The time to reflect and write what you learned gives compounding momentum.
- The time to reflect and write what you learned gives compounding momentum.
- That's been my secret for my entire career.
- I take 20% of my professional time to reflect and synthesize.
- Self reflection is a super power.
- A feedback loop to improve yourself.
- Distilling insights allows you to factor out tools and insights that you can now rely on and not have to create continuously.
- Convert what had to be opex before into capex.
- Pay a fixed cost once and now that marginal cost evaporates.
- Tools that you use always have this shape.
- Writing didn't necessarily have this use as a tool, because the person you want to be affected by it had to read it.
- Humans are distractible and impatient, so fewer people will read it than would value it.
- But LLMs do a great job patiently reading whatever you give them.
- This means that the value of taking the time to distill written guidance after reflecting is higher than it was before.