Spencer Yen

As I was reading about Eno and others last year, I was sort of hoping to come across a clever trick you could do to keep going like this. But the truth is painful and simple. Eno is able to remain interesting because he’s willing to risk everything he’s achieved again and again.

It is an endless loop where:

1. Eno does something random that no one is

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The solution to excessive self-awareness is to turn your attention outward instead of inward. You cannot out-shout your inner critic; you have to drown it out with another voice entirely. Luckily, there are other voices around you all the time, emanating from other humans. The more you pay attention to what they’re doing and saying, the less... See more

To me one of the clearest signs of the top was that everybody was raising incubation funds. [Editor’s Note: Incubation funds build companies internally and recruit a CEO to join the startup after it’s been established and tested.] It was like, “Oh, I’m raising a bunch of money for incubation.” I’m like, “Oh, I remember that I raised some incubation... See more

“Do you know the biggest mistake most musicians make?” he said. “Their first album comes from love, heartbreak, passion, or depression. They have no expectation of how the world will respond. They write it from the heart, and if it catches on, they’re validated by the world. But then they start writing their second album, and they don’t necessarily... See more

The best prompts now are quite simple, leaving AI to handle how to answer a question. Meanwhile AI chat suffers from the same problem from command lines to Alexa - how can i remember what to ask? Only this time the problem is exacerbated by the fact that AI is capable of practically anything making the task less one of remembering commands but a... See more

Because give me the "wisdom of the well-informed" over the "wisdom of the masses" any day. The masses, as they say, are asses. And part of that jackassery is the fact that they can be gamed. Or worse, bought and sold.

The common theme in the development of each major platform (electricity, cars, planes, the web, mobile, etc.) is that we build what we can given the tools available to us at the moment. In Where Do Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson refers to this as The Adjacent Possible. In other words, you can open the door to the next room, but you can’t... See more