Mind-share >>> & → Market share
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- 1-1a2e9b When ‘properly’ emicized by the culture, we see what’s not there and can not see what’s there
- 1-1c You need the best available epistemology because it affects how you see the world
- 6-3b2 In corporate networks you can only quit
- 7-1b4b0 Tech does what culture does to you. You see what could’ve been based on the tech you know.
“Great thoughts only on Friday afternoons. “What will be the role of computers in all of AT&T?”, “How will computers change science?”, “What will be the impact of computers on science and how can I change it?”, “How is it going to change Bell Labs?” I thought hard about where was my field going, where were the opportunities, and what were the important things to do. Let me go there so there is a chance I can do important things.” – Richard Hamming
To do great things, think great things.
Bill Gates still created time and space (twice a year) to seclude himself for a week and do nothing but read articles (his record is 112) and books, study technology, and think about the bigger picture even during the busiest and most frenetic time in the company’s history.
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- 3-1b2 Use the Fun Criterion to filter what problems to work on
- 7-1a1a3 If you know that others can solve certain problems, let them. Only work on important problems worth focusing on.
- 7-1a5 Startups work on technology because great ideas made viable by newest tech (itself a new technology) is the best source of rapid change and growth
- 7-1b4f Let the tech decide where to go (both intellectually and physically))
- 7-1b5a You can create problems. Not in the sense of causing problems, but literally creatively creating them. There are good problems and bad problems. Work on and solve good problems.
- QUE5 - Ask “am I working on what I most want to work on” because per-project procrastination is far worse than daily procrastination
- QUE5 - What’s the best thing you could be working on, and why aren’t you
You are what you read. You think like who you follow.
- 2-1a1a3a You’re the average of your five closest friends OR You’re the average of the people whose content you consume the most
- But beware of Pavlovian association—don’t be so attached to anything.
You can’t think well without writing well, and you can’t write well without reading well. You have to be good at reading, and read good things.
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RUL3 - Write out your goals. It’s amazing how few people do.
- 5-1b4b Compounding is usually too slow to notice. You have to be deliberate in how you think and what you see.
- 2-1a0c1c Purpose (and curiosity) beats for-profit
- 3-1c1d0 We are overconsuming novelty (and “serendipity”) and under-consuming purpose. The first thing to look at each day should be your purpose and metrics to improve upon, not some random stories.
- 2-1a0c1c Purpose (and curiosity) beats for-profit
And according to Albert Ellis, the way you think affects how you feel.revisit
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Mind-share is probably the leading indicator of market share
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- 7-1a2b For startups, growth is a constraint much like truth
- 7-1a5 Startups work on technology because great ideas made viable by newest tech (itself a new technology) is the best source of rapid change and growth
“We know very powerful things are coming and our ability to exercise agency about them is enlarged by having pre-built systems and processes that can be leveraged by them. The less we build that stuff, the more the character of these AI systems will condition our view of what is optimal to do. In a sense, thinking hard about what an AI-filled world will be like and building institutions for it is one of the best defenses against disempowerment.” – Jack Clark (20260119)
Otherwise the ‘average’ will take over the mind-share. It’s about agency. It’s about how bad you want it.
Parallels between “reading like a writer” and “using like a builder”—the idea that actively creating (writing, building apps) makes you notice details and decisions that passive consumers miss. AI tools can turn more people into active creators, potentially helping them develop taste rather than just consuming algorithmically-served content (source).
Michael Green on American Exceptionalism: Everyone’s yelling about government spending waste. Elon Musk is giving out prizes on X for articles about how the government wastes your tax dollars. The government loses maybe 3–7% of what it spends to fraud. That’s bad but it’s not wildly different from the private sector (1–5%). But nobody talks about how the government fails to collect $606 billion a year in taxes people actually owe. That’s a 13% failure rate. Private companies collect 97–99 cents of every dollar owed to them. The government only collects 85–87 cents. And most of that missing money is owed by the wealthiest people. Closing even a third of that tax gap would bring in more money than almost any spending cut you could dream up. But the people in power don’t want to fix it, because selectively enforcing taxes is how they reward friends and punish enemies. The broken tax code isn’t a bug—it’s a tool. Don’t let the headlines distract you.