The paradox in one line: abandon the objective, and you're likelier to reach greatness. — distilled with my AI companion, from Karpathy's reading list.
10 ideas that stuck with me 🧵
1/ The objective paradox: the surest way to achieve something big is often to stop making it your objective. Ambition aimed too directly becomes a cage.
10/ And it's freeing: your career, your ideas, this messy exploration — it doesn't need to be "planned" to be great. Genuine curiosity is the strategy.