sirgawa

notes to self

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Game theory explains why improving yourself rarely fixes your outcomes. People keep treating their own skills and discipline as a dominant variable because it's the one they can consciously control. They end up running never-ending optimizations but leave the whole structure around them untouched. Suddenly, they are the shiniest object in the room, but it gets them nowhere. That's because a diamond in the mud is still part of the mud. Cleaning it and putting it back to where you found it changes absolutely nothing. Hence, you must change the structure. Swipe the whole room clean; toss out the junk. Ask yourself which environment converts what you already have into a return and what it would cost to move there. Don't spend a decade improving yourself while covered in filth. The structure around you either works for you or against you. There is no middle ground.

[sirgawa @elhapapapa]

“This, too, shall pass.”

and

“Remember, another would pray for your problems.”

I find myself repeating these proverbs this year.

Daily reminders that are applicable in both good times and bad, the highs and lows.

A ritual of gratitude.
A solace of the soul.

[Ludonauta @LudensLudonauta]

I was studying MCPs and this comment really blew my mind.

[sirgawa @elhapapapa]

Got me crying 😂😂😂😂

[BRS @Bryce_Estelle]

The concept of trying to convince a woman to like you is hilarious

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

if you're selling to broke people, sell them a way out. if you're selling to rich people, sell them safety. if you're selling to young people, sell them potential. if you're selling to old people, sell them the legacy they'll leave behind. if you're selling to employees, sell them freedom from their boss. if you're selling to bosses, sell them freedom from their employees.

[sirgawa @elhapapapa]

30+ and hiding like counts on IG out of status insecurity. Wild.

[Delicious Tacos @Delicious_Tacos]

Steroids for liking people

[sirgawa @elhapapapa]

why does LinkedIn writing all sound like that

[blue @bluewmist]

i regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from:

• getting humiliated

• showing up terrified and doing it anyway

• admitting you might be the problem

[sirgawa @elhapapapa]

@kamal_razzak Scripts

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

I remind myself of this quite often.

[sirgawa @elhapapapa]

Claude becoming unusable once the normies all migrated over...truly a tragic state of affairs

[sirgawa @elhapapapa]

This is a generational run

[Claude @claudeai]

In Cowork, Claude can now build live artifacts: dashboards and trackers connected to your apps and files.

Open one any time and it refreshes with current data.

[sirgawa @elhapapapa]

It's an absolutely terrifying yet exciting time to be a human.

We've been given a tool.

Your intelligence and wisdom are revealed in how you decide to use the tool.

[sirgawa @elhapapapa]

The biggest ROI from AI tools (for me) recently:

Voice note transcription (WhisperFlow)
-->
Note Editing (Claude)
-->
Reformat into prompts and skills (Claude)

Your work output can 10x overnight simply by using voice & talking instead of hands and typing.

[sirgawa @elhapapapa]

Meanwhile, I see people my age opting out of the AI age:

Turning their nose up to the sight of anything AI-generated.

Or distracting themselves with their rewards from the past economy, not yet realizing that age is already a relic, and that rivers run dry.

[sirgawa @elhapapapa]

know two women my age with this skill.

thought they were dumb when i was young.

they worked in entry-level sales jobs.

then, they lapped me, and almost everyone around me, in my 20s.

learning moment, for sure.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

There’s almost no skill that has more market value than this. She’s up there with AI engineers recruited by top tech companies.