Tejas Gawande
- Consumer demand for smaller scale and human-crafted versions of everything will grow in an AI world. While the future of work might lend itself to small business creation, letâs ****not forget the demand side of the equation. We are going to crave artisanal and story-driven sources and experiences. Why? As every big company floods the zone of our a... See more
from The Era of Scaling Without Growing & the Meaning Economy by Scott Belsky
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AI might drive growth of more 'artisanal entrepreneurs'
- A lot of care went into curating the environment around the childrenâfascinating guests were invited, libraries were built, machines were brought home and disassembledâbut the children were left with a lot of time to freely explore the interests that arose within these milieus.
A qualified guess is that they spent between one and four hours daily in... See morefrom Childhoods of exceptional people
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Exception people in their childhood had time to roam about and relied heavily on self-directed learning
- Exceptional people grow up in exceptional milieus
This seems to be true for >95 percent of the people I looked at.
These naked apes, the humans, are intensely social animals. They obsessively internalize values, ideas, skills, and desires from the people who surround them. It is therefore not surprising that those who grow up to be exception... See morefrom Childhoods of exceptional people
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The adults had high expectations of the children; they assumed they had the capacity to understand complex topics, and therefore invited them into serious conversations and meaningful work, believing them capable of growing competent rapidly.
- âEverything I do is just personal taste and itâs what [my book The Creative Act] is about. Really, for [people and artists] to trust in themselves. Make something that speaks to themselves. And hopefully someone else will like it. But you canât second-guess your own taste for what someone else is going to like. It wonât be good. Weâre not smart eno... See more
from Write For Yourself
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Trust your taste. Do whatâs personal to you, take it as far you can go.
- Or, as Nietzsche put it in an aphorism cited by Oppezzo and Schwartz, âAll truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.â
I wouldnât go so far, but the spirit of the sentiment seems true enough. Iâve lately heard a great deal about how writing is a form of thinking. There is a stronger sense in which one could take that claim, but it at least means... See morefrom The Ambling Mind
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Both writing and waking, each in their own way, seem to calibrate the tempo of our minds to the rhythm of thought
- Companionship content is the most durable in its closeness to human experience, to being around people . When we search for a YouTube video to watch, we often want the best companion for the next hour and not the most entertaining content.
- While short-form content edits are meant to be spectacular and attention-grabbing, long-form content tends to b
from Companionship Content is King by Anu Atluru
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Companionship content is more human. It is like being in a long, stimulating conversation with a group of friends.
Companionship content is long-form content that can be consumed passively â allowing the consumer to be incompletely attentive, and providing a sense of relaxation, comfort, and community.
Companionship content isnât consumed just for information or entertainment, but as a proxy for having company around, a way to mitigate the awareness of lacking it, or to make an otherwise dull task enjoyable â with a companion.
- One way to rationalize this is that after being in the driverâs seat of such a large-scale, fast-paced effort, itâs hard for people to do nothing at all or go back to working for someone else. So pursuing something that canât scale is a happy medium â maintaining full autonomy and control without the stress of chasing scale (and all that comes with... See more
from Pursuits That Canât Scale | Theory No. 31 by Anu Atluru
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Chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that canât scale
âYegoâs rise was enabled by YouTube. Yet since its founding, popular consensus has been that the video service is making people dumber. Indeed, modern video media may shorten attention spans and distract from longer-form means of communication, such as written articles or books. But critically overlooked is its unlocking a form of mass-scale tacit
... See morefrom YouTube: The Learning Machine
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Transfer of knowledge. See and do.
YouTube has taken visual learning to another level. Future generations may possibly view YouTube as revolutionary an educational tool as the printing press was for text-based and self-guided learning.