lisa

Your job isn't to arrange everything into neat categories—it's to create meaningful contexts.

That means not organizing by what something is (topics like 'productivity' or ‘technology’) but by the context you’ll be in when you need it—'references for my next essay,' 'inspiration for client work’, or half-baked ideas you’re still marinating on

People are starving. To run in the dark across grassy fields holding sizzling sparklers up to the stars, dive into the deep cold blue sea, curl up on the couch with a good book, a big mug of tea, and a nest of blankets near a crackling fireplace. Return to the pure presence of childhood. Experiencing for the sake of experiencing. Unaccountable to... See more

Thinking about our career, we might think in abstractions like “a job.” But really a career is made up of a bunch of different things like a salary, an identity, relationships, status, a sense of meaning, and so on. It is often easier to find a fit if you unbundle these things, and think about the parts that matter to you individually. Do you... See more

The real question is, where does scarcity still exist? It exists where it has always existed—in the distribution layer, with the limits on human attention. Artificial intelligence can generate abundance in creation, it can even create new currencies, but it cannot convert attention into currency. Only human beings can do that. 

I’ll go even further... See more