People who know how to do abundance can maximize upside.
- People who know how to do abundance can maximize upside.
- People who know how to manage scarcity can cap downside.
- They're different skillsets and orientations.
From other episodes
- Capping downside but leaving upside gives momentum, due to something like the third law of motion.2026-03-17
- Agents will optimize for the thing they get evaluated on.2026-03-02
- When you have the right set of conditions, you can do a low-risk alpha rollout that possibly scales smoothly to a full rollout if the product turns out to be ready.2026-02-09
- Technocrats love optimization.2025-12-08
- A culture of permissionless innovation requires capped downside to the commons.2025-12-08
- Will LLMs lead to compounding ambiguity in communication?2025-09-02
- A cynical form of load-bearing ambiguity: the motte-and-bailey inchworm.2025-09-02
- A pattern: use LLMs in tiny tasks where the overall swarm is emergently powerful.2025-06-23