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With AI coding, “It’s no longer solving little logic puzzles,” writes Scheff. “More like being plugged into the Matrix, gaining new abilities without

the world is full of smaller construction projects and local builders. And here the great sci-fi author Cory Doctorow has something useful to say. In

The intrinsic founder thinks like a craftsperson; their business is a container for their practice – a vehicle for an ongoing journey of meaning and

saw an inspiring video that said you need to have 4 hobbies. create, consume, cavort, commune create: bring something to life consume: appreciate

Time it took to reach 100 million users worldwide: Telephone: 75 years Mobile phone: 16 years World Wide Web: 7 years iTunes: 6.5 years Twitter: 5 ye

Jobs: In the future, it won’t be an act of faith. The hard part of what we’re up against now is that people ask you about specifics and you can’t tell

Before opening AI, he starts with a blank page and writes out every thought he has about an idea. Then he brings in AI as a virtual writers’ room to c

Let Claude move your website to a cheaper hostWhen Webflow charged Mike $360 to renew his personal site, he decided to move it. Claude was able to mig

His fix is what he calls the shoggoth strategy (named for the fearsome creatures in H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction): Present one clear specialty to others,

The circadian clock is designed to ensure survival. To do this, it needs to anticipate what is going to happen. It doesn’t respond to you waking up; i

As I’ve aged into and through my fifties, I’ve become a big believer in limber hamstrings as a foundation of maintaining neuromuscular fitness and eit

I sit on the floor, legs straight in front of me, feet about a foot apart, and I grab my toes. Or, if I can’t reach toes, I grab ankles. If they’re al

are you climbing a mountain for the world to see you or for you to see the world?

A measure of success tied to a feeling rather than a number feels enlivening precisely because it’s about what makes you come alive rather than what y

Agency is the capacity to act. Gaining agency is gaining the capacity to do something different from the rigid path of events that simply happen to yo

"Just doing something once today, just steering your kayak over the next few inches of water, is the only way you’ll ever become the kind of person wh

If I look at the people I felt drawn to when we were working on the agency essay, I think it is better to describe what they are exceptional at as com

There is no tragedy in having to start again, as long as you start again. - Albert Camus

“Soon anybody will be able to make anything they want.” Well they already can do that and they don’t.

Consistency says, “We always look like this.”Coherence says, “We evolve, and you still know it is us.”

We are in an age of noise. The frameworks that got us here, of jobs-to-be-done or product-market fit, will be insufficient going forward. For founders

the world is full of smaller construction projects and local builders. And here the great sci-fi author Cory Doctorow has something useful to say. In

With Sublime’s ‘Chat’ function, I’ll export particularly big collections to my LLM to kickstart the sense-making process, or when I feel overwhelmed b

I want a way of stoking the fire, and not just that — a way of devoting myself to the fire, of courting it and nurturing it, and of teaching it how to

Knowledge is best applied through execution, which means whatever doesn’t help you make progress on your projects is probably detracting from them.

Knowledge is best applied through execution, which means whatever doesn’t help you make progress on your projects is probably detracting from them.

Personally, I suck at efficiency (doing things quickly). Here’s my coping mechanism and process for maximizing efficacy (doing the right things): 1)

But think back to whatever you did this past January. Is it still on your mind? It likely isn’t, because January is a very poor boss of October. I’m a

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.

But once we’ve built our identity on lasting, we can’t describe our own contraction when it starts. We reach for explanations that protect the belief:

increasingly convinced the work of a truly great editor or writing teacher is to keep asking “why do you care?” until you reach the live wire under th

During the first two centuries of the Roman Empire, there spread a practice known as hypomnēmata, a type of notetaking system, used as a tool for medi

Whenever we design an interface that requires high learnability, we always look at computer games for inspiration. Game designers are extremely good a

"A creative life is a life where you routinely choose the path of curiosity over the path of fear. Not twice or three times, but daily. Systematical

When we are trying to understand a new way of seeing the world, it is hard for anyone else to pinpoint what we need to know to get it.

This is what I call the “curiosity conflict”: the phenomenon where your greatest asset for creativity—your curiosity—can get in the way of your produc

one problem we have with our collective concept of intelligence is that many people have not been taught to discern the difference between thinking (p