Joe Stampone

In the age of AI, the pendulum is swinging hard towards analog, simple, human

• The most valuable, highest leverage thing you can do is build a team.

• Make the one call that eliminates 100 follow up decisions.

• I know there are exceptions to this but to do anything at scale you need to simplify what you are asking from your employees. They need to specialize. Ask them to be very good at one or two things and ignore everything

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” — Seneca

Some people said it could never happen. My argument was always not that an LLM couldn’t create something of equal merit, but that the fact that a novel was written by Jane Austen is a big part of what gives it its value. It’s not just about the end result; it’s about where the end result comes from.

“The goal is not to retire. It’s to find work you don’t want to retire from.”

Most people quit before they reach their best work.

Excellence lives in doing a bit more than others.

The data you see from the air may create the illusion of certainty, but it's the data you live on the ground that creates the experience.

Those two professional opportunities you're considering may seem similar on the surface—same title, same compensation, same cultural values—but the long-term fit will be defined by how those values hold up when

Ken Griffin on how obsession wins:

“If you're not passionate about the field you're engaged in you won't have the grit or perseverance to compete with those who are.”

2.     Fuck, this is good, on why we want robots at work but humans in art, via Chris Paik. Tl;dr: in the economy of necessity, humans are friction. In the economy of meaning, they’re the point.

We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber