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'
"Remember you will have good seasons and bad seasonsâyou can't control the weather, only be prepared for it."
No matter how helpless you feel, there's always something you can do to set yourself up for success. Consider your positioning and how you can make tweaks that will put you in an advantageous spot for whatever season may come.
- 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.
From Sam Altman' blog. It is you and your bros against the world. Cultivate optimistic delusion. https://t.co/rJgk6DjC1OCultivate optimistic delusion
Paul Graham (@paulg) on how to do great work. I used to be stuck at the third point a lot and reading this helped me immensely. https://t.co/qaZt7VsVVY⨠Where great ideas come from
Natural aptitude x Deep interest
- 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
