Julian Paul
@julian
Rational optimist building internet things.
Julian Paul
julianpaul.me
“It’s faster to just do it myself”
Here’s a simple rubric for outsourcing:
If you’re never going to need to do this again, and it’s easier to do it than to instruct someone else to do it, by all means, do it yourself.
If doing it yourself will give you joy or satisfaction that is greater than the productivity boost you’ll get from leverage or better... See more
Here’s a simple rubric for outsourcing:
If you’re never going to need to do this again, and it’s easier to do it than to instruct someone else to do it, by all means, do it yourself.
If doing it yourself will give you joy or satisfaction that is greater than the productivity boost you’ll get from leverage or better... See more
“It’s faster to just do it myself”
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
“I guarantee you that at some point everything is going to go south on you. You're going to say this is it, this is how I end. Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin” (Mark Watney, The Martian
it is my strong belief that in a world of constant change and nearing AGI, rather than obsessing over teaching my children specific skills to compete among global elites, the most important skill I can teach them is to become unfuckwithable.
unfuckwithable (adj.): When you are truly at peace with yourself. Nothing anyone says or does bothers you... See more
unfuckwithable (adj.): When you are truly at peace with yourself. Nothing anyone says or does bothers you... See more
Judith Dada • Raising Unfuckwithable Kids in the Age of AI
Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose. They exist in different degrees in every writer, and in any one writer the proportions will vary from time to time, according to the atmosphere in which he is living. They are:
(i) Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be... See more
(i) Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be... See more
Animal Farm • Why I Write | the Orwell Foundation
Want to help someone when they’re anxious? Ask them if they want empathy or they want a solution. Don't offer advice for how to solve a problem to someone who in that moment just wants a pat on the back.
Shane Parrish • Understanding Others' Emotions | Lisa Feldman Barrett
Maybe that's what this essay is really about: the journey from "What will this say about me?" to "What does this want to become?" From "How can I prove I'm good enough?" to "How can I be present enough to do justice to this moment, this challenge, this opportunity to engage with something larger than my own small anxieties?"