Leo Guinan

But AI generated art cannot be used legally commercially because it cannot be copyrighted.

It's hard to sit there complaining about paying money if you can see it costs $300 get the accountant to file that thing we need, and that the person you enjoy talking to gets paid this much. Seeing it all transparently is quite powerful.

Ultimately, the non-transactional thing works on the basis of trust. You have to have trust first, before you can get that virtuous cycle going, because you have to start by giving and not knowing what you'll get back. It's something like an abundance mindset, trust in the community. But at the same time, if you give and you don't get meaningful... See more

The biggest factor that slows down a company is how much time and energy it takes to communicate goals and expectations.

Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’”—C. S. Lewis

I could write an entire blog post on this point alone. In fact, I did earlier this year! I truly believe that obsessing over design is one of the two most common traits I see among successful creators.

But you can’t optimize systems in a context that’s changing, especially if it’s changing in unpredictable ways. Removing inefficiencies when circumstances are as anticipated means that there isn’t much slack in the system to respond when the unanticipated happens. Optimization is intrinsically brittle , because it’s about closely matching the

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Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital.

In a world of near-infinite choice, we don't look for reasons why we SHOULD trust someone...we take the shorter route.We look for reasons why we SHOULDN'T trust someone so that we can rule them out quickly and move on.We start our evaluation with one question: "Is this person legitimate?" And then we actively look for reasons to believe that you're... See more