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As AI democratise software creation, a world with a billion developers will not lack for builders as much as it will lack for artisans.

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the Chinese characters for crisis: (危机) is just a combination of "danger" (危险) and "opportunity" (机会) -- together

I think the reason the word ‘second brain’ feels insufficient is because it is so-without-heart by definition — that’s what the brain is! It is pure mind. I feel like what would make this phrase scratch the itch you are hoping to scratch is something that weaves the amount of HEART and love you and your team are putting into this product.

When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.

I think about this quote from Bret Victor all the time:

I've spent a lot of time over the years desperately trying to think of a "thing" to change the world. I now know why the search was fruitless -- things don't change the world. People change the world by using things. The focus must be on the "using", not the "thing".

Tolstoy, in What is Art?

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced, or is producing, the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression… Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea o