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“How many things which are good when small get better by becoming bigger? That local restaurant you love can’t scale to millions of users. Do you really want your favourite indie band to aspire to stadium-level fame? People get cheaper books, and an independent bookseller closes its doors to make way for a giant warehouse full of underpaid people
... See moreMost people want to be fit, most people aren’t. Most people want to build a successful business, most people won’t.
Bryce Roberts • Most People Won't
The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.
Robert Anton Wilson • Prometheus Rising
- Perhaps the most common desire was for a brainstorming partner; participants envisioned a tool that provided ideas a writer could riff off or helped with overcoming writer’s block. DH noted how brainstorming functionality would be especially useful for novice writers. Multiple participants described to us their process for working with human
... See moreCreative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers
INTERVIEWER: As your experience about writing accrues, what would you say increases with knowledge?
BALDWIN: You learn how little you know. It becomes much more difficult because the hardest thing in the world is simplicity. And the most fearful thing, too. It becomes more difficult because you have to strip yourself of all your disguises, some of... See more
BALDWIN: You learn how little you know. It becomes much more difficult because the hardest thing in the world is simplicity. And the most fearful thing, too. It becomes more difficult because you have to strip yourself of all your disguises, some of... See more
Cynthia Haven • James Baldwin: “You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.”
My prediction...
Selling knowledge will be the biggest business trend in 2021.
And it won’t be in tech circles.
It will explode in "mainstream" professions like mental health, fitness, interior design, tennis coaches, etc.
Here’s why... See more
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“Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried.”
David Graeber • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
It isn’t how much you know that matters. What matters is how much access you have to what other people know. It isn’t just how intelligent your team members are; it is how much of that intelligence you can draw out and put to use.