Don't Edit Before You're Done with a DraftOn that note, don't waste time editing ANYTHING -- not even a misspelled word -- until you're done with a fu

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the e

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the e

it was my daughter’s love that freed me from my delusions of grandeur. It liberated me from the tyranny of trying to prove myself. Since her birth, I

we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self t

But I was learning that succeeding at a research institution like Penn required skills that had little to do with science. You needed the ability to s

This locks toy companies into a challenging bet. Every year, they have to a) predict trends, b) invent them, and c) commit capital to them. All withou

Picking a few hits requires a tolerance for many bad ideas, mediocre ideas, and even good ideas cursed with bad timing. Above all, it requires a busin

As a result of these much larger outcomes we've built a movie-making system that is focused on big hits because the business model can't really absorb

My house plants became healthier and died less often once I stopped tracking their watering, stopped trying to use moisture meters or other tools, and

The argument is that accountings of history are not accurate, and can never be accurate, thanks to the narrative fallacy. By its nature, narrative nec

More recently I’ve kept repeating to myself, don’t abandon your vision. Decisiveness is knowing myself well enough to take the plunge, then the rest i

Hey! Remember when we did a video on MY top 5 fav ADHD strategies? (https://t.co/LeHyoig78P) Well, we wanna do another one featuring YOUR favourite AD

twelve years a slave, from his birth, in Dallas County, Alabama, in 1853 or so, until Union cavalry swept through the cotton plantation where he was o

🚀 1. You don't need permission to go after wild dreamsLife is short and it's more fun when you're doing something bold. So if you have a grand vision

In the summer of 2004, Dell, a full two years retired from the league, was fully available to teach his eldest son the ways of the jump shot. Ground z

Jim Simons on luck: "People underestimate its importance except when things go badly. Then they’re very happy to ascribe it to bad luck, which it may

Pursuits That Can’t Scale

I took off all of 2023. Focused on health, family, travel… yada yada yada it was great. But during that time my brain atrophied, my work ethic diminis

In using standards, it is important to ask for precedents. “Have you ever done this before?” and “Have you ever made an exception?” should be part of

There are 3 ways to successfully generate outsized returns in venture: 1) Find an obviously great company before anyone else. 2) Compete to win an a

You can’t escape work You can escape the employment system. But if you think you’ve left work behind there will be a reckoning The desire to contri

ChatGPT allows you to automate tedious thoughts. Whenever you are mildly curious about a question or annoyed at not having a piece of information, you

编程这项工作非常适合 AI 增强或替代,原因如下:1/ 编码本质上要求工程师将问题分解成更小、更易管理的任务;2/ 有大量现有的训练数据;3/ 任务需要判断力和基于规则的工作相结合;4/ 解决方案利用可组合的模块(比如开源软件库等);5/ 在某些情况下,工作成果可以通过经验测试其正确性。这意味着可靠

AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence. Emphasizing the collectivity (som

anxiety surrounding AI art is less about computers becoming humans and more about humans becoming more robotic. social media is robotic, formulaic. ev

As Kevin Abosch, the Irish conceptual artist and pioneer of blockchain art, aptly put it: “The wise artist doesn’t fear emergent technology, but rathe

“Where there is selection there is art.” —BH Liddell Hart.

Poetry is the art of proving that a few words are worth more than a thousand pictures.

When pursuing a 1-of-1 vision, you aren’t going to be the most popular or celebrated person. You’re going to be an oddity that the most in-the-know pe

It’s possible for other projects to be sexier, more lucrative, and more attention getting, however their purposes are less unique than yours.

I appreciated Nvidia’s founder talking the other week about what it means to work in a zero billion dollar industry. It means really believing in some

Lore AI Newsletter #7: Stable Diffusion 2.0

Writing with Machines

i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my "inner child" some reflections below:

I think the best way to understand what an “idea” really is as a node in a network of other ideas, and large language models like GPT-3 are the best m