Tag: advice

  • Use AI to write more shorter pieces

    While people are all excited shout using LLMs to write – which is awesome, I am all about AI empowering people to do things they didn’t have the agency to do, writing being one of them – I am imploring y’all to get the LLMs to write more concisely. I am looking at all y’all…

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  • 90 minutes of hell is other people

    This feels like me: NEWMARK: I guess, ideally, I would have more social skills—meaning, some. COWEN: We’re simulating social skills just fine here. NEWMARK: That’s the phrase I use. At least on my part, what looks like social skills is just fakery. I can do it for short amounts of time, maybe 90 minutes. I’ve…

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  • Be well known around the company, do some personal marketing, “have an impact” on other teams and make sure people know about it. // When there’s blood on the boardroom floor, there is no “I” in team. 🔗 Microsofts Ex-VP of HR Shares How to Avoid the ‘Underperformer’ Label

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  • I suppose it can be said that I’m an absent-minded driver. It’s true that I’ve driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I’ve stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it. Glenn Gould

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  • “Your brain hates unbounded risk. When there’s no plan, it escalates into dread.”

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  • Keep the thesis in mind. ‘Writers must […] constantly ask: what am I trying to say? Surprisingly often they don’t know. Then they must look at what they have written and ask: have I said it?’ 🔗 Notes from “On Writing Well”

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  • Related to your interests, Wednesday

    More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds – “Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221 million subscribers, generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates.” // Assuming The Algorithm” is working (showing people things they will watch and…

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  • Good actionable pondering on coming up titles that people will click on and word-of-mouth spread. 🔗 How To Win Titular Metagames

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  • “We shall endeavor to survive the loss of your opinions.” Westenberg.

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  • There’s a fine line between “charming” and “annoying.”

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  • As I get older, I need to do less “let’s see what happens.”

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  • Sometimes, you accidentally delete a paragraph of text and it’s not in the undo buffer for some reason. And most of those times, it’s good to think: I probably didn’t need that anyhow.

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  • What you’re putting off now is not going to get any easier or less boring to do in the future. So, try to just do it now and gift yourself future self the lack of that bullshit.

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  • “No. Make it shorter. Tea please.” The PowerPoint Guru.

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  • “The job isn’t to “prioritise value”, but to create the conditions where value can move. You don’t reveal value through prediction; you reveal it through flow.” // Some product management maxims. 🔗 Everything I Got Wrong About Product (So You Don’t Have To)

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  • How to write in LinkedIn-style

    “It involves posing a provocative question, sharing a vulnerability that you have learnt from (ideally losing your job, pet or parent), using an emoji at the start of each paragraph, and the paragraphs being absurdly short.” 🔗 It pays to speak fluent LinkedIn — if you can crack the bro code

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  • Many things can be forgiven if you put on a clean shirt.

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  • tl;dr: “Nobody likes a smartarse”

    People are not rebelling against economic elites,” writes Heath. Instead, this is “a rebellion against [cognitive] executive function”. In this view, populism is a movement that appeals to people who trust their gut, rather than those who rely on some too-clever-by-half argument. There is a lot that rings true about this suggestion. Consider the following…

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  • My new rule based on Whitney’s life-choices: if you want to take a selfie with me, I need to witness you posting it immediately.

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  • The one who tribalized every issue found a ready-made community that validated every prior. Etc, etc. The incentive gradient was clear: sanity was expensive, and extremism paid dividends.” 🔗 How to Stay Sane in a World That Rewards Insanity

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