Han proposes contemplation outside of capitalism, because contemplation in the service of productivity is a form of auto-exploitation that defeats its purpose.
passion without boundaries will lead you to burnout.
He started by saying that McKinsey was not a business, and we shouldn’t think of it as business.
McKinsey was a professional service firm, he insisted, and it’s goal was to serve others .
Success isn't about building tools anymore—it's about owning problems end to end.
People talk about how to build a great career, few talk about how to build a great life
What a modern LLM does during training is, essentially, very very quickly skim the textbook, the words just flying by , not spending much brain power on it.
Rather, when you or I read that math textbook, we read a couple pages slowly; then have an internal monologue about the material in our heads and talk about it with a few study-buddies; read
Connect this to Erik Torenberg “How to Build Moats”
I needed to figure out how to shut up and listen. I needed to cultivate the same profound curiosity she had about me if I wanted to keep her around long term. But that wasn’t who I was, was it!