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...is the way to solve Russell's Catastrophe. Making it so the person who owns the upside also owns the downside. The system goes from convex and self-accelerating, to concave and self-balancing.
...t up into islands to cap the downside. But splitting into islands also caps the upside!
... that would be important to you if only they required less cognitive labor. All upside.
...device's orientation, and then dispatch to different applications. For example: Upside down: open ChatGPT. Turned to the right: open a new message to your spouse.
... recognize the value of efficiency and connection, but not their downsides. The upsides are obvious and immediate. The downsides are non-obvious and indirect.
The VC model works if you get the upside and no individual downside can kill you. Also seems related to the asymmetry of the limited-liability corporation.
..." Bureaucracy is about the status quo and downside capping. Innovation is about upside. Both the Saruman and Radagast magic are about innovation and upside. The lack of magic, the dull, dreary, mundane company man, is about not innovati...
As an individual, the bullshit of the internal dynamics of big companies has an upside: it insulates you from the raw intensity of competing directly in the market.
...worse than a butter knife. If it's flexible in ways you don't need, it's not an upside, it's worse.
... meeting the tool where it is. Using the tool as an end. If the demo works it's upside. "What would show off this tool and make it seem valuable, while avoiding bugs or missing features that would demonstrate its limitations?" But real ...
... in the middle. Like when looking at yourself in a spoon. From far away, you're upside down. From close up, you're right side up. The point where your face flips from upside down to right side up is infinitely stretched.
... people think less about downsides ("what if I do it wrong") and more about the upsides ("I wonder what will happen if I do this?") Instead of the system saying "No." how can it say "Yes!"
...u assume you won't win the lottery you're less likely to die. And there's still upside if you do turn out to win the lottery!
...dle to blow their mind. Something that will blow someone's mind might turn them upside down. It's a mind-virus. The receiver has to trust that they'll like what the virus will do to them. If the virus is coming from someone transactiona...
...undaries intentionally is good. You learn and experiment, and you can judge the upside and the downside of pushing that boundary. Pushing the boundaries accidentally is more likely to put you in danger without realizing it. If you don't...
...mputation is leverage. It's empowering to pay for your own compute! You own the upside of your own compute, you control how it is applied.
.... Because you'll be dead soon anyway by default, so you might as well have some upside!
...in. It requires a living thing adjacent to the built thing to create growth and upside. For example, an ecosystem of use, or having word-of-mouth growth from your users. The gardener mindset is about focusing most on the living thing an...