2 months ago
I had a long drive home yesterday, so I thought I’d listen to a podcast. Found a new one I had downloaded but never listened to an episode of. Then I listened to 7 minutes of ads. Then I stopped listening. The desire to hook a new listener as been replaced with the desire to get a pegcount on their ads.
2 months ago
Does time to complete actually matter anymore? What about the quality of the work? What about the efficiency with which you completed the work? What about how much of it you were able to do independently? What about the value you created in your work? If all you’re measuring is speed, then yes, AI is going to slaughter you. But there is more than metric to measure by.
2 months ago
Snow is proof that change happens with just a few pluses and/or minuses in degrees. The colder it gets, the more it stays on the ground; the warmer it gets, the more it melts and drips into something else. Change, with a difference of a few degrees. That all it takes, is a little nudge.
2 months ago
Yeah, you might lose. Yeah, you might not get there. Yeah, you could blow up the launch pad. All horrific reasons are used as excuses to give up the chase when, at that precise moment, the chase is testing you to see if you’ll give up, to see how much you want it, to see how hard you’ll push. Giving up the Chase only hurts you and no one else.
2 months ago
When everything is new, growth moves at lightning speed. “Hey, you’re a natural!” It’s all new, you don’t care, you just go out there, try, fail, and try again – and you keep improving. But then to leap with growth, you need to learn the right techniques, focus on your tools, iterate, iterate, iterate, and you start to worry about failing – because hey, look how far you’ve come, who wants to take a step back. Then it clicks. And the moment it clicks, there is no going back, there is only continued upward momentum, you try and you fail,
