Katharina Sommerkamp
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Katharina Sommerkamp
Prestige is just fossilized inspiration. If you do anything well enough, you'll make it prestigious. Plenty of things we now consider prestigious were anything but at first. Jazz comes to mind — though almost any established art form would do. So just do what you like, and let prestige take care of itself.
paulgraham.com • How to Do What You Love
Will AI eventually develop its own sense of purpose? Could it one day care about outcomes beyond its programming?
Julie Zhuo • When AI Has Better Taste Than You
Who can determine the why except the self?
Julie Zhuo • When AI Has Better Taste Than You
No one is thinking about you as much as you are.
Morgan Housel • Little Rules About Big Things
If you have an idea but think “someone has already done that,” just remember there are 1,010 published biographies of Winston Churchill.
Morgan Housel • Little Rules About Big Things
Astronaut Scott Kelly on intelligence:
“The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligence of every person in the room.”
I’m no longer content to ask, “What do you think about X?” Instead, I ask, “How did you come to believe X?”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
There’s a way to do it better. Find it.
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