Here are a few obvious things: - If you want to write better, then write more. - If you want to improve reporting, do the work to clean the data. - If you want to be a better manager, meet with your people. -If you want to test an idea, talk to your customers. Nothing

This is the way

Psst it’s the same for sales copy

What’s interesting here is that Affleck is both incredibly right but also heavily anchoring to existing realities that may prove out to be very wrong. (Which is probably the right stance to take)

File this under “Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail”

Just a casual thing to read in a corporate press release

I don’t think most people fully understand the significance of this breakthrough.

⁦Flighty⁩ some “inspiration” from AC

The Permanent Equity annual letter published yesterday: permanentequity.com/content/2024-a… By far, the most feedback I've gotten is on this closing section. It came from a place of deep concern and care after watching so many friends hurt. Here's my friend Will Manidis's highlights:

I hassled tylercowen about why he doesn't expect explosive economic growth from AGI. How could we possibly add 100 billion extra workers and only get 0.5% more growth? Also featuring Stalin's library, EU decels, and how Churchill was an underachiever. Hilarious and provocative

We can still build great things, at least in some places. Here’s a run down of 10 major new infrastructure projects that have happened recently.

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BuildCanada.com is live. Build Canada helps entrepreneurs share their ideas for a bolder, richer, freer country.

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It's 2025 and most content is still written for humans instead of LLMs. 99.9% of attention is about to be LLM attention, not human attention. E.g. 99% of libraries still have docs that basically render to some pretty .html static pages assuming a human will click through them.

“Please consider the environment before pasting this into GPT”

This is on the nose. At the same time its also indicative of the current opportunity set available and people (rightfully) taking advantage of it. But it cant be culturally set as the "only" viable path because outcomes are never evenly distributed.

Substack’s feed product has evolved into old Twitter in a positive way that I didn’t expect. Worth revisiting if you wrote it off

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feels like such a wasted opportunity every moment your agents aren't running