✨ Where great ideas come from
- LLMs are reading companions. When Patel is reading a book, he uses LLMs to understand concepts that he isn’t familiar with, like the nuances of White’s argument about how the stirrup created feudalism. “There's a bunch of stuff that's confusing...on these kinds of questions. The author is dead...but I can always continue the conversation with Clau
A Guide to Lifelong Learning—With AI
How to use AI to accelerate learning
In a pre-AI world, whether you were building software or teams, or writing books or marketing plans, you needed to strip the problems you were facing down to their bare elements—their essence—and work your way forward from there. In building software, you need to define your core user and the problem you want to solve; in writing books, you need a ... See more
Dan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
Essences vs. sequences
Rabbit holes are where you find gold
Read, but don’t just read. Read the best book you can find.
Write, but don’t just write. Write the best idea you can conceive.
Write, but don’t just write. Write the best idea you can conceive.
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the power of going for it, the value of sharing what you know, and how to figure out what you really want
Commitment to the best.
When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything wi... See more
jsomers.net • More People Should Write
The mind is an auto-sorting machine. It subconsciously organizes better when it knows what you’re looking for
Good things take time. Some of the best companies took many years before they found the right recipe
One way to rationalize this is that after being in the driver’s seat of such a large-scale, fast-paced effort, it’s hard for people to do nothing at all or go back to working for someone else. So pursuing something that can’t scale is a happy medium — maintaining full autonomy and control without the stress of chasing scale (and all that comes with... See more
Anu • Pursuits That Can’t Scale
Chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale
The idea of putting things in a box just doesn’t work for me. It worked for a generation that was supposed to be where they are. My story starts from immigrant parents from Ghana in West Africa. On the will of my dad making it to America, I was afforded the range of options opposite from a third world country.
Being an outsider allowed Abloh to appr... See more
Trung Phan • 9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh
The importance of an outsider perspective