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Compared to this, Kelly’s version of doing his life’s work seems so joyful, so buoyant. So much less ... angsty. There’s no suffering or ego. It’s not about finding a hole in the market or a path to global domination. The yard stick isn’t based on net worth or shareholder value or number of users or employees. It’s based on an internal satisfaction... See more
Flounder Mode
I asked Kelly about the tradeoffs of focusing on a single thing if you want to be great (which is what I had been getting at before). “Greatness is overrated,” he said, and I perked up. “It’s a form of extremism, and it comes with extreme vices that I have no interest in. Steve Jobs was a jerk. Bob Dylan is a jerk.”
Flounder Mode
I started off by asking him whether there is a unifying theme to his seemingly diffuse life’s work, which has included old-school magazines and books, bleeding-edge technology, conservationism, photographing Asia, and teaching. “Following my interests,” he said simply.
It sounded awfully cutesy for someone so accomplished. I said that there is an id... See more
It sounded awfully cutesy for someone so accomplished. I said that there is an id... See more
Flounder Mode
Flounder Mode
joincolossus.com
The people who become legendary in their interests never feel they have arrived.
Kevin Kelly
Flounder Mode
LLMs have three new capabilities that change the nature of search:
- Intuitive leaps: LLMs can answer poorly written questions with spooky-accurate answers. Even when users only vaguely gesture towards what they are trying to say, LLMs can intuit what they actually mean.
- Ingest and understand new materials: Because it’s easy to integrate an LLM into
Evan Armstrong • Vibes-based Search
from Craigslist cofounder Zach Fried
This is also the blueprint for a happy co-existence with the machines. The machines handle the optimization, we take care of the meaning. They execute, we dream. They calculate, and we create. This beautiful symbiosis will be the seed of everything because when humans live from their creative nature, we build societies that breathe. When we stay di... See more