Maximize your value from burning tokens.
...tly. At the beginning the easy way to maximize this is breadth; later bang will become increasingly important. This will be a durable, self-steering north-star.
Topic: become increasingly
14 chunks · 13 episodes
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- become increasingly appears in 14 chunks across 13 episodes, from 2023-11-27 to 2026-04-13.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 4/13/26 (2026-04-13), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with left behind, smuggled infinity, and slime mold, while by chunk count it sits between Hacker News and deep research; its yearly rank moved from #38 in 2023 to #99 in 2026.
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The more you treat humans like numbers, the more you hollow them out.
... numbers, in proportion to their scale. One of the reasons scaled organizations become increasingly inhuman.
My four-year-old son has become increasingly funny.
My four-year-old son has become increasingly funny. It started as a slight thing we noticed, but as he approaches his 4th birthday, it's becoming impossible to ignore that he's funny and goes ou...
In the modern world we're all stuck in a fast-thinking loop.
...will get worse in an era of AI. The importance of stillness and reflection will become increasingly important.
Three phases of a new disruptive paradigm:
...ical entrant. 3) Consolidation as the best practices are all discovered and now become increasingly efficient. A few dozen highly centralized players emerge that act like gravity wells; everything else fades away or is gobbled up. Then, repeat with ...
A safe bet: the world is going to continue getting weirder.
...l continue to increase. Weird headlines that you would have never expected will become increasingly normal. LLMs accelerate this weirdening. Buckle up!
Beware converting non-engineering problems into engineering problems.
... it's only a small part of the story. You'll forget the other parts, and as you become increasingly blind to them, you'll steamroll right over them. Some problems are complicated; they can be decomposed into an engineering problem and solved. But ma...
For any given piece of crap, there's a demo that makes it look pretty good.
...s that look like they work. As you avoid the parts that don't work, those parts become increasingly in your blind spot. They become invisible to you, even if they're huge. Whereas if you use it for real, you focus on the parts that you need to use, ...
Any legible medium will over time become increasingly performative.
Any legible medium will over time become increasingly performative. That is, the actions will become increasingly kayfabe. "Human executives are so bad at running orgs. Simply scan all the emails in the ...
Companies don't make strategic choices in a vacuum.
... That should be read more like "Boy, I sure do hope that the things I'm good at become increasingly important..." Companies understand their own strategy by retconning what they've been doing. And that retconning strategy isn't done in a vacuum, it'...
Organizations as they grow become increasingly about optics (politics) not output (ground truth).
Organizations as they grow become increasingly about optics (politics) not output (ground truth). When you do an action, you have the direct output that comes out of it, as well as the optics of o...
Creativity is a kind of play.
...nd of output. Platforms like Instagram start off as a place to be creative, but become increasingly performative, for the likes. Instagram is shallow play: play, but mostly for the likes. For example, "Felt cute, might delete it later" -- Instagramm...
An unchallenged belief in one's own perfectionism is a smuggled infinity.
...nrealistic. The latter is impossible. Previous track records of perfect results become increasingly impossible to hit over time; the likelihood of at least one slip-up grows geometrically.
Some subset of seedlings will grow into a mighty oak tree.
...o nurture. Seedlings just need some shade and patience. As time goes on it will become increasingly clear which seedlings have the most potential, and doubling down on them will be a no-brainer.