Tl;dr (source
): phonetic alphabet separated what’s been represented and the representer. Humans went from ‘local’ wholeness to ‘universal’ fragmentation after the invention of phonetic alphabet. If McLuhan were alive, he’d probably say LLM is the pinnacle of the latter.develop
Changing the medium (e.g., note, meta-note, essay, blog, digital, on paper) is effective in writing—the same with changing schools, or jobs—because context sometimes can constrain you.
As Buffett likely argued (e.g., p. 71), nobody really owns an idea—what matters is the whole package (e.g., execution and medium), as it were.
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- 5-1b1a1b What can be universal is knowledge. But knowledge has to be instantiated by physical medium and this involves technology (e.g., pen and paper).
- 6-3a2.1 How you achieve something matters as much as what you achieve
- 9-2a1.1 Idea is direction. Execution is speed.
- 10-2d The medium of expression, language, can also improve indefinitely