Sanj
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I’m quaking in my boots, but I’m here.
Sanj
It’s okay to be a beginner at the things you are interested in.
There’s no reason to feel intimidated by people more advanced than you are, because they too were in your place at one point.
Keep learning and growing and expanding in whatever it is that you love and let nothing and no one... See more
Diogosubstack.comOne reason per-project procrastination is so dangerous is that it usually camouflages itself as work. You're not just sitting around doing nothing; you're working industriously on something else. So per-project procrastination doesn't set off the alarms that per-day procrastination does. You're too busy to notice it.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Doing my “main work” has kept me from doing “my work”
The Internet Will End Soon…
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Just so beautiful, and I’ve only begun reading
The furor she sparked with a few paragraphs written for The New Yorker after the Sept. 11 attacks — words that seemed obnoxiously rational at a time of horror and grief — had not yet died down.
A.O. SCOTT • How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think
The world often dictates that there is a right way - to think, to feel, to be. To grieve. Perform any of this in deviation from what’s deemed acceptable, and suddenly, you become unacceptable. But what’s the point in living in a time of free speech and an opinion at every corner if what you truly feel can actually find little place in the world?
Develop a habit of working on your own projects. Don't let "work" mean something other people tell you to do. If you do manage to do great work one day, it will probably be on a project of your own. It may be within some bigger project, but you'll be driving your part of it.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
The popular Venn diagram in use today was actually never even part of Ikigai. It was created by a Spanish astrologist named Andres Zuzunaga. Marc Winn, an innovation consultant, then married the Venn diagram with the Japanese concept of Ikigai, and it just took off from there.
But where did Ikigai itself come from? The earliest attribution I could... See more
But where did Ikigai itself come from? The earliest attribution I could... See more
Ikigai Ruined My Life
Project-Based Existence in an Ikigai Life
Breaking the myth of Ikigai - SOURCE CHECK
This should follow from the excitingness rule. Obviously the most exciting story to write will be the one you want to read. The reason I mention this case explicitly is that so many people get it wrong. Instead of making what they want, they try to make what some imaginary, more sophisticated audience wants. And once you go down that route, you're... See more
This is the exact point I was trying to make - what's the point in creating for an imaginary exacting audience, especially when you can create for yourself instead.
TL;DR: Hot Take: Blaming ChatGPT Misses the Point
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ChatGPT is a language model - it works on predicting word sequences, and astoundingly comes up with things that seems ingenious to us. Like it’s thought of something we’re unable to think of. Is there a way for us to emulate this word-based thinking of ChatGPT to sharpen creativity?