Paul Sturrock
@psturrock
Founder climb.works
Paul Sturrock
nichenavigation.substack.com
Some of you may have heard me talk about the advice I was given: live every day as if it’s your last. I understand the spirit of it, but in practice, it filled me with a kind of frantic pressure—an insistence that every moment be meaningful, every family dinner special. It began to feel like a kind of existential claustrophobia—no room for the... See more
LLM Knowledge Bases
Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as markdown and images). The... See more
Andrej Karpathyx.com
Exploring consciousness as felt uncertainty, its plural forms, and the bodily roots of conscious experience and feelings.
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I want to get at another theory of what consciousness is for. I think the language in the book is consciousness is felt uncertainty. Yeah, isn't that beautiful? That is very beautiful, although in practice I find it very unpleasant. But what does that mean?
So the phrase comes from a scientist named Mark Soames who is a neuroscientist and a
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Using slow, inefficient practices in writing and reading to cultivate the mind and invite serendipitous insights.
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So the goal isn't to optimize it. The goal isn't to make this the most searchable thing possible. I just need to like get to some new level awareness. So like that's how I use paper notes. That's how I use texting friends about what I'm working on.
And then if it produces some written artifact, like if I produce a newsletter or a book review or
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ai and Creativity
Nobody assigns roles. Nobody writes a project brief. But before long, a dozen of them are building something together, and it emerged from nothing more than proximity, time, and permission.
Mind The Gap
You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.
Anu • Franchise Thinking
Loneliness isn’t the physical absence of other people, he said—it’s the sense that you’re not sharing anything that matters with anyone else.
Johann Hari • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
There is a filmmaker that worked for Pixar that put this beautifully, and he used the metaphor of doing anything difficult, but for your high purposes of building a company. He says, "If you're sailing across the ocean and your goal is to avoid weather and waves, then why the hell are you sailing?" You have to embrace that sailing means that you... See more