kyle @ scrivium

Building free, interactive biographies for founders

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@joan_e "Head trip" similar punch

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

The best AI engineers think evolution not automation. Maybe it's there RL DNA.

The best founders do OODA loops, product improvement sprints, BML sprints, etc.

Your epistemological bottlenecks are always 10x more important than your material ones. UNLOCK GOOD DECISIONS FIRST.

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

I've been thinking about AI productivity incorrectly.

I focused on linear outputs: "how many worktrees can I handle," "how can my Mac Mini run all night" etc

But the biggest unlocks aren't linear...

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

You can even tell your AI, "Good decisions are my bottleneck. Help unblock me!!"

Once you make enough good decisions of the same type, you then automate (e.g., codify into a skill).

But the quality of your decision loop will always be upstream of automation.

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

Emerson has a quote on this:

"It is even true that there was less in [Napoleon and Caesar] on which they could reflect, than in another; as the virtue of a pipe is to be smooth and hollow."

That said I think "introspection" (spectere = to watch) is good; it's a means to hollow out. It's more "self-analysis" that's suspect.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@brian_armstrong Reminds me of an advaitan philosophy to scoop lightly in the river of your mind so as not to draw up silt.

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@pmarca "It is even true that there was less in [Napoleon and Caesar] on which they could reflect than in another; as the virtue of a pipe is to be smooth and hollow." - Emerson

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@andrewchen I wanna try *canon* where's that hosted?

We're building scrivium (dot com) the interactive canon

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@neilkatz @aakashgupta Maybe the top 1%. Most influencers are feeling the squeeze too.

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@aakashgupta Distribution has a supply problem too.

YouTubers are all talking about the "abundance issue." Ditto short form, ad creative, SEO, SDR automation, etc.

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@Quan Yea can't help ourselves

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@arealmofwonder 'About Time' is Camus's 'Myth of Sisyphus' without the melodrama. Change nothing yet overcome everything.

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@NaderLikeLadder @sfcompute @alecqfong That's coit an ascent

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@gaganbiyani What about mission-less/greed-less?

Like how far would one go if they just stare at the edge of the water without even knowing why?

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@ruslanjabari Duolingo for the liberal arts: https://t.co/RM0dOIyKZy

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@gaganbiyani @mecolalu 💯 like going to the gym, everyone’s gotta get intellectually buff.

Meanwhile 10% self-learners can easily be half the market in consumer dollar terms.

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@gaganbiyani Until recently it was hard to gamify fields with fuzzy answers and progressions and so a lot of edtech 1.0 (cohort/bootcamp aside) was either (a) gamified memorization or (b) passive consumption.

[kyle @ scrivium @kylecureau]

@charlierward Oof man, lots of love. That looks terrible, get better