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... all! The entire point of the browser is not any individual experience, but the meta experience. That you can teleport to anything you can imagine, safely and with zero friction. That's impossible to show with a single page, or even a...
...terally got paid for this skill! The people who find LLMs most useful today are meta-experts: generalists. People who play "out of position" a lot. Asking a domain expert if an LLM gives a useful answer in their domain of expertise is...
...ig and new enough to be hard to grab onto. The only way to grab onto it is with metaphors, but those can be confusing. "It's a metaphorical equivalent of the browser for a new kind of web-like fabric of experiences." "Oh, OK, I get it...
...ject grows in complication and smothers itself under its own weight. A powerful meta strategy: take big, ambitious visions from previous failed mega-projects… and approach them in a "lateral thinking with weathered technology" mindset...
The web was enabled by a totally new type of meta-application: the browser. The browser was unlike other applications because it was fundamentally open-ended. For the first decade of the web, "What's...
...vestment directly. Betting on any particular gold mine is a lottery ticket. Two meta moves in a gold rush: 1) Sell pickaxes 2) Figure out what people will want once gold is abundant These meta moves put you in a good position no matte...
... this expensive clean-up work!" But the perfect plan is impossible. The perfect meta-plan is resilient to many possible real world outcomes. It assumes uncertainty.
...Give them all a bit of shade. Make sure there's water. This way, you can take a meta-bet on lots of acorns. You can late-bind your decision on which one to invest the most in, waiting to see which ones get momentum to start. This allo...
... a high-quality intuition on just about any topic relatively quickly. These are meta-experts. They work best when paired with a deep expert on the topic they're looking at. The meta-expert can quickly abduct possible meta hypotheses t...
A single app is a strategy: a bet on a single thing. A platform is a meta-strategy: a bet on any of a swarm of things. You can discover later which item in the swarm turned out to be most important (or, perhaps a collection...
...ng yet another loop or reaction to others' actions. In the military, a powerful meta-strategy is "get inside your opponent's OODA loop". That is, do your action/decision loop faster than your opponent, so by the time they're reacting ...
...dimensional chess, make sure you aren't playing on an imaginary board. The more meta something gets, the more leverage it can have, but also the farther away from ground-truthing it gets. It might sound genius, but be completely non-v...
...r who is well-read, eager to please, a bit naive, and never, ever gets bored. A meta thing was how useful using LLMs to distill insight and generate ideas to react to was to augment the human discussion. Ethan Mollick observed this bu...
Allow your counterparties to self-select. This is a powerful meta-strategy at the core of many strategic judo moves. Your counterparties might be your users, your peers, or your partners. The default approach is to ...