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Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow

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How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think | Kalzumeus Software

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Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons

Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that

The economist, philosopher, and writer Henry Hazlitt sums up the dilemma: In the modern world knowledge has been growing so fast and so enormously, in almost every field, that the probabilities are immensely against anybody, no matter how innately clever, being able to make a contribution in any one field unless he devotes all his time to it for ye... See more

Shane Parrish • The Generalized Specialist: How Shakespeare, Da Vinci, and Kepler Excelled

Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age

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Graham Duncan: Talent Whisperer

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As yet another scholarly excerpter, the Jesuit Jeremias Drexel, put it, Notae propriae, notae optimae: ‘your own notes are the best notes’. Finally, the well-arranged common-place functioned as a kind of externalised memory, which, as historian Ann Blair notes, ‘liberated the reader from the task of memorising the selected passages’. This in turn ‘

Roland Allen • The Notebook